Towards Universal Keybindings25 June 2024 | 9:46 pm
Keyboard people invest time upfront memorizing keybindings, in order to save time in the long run. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, it’s more like this:
What if we crowdsourced the optimal set of universal default keybindings — and made them available in every app?
My Favourite Ways to Avoid Spending Money 🔒25 June 2024 | 9:35 pm
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Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale15 June 2024 | 4:46 pm
At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection.
Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more microscopic imperfections may need to be tolerated — if they don’t matter to the