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Longest checkbox you’ll see

Thanks @NikitaKaramov for the pictures

#Github #Checkbox #CSSisHard

Just saw a video that put Apple Music and Winamp next to each other, and it made me realize why Winamp feels so much simpler and approachable than modern UIs.

Its UI doesn’t change.

You click something, and... the UI stays the same. The song starts playing, but not a single pixel moves. There’s no relayout, nothing shrinks, nothing scrolls, nothing animates. It’s stable. It feels predictable. Safe.

Compare that to Apple Music. They played one song and went through three ... 1/3

Maybe AI can put us out of this misery? Humanity on its own seems incapable of solving cross-calendar data format compatibility

#Calendar #Format #ics #iCal

How UI degrades over time. Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable. Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone. Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though. Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice? ... 1/3