alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text

Spreadsheets are particularly useful for thinking through financial models, budgets, or any situation that involves considering lots of possible scenarios. Instead of laboriously redoing a bunch of math, you can quickly ask “what if?” questions and see the effects.

Very nice work by Litt and the Ink and Switch crew. Wondering if there’s a way to combine Ambsheets v1 and v2 to have both a nice interactive grid and clear formulas when you need them.

80% of the people only need 20% of the features.

Users often struggle with cloud file-sharing applications. Problems appear to arise not only from interface flaws, but also from misunderstanding the underlying semantics of operations like linking, attaching, downloading, and editing. We argue that these difficulties echo long-standing challenges in understanding concepts in programming languages like aliasing, copying, and mutation.

via: https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/25/cloud-sharing.html