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got one of those pocket size thermal printers

The Natural History Museum really need a mastodon account

@stavvers @esvrld what kind of hobo desk doesn't even have a cistern

We interrupt our regular schedule for this short squirrel boop.

*BOOP*

#sillyScribbles #photography #boop #squirrel #silly

Someone's coded a lunar lander game within arcc using the crude EEZEE80 programming language I made in a day

Working on a project which splits into 100 equal parts, so I have this constant tally of how far through I am. It's quite weird. Not usually doing anything quite so quantifiable.

Anyhow. 20%.

Have a Snout Snuffler family snapshot to celebrate.

#sillyScribbles #photography #googlyEyes #silly #cute #seaShell

Excellent cake execution, no notes, ship it

Ambiguity. Just after dawn in the Pennines. A combination of light and space and landscape when everything is fluid and uncertain.
#mastoart #photography #moorland #peninnes #foto

- She said she was running out of shells, aye?

- She did.

- So has she stopped posting them?

- She has not.

#sillyScribbles #photography #seaShell #silly

how carbon credits work 👇

Brain: I'm disappointed in you

Me: Why?

Brain: You know why. You had one of your silly little people do the chicken dance.

Me: Yeah, but it's just a bit of fun.

Brain: It's the CHICKEN dance.

Me:

Brain: Well?

Me: I can't draw chickens.

Brain: You don't usually let that stop you.

Me: Oh FFS.

#sillyScribbles #animation #dance #chickens #silly

NASA stated that the Ingenuity helicopter has officially taken its last flight. 72 out of 5 planned flights is pretty darn good.

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

Eat the paste thats for horses

When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.

But that's not true anymore.

User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.

My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.

#HCI #UX #UI #okdoomer