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Cuba was known to be very restrictive.

As a comparison… this is how Netscape 4 looked like… in 1998.

A screenshot showing Netscape 6 in all its gimmickry glory.

"Platforms must be transparent." - https://
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

He's got a point… and if you don't remember how gimmickry Netscape 6 was, this is how it looked like in 2002:

I don’t think “KI-Bildsoße” will resonate well in Austria (and Bavaria). Maybe #KISchlatz

Ki-Schlatz

I loved Nine Hundred Grandmothers as a teen. So much chaos magic.

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Obviously. You need that low background-steel.

Jokes aside, I have noticed people starting to refer to ux in some sort of “past conditional” form - as something that “could have been”.

A chart showing the changing seasons of AI and HCI.

I updated the Grudin AI-HCI Hype graph.

YouTube video by lftkryo Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt

I keep returning to this C64 live coding session by Linus Åkesson; not because of the mastery on display. There's a tangible distance, between what drew me in and what now passes for work. Separate toto coelo - divided by the whole extent of the heavens.

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People here so fed up with ai slop, they now applaud hand made fake fail news.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Anyone remember that one?

I just put it in the sun. It worked on my old C64.

FASCINATION PAPER

Recommendation: www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio...

GitHub - arminbw/not-so-oblique-strategies: Press the bottom-left button of your modded Casio F-91W to receive a daily edict. Press the bottom-left button of your modded Casio F-91W to receive a daily edict. - arminbw/not-so-oblique-strategies

Not-So-Oblique-Strategies - a Casio F-91W watch face.

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We are nearly past the first quarter. Maybe we should just skip the 21st century.

Do you ship to EU/Austria?

LLM on a C64.

(llama2.c64 by YTM/Elysium)

building the world's first ethical data centre, powered by david graeber's spinning corpse

Compare with macOS Sequoia: the window controls also reside in the sidebar, but the sidebar isn’t pushed down the visual hierarchy.

The UI choices in macOS Tahoe leave me puzzled. Why outline every group with hard border-lines, pair them with oversized, toy-like corner radii, then box the window controls together with the sidebar?

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

Idk. Not living in the USA, but still seeing literacy problems. Try emailing a coworker more than one question. Send out a position paper and ask for feedback. Look at “ideation” guidelines telling you to only use thick sharpies and sticky notes…

I won’t get into the ad-hoc personas or all the playful cardboard prototyping that filled design-thinking workshops over the last ten years…

When Google designers (back in 2015?), presented their basic research on Material using paper prototypes, did this truly reflect how they arrived at the final result?

Watching the Coca-Cola AI slop "workflow" get publicly dismantled is - in a way - hilarious.

Still, design - especially UX/UI - has a long tradition of its own kind of process theatre. Who hasn't been tempted to trace wireframes after-the-fact, just to meet expectations?

Thought about switching to Kindergarten teaching too. The salary is abysmal, though, and the demands on your health are not to be underestimated.