@nikitonsky WOW! It is like a small whack-a-mole game intelligently integrated in a disruptive UI that now brings joy in a whole new level. Just genius! 😍

@nikitonsky <insert joke about `vi` being hard to launch as well as quit here>

@nikitonsky The original Macintosh in 1984 had a separate mask on icons to define the clickable area. It allowed having an icon with a 'hole' where clicking the hole still activated the icon, such as this Excel 1.0 icon. The outside corners of the box containing the icon do not activate it but clicking in the middle does.

@dale_price

This mockup is fantastic and something we really need.

@dale_price there should be one more button, labeled "why the heck a flashlight needs my contacts info???"

@dale_price

Im mildly concerned - were used that pretty much all our contact Info is automatically shared with at least one, usually two companies whose whole purpose are advertisement and data abuse. One of them is even praised as „open system“ by many.

@nikitonsky I believe that's Outer WORlds 2 not Outer Wilds

@nikitonsky My theory is that retro-futurism serves to alleviate taste buds being overfed with modern noisy design. Basically, Dieter Rams that is more humane than sterile, to the public eye, today. Sony isn't there by accident either, it seems to me.

Which doesn't invalidate your point, of course.

More generally, normalize building completed software that doesn't need any further updates.

@nikitonsky a few months ago some Python ML package started printing a warning on import that a new version available. I'm honestly dreading others following suit. It isn't even that important a package, literally I don't care please stop going to the internet on import and then bothering me about it

@nikitonsky INDIKA is tops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JHFjjLTU8

@nikitonsky if you cut your hair yourself, you hold the trimmer in every possible way, intuitively ;d

@nikitonsky I’m so looking forward to this game!

@nikitonsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI6CTj72C2k

@nikitonsky wasn't he also all about guns? "Няня, где же пушка?", or whatever the original quote is.
Pic source: deviantart/kstza

@nikitonsky Hm...isn't it the same as saying:
"If you never crash with your car, you won't need that seatbelt."

It's all about probability and reducing risk. You never know beforehand what might happen.

@nikitonsky we had a system at a previous job that kept track and then stopped running them on every PR. (They would still run over night though.)

@nikitonsky I often write tests just to confirm that something works the way I expect it to before moving on. Once it's written, I tend to just leave it.

If I'm working on Clojure I do that kind of quick test in the REPL, but I'm usually not working in Clojure.

@grumpy_website `border-radius`: the new cruise control for cool

@grumpy_website
The only requirement is that the buttons are not consistent

@nikitonsky This is some very stiff facial animation. There are much better examples out there. Look at some of the Sony games: Horizon, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima. Those have really good facial animations. Metahuman from Epic is impressive, too.

Though, I have to commend this team's dedication to recreating whole sequence basically frame-perfect (most of the time).

@nikitonsky я уже готов уйти обратно в Angular.

@nikitonsky normality is subjective. maybe you are the one in the room with squishy walls

@nikitonsky (because)

@mwichary "own little shared UI universe" surprises me. I am not a DOS guy, but I always assumed Norton Utilities adhered to IBM's CUA. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access) Is it very different from CUA or are the differences minor?

@mwichary 🖐️ Yo, I do. Seeing the pics made an immediate refresher to my memory of fixing some fiddly stuff on my first PC.

@mwichary We wrote almost all assembler code for our demos (1992-1996) in Norton Commander. As long as you didn’t write code that crashed your machine (which admittedly happened all the time) it was the closest we had to an IDE.

https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=13470

@nikitonsky Now you have two problems...

@nikitonsky the cool thing is that usually any package manager can install the others.

@nikitonsky don't get too comfortable with it, it's being removed from node.js distributions. See https://eluminoustechnologies.com/blog/news/node-js-removes-corepack/ and https://socket.dev/blog/node-js-takes-steps-towards-removing-corepack for more info.

@nikitonsky Yeah, I’ve never done it. There’s always plenty of attractive hacking on offer…

@krajzeg instawishlist 😄 Good luck!

@krajzeg very exciting news!

@grumpy_website also a minimized version