I've never spent a lot of time thinking about daylight saving time. It's a thing that annoys me once a year and makes me happy once a year. I never gave it much more thought than that, other than...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2024/04/14/daylight_saving_time/
As has happened with my Fold 3, after about a year of using it, my Fold 4's screen started to delaminate, so I had to send it in for repairs. When looking for a cheap replacement phone to use w...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2024/03/16/steal_these_surface_duo_ideas/
Over at Tobias Bernard's GNOME Blog , he writes about a new approach to tiling window managers. Window management is probably the single worst aspect of current operating systems, and his ideas f...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2023/07/31/rethinking_window_management/
Yesterday, a friend sent me a screenshot of an Instagram story from mordlustderpodcast asking for an intuitive explanation of the Monty Hall problem (which, as I found out, is called the "Zieg...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2023/07/15/tricking_monty_hall/
For a lot of people, including myself, streaks are a powerful motivator. One of the purest implementations of this concept is Simone Giertz's Everyday Calendar . By pushing a button for every d...
In design, it's always easer to say "yes" than to say "no." Nobody is hurt by a "yes," so nobody fights against a "yes." That's why applications have a tendency to grow until they become unwieldy...
Apple is incredibly good at detecting the exact moment when technology transitions from niche things aimed at early adopters and geeks to something with mass market appeal. They let their competi...
It has always been a truism that what we have gained in ease of use by switching from the command line to the graphical user interface, we have lost in efficiency. I've long been interested in ex...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2023/03/18/the_command_line_is_the_guis_future/