Spencer Fleming 2025-05-13 16:22:03 Konrad Hinsen 2025-05-14 06:10:35 Interesting. I work mostly in the same way as the author of this article, but never thought about it before.
J. Ryan Stinnett 2025-05-17 20:44:40 Huh, yeah, I guess I am similar to @Spencer Fleming then, as I depend on lots of this sort of state, so it interesting to see the other way of looking at it... E.g. I have tons of browser windows which I keep organised in various ways. See also my comments in merveilles.town/@jryans/114316451076689524.
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@akkartik @tekknolagi@mastodon.social For me, a window is a project in progress or topic I am researching. Those can remain active for a long time (many months). Within a window, I use Tree Style Tabs to organise tabs related to the topic. I also use Window Titler to give each window a fixed name that won’t change.
Steve Dekorte 2025-05-13 16:31:14
🐦 Kevin G. R. Greer (@kgrgreer) on X: One of the most important but least discussed concepts in software design is creating interfaces which aren't perfect for anything, but which are perfect for everything. Ex. files, DAOs, contexts, spreadsheets, ...
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Nilesh Trivedi 2025-05-15 04:15:28
During the opening of the conference, Omar honed in on the subversive nature of the screenshot. In popular computing, it circumvents the app siloes that define our contemporary digital ecosystems. A screenshot doesn't need a log in, bypasses DRMs, and is interoperable in practically every single computational device. Even in the "high-culture" of computing, where text is dominant, screenshots prove subversive.
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And yet, to imagine what an image-oriented computer might be seems to offer a new avant-garde for computing.
cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/screenshot.html
Ivan Reese 2025-05-15 21:43:53 Roma Komarov 2025-05-15 23:12:18 I am seeing this as I'm going to sleep, and I will be a responsible adult, and won't watch it now.
Kartik Agaram 2025-05-16 01:02:37 I thought it did a wonderful job responding to some previous cricitisms we've leveled here even though that is not the goal. In particular, the goal is not to eliminate screens altogether. Instead, it observes that we have tons of progress on private computation but next to no progress on public computation. Screens fundamentally get in the way there. Now it all makes sense to me.
Jason Morris 2025-05-17 20:31:53 Honestly, I feel like there is a fantastic genius to the HCI parts, particularly the idea of computers that are for more than one person to use at a time, that is unnecessarily and unhelpfully conflated with issues of public/private, proprietary/open, etc. "You will never be able to buy this" might be attractive to anti-capitalists of a certain breed, but how am I supposed to get one? How is a school teacher? What is the fundamental difference in principle between buying a finished one and buying parts? If IKEA flat packs the parts for me and I assemble at home? Specialization, standardization, and trade are technologies that for all their imperfections have also led to enormous social good. The baby is somewhere in that bathwater. Not every good idea also needs to save the world from itself by imposing some sort of counter culture purity test. Savior complex bullshit.
Also, what a kranky old fuck I've become. Why can't I just focus on how cool the drum machine is? 😓
Ivan Reese 2025-05-17 21:28:35 I think there's signal, not noise, in the co-occurrence of mild anti-capitalism and basically every current computing movement of any interest.
Jason Morris 2025-05-17 22:34:12 Not denying that there is a causal relationship, at all. And I'm grateful that people are motivated to make things better, and that the motivation leads them to make better tools. I started my little project out of a concern for pro bono legal services, which is also a failure of capitalism. It me. But a person who hates trees and a person who likes cabins might both invent the same chainsaw, and it's true value might turn out to be in wood sculpture. I'd rather know what my invention is actually for than know people I disagreed with never used it. But I'm a consequentialist, maybe?
Kartik Agaram 2025-05-17 22:51:56 Yes, the future is a disagreement with the past about what is important, as one of my favorite sayings goes. Already we have folk.computer which puts its own political and technical spin on Dynamicland. There will be more of these.
There's also signal in how critiques of Dynamicland get just a little more vehement than other projects. Now I hear every critique as, "Shut up and take my money! Wait, no, don't go! I meant no offense! I just meant to say, how can I obtain something like this, good sir!"
Christopher Shank 2025-05-18 02:19:53 Spencer Fleming 2025-05-18 06:59:20 still just a drawing for now the interpreter doesn't work quite yet
