A fun and short video from Juniper Dev about how Undertale is a fantastic game despite being fantastically poorly written: When you make dialogue in a video game you have a distinct file that has all the possible text that can pop up in your game. This is usually a CSV file, or a JSON, and you can think of it as...

Just kidding. But it’s a happy 20th annivesary to the little interactive explainer I made of Fitts’ Law back in 2005! It’s charming in a sort of early-web kinda way, but still holds up – at least on bigger screens. I even ran it on my iPad and it worked. #marcin wichary #principles

Wes Fenlon at PC Gamer: Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 “Hot Dog Stand” color scheme. I can’t figure out whether Gruber’s take (“That’s Microsoft.”) is also a subtle jab at Apple in the year of...

Forgot about this cute little story: It used to be that when you dragged an item off the Dock and dropped it, the icon would disappear in a puff of smoke and make a satisfying noise. The animation was strangely primitive against the backdrop of the slick user interface of what used to called Mac OS X. I too wondered...

This is inside my Sony Alpha camera: a teensy too technical, or maybe slightly-lost-in-translation-from-Japanese message. I love it. It has personality without trying to be cute. #writing

I just got my first Windows laptop in ages, and a little nervous to dig in, given the burgeoning reputation. (My secret: I used to admire Windows in the 3.x and 9x and 2000 era because I always thought its keyboard operation was a lot better than Mac OS’s.)#windows

I spend a lot of time at work thinking and designing (and avoiding) loading states, and someone just reminded me of a piece I wrote ten years ago, so I just moved it from Medium to my new website, and updated with new things I learned. It’s about TV clock idents and what they meant to me growing up – possibly the...

An extremely thoughtful moment in DaVinci Resolve. When you drop the first video clip into a new project, it suggests to update the settings of the entire project, on the correct assumption that the first media might set the tone of the whole thing. “You can’t undo this action” is scary and kind of… untrue? But I’ve...

Made me laugh. lanyardigan on Bluesky: #humor #keyboard

From Dave Karpf’s essay: From the vantage point of 2025, optimization is clearly no longer a priority for the tech platforms. Google’s search results have gotten worse. Google doesn’t care. Facebook is awash in AI slop. It welcomes the slop. Amazon is filled with fake products and fake reviews. All of these...

I’ve always been curious whether those “dyslexic-friendly” fonts amount to anything, and this 2022 post I haven’t seen before puts this idea to rest: But the new fonts—and the odd assortment of paraphernalia that came before them—assume that dyslexia is a visual problem rooted in imprecise letter recognition. That’s...

Ash K on Mastodon: #errors #graphics #real world