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@cblgh "we have increasingly come to understand that GUIs hide the systems that drive that production, and by extension, the labor to maintain and sustain them."

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Like 11 Jul 2022 at 14:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on merveilles.town

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wakame

@neauoire @cblgh This feels very true.

11 Jul 2022 at 15:00 | Open on tech.lgbt

Michael Dales

@neauoire @cblgh Surely that is conflating whether you provide an interface for a thing with the medium of delivery for that interface? It's a choice to provide tooling in either form isn't it?

Text based systems *tend* to provide more verbose UIs, but it's not a given requirement of the medium: IIRC 80s GUI os systems sans text tended to expose all.

Or is it that we only know how to build new software in text, so unless you address the computer in text code will always be intimidating?

11 Jul 2022 at 16:22 | Open on mastodon.me.uk

Devine Lu Linvega

@mdales @cblgh the quote is taken from the link up on top.

It's talking about wordpress and wysiwig editors.

11 Jul 2022 at 16:41 | Open on merveilles.town

Michael Dales

@neauoire @cblgh I read the article, which was really good. I just inferred you were advocating that stance more generally - apologies.

11 Jul 2022 at 16:46 | Open on mastodon.me.uk

Devine Lu Linvega

@mdales @cblgh No no, I wouldn't stretch this too far either. I'm saying this as someone who develops principally GUI applications ;)

11 Jul 2022 at 16:48 | Open on merveilles.town