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7 days 60 days All time
Word count 353 359 289
Sentiment (mine) .77 .74 .66
Sentiment (quoted) -.13 .31 .16
With images ÷ all 55% 64% 63%
With video ÷ all 45% 39% 27%
YouTube ÷ all 27% 25% 22%

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“Cryptic mode was born from a hard constraint.”333 words -.51/-.29
Speaking of wiggling the mouse88 words .56/–
“This is where your mouse becomes a cryptographic instrument.”176 words .89/–
Mailbag: Photoshop’s focus post1,050 words 1.00/-.73
Rug pulled314 words .71/–
Save For Web claws136 words .96/–
“Nothing short of a magic trick”284 words .98/–
“They did the bare minimum and moved on.”93 words .88/–
A preview of the future438 words .99/–
Peaked in 2015630 words 1.00/–
“There seems to be a file that is just filled with undecipherable Morse.”337 words .96/.62
“This was a user-friendly computer.”562 words .56/-.30
“Watchmaker’s delicate precision and ornate mechanical intent”385 words .98/.92
“Traditionally, fonts were just shapes.”303 words 1.00/–
“Who thinks about a screwdriver?”258 words .88/.42
The land where time stood still332 words .98/–
The vision of persistence307 words .98/–
The 1990s called and they want their dialog box back720 words .99/–
“Have you ever been annoyed by your Mac’s media keys?”272 words .98/-.61
Early names133 words .86/–
Mouse pointer as a mere mortal420 words .98/–
“Examining the changelog in its entirety would be a massive task, given that it was now over 200,000 words long.”309 words .95/–
CleanShot’s onboarding via settings416 words .99/–
The tortoise and the hare live on36 words -.08/–
“The Helvetica of music notation”119 words .13/–
Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 21,291 words -.98/.44
About Unsung: Thanks for your feedback!189 words .86/–
Book review: Shadow of the Colossus (Boss Fight Books)555 words 1.00/–
UI art from 409672 words .97/–
Tactical dark modes595 words 1.00/–
What deserves a second chance249 words .92/–
“The cheatsheet you won’t need.”243 words .99/–
“That’s how floating point errors and triangle numbers solved a mystery.”257 words .67/–
“Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay.”253 words .99/–
Abort, Retry, No, Thanks587 words .98/–
“The deeper you look, the more it starts to feel like a platform.”234 words .95/.88
Out of touch433 words .97/–
Recency bias (non-derogatory)260 words .98/–
“You could key smash, and it would type out the thing.”61 words .42/–
“The fancy software figures it out for you.”556 words .99/–
Got your back, pt. 598 words .87/–
If a feature falls in a forest520 words 1.00/–
“The system is so twisted that even Apple itself begs for these reviews from its own apps.”212 words .87/.84
“It can be really disorienting to scroll around a fully monochrome hexdump.”48 words .89/–
Raycast’s confetti cannon319 words .99/–
The edge not taken364 words .98/–
“Area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array with some matching attribute”331 words .99/–
“Use links, don't talk about them.”512 words -.94/–
Unsung @ 250: Please send me your feedback!131 words .96/–
Unsung @ 250: Nine design details457 words .99/–
Unsung @ 250: Goals and principles639 words 1.00/–
“To build a thing that immediately feels like you've had it forever is very hard to do.”288 words .99/–
“Should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand.”330 words .53/.75
Thoughtful file dropping in Wakamaifondue276 words .52/–
“Rather than trying to fix this mistake, the developers leaned into it hard in the sequel.”213 words .37/–
The beauty and the terror of oddly-specific commands350 words .99/–
“We can have the best of all worlds.”178 words .94/.91
In search for a more precise cursor311 words .92/–
“Deere charges six figures for a tractor. But the farmers were still the product.”570 words .89/-.87
Is this the latest?26 words .20/–
“So I wrote a script that takes monthly screenshots of Google and Apple Maps.”260 words .99/.23
Only time will tell475 words -.96/–
“Approximately 21 times the estimated age of the universe”360 words -.98/-.48
“We're trying to copy this old machine, weirdness and all.”456 words .96/–
“Software is a unique art because it is so reactive.”215 words .46/.94
Blink comparators in photo editing apps167 words .94/–
“Prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking”1,337 words .99/.99
“Every step they take, in every single direction, is right on top of a rake.”275 words .84/-.72
“Subtle line between animations that help and animations that hurt”196 words .89/–
Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?678 words .98/–
“And if I were to end this story here, this would be a great story.”124 words .88/–
“If you use your computer to do important work, you deserve fast software.”600 words .99/.95
“It moved too slowly to be an asteroid.”319 words .99/.81
Linear’s clever internal redesign UI385 words 1.00/-.15
“I’m hoping that the listeners out there, when they hear it, they’ll feel seen.”248 words .61/–
For your consideration: Tab to fix spelling257 words .98/–
Anachronisms4 words –/–
Testing tip: Enable the zoom peek gesture318 words .99/–
Book review: Maintenance: Of Everything (Part One)667 words 1.00/-.95
“Naïve, simple, not good enough.”281 words .99/-.52
“There is no quality or historical significance standard.”504 words .98/.86
World-class female singers933 words 1.00/.09
“That's because the metro cab is his right hand. Videogames!”168 words .05/–
“Decentralization does not always equal delight.”532 words .99/.91
Come at the king, you best not miss275 words .84/–
“Less of a pitch, more of a prediction”485 words .56/.95
Got your back, pt. 4103 words -.49/–
On tools and toolmaking1,369 words 1.00/.81
To streamline or not to streamline315 words .37/–
System shock81 words .78/–
Some more placeholder misuse262 words .90/.79
“Publishers aren't evil, but they are desperate.”574 words -.92/-.90
Bear’s seamless OCR integration163 words .98/–
Two nice moments from MoMA in New York117 words .96/–
“It takes an airplane to bring out the worst in a pilot.”389 words -.35/-.27
“This thing that Tamron's doing is actually very cool.”132 words .92/–
“So, what makes 3D so scary and different?”360 words .98/–
One big step forward, three small steps back174 words .76/–
“I don't like it but at least I know. Thanks.”296 words .98/-.36
“Michael here will handle the bullshitting.”304 words .33/.77
Design is more230 words .98/–
The curse of the cursor1,093 words .99/.99
User interface sugar crash190 words .96/–
“And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.”347 words .84/.95
“I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point.”322 words .99/.90
Night mode predictions164 words .91/–
Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 1420 words .96/.76
“Just because it’s consistent doesn’t mean it’s consistently right.”133 words .24/–
Adjust in smaller steps627 words 1.00/.67
“Why do we care about numbers? Numbers make me mad.”279 words .96/.95
“Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”508 words .95/-.91
Thirteen characters81 words .46/–
“We’re going to start out by going to the FAKEY folder.”362 words .96/–
“Juggling my phone, my camera, and the umbrella, having to tap the wet screen multiple times to get anything done”190 words -.97/–
Software proprioception625 words 1.00/–
“A few small details I use to make my interfaces feel better.”207 words .98/.23
“Houston, we have 1 problem(s).”213 words .26/–
“Two lights that you never want to see when you’re landing on the Moon.”376 words .92/-.26
From dawn (or dusk) till dusk (or dawn)290 words .99/–
My essay about the Fn key127 words .91/–
“Durial321 is a banned RuneScape player and a bug abuser.”527 words .95/-.98
“It’s beautiful and kind of mesmerizing.”349 words .98/–
“When you make a release that's okay”63 words .17/.62
“Kapor had projected first year sales of $1M, but did $53M instead.”469 words 1.00/.73
“Make a tiny box that fits around your F1 key.”666 words .97/.98
“There’s something about it that can’t be objectively measured: It’s funny.”219 words .96/–
“I’m obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji directly.”717 words 1.00/-.74
A more eager typeahead in Chrome254 words .99/–
Not a mountain – but not a molehill, either491 words 1.00/–
“Which is definitely not good to do to it.”337 words .95/–
“Podcasts are a radical gift.”185 words .96/.48
Lock Scroll With a Vengeance343 words .95/–
“Your wife’s new legal name is TAARGÜS TAARGÜS.”79 words .93/–
“Every time there’s a massive technological shift, intellectual property rights suddenly and very conveniently become a blind spot.”198 words .99/–
Deterministic vs. idempotent919 words 1.00/.36
“A day some have predicted and many have feared”210 words .97/.81
“Designed to be loveable by managers”493 words .97/-.99
Tales of direct manipulation, pt. 1246 words .99/–
“Simultaneously old-fashioned and futuristic at the same time”173 words .12/–
“Our programs are fun to use.”1,116 words 1.00/1.00
“Some are papercuts, others a throbbing migraine.”613 words .75/-.71
“Some rather obscure and complex mathematical process”346 words .92/.57
“It’s not so simple to celebrate a phrase.”296 words .97/–
Accidental UI calming647 words .97/.85
“So long I’m showing it sideways”59 words .87/-.15
Safari release notes95 words .96/–
“It’s very small, but still leaves room for creativity.”250 words .98/–
Living in the Upside Down354 words .87/–
“Please star to express your interest.”94 words .70/–
Sins of our Finders, pt. 5111 words .18/–
“Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything”545 words .99/.23
Got your back, pt. 342 words .75/–
I’m with stupid →200 words .35/–
“I trust in TextEdit.”1,122 words 1.00/.97
“One of the smaller but downright disturbing issues with dark mode”322 words .50/-.38
Tactical version history240 words .98/–
“They even thanked the coders for giving them such a difficult challenge.”137 words .88/–
“So, I made another tool.”404 words .99/–
“Repeat until smooth”376 words .99/.96
Mailbag: URLs as UI470 words .99/.97
“These platforms are ad-heavy to the detriment and frustration of users, yet they remain successful and growing.”197 words .20/.66
Trust your fingers145 words .83/–
Make yourself at home213 words .59/–
“The reason this never caused a problem before was pure luck.”83 words -.68/–
Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme560 words 1.00/–
“A design variation that doesn’t make sense”123 words .90/–
Book review: The iOS App Icon Book/The macOS App Icon Book524 words 1.00/–
“We internalize so much by doing things slower and making mistakes.”247 words -.43/.65
“The killer app is making calls.”281 words .79/–
“Problem solved, right? Well, not exactly.”382 words -.58/-.48
Molly guard in reverse334 words .98/–
How to make sure a designer never files a bug again693 words .99/–
“It’s just a nice thing to have, you know.”125 words .98/–
“Hello... I am right here!!!”147 words .55/–
“4 billion unique (and sometimes very memorable) sentences”188 words .93/-.42
“Projects just drift toward chaos unless a person is actively holding them together.”289 words .49/.85
“Maintenance in this larger sense has nothing optional about it.”125 words -.06/.46
“This sounds completely impractical and we love it.”316 words .73/.94
“See the picture of some guy in place of the X button?”48 words -.35/–
“These small, repeated experiences shape us more than we like to admit.”581 words .98/-.26
“You’d get knuckle pain if you typed too much.”173 words -.18/–
“Battered, bedraggled, inexplicably enthusiastic about a bargain flight to Bermuda”332 words .85/.62
“A demake of a remake of a demake of a game that is ostensibly a semi-sequel/semi-adaptation”108 words .94/–
The dusty menus of the world’s most popular desktop browser279 words -.78/–
“A number of hidden problems in the naïve approach”45 words .87/–
“A collection of beautiful letters? A beautiful collection of letters? You decide.”114 words .95/–
“It’s a good idea though, and there aren’t even many of those in Tahoe.”320 words .99/–
“The floppy disk icon relies on interface familiarity, not object familiarity.”335 words .97/–
How to shoot a screen using a board of keys722 words 1.00/–
“Users were gleefully told to reload the game”67 words .78/–
Testing tip: Always show scrollbars277 words -.90/–
“How do they spit in Korea?”68 words .69/–
Three iOS 26 transitions273 words -.74/–
“State-sanctioned monster executions over a server hiccup”147 words .69/-.99
“As the vision decays or blurs and new features are conceived without consideration of the whole”263 words .93/.98
The Moylan Arrow of software429 words .98/.98
“If you did it right, it looks like it was effortless”321 words -.78/.81
“An integer overflow causes an enemy to spawn directly on top of the player”30 words -.49/–
“The autocorrect battle of wills”477 words -.97/–
Sins of our Finders, pt. 4: Eject211 words .99/–
“1H in a config menu = 10C”228 words -.92/–
“We can go deeper by patterning inside of our pattern”273 words 1.00/.13
“Stuck on level 256 forever”104 words .58/–
“Coding typography is not like any other kind of typography.”272 words .99/-.08
“I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.”232 words .76/-.11
“I’m a shame-driven developer.”183 words .89/.32
“Every Mac’s floppy disk had a garbage name”320 words .87/.65
Movie review: Koolhaas Houselife920 words .99/–
The modern powers of ten185 words .99/–
“We made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff”199 words .85/-.82
“A masterclass in Interaction Design (IxD)”223 words .96/.38
A good person to follow: David Aerne169 words 1.00/–
“The glossy, shimmering future of computing”135 words .32/–
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”361 words .07/.99
“Distinct absence of anything that takes away screen real-estate”179 words .19/.26
“Intentional pagination is progress with awareness”231 words .95/–
“The archive itself is not new”99 words .81/.44
“8–10 hours per symbol”182 words -.42/.61
Favourite well-made apps and sites1,333 words 1.00/–
Out of sight54 words .32/–
“A hand-wave toward something ineffable”121 words .12/-.15
“Fourth reason: Map makers are lazy”127 words .68/-.61
“Because you haven’t used them recently”159 words .91/–
A Japanese word for “cat”126 words .91/–
“I’m still grumpy that Apple discontinued it back in 2015”413 words .99/-.88
“Dwarf children die from embarrassment at not being dressed at age 2”154 words -.10/–
“If you put the Apple icons in reverse”8 words -.13/–
A nice transit detail156 words .93/–
“Before I knew it, I had four damaged sockets and three bad cables”223 words .75/-.85
“This glitch didn’t want to be forgotten”101 words .87/–
“An extremely minor technical problem”113 words .81/-.94
Designing table of contents70 words .69/–
Slow, fast, third thing241 words .99/–
Death of the bedroom coder196 words .98/–
Making repetitive things less tedious337 words .98/–
Book review: Enshittification576 words .99/-.89
“A lot of nice little touches in UI design go unnoticed”181 words .90/-.80
“Everything possible to make this website as fast as they can”202 words .96/–
“All comes down to one pixel”259 words .95/–
“A gesture that feels unnatural and unintuitive”129 words .44/-.51
“The only way to win was to cheat.”37 words .20/–
“An email to the wrong Larry”285 words -.58/.03
Sins of our Finders, pt. 368 words .59/–
Amiga Pointer Archive49 words .90/–
TV show review: Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office310 words -.96/–
In stereo, where available50 words .20/–
“Every time user pressed Enter at a frozen interface screen”247 words -.18/-.54
Fonts have bugs, too104 words .45/-.08
A new (old) kind of keyboard160 words .97/–
“It’s hard to do a drive-by on your feet.”98 words .02/-.42
A clever disambiguation detail37 words .63/–
Fav tech museums73 words .96/–
“And they can’t even agree on the direction of an arrow.”199 words .60/-.65
Fun interface on my bike38 words –/–
“Just 3 days before the deadline, I discovered something horrible.”103 words .78/–
Remember me?114 words -.88/–
Book review: Laws of UX (2nd ed.)804 words 1.00/.48
Sins of our Finders, pt. 2118 words .70/–
“I was inspired by the Comic Sans typeface”278 words .99/.59
“Christmas lights diarrhea”166 words .98/.36
A tale of two import windows48 words -.08/–
“Accidents dropped to zero overnight.”262 words .96/–
“Confusing, distracting, and aesthetically upsetting”115 words -.29/.01
Got your back, pt. 266 words .48/–
A tiny bit old Windows got right225 words .93/–
A nice moment in screenshotting on iOS22 words .78/–
“And waited for the rest of the world to catch up. And waited.”85 words .76/-.45
Sins of our Finders, pt. 1245 words .35/–
“Moms talking like demons, tough guys talking like little girls”324 words .95/-.39
“Type is not rubber”99 words -.27/.55
Buoyant, Dreamer, Reflected129 words .91/–
“The chance was just 1 in 85.”163 words .94/.08
Book review: Pilgrim in the microworld910 words .99/-.46
“Because it didn’t look crappy enough”214 words .86/-.37
Fitts’s Law at 2050 words .91/–
“More or less turned Windows into a carnival”117 words .87/.40
“Strangely primitive against the backdrop of the slick user interface”174 words .83/.61
Fav error message26 words .80/–
“Expressed in a single picture”49 words .64/–
The original loading state161 words .97/–
Got your back83 words -.34/–
“In my greatest hour of need, where were you”6 words .56/–
“The focus on optimization was a time-limited social fact.”174 words .52/.83
“They’re just ugly fonts.”132 words .59/-.92
“Kinda love this error message on the bus”4 words –/–
“It was fun and I learned a lot.”98 words .60/.86
“The internet is wrong, and I am here to set it right.”203 words .85/-.90
“This cognitive load is invisible and rarely discussed.”96 words .74/–
Really into keyboards81 words .93/–
“Every aspect of the machine operates as quickly as the user can move.”204 words .35/-.31
“Apple abandons its own guidance.”123 words -.33/-.18
“How can I delete and add to library at the same time”126 words .64/-.86
“Ugly in a way that’s pretty”48 words .77/–
⌘-P ⌘-S64 words -.25/–
“OK cool now we can ship the game phew. But why did this EVER work?”95 words .51/.59
“Especially helpful during live shows”56 words .91/–
“And then the system crashes”169 words .89/.43
“Never criminalize pride in craft.”179 words .08/.89
“More nuanced, more expert, interaction design skills”181 words .97/.77
“Fight my way through it all again”146 words .92/-.66

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