Decent Patterns is a collective effort to further the adoption of decentralized technologies by providing open tooling and resources for the community.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKOwTHQ2Jzc

A very well written article that somehow hits every single gripe I have with modern UX

Inventing

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalise on this aura without having to entertain it.

For readers, they look just like normal blog posts, there’s RSS and there’s a normal web view. The weirdo chat bubble interface is only for the person writing them.

It’s supposedly a way to overcome writer’s block. I haven’t tried the app (and not gonna), but I do believe that this does work.

Great reminder of how it felt to have only a surface understanding of an app:

they don’t internalize a computer/app as a generalized system with common UI conventions and frameworks and reusable elements that always behave predictably in different contexts, etc, etc. They interact with these things through a set of memorized steps that gets them to the thing they want to do.

I think even many programmers can relate to using one specific app this way: git! Yeah, yeah, it’s possible to understand git properly (one of the good things of a previous day job I had was that I learned that, and have started heading down that road at least somewhat, because it made git fun instead of a source of dread) but we’ve all heard the memes of how people just memorize a set of steps with git. I was even using shell scripts and many of those scripts I still use. Just basically “make a save point here please” like a video game.

Now can I finally get a li’l less grief for using an editor from the 1970s? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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A light-weight, no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript library to drive user’s focus across the page.