A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.| www.inkandswitch.com
Why can I not get used to Android’s gesture navigation? Why have I still been using 2-button navigation up until AOSP broke it? And why does gesture navigation actually perform worse in terms of user experience? Well, I haven’t been able to run a proper user study on it yet, but in short, interactions that require user input delay are bad. If you ever work in UI/UX, please NEVER use speed of interaction or timing delay as an input. You should never assume the speed at which users should b...| Unhexium
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and outside of the U.S. and that much of the modern web isn't usable for people with slow internet, but the exponential increase in bandwidth (Nielsen suggests this is 50% per year for high-end connections) has outpaced web bloat for typical sites...| danluu.com
If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local Best Buy1 more than Amazon, which is notorious for selling counterfeit SD cards. And if I ask who do I trust more, my local reputable electronics shop (Memory Express, B&H Photo, etc.), I trust my local reputable electronics shop more. Not only are they less likely to sell me a counterfeit than Bes...| danluu.com
A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead? More bluntly, in a recent conversation with a newsletter author, his comment on some future measurement projects I wanted to do (in the same vein as other projects like keyboard vs. mouse, keyboard, terminal and end-to-end latency measurements), delivered with a smug look and a bit contempt in the tone, was "so you just want to get to the top of Hacker News?"| danluu.com
We're exploring an approach to simplifying app development: storing all application and UI state in a client-side reactive relational database that provides a structured dataflow model.| riffle.systems
Plots of land & Euclidean space # One of the bigger points of the metaverse is the idea of owning a slice of digital property. This is a weird mix of the scarcity and value from real life property and the domain name (like myfancyname.com) market. It also makes no god damn sense in this context, and is really just artificially putting limitations into a system for the sake of making yet another crypto currency.| opguides.info
I sped up bash startup from 165 ms to 40 ms. It’s actually noticeable. Why and how did I do it?| Tomáš Janoušek
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.| danluu.com