paco

paco

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big part of games being more immersive and enjoyable software experiences is their considerate handling of user inputs continuous spectrum of reaction — not individual events

are there any models that encourage hallucinations? i.e. non-existent but plausible ideas nearby in idea space?

my defense against AI attacks on my open source software is to simply not work on my open source software

browser problem: scary amount of data access. need a centralized "browsing data" store managed by the OS, so you can swap out the browser frontend?

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the problem is they stopped innovating on features for the Web. so there's room for improved interfaces on browser (User-Agent) capabilities across the internet. gotta build a browser

i don't mean Web features either (i.e. additions to HTML/CSS/JS) but capability related to webpages – archiving, extracting assets, modifying and creating, etc arguably adding more Web features is "bad" because it continues to herd users into the same few browsers that support the huge complexity

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the human genome is a 3.2 billion line assembly file half of it is deprecated methods a third is malicious Russian code and it’s the most efficient program of all time

the death of the LAN is exaggerated online and offline meet at different points

______ and _______ are styled with CSS. Frameworks rot. CSS waits. .md 2.4kB Mar 18 2025

a lot of design is typography. without even considering the content, pay attention to the visual space that type occupies and how it relates to elements around it

good typographers use additional tools like line length, hyphenation, and custom line break opportunities to fine tune and enhance the "shape of text"

focusing on this visual "shape of text" also removes /some/ dependency on actual written language and its length, so you design more generically with semantic hierarchy (how big are things compared to other things) and can internationalize more easily

crazy that storing a piece of data that needs to be accessible from multiple sources is incredibly hard at scale it means caching, which means latency and stale data, which means coordination and resolution it becomes a time problem

it's great to see that design engineering is a mix of both sides; many started programming websites and appealed to the intricacy of visual interfaces; others start from art and graphic design; we meet the web as a medium of expression

you rarely need workarounds or tricks these days, just try to understand the layout rules and root cause

browser problem: scary amount of data access. need a centralized "browsing data" store managed by the OS, so you can swap out the browser frontend?

you really shouldn't be comfortable entering in your CC data, writing emails, or browsing NSFW in the new Browser™ by Startup™ but you can (and generally, must) trust Apple and Google to act legally and responsibly with your inputs + data