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@whitequark@mastodon.social
2024-05-16 07:10:33

check this out
thanks to VS Code, YoWASP Toolchain Extension, and WebUSB, you can now program FPGAs with nothing but your cellphone o:3
marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

a video with a cellphone and an FPGA developer board. the phone shows the VS Code UI squished in a weird way. in the terminal, a lot of text from the FPGA toolchain scrolls by, until eventually the progress bar from the FPGA programmer finishes and the board starts blinking a LED

the URL in the browser is https://vscode.dev/github/yowasp/toolchain.demo
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2024-02-22 14:13:41

Check out the new terminal UI coming to #JetBrains IDEs—support for Bash, Zsh, and PowerShell.
blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/0

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2024-05-02 14:52:24

I still maintain that the problem with the #Metaverse was they didn't think in terms of usable UI paradigm. The terminal paradigm has a prompt. The desktop paradigm has windows. ChatGPT has a textbox and a send button. A game has a limited set of rules and a goal to achieve. The 3D environment should have abstract objects that would let you do things and represent you *efficiently*…

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2024-03-26 23:10:48

Trying to improve the wrong dimension of #UX will only lead to waste. Learn the difference:
Wonky products are confusing; their mental model doesn't match the user's. Janky products are conceptually fine, but buggy or inconsistent.
Jank manifests only at the hi-fi stage of development, and can be solved by UI redesign or backend optimization. However, wonk must be caught at the …

A 4 quadrant diagram of janky vs wonky
Neither wonky nor janky: Lego bricks
Janky but not wonky: Apple Vision Pro
Wonky but not janky: Bloomberg terminal
Both wonky and janky: Cybertruck
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2024-03-26 23:10:48

Trying to improve the wrong dimension of #UX will only lead to waste. Learn the difference:
Wonky products are confusing; their mental model doesn't match the user's. Janky products are conceptually fine, but buggy or inconsistent.
Jank manifests only at the hi-fi stage of development, and can be solved by UI redesign or backend optimization. However, wonk must be caught at the …

A 4 quadrant diagram of janky vs wonky
Neither wonky nor janky: Lego bricks
Janky but not wonky: Apple Vision Pro
Wonky but not janky: Bloomberg terminal
Both wonky and janky: Cybertruck
@muhdiekuh@ruhr.social
2024-04-19 10:04:48

Stumbled upon CuTE (github.com/PThorpe92/CuTE), a HTTP client with a terminal UI.
Had to laugh when I read "Intuitive VIM keybindings" in it's features 😂
(Not saying I don't like vim keybindings, but intuitive is not the first word that comes to my mind when …