Tanuj
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Tanuj
Anyone trying to apply science via technology must reason through contingencies, constraints, and behavior in specific circumstances. Questions like What is most appropriate and desired in this context? arise. Science focuses on necessity and universality; technology focuses on contingencies and specificities. Thus, technology does not just follow... See more
Saffron Huang • What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist
An interface that intentionally exploits the vulnerability of human beings for financial or otherwise selfish gain is inhumane and also despicable.An interface that unintentionally allows the former to take place hasnot been considerate of the full extent of human fragility, and is therefore still inhumane.
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
[Clueyness] is feeling incredibly bad for certain people in certain situations—situations in which the person I feel bad for was probably barely affected by what happened. It’s an odd feeling of intense heartbreaking compassion for people who didn’t actually go through anything especially bad.
Tim Urban • Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
To start with, content is becoming increasingly resource-intensive. This has a lot to do with the growing importance of video, but a similar trend can be observed among websites. The size of the average web page (defined as the average page size of the 500,000 most popular domains) increased from 0.45 megabytes (MB) in 2010 to 1.7 megabytes in June... See more
Low-tech Magazine • How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Why is it that most changes are marginal, but a few, like the Great Oxidation Event, are deeply disruptive? The answer is in asymmetry.When we think of competition, we usually picture symmetric competition. Trees compete on height for sunlight, businesses on price for customers. But you can only grow so tall, or lower prices so much. Competition... See more
Subconscious • Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they’re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever... See more
thecreativeindependent.com • My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
No matter how good the original design of the book is, Epub will make it look ugly.