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7 days 60 days All time
Word count 326 357 278
Sentiment (mine) .57 .74 .64
Sentiment (quoted) .24 .31 .16
With images ÷ all 71% 68% 63%
With video ÷ all 29% 33% 24%
YouTube ÷ all 24% 26% 21%

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Unsung @ 250: Please send me your feedback!131 words .96/—
Unsung @ 250: Nine design details459 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.”292 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 commands351 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.”573 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.”453 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.”125 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.”323 words .99/.81
Linear’s clever internal redesign UI386 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 spelling255 words .98/—
Anachronisms5 words —/—
Testing tip: Enable the zoom peek gesture319 words .99/—
Book review: Maintenance: Of Everything (Part One)667 words 1.00/-.95
“Naïve, simple, not good enough.”282 words .99/-.52
“There is no quality or historical significance standard.”504 words .98/.86
World-class female singers941 words .99/.09
“That's because the metro cab is his right hand. Videogames!”170 words .05/—
“Decentralization does not always equal delight.”532 words .99/.91
Come at the king, you best not miss273 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 streamline320 words .37/—
System shock82 words .78/—
Some more placeholder misuse264 words .90/.79
“Publishers aren't evil, but they are desperate.”574 words -.92/-.90
Bear’s seamless OCR integration164 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.”133 words .92/—
“So, what makes 3D so scary and different?”360 words .98/—
One big step forward, three small steps back176 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 cursor1,101 words .99/.99
User interface sugar crash186 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 predictions162 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 steps629 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.”514 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)288 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.”718 words 1.00/-.74
A more eager typeahead in Chrome260 words .99/—
Not a mountain – but not a molehill, either491 words 1.00/—
“Which is definitely not good to do to it.”338 words .95/—
“Podcasts are a radical gift.”185 words .96/.48
Lock Scroll With a Vengeance325 words .94/—
“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.”1,121 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.”247 words .98/—
Living in the Upside Down356 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.”1,119 words 1.00/.97
“One of the smaller but downright disturbing issues with dark mode”317 words .50/-.38
Tactical version history242 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 home209 words .59/—
“The reason this never caused a problem before was pure luck.”83 words -.68/—
Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme561 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 reverse336 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.”578 words .98/-.26
“You’d get knuckle pain if you typed too much.”169 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.”336 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 scrollbars280 words -.90/—
“How do they spit in Korea?”68 words .69/—
Three iOS 26 transitions267 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”261 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”478 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)”224 words .96/.38
A good person to follow: David Aerne170 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”180 words .19/.26
“Intentional pagination is progress with awareness”231 words .95/—
“The archive itself is not new”100 words .81/.44
“8–10 hours per symbol”182 words -.42/.61
Favourite well-made apps and sites1,333 words 1.00/—
Out of sight55 words .32/—
“A hand-wave toward something ineffable”121 words .12/-.15
“Fourth reason: Map makers are lazy”128 words .68/-.61
“Because you haven’t used them recently”161 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”151 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 thing237 words .99/—
Death of the bedroom coder196 words .98/—
Making repetitive things less tedious339 words .98/—
Book review: Enshittification573 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”256 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 keyboard162 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 .79/-.65
Fun interface on my bike38 words —/—
“Just 3 days before the deadline, I discovered something horrible.”100 words .78/—
Remember me?114 words -.88/—
Book review: Laws of UX (2nd ed.)802 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 iOS20 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, Reflected130 words .91/—
“The chance was just 1 in 85.”163 words .94/.08
Book review: Pilgrim in the microworld911 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 ⌘-S62 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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