Notices by Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)

@ZDL I just asked you a question, lol. Which you still didn’t answer. Software is bad because people ask questions? Okay sure

@ZDL you didn’t answer my second question. If we follow your logic, just because you have this use case, we should be putting icons EVERYWHERE and never use plain words. Just because that makes your life eaiser

A gem from the README

@ZDL how often do you work in a program you know well on a computer set to a language that you don’t know? Do you really think we should optimize system UIs for that use-case?

@siracusa I just realized that the great American writer Vladimir Nabokov could not be as well-known abroad as he is in Russia, anyways, this is his most famous line from the opening of Lolita https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32046-lolita-light-of-my-life-fire-of-my-loins-my

In case you already knew that just ignore this message. I just imagined how random previous toot would look _without_ knowing that and wanted to clarify just in case 🙈 We are not making fun of your pronunciation

@siracusa you must see this (translated from Russian)

@vas3k чтобы на реакте не писать

@mwichary Oh I’ll try! At least something I can do. Any insights why there are two of them in the first place?

@tuomas_h I like how in Screenshot library Tahoe Dictionary is broken and @512pixels is like: yeah, what can I do? Only publish it as it is

https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/macos-26-tahoe/#jp-carousel-33826

My friend Kevin made a super-straightforward way to run agents in VMs (so you can --yolo and live more than once)

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox

TFW you merge a PR from Australia

@mwichary I was dreaming about it too! Maybe even auto-export on change, like auto-save, without invoking any command at all

@mwichary It was slash in the name! Jesus Christ

@mwichary yes, I am only complaining because I am pretty sure Figma used to allow me press Replace with a keyboard. Thanks for looking at this objectively instead of just dismissing it. I agree with your thinking about derivative data

@mwichary @thakis right, I also checked by disabling keyboard navigation, space stops working. I guess the real innovation here is that focus is put not on the default button (which has Enter anyways)

@mwichary wait whaaaaat? Your dialog text is also a little different, and I don’t see file browser underneath? I am clicking Export then Save. Figma itself tells me I am on the latest version. Desktop macOS version, Sequoia

@mwichary it’s quite easy to learn, and I rely on it a lot. Speaking of simple keyboard shortcuts, it really bums me out that I can’t press Enter in this Figma dialog. I export files a lot, and a lot of them override existing ones. That’s just normal working process, not an exceptional case. I can do most of it from the keyboard, it’s almost like a keyboard chord. Except for this bit

@mwichary like any modal dialog with 2+ buttons. Enter selects first button (Go to App Store), Spacebar second one (Not Now)

@adamrice @mwichary and spacebar for secondary action (at least on macOS)

Just found out that somebody in Switzerland is teaching GUI programming using JWM and Skija (both my libraries). And even calling them professional!