📝 One of my arguments against putting icons in every menu item was: “Apple doesn’t do it!” Then they started doing it. Now they’ve stopped doing it. Now I can say, ‘Even Apple tried doing it, and now they say “Don’t”.’ What more could I wish for? blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-i...

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Seeing promising trend of ai enabled deshittification. People using ai to hack into crappy ad riddled smart TVs, remove all the crapware and create more user friendly interfaces.

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any sufficiently advanced OS will increasingly lock down its APIs until it becomes indistinguishable from a browser

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(There are other practical challenges with QubesOS, but I think those are distracting rather than useful to talk about.) The core concept of: "the window manager is a place to standardize what the user knows about processes and their relationships" is an absolutely critical concept to lean in on.

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It is not a common occasion at all that you get to be the first person on the web to properly document a HTML tag that shipped in a browser, but that is what I've done today. Have you ever heard about <HYPE>? I've explained it in this newly updated article: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

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