Tanuj
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weaving tools for the web, and beyond
Tanuj
Do I really have to follow some kind of narrative? Can't I just live? So be more with comfortable with messy. Be more comfortable with agnostic, and I mean this about the things that make you feel good.
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
If our tools don’t better our collective humanity, we need new tools.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
permacomputing
permacomputing.netWhy not just publish paper books? If we decided to publish paper books, we would have to: find money, set up logistics, and accept the loss of connection with the book.
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
To avoid accidental presses and to make the moment more deliberate and meaningful, we went with a long press. The challenge with a long press is always discoverability—How does one know they’re supposed to hold? The answer is to provide instant feedback with an animation that builds anticipation. [...] Another choice we make to improve... See more
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox
internet and organic tech
And when we strip away all the chrome—all the Aero and Paper and Frosted Glass, all the evidence of the “design systems” we have poured billions into developing and maintaining—we come face to face with a skeleton of XEROX PARC’s 1973 invention.