> I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting
Oh, no... The art of djing is playing the right track at the right time, if you drop a track that you don't really know, even if based on previous processing of it, you're no different than an recommendation engine...
Long live the real djs that really know their library, and play tracks consciously depending on context.
That assumes there's no mixing involved to call it a recommendation engine. I just don't have time to know all songs from beginning to end by title alone anymore or to have a curated playlist ready for every occasion so it helps me find "recent songs I rated highly and downloaded within the last month" or find "a song with a vocal and in X,Y or Z key of a certain genre". I don't want to clash two vocal songs together by accident or I want to be aware of some other note I left on a song before I cue it so I can filter more easily.
As a designer, I've been thinking a lot about this "huge amount of whitespace in modern UIs" thing. I personally hate it, I want most things to be always in reach.
Two of my hypotheses are:
(1) some designers are working on huge screens themselves, and don't test enough in usual resolutions
(2) it's easier to achieve good visual composition by doing a lot of whitespace (to the expense of hiding things below fold or in triggerable containers)
Would love to read more about the methods/rituals/treatments they will offer to the public in those treatment centers.
I've had magnificent full-dose experiences, that helped me improve enormously, and microdosing has been really beneficial for my anxiety, mood, productivity and general well being.
I feel that's imperative for us to study the effects of this substances more, and a controlled set-&-setting in treatment centers are a good and safe idea to bring this to the mainstream.
Different things work for different people. Your only real option is to try all the options and see what works best for you personally. Luckily for wrist pain, the options are all cheap. Things to try:
Vertical mouse or trackball; they're all fine, you can get a "nice" one after finding what works first.
Wrist braces.
Wrist stretches.
Exercise; most weightlifting will improve your grip strength which helps some people.
Ergonomic chair; pain in the wrist can sometimes be caused by issues in the shoulder, which often result from a poorly placed arm rest. This is hard to notice as your shoulder might feel fine. Worth double checking.
Reduce stress; some amount of wrist pain can be caused by mental stress which results in tension and blood flow problems.
Laptop; your desktop environment might be great, but maybe you use a laptop too, and you're slowly destroying your wrists on its tiny form factor.
Same here. The vertical mouse has helped a lot. I've tried a few and settled on the one I liked the most. You should definitely give it a try. Be aware that it will take you a couple of days to adjust, just stick with it.
Switching to a vertical mouse cleared up my arm pain. I tried many vertical mice. Evoluent's wired vertical mouse has been my favorite since 2009. Each new version is essentially the same, just with different surface finishes.
Years later, I got wrist pain in both hands. Switching to a tenting keyboard solved it. I've used the GoldTouch V2 for 7 years now.
Do not try 3M's vertical mouse with the thumb button. I used it for a few months and developed severe pain in my thumb. Fifteen years have passed and my thumb still occasionally clicks when I bend it, due to that injury.
Yeah I found the Evoluent to be perfect for me. I actually had to give up mousing with my right wrist as it got too badly damaged. So now I use my left hand with a vertical mouse. Was an interesting transition period.
I think you will notice a loss of precision though. For example I could never play an FPS at my best with a vertical mouse. But for $80-100 definitely worth a try for your health.
A vertical mouse, combined with a wrist and elbow brace helped me immensely, where a trackpad or thumb-ball made my RSI much worse. Even just a cheap one is an improvement, but the more vertical the tilt, the better. The one I use now is the one that's rebranded by half a dozen suppliers on Amazon.
The thing that's hard to remember with a vertical mouse (and mice in general) is that you're supposed to move your arm, not your wrist. Getting used to that was more of an issue than the orientation of the mouse.
I tried the Anker Vertical Mouse, the Logitech Vertical, the Evoluent VerticalMouse 4, the Logitech Ergo (trackball), and Logitech M370 (trackball).
In the end my favorite is the Logitech Ergo with the "Plus" stand. The version that includes the stand is only sold in the US so I imported 2 of them. I got rid of all the others.
Mice, as in things you drag across a desk surface, are a complete dead end ergonomically. Trackballs are the answer. I like the Kensington vertical trackball. The only thing that moves is your thumb. Those small precise wrist movements kill you.
I moved to a trackball, a large one. Made my wrist hurt after a ~week, so I went back to a regular mouse (which has never caused me pain) or, my favorite, using the trackpoint (but unless I want to shell out crazy money and wait a while can't get a split keyboard version, so it's only when using the machine away from my desk).
Seconded. I'm partial to Logitech's MX Ergo; I feel like fully vertical is a bit of an overcorrection, whereas the Ergo lets my hand rest diagonally, which feels a fair bit more natural and comfortable. Bought one on a whim for work, and I've enjoyed it enough that I bought a second one when I switched jobs this year.
tbh magic mouse pad with three finger drag has transformed my interaction with computer and Cooler Master master keys M(that they don't make anymore) given me numpad and cursor keys and navigation/edit keys very close. It is like 1/2 more ergonomic this way.
Hi, I love the concept and think it's really cool! How did you do the console printing with the Cat command. Did you intercept it, print the "meow", then call Cat on the file?
The entire app is actually an SSH server implemented entirely within Go. The different commands are all manually simulated in Go, there is no shelling out possible because of security concerns.
Landing pages are not a super interesting problem to solve design-wise, they've have been optimized for decades now, to a point where most creativity goes to content and copywriting.
Of course you can make it really special, but I assume anything that requires extra developer hours will be prioritized against other requirements.
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That being said, this '4 decades dated to 1 decade dated' is not an useful way to criticize a design. Great design is atemporal.
You could try to mention specific things do you don't like about it. Or at the very least, emotions it causes in you.
> I assume anything that requires extra developer hours
Not sure why I was downvoted but this was my question, though I should've framed it nicer. I'm curious why there aren't more designers (even understudies) contributing to OSS, even to build their portfolio, in a similar way SWEs do.
> That being said, this '4 decades dated to 1 decade dated' is not an useful way to criticize a design. Great design is atemporal.
I'm no designer but this seems absurd to me. Judging designs temporally seems to be commonplace. The new site feels like a period of design ruled by Bootstrap which new designs are using less than ever.
I also agree it's not in good taste to be critiquing of open source and reduced funding projects but I'm curious about the talent-attraction mechanics. We should be able to talk about that.
With that said, kudos to them for getting it out! Heres to hoping more designers dive into OSS :)
I'd say that it's common to complain about how old a design looks, but that sure doesn't make much sense 9 times out of 10. A lot of the work that goes into making websites look pretty winds up making them harder to use and slower to load. Give me links and simple colors any day.
You know that technology took a wrong turn a ways back when a website called "Walden Pond" displays this banner: "Looks like you've got JS turned off. Quite a lot of things won't work properly."
On mobile, this site has a “Get in Touch” element floating on the middle of the right edge that blocks a little (but annoying) part of the article’s text.
A plea: Please avoid adding obstacles to the users. Things are getting harder on mobile, instead of better, in the last couple of years. Like we reached peak usability and then forgot it was one of the most important goals.
Shiny UI elements are only good if they don’t mess up the core goal of your project.
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