There is this whole “deep work” productivity culture obsession with hating on notifications, and when I do hyperfocus I often turn notifications off. That needs to be easy to do, and I do that all the time.
But there is a level of focus just before that depth, and it’s just as valuable, maybe even more valuable since it’s not as obsessive and not as neglectful of my well-being as a whole, and I can’t get there if I’m in check-check-checking hell.
Not happy with issue trackers that has a ton of required boilerplate just to suggest an issue. Users (“lusers”) who are reporting bugs are helping the project and if it’s easy for them to contribute, more bugs will be found.
Non-mandatory boilerplate prompts (“here’s where you can find the version number”, “here’s where you can find logs”) are great but it should be possible to bypass since it’s stuff that’s not always relevant, like a user finding a bug can’t submit the admin’s logs for example.
I’ve said it before but probably the biggest culture shock when working in the corporate world was that they pay for testers and UI designers while when users give such suggestions for free in the FOSS world, they get kicked in the head.
The flipside to that is when the users are coming across as entitled, that’s not right either. Users, you’re not a paying customer or employee.
I can't recall, but it was just yesterday, there was some sort of issue I needed to report with something, and I'm used to those annoying boilerplates - it's like calling your ISP and getting tier one tech support with a notebook... "Can you turn it of and turn it on again?" Gimme a fricken' break, man!
Anyway, I teetered for a minute. Not sure if I wanted to fill that stuff out for something so trivial, but....
Then I noticed - there was a button to bypass all that! I was astonished
I don't want mandatory darkmode because I just can't see it very well especially when I'm tired. I can but only if I squint and like super focus, or zoom in. Here is a comparison image (above and below) but to me they're the same picture.
This is for LCD screens. On CRT it's the other way around and there I did use darkmode all the time. I dunno why.
@Sandra Thank you for sharing this. I don't think most people who set dark mode as default realise how difficult it can be do read (and the ones who do but still do it without an option to change can go... (I was about to write something very rude)).
For me, the dark mode doesn't look as bad, but instead what happens is that everything around me starts flashing (similar to what would happen if you look into the sun).
It’s a curious accident of human nature that strawdoll tactics are so popular rhetorically since they are really, really bad for convincing people. They’re good at preaching to the choir and riling up the base, which is what contributes to their popularity; “manufacturing outrage”, but when people see through the strawdoll claims, that can undermine the credibility of your entire case and send them running right into the waiting arms of the other side, and when that other side truly is so much worse than yours, that’s a disaster.
People on the fence are especially vulnerable to this. They’ve seen some of the other side’s argument and now they come to hear you out. They see you saying things about the other side that doesn’t mesh with what they’ve heard, with how the other side has originally presented itself, and they conclude that you’re exaggerating or even lying, especially if that other side isn’t presenting itself that honestly.
Yeah, so seems we're on pretty much the same page how to explain games 💁🏻♀️
Filter out a lot of stuff and give a super zoomed out overview with heavy reliance on pregens 👍🏻
For meditation, I'd just say "You're allowed to discard cards to change dice" and let whether it's good or bad to do that be something that comes up in the game itself. I do it all the time 🤷🏻♀️ but only when it's worth it. That's a perfect example where some people would go "but why would you ever wanna do that?!" but I'm like can we please explain the rest of the rules first before my head falls off. It's like being underwater, I can't hold an overly long explanation in my head all at once; later when we're in the game that's when we can start to think of whether meditation is good or bad.
I might even hold off on saying that rule until the first round when the player rolls their first dice. The first two couple of rounds can be much more explanation laden because then we're actually doing things 🤷🏻♀️
@Sandra Yeah, I think what I was objecting to was the idea of going straight into the game without explaining it at all. I'm not going to teach every tiny rule, but where there's a framework the rules fit into I'm definitely going to establish that, and if a decision will be consequential I'm going to say why. ("Yeah, you could walk through that fire, but if you extinguish it to smoke then you can walk back through it for fewer actions.")
Grognards: “D&D lost its wild creative spirit once it started being inspired by fantasy inspired by it, like a snake eating its own tail. It was better when it was inspired by the pulps and not just Tolkienesque EDO.”
The D&D millenials & zoomers: “OK, here’s some wild fauns & furries & blue tieflings & dragonborn monks & water-spirit frog people.”
Grognards: “No not like that.”
“Growth” that’s based on pretending that existing limits don’t exist isn’t “life”. It’s reckless and deadly.
In grade school, a lot of the econ lessons were about not getting stuck in borrowing loops and to be careful with credit cards and “buy-now-pay-later” schemes and to only use loans for carefully considered investments. Don’t waste what you don’t have, is the takeaway there.
The under-accounted–for costs of fossil fuel leads to destructive behavior. We think it costs $4 per gallon but when the piper comes it’s gonna be our skies, our waters and our selves.
JavaScript mangles semantics in a way that CSS does not.
Dynamic content (such as animated elements) and even some amount of user interaction is well handled by CSS to the extent that it more affords designers making pages such that that stuff can be turned off, ignored, overridden. That’s much more difficult with JavaScript and the virtual DOM.
@Sandra thing is, I've read it now so I know where the blockquotes are. But yes, without CSS, it does look better to me.
Mind you, for any styling of a web page there will be some people who object to it. I have had so many complaints about the colour scheme I chose for my blog that I now give readers a choice of three stylesheets!