OTOH, if you build a playlist manager for playlists everyone can add to, you make sure nothing anyone adds will break it…
OTOH, if you build a playlist manager for playlists everyone can add to, you make sure nothing anyone adds will break it…
1643 day streak here, and it still looks like it’s going to die on me any second now. I guess it was just an icon change (but… why?!)
Alan Dix’s book (aptly named “Human Computer Interaction”) is quite good, even if somewhat old by now. HCI is an actual academic discipline with, yes, tons of theoretical and empirical results that govern what a good UI should be. Many of which are indeed grounded in psychology, others in physiology, etc (what we call Human Factors). There is a whole special interest group of the ACM just about it: SIGCHI.
Do not confuse this with fashion/trends/taste. These change, resulting in widely different possible flavors of UI over the years. But the underlying principles are the same.
Another thing to remember is that the fact that Apple, Google, or someone else implemented an UI in a certain way doesn’t mean they are following best practices and guidelines. Novelty sells, even if at the end of the day it does a worse job of things…
Edit: added link to SIGCHI
Neat! I’ve always been a fan of roguelikes!
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Is federated authentication being considered for the future? The federated model of the fediverse is great, but it runs into problems when instances “die”, you want to access different servers as they federate with different things, etc. leading to the need of having multiple accounts. If there were a decentralized network of auth servers, could use the same credentials everywhere.
I reluctantly started reading ebooks years ago for a very practical reason: owning some few thousand physical books, I pretty much ran out of room in the shelves in my small apartment. So nowadays I only buy physical art books and the like. Having said this, I actually easily grew to like ebooks, for their ubiquitous availability and, of course, not taking up precious shelf space.
Have to read them in an ereader for a proper experience, though. Tablet/smartphone displays tire my eyes a lot if I read for any meaningful period of time.
One more, then!
Open. If my kids need help and call out in the middle of the night, I would like to hear them!
Closed, to keep the monsters in…
I say a variation of this to my kids almost every week. It boggles the mind how, with such an easy access to all the information in the world, they don’t know something and just shrug it off instead of searching for information (90% of times a simple google search would do). I imagine myself at their age with such resources at my disposal: I’d have been a much happier (and knowledgeable) kid!
For better or for worse (obligatory remark on how in a federated model there should be no “main” or “flagship” instance) that would probably be lemmy.world on the sheer number of users alone?
Not sure about Iceland, but several countries place some constraints on which foodstuffs you can enter the country with (not asking about importing, etc, even for personal consumption). I’d check this beforehand.
Not even that. I’m getting serious Usenet vibes (from the early 90s, not the thing it has since devolved into). Even the decentralized paradigm with independent servers syncing with each other is conceptually similar (although I’d bet NNTP was a quite different protocol than what we’re using now).
Undoubtedly! I was always more of a lurker, but I think I’ve posted as many comments here in the last couple of weeks as I did in 11 years of Reddit… Lemmy is, somehow, much more inviting.
Was going to post this as well. Just replayed it again, never gets old!