I designed a lil fantasy keyboard on a plane. Two Tabs, bigger and simpler modifier keys. Bonus: A bit more symmetry.
(The original is in the second image for comparison.)
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In this promotional photo from Apple, the headphones are more expensive than the computer.
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When researching for my Fn/Globe essay, I found that Centre Pompidou’s site has a bunch of cool photos of Richard Sapper’s IBM PC Convertible models and prototypes. Really fun to see a computer evolve this way.
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/recherche/oeuvres?terms=convertible
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I am planning a trip to Germany (especially South Germany) in a few months. If you have any recommendations for tech history, museums, industrial sites, nerdy things, I would appreciate them.
Stuff like Deutsches Museum, the cool train in Wuppertal, Arithmeum and Analog Computer Museum, ZKM, Landschaftspark… Anti-recommendations (“overrated,” “not worth the time”) are also welcome.
Thank you in advance!
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online A regular order as far as I know.
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Mar 09, 2026
Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.
Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!
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Mar 04, 2026
Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like this the pop-up contents that appear are misaligned…
…which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that if you click at the bottom, a click and release *without moving your mouse*, which was always 100% safe (and a way to “peek” into a menu to see what’s inside), can now accidentally change your option.
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Feb 15, 2026
This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)
1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.
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@gruber@mastodon.social This is so embarrassing I winced. (I work on complex stuff and indeed you sometimes forget about all the states, but the job is to build processes that catch those things that escaped your memory.) https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/02/12/more-macos-263-finder-column-view-silliness
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Thank you everyone for suggested books! With help from @scottjenson@social.coop, I turned it into a page on my website, hoping that maybe it will help someone in the future:
https://aresluna.org/ux-books-not-written-by-white-men/
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I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!
You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.
Hope you like it!
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It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have any idea why an app is asking, what should I say, what is the penalty for choosing Don’t Allow, etc. What a frustrating experience.
(Edit: I’m showing Chrome here but I am getting them for so many other apps without seemingly any rhyme or reason.)
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