What is Generative UI? | tambo blog
Generative UI is an interface that adapts in real-time to the user’s context. Their natural language input, their past interactions, system data. Instead of a fixed experience everyone must learn, the software learns to fit what each user needs in the moment.
(4218) Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 – YouTube
This video is a TV show made about the software Ivan Sutherland developed in his 1963 thesis at MIT's Lincoln Labs, "Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System", described as one of the most influential computer programs ever written. This work was seminal in Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Computer Aided Design (CAD), and contraint/object-oriented programming. While watching this video, remember that the TX-2 computer (built circa 1958) on which the software ran was built from discrete transistors (not integrated circuits -it was room-sized) and contained just 64K of 36-bit words (~272k bytes).
'Nothing else looks like them': Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
Each winter, the upper slopes of Mount Zao in northern Japan – one of the country's best-known ski areas – are transformed. Fir trees coated in thick frost and snow swell into ghostly figures known as "juhyo" or "snow monsters".
Grumpy Website
The original Windows 95 interface is _functional_. It has a function and it executes it very well. It works for you, without trying to be clever or sophisticated. Also, it follows system conventions, which also helps you, the user.
Perl's decline was cultural
There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. My take: it was mostly baked into the culture.
PocketMage Is an E Ink PDA for the Modern Era – Hackster.io
Gather ‘round kids, while Uncle Cameron tells you a story. Back in the far away times before smartphones, people had these things called PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). They were kind of like smartphones, except they weren’t very smart and they lacked most connectivity options. But they were very popular among Business™ types. Now Ashtf is bringing the PDA back for the modern era in the form of the E Ink display-equipped PocketMage.
The past was not that cute • Otherwise
Laura Ingalls Wilder‘s Little House on the Prairie books are problematic, and also I will always love them. She wrote about the beauty of family and hard work, but she wrote them because she spent her whole life supporting disabled family members. She and her daughter beautified her “pioneer girl” history to make good books. Her daughter describes the reality: “It took seven successive years of complete crop failure, with work, weather and sickness that wrecked [my father’s] health permanently, and interest rates of 36 percent on money borrowed to buy food, to dislodge us from that land.”
Inside the Bizarre 1978 'Star Wars Holiday Special' George Lucas Hated (Exclusive) | Woman's World
Hamill admitted that when he first read the script, “I thought it was awful. You know, ‘Why are we doing this?’ Then I said, ‘I’m not doing this.’” It was Lucas’ phone call that convinced him otherwise—with one condition: “All right, but I’m not singing.”
NPR : Books We Love
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UX for reversible actions: A decision framework for designing with recovery in mind – LogRocket Blog
Reversibility is one of the strongest trust signals in UX. When users can reverse an action, they feel safe. That sense of safety changes how they interact with your product. It boosts confidence, keeps them in flow, and reduces hesitation when performing actions. When people know they can recover from mistakes, they explore more, click faster, and stay focused on their goals instead of being worried about clicking the wrong thing.
~nkali/vision-sdk (main): note/index.md – sourcehut git
Back in 1983, an office software giant VisiCorp released a graphical multitasking operating system for the IBM PC called VisiOn (or Visi On, or Visi-On, it was before the Internet, so anything goes). It was an "open system", so anyone could make programs for it. Well, if they owned an expensive VAX computer and were prepared to shell out $7,000 on the Software Development Kit. VisiOn was released earlier than Microsoft Windows, Digital Research GEM, or Apple Macintosh. Its COMDEX demo even predates the annoucement of Apple Lisa. But being first doesn't mean getting things right, so this VisiOn of the future did not win the market. Not a single third-party program was released for the system. No one preserved the SDK for the system. The technical documentation roughly amounts to three terse magazine articles and a single Usenet post. Heck, even the copies of the operating system itself are hard to come by. Despite its low popularity, VisiOn is historically important. It influenced Microsoft's decisions about Windows, and it is a lesson about failing. So, I thought it would be nice to recreate the SDK for it, Homebrew-style. How difficult could it be, right?!
Vanilla CSS is all you need
Back in April 2024, Jason Zimdars from 37signals published a post about modern CSS patterns in Campfire. He explained how their team builds sophisticated web applications using nothing but vanilla CSS. No Sass. No PostCSS. No build tools. The post stuck with me. Over the past year and a half, 37signals has released two more products (Writebook and Fizzy) built on the same nobuild philosophy. I wanted to know if these patterns held up. Had they evolved?
PC-Man and The Spark Of Childhood Wonder
Teenager Greg Kuperberg wrote three fast-action arcade games for the IBM-PC in 1982 and 1983 (an almost impossible of feat at the time) and then took another path. In this rare examination of his work, we look at the legacy and inspiration of this “would-be” game programming auteur, who “moved-on” while at the top of his game.
'Vampire Squid From Hell' Reveals The Ancient Origins of Octopuses : ScienceAlert
The vampire squid is a fascinating twig tenaciously hanging onto the cephalopod family tree. It's neither a squid nor an octopus (nor a vampire), but rather the last, lone remnant of an ancient lineage whose other members have long since vanished.
Desperately seeking squircles | Figma Blog
In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short sequence of fundamental questions about the nature of design. This is a story about one Figma engineer’s hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge.
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Hating Stranger Things During the Death Rattle of Criticism
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Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all | ScienceDaily
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate. This discovery challenges the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe’s foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system.