Site of a dude that owns 70+ drawing tablets and shares his experience. Nice.

“Structuring your theory into a story makes it more compelling.”

The latter consequence of low expectations is the more serious one. It's something that some people may never recover from. The average career of a paramedic is 6-8 years because of the physical and psychological strain the job puts on a person. The career of a physiotherapist is about the same, mainly because they become someone's personal psychologist 8 times a day while treating back pain or a sore knee. The trajectory of a data or software engineer seems to be a bit different: they burn out from the mental stress of working in dishonest and fraudulent cultures that produce unsatisfying work, but the engineer stays in the profession. Only they're a shell of a human. How many developers or programmers do you know who are a little sad all the time? I wonder what caused them to be like that.

So much of building tech stuff is a figurative conversation - between you and the machine, you and the abstraction, you and the people who will use what you build, you and the people who will maintain it, you and those who came before you. To understand such a varied audience you need to anchor on your understanding of yourself. Improve the one tool you can never replace - you.

Jeff Geerling

Eventually (about 12 hours into the ordeal), the TeamYouTube account on X mentioned they were looking into it (after the appeal had been rejected).

After there was some coverage on /., Hacker News, and a few tech news sites, I was contacted by the YouTube Creator Liason (Rene Ritchie, great guy who often has to be the go-between for creators and whatever internal machinery spits out these decisions) and he said they would be restoring the video.

Almost exactly a day after I got the initial strike/warning, the video was restored.

But the rejection notice still shows up in my YouTube Studio dashboard, go figure :D

I wouldn't care too much about a single video like this... except the exact reason for why it violated community guidelines (and survived the first — and for most creators who don't have the social media reach I do — only appeal) still hasn't been given.

This kind of rejection can have a chilling effect on certain types of content. Like was it a mention of Kodi, or LibreELEC, or just the idea of having a local media library? Or was it triggered by showing the playback of a movie outside (legally acquired on physical media, mind you) of some movie studio's boutique streaming service?

Who knows...

Designing for UI density goes beyond the visual aspects of an interface. It includes all the implicit and explicit design decisions we make, and all the information we choose to show on the screen. It includes all time and the actions a user takes to get something valuable out of the software.

So, finally, a concrete definition of UI density: UI density is the value a user gets from the interface divided by the time and space the interface occupies.

Speed, usability, consistency, predictability, information richness, and functionality all play an important role in this equation. By taking account of all these aspects, we can understand why some interfaces succeed and others fail. And by designing for density, we can help people get more value out of the software we build.

It seems that Linux distributions were more accessible for blind people in 2012 than in 2025. It hurts my soul. Accessibility is not a question of "if", it's about "when" - you and me don't get any younger with each passing day - our vision might get blurrier, our programmers hands will get tired pressing those keys every day.

I hope my projects doing a little bit better in that regard.

FediIndex data on Betula. Very interesting! 1.3.0 is still used by some, 1.2.0 has ceased to exist. Third of all instances are hosted in Russia.

I wish it knew more Betula instances though.

A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.

NetBSD-based Nintendo Wii that serves static content using HTTP, proxied by Caddy to the whole world wide web. Beautiful.