When making an abstract system, it is really important to find where you need to stop. Let's say you are making a web-based gallery app, but you want it to use a file system bundled together. Sure, you embed a virtual filesystem inside the app. Then, let's say you need to set a video as a wallpaper, but your operating system doesn't allow this from a website. What would you do? If you kept continuing the method you adopted earlier, you would end up with a web desktop where you can set your wallpaper - just with one catch, it's virtual and is bundled with your app. Soon you start to realize, if you follow this path, anything feels simulatable. Maybe a few steps later, you would simulate transistors, a full computer, a room, maybe a house - perhaps? Or you can go in deep, introspecting on the details of the system you got, which is when your app gets simplified - so much so that the app is essentially a transparent layer to the system you already run. Here, a gallery app ...

Smooth text cursors are something I've always liked, but I don't think I can correctly describe why it is so to a person who has never found it nice, plus a nice thing won't always be useful. I think we need to understand what humans are becoming relative to what we were to answer why smooth text cursors may be useful. In the past, there was much less responsibility on a single person or entity as of today. For example, let's take street lamps, a daily tool that has been in use for a while. Street lamps in towns not only illuminated the shops, but also served as an expression of art.  Modern street lamps, as of today, are dull, grey, and very lifeless - reduced solely for their primary purpose. I assume that this is because we have started asking the reason 'why something was done' more often. It's just too hard to explain art and beauty to a board of people that want stuff that "just works". The government won't care about artistic expression ...

 One of the scariest realizations that a person can have is to be told that they were in a cage. This cage can be either emotional or real - it depends on how strongly you believe you're free. If you're putting a newborn fish into a bowl in your living room, it knows no river. And if you don't know it, it simply doesnt exist for you. As we perceive the fish has, it has no sense of what freedom is. But there's something that's only revealed once you look at it while you are that fish. That the world, no matter how small or brief it is, we make up the meaning and free will with what we have. In an ideal, truly isolated regime , everything that matters for the commoner is only their surroundings. You don't see the walls, because the walls look like freedom. You see the skies, but you just can't reach them. You see power, but you just can't have it. Doesn't all that feel relatable? at least a little bit. It's just that we all live in cages that we a...

first it made text, i thought it was okay because i dont need it much  then it made code, i was okay with it because im not a programmer  then it made art, i was okay because i wasnt an artist then it drove cars, fine because i hated driving them then it made me, and it was late when i knew they liked it more The peom is inspired by the famous “First They Came” by Martin Niemöller. It remarked on the political apathy of a society. Today, I think the structure is more fitting than ever after Martin wrote his work.

 There's no such thing as too good  User Experience in design. Let me tell you one thing I learned from making UI for the crowd: that people who make UI confuse ' simple UI ' with ' better UI '. There's a law in UX, Tesler’s Law , which states that complexity can't be reduced; instead, it can only be shifted towards either the system or the user. Take the classic computer keyboard. If you are an application and want to assign a keybind for a function, would you like to be a series of keys or a single, reserved key? For most, the reserved key is way more promising, as it requires the least cognitive load and won't get in your way. But if you had gone through the other way, the keyboard only needed fewer keys, way less likely to get people traumatized. Programs with a steep learning curve take the route for the least cognitive load by creating reserved buttons for each function. Stuff like a blender  is intimidating for a new user, but clean for a pract...

 Rarely, some people consider themselves as an idea, instead of a biological creature. Why do people do this? Well, because ideas spread, and things that spread last way longer. In the sense of travelling vast distances in time, keeping ourselves functioning within our physical forms is simply impossible . The most we can do is to simplify ourselves to a point where we are just purely information. Everything in the universe could be put in numbers and relations. We also assume that the same works with the lives of mortal beings. In the context of self-preservation, the best method we have ever coined is photography. Essentially, projecting what we are at a given time and retaining that projection for a long period. It's not like we could decode back what we were from a 2d imprint of us. But what if we know a method to capture stuff as what it is? What if we could capture ourselves in all the complexity, energies, reactions, states, transformations, movements, and everything that m...