From 39cd06d35bce9e07ebdcaf2fb6da5fd3efd0ac3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C5=99emysl=20Janouch?= Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 08:40:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update good things and bad things --- BadThings.adoc | 20 ++++++++++++-------- GoodThings.adoc | 30 +++++++++++++++++------------- Haven.adoc | 3 ++- header.tmpl | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/BadThings.adoc b/BadThings.adoc index 2b7ee34..920319c 100644 --- a/BadThings.adoc +++ b/BadThings.adoc @@ -19,19 +19,22 @@ KDE --- KDE will always be hideously ugly, it's the one constant in the universe. -Unix terminals --------------- -Barely tolerable with graphical displays. The character grid must go, not only -because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read. - -The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links. - Pop-ups ------- Anything that shows up and changes the consequences of the user's actions, if it doesn't appear as an _immediate result_ of the user doing something, is pure evil. Sadly, this is sometimes hard to avoid, or the cost is too high. +Major culprits that make me want to hurt the computer: Firefox, Thunderbird. + +Unix terminals +-------------- +Barely tolerable with graphical displays. The character grid must go, not only +because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read. See also: +https://p.janouch.name/article-tui.html[So you want to make a TUI…] + +The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links. + ASCII ----- Outdated, made for teletypes. Unicode mostly just adds more complexity (and @@ -41,7 +44,8 @@ I don't like, perhaps even banning certain characters where possible. Centralisation -------------- Try to build things so that they survive outages--resilient, robust, and even -anti-fragile. Admittedly, this principle is hard for humans to follow. +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility[antifragile]. Admittedly, this +principle is hard for humans to follow. Speaking of which, project Haven has no public mirrors yet. Not that it matters thus far... but eventually we should at least set up mirrorring to repo.or.cz, diff --git a/GoodThings.adoc b/GoodThings.adoc index b8712fc..427a82a 100644 --- a/GoodThings.adoc +++ b/GoodThings.adoc @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Haiku ----- Pretty. Desktop-first. Just the window manager sucks, and C++ is no longer a reasonable choice for a high-level programming language, despite all the -effort to improve it. It's the foundations that are rotten. +effort to improve it--it's the foundations that are rotten. VIM --- @@ -57,10 +57,9 @@ Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser ---------------------------------- // TODO: Include a screenshot. -Vimperator/Pentadactyl has created a new standard in web browser usability. -The most important innovations being the addition of modality to the web browser -and the "follow link" feature, which is what I feel all mouse-first UIs -deserve. +Vimperator/Pentadactyl created a new standard in web browser usability. The +most important innovations being the addition of modality to the web browser and +the "follow link" feature, which is what I feel all mouse-first UIs deserve. Too bad it can no longer work in current versions of Firefox as they cut off all support for XUL addons. The good times are already behind us. I certainly @@ -74,16 +73,17 @@ SourceHut --------- https://sourcehut.org/ -Drew might be an opinionated asshole but that's not necessarily a bad quality. -His creations are compatible with my values. +Drew might be an opinionated asshole but that's not necessarily a bad quality, +especially if it helps with diversity. His creations are compatible with my +values. WikiWikiWeb ----------- http://wiki.c2.com/ An interesting knowledge base. Simple formatting, automatic links. I've -borrowed the general concept for this very collection of texts (I don't want -to say "wiki" since no one else can edit). +borrowed the general concept for this very wiki (yes, technically you can send +in pull requests). It's a shame that it's been frozen in time. @@ -91,10 +91,12 @@ AsciiDoc -------- I despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while writing. Granted, I can see some faults in AsciiDoc as well, notably with how hard it is -to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet. One day I might +to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet, and +standardisation seems to be finally +https://groups.google.com/g/asciidoc/c/EKx-Hfx-nMM[on the way]. One day I might create a processor for a slightly modified subset of it. Until then, -libasciidoc is what I'll be using for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to -its authors for their work. +https://github.com/bytesparadise/libasciidoc[libasciidoc] is what I'll be using +for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to its authors for their work. Plan 9, Go ---------- @@ -110,4 +112,6 @@ a new way of controlling the computer. Smalltalk --------- The application is a live system, powered by a simple programming language. -You can change anything you want, and see the results instantly. +You can change anything you want, and see the results instantly. See also the +Self programming language, for which my friend is trying to make an +https://github.com/Bystroushaak/tinySelf[alternative implementation]. diff --git a/Haven.adoc b/Haven.adoc index 8e5dd12..924ceef 100644 --- a/Haven.adoc +++ b/Haven.adoc @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ I'm not trying to create anything novel but to achieve something .Related articles: - https://lobste.rs/s/ksbcw5/12_principles_for_diverging_desktop + - While I don't fully agree with the vision, we have similar concerns. + While I don't fully agree with (or care about) the vision, + we have similar concerns. Further reading --------------- diff --git a/header.tmpl b/header.tmpl index 92a9fed..c698f57 100644 --- a/header.tmpl +++ b/header.tmpl @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ .ulist .ulist { margin: 0; } .ulist ul { margin: 0; } .ulist li p { margin: 0; } +.imageblock img { max-width: 100%; } +.paragraph svg { max-width: 100%; } #links, #footer { font-size: small; color: gray; }