Marcin Wichary
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!
Niki Tonsky
@mwichary Preview opens A4 PDFs at physical sizes
Marcin Wichary
Had fun listing all of these interfaces that are aware of the hardware’s dimensions or buttons or other physical properties, so they can do fun things with pointing to stuff.
Please send me more if you can think of them!
Marcin Wichary
I don’t know if this is spicy (I honestly don’t even know what “spicy” means anymore on the internet), but wrote what I learned about making a bug process work for more people than just engineers: https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-make-sure-a-designer-never-files-a-bug-again/
Marcin Wichary
For my 150th (!) post, a look back at Apple’s breathing lights: https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/
Marcin Wichary
A little post about Beagle Bros, perhaps the most fun 1980s software company. https://unsung.aresluna.org/our-programs-are-fun-to-use/
Marcin Wichary
I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and immediately had to write about it.
It simulates working at a help line for a videogame company in 1993, complete with fictitious games, and a physical 300-page binder of various documents. Amazing.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/this-sounds-completely-impractical-and-we-love-it/
Marcin Wichary
I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
Marcin Wichary
In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
Marcin Wichary
I will occasionally link to a post from the blog that I feel really good about, if you don’t mind!
From this morning, a review of the documentary Koolhaas Houselife, ostensibly having nothing to do with UX design:
https://unsung.aresluna.org/movie-review-koolhaas-houselife/
Marcin Wichary
A post about the pretty inspiring and strange software that is Strudel, sort of a command line/text editor for music. I want my CSS authoring to feel this way.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/we-can-go-deeper-by-patterning-inside-of-our-pattern/
Marcin Wichary
An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really interesting way, plus the history of how ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 ended up where they are.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys/
Niki Tonsky
@mwichary @pawelgrzybek me neither! I can set it to always open in Single Page, finally!
Marcin Wichary
@pawelgrzybek @nikitonsky Ugh, that’s such a better example than my Simulator example.
Marcin Wichary
@pawelgrzybek @nikitonsky It even has all these options I never saw before.
Paweł Grzybek
@nikitonsky @mwichary wowwoowow this is cool ! I didn’t know about it.
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