Notices by Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)

@USBTypeSTeve no, you stated that having icons means less localization/translation needs to be done. So: how come?

@BenAveling @tbortels installed Tahoe just to make these screenshots. How are they doing without text?

@tbortels @BenAveling @slyborg what’s the context here? Problem is that in case of Tahoe, designers didn’t think. They just added whatever icons everywhere. That’s the problem

@BenAveling @tbortels Okay what are these?

@USBTypeSTeve what does it even mean? How do icons reduce need for localization? Do you suggest Apple should stop translating UI texts? Or that Apple doesn’t have resource to do translations? What is your point?

@rosyna no, I don’t think so

@grishka в смысле ты недоволен, что пихает?

Salaries in Palo Alto that low, huh?

Pic. 1. Human Interface Guidelines, Apple, 1992
Pic. 2. macOS Tahoe, Apple, 2025

@grishka а что тут происходит? на что смотреть?

@wamdamdam ❤️

@xyrill @pentaradio Damn! I wish I had statistics back then

Now that I have such an effortless way to add statistics to any of my Clojure projects (https://github.com/tonsky/clj-simple-stats), I was surprised to learn that https://allekinos.de/ is hitting 700-1500 unique human visitors per day. That’s pretty good?

Honestly, I made it for myself mostly and was surprised to learn other people know about it!

@tuomas_h @marioguzman and different padding on the sides. The longer you look at this picture the worse it gets

@doodidan I have prior experience with Skia, couple of years

@liebero3.bsky.social What I tested, I don’t know how to learn what’s actually used

@artificialmind I don’t think there’s a good way to interpret web version, it’s too vague. Source code OTOH is so concrete it’s beautiful and immediately understandable. They should’ve put it in the spec in the first place

When web specs are not clear, just go to the source code

@tobiw yes

I always wondered how pencil interpolation works in drawing programs. Turned out the simplest algorithm is very approachable and works quite well!