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jemmywon Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

> The DOM is very ill-suited for most UI. Too complex and lots of missing features

Can you expand on this, because I'm not seeing it myself. The DOM, html+css is very flexible. It easily encompasses most UI. Most UI is some kind of data display, so lists, trees, tables, forms.

The need for JS might be what you're complaining about. I think we might be stuck with it as a UI control language forever.

jemmywon Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

I used to get hung up on this native vs web thing. But when it comes down to it, it's just one renderer or another unless you're actually drawing the controls yourself pixel by pixel. The sticking point is following the system style / theme. But all the popular desktop OSs seem to have deviated on this so much themselves I'm not sure how important this is.

jemmywon A brief history of instant coffee

For real instant: install a hot water tap. It has a small boiler under the sink that keeps the water at near boiling. I've got one and it's great - instant tea any time.

jemmywon US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war

If China were to learn anything important from Russia and the USAs "swift" wars it's: don't do it. They'll have the upper hand but a determined government and population will bog down their efforts for years and potentially destabilize politics at home.

jemmywon Fake Fans

> not all people appreciate it

The problem is it's only whomever curates these spaces that needs to be persuaded. And they're hardly thrumming with people for all the millions they get in funding.

jemmywon Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Air-to-ground_opera...

> North Korea ranks as among the most heavily bombed countries in history,[305] and the U.S. dropped a total of 635,000 tons of bombs

> Almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed during the war.

jemmywon Fake Fans

I think that AI isn't the only thing exacerbating this issue. More people are doing artistic like things as hobbies. The internet makes it easier to learn and the cost of entry has gone down - paints, canvases, brushes, guitars, pianos, film equipment, the low end has gone up in quality and down in price.

I do some painting and I've met quite a few local artists. Some are amazing and some not so much. I haven't met anyone making a living from it though, not the creative stuff anyway. A couple of them do make a living by doing commercial work. One friend, who seems to try the hardest, does book illustrations, runs classes, prints and sells her own work, and makes a loss every year so is supported by her partner, who is a builder.

There are two art galleries in town. I go to both regularly. The work has never been flying off the shelves. And some of it deserves to.

None of the above has anything to do with AI. It was the same before AI, and AI doesn't paint physical pictures anyway. I've seen some digital art prints but they're really not popular for whatever reason.

To answer your question then: my argument is that most artists don't expect to earn a living from it at all. And if more people are engaged in creation (not a bad thing) then it would logically follow that there is less chance of making money.

Probably the most tragic thing in my opinion is that if I visit the art exhibition for my local town, the artwork on display is wonderfully varied in quality, style and imagination, and when I visited a national gallery recently displaying the works of modern artists who have "made it" to that level, it was all absolute shite. Actual technical ability seems to be being relegated to poverty artists.

jemmywon Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks

Although I'm not a huge proponent of nuclear power over renewables, I'm not sure the overruns in those projects are a good argument. These projects become hard to cost and understand up front because so few are built. If the UK built 10 then the costs would come down and the knowledge and experience would grow.

jemmywon Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

Korea. The US bombed every building they could and at the end were dumping bombs because they'd run out of targets.

jemmywon 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

I watched it twice, which is pretty unheard of for me. I thought the book was fine but not a favourite. And it's not like it was the best movie ever, but I did feel like it was the best self contained scifi film I've seen in at least 10 years. People acted like adults without being aggressive, decisions were made thoughtfully, it felt realistic which made the visuals more impactful.

jemmywon PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

Almost any other browser. I've used Firefox and Brave on Android with adblocking

jemmywon Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call

> The rest of us do not have the upfront capital to purchase these trucks.

We can afford what we can do. We don't need to do what we can afford. If we wanted to build and deploy electric trucks enmasse like China then we could do it, regardless of upfront capital.

jemmywon Welcome to the Block Universe

I really like this model of the universe and it's quite a freeing thing to believe in. I already did not believe in free will and thought that things were mostly deterministic. One doesn't need to go mad or descend into apathy while believing that the future is set in stone. We don't know the future, and even if you did know what is going to happen you still haven't experienced that happening.

I also like the idea that I'm like a very large deck of cards, each card being the result of the previous card plus the smallest moment of time. Each card has the feeling of being now, but that are all equally valid and present.

jemmywon Our commitment to Windows quality

I'm not sure it does have an extra layer. Reading through the design, it's quite possible the number of layers is the same or less. It might translate win32 calls to Linux libraries and system calls, but on Windows pretty much the same thing is happening, win32 -> lower level libraries and system calls.

jemmywon Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

> This all happened 20 years ago with Iraq.

I think your argument falls apart here. The US built a coalition of on side allies before invading Iraq. They went to the UN too. There was significant opposition to the war, and I was a student at the time in the UK so was surrounded and involved in that. However, European countries were not politically blindsided. Some were going in with the US, including Denmark I believe.

jemmywon Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

YouTube isn't too bad. I preferred it but moving the whole family over was too hard

jemmywon Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

Looks pretty nice. I think a lot of devs have been making similar tools, I've written my own thing that does a work review loop. I like the interface you've made. I'll probably give it a go, but I'm also reluctant to relinquish the control I have when it's my own code doing orchestration.

jemmywon Leviathan (1651)

Is there a middle ground argument? Something along the lines of humans are horrible to one another unless there is a social state that provides reasonable protection, at which point we can afford to be nice?

jemmywon Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

Is that a bad thing? That's 10b that engineers and other employees now have and Facebook doesn't have. And while VR might never make them money, is it bad from our pov that they did the research and development?

jemmywon Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis

I don't mind the higher price. The place near me is a small cinema and not a chain, the food is excellent and they bring it to your seat. And if you go during the week it's pretty quiet. I'm sure they make most of their money from the restaurant anyway. There's another place like it a bit of a further drive but it to be even quieter, most times we've been it's just us.

jemmywon Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

That was the wrong word. Something about the UI for it feels quite constraining, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing once you're used to it, but at the start of using it I struggled to get what I felt was a broader view of how a project was going.

I've only used it on a side project though because I really wanted to get to know it. I know plenty of teams really love it.

jemmywon Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

Linear is great if you fit into its workflow. It's very dev orientated.

I work on Aha! Develop https://www.aha.io/develop/overview which I obviously think is a great tool, especially if you're a team with a product manager.

jemmywon Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

I don't think it can get worse. In fact, it'd probably be better if Atlassian just stopped touching it.

jemmywon The Cost of 'Lightweight' Frameworks: From Tauri to Native Rust

I agree. The webkitgtk situation is pretty bad. I haven't had the same kind of problems as the author because I haven't used browser features as heavily, but the performance on Linux is really poor right now.

jemmywon The Cost of 'Lightweight' Frameworks: From Tauri to Native Rust

Original title: Why I hate WebKit, a (non) love letter

jemmywon A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way

I thought bananas have been the same variety for a very long time now?

jemmywon Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

I was in the UK. The effects of the dot com bubble did extend there but I think we had a very different view on it.

jemmywon First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In

Not much IMO has changed. I set reduced transparency anyway and that removed the main issues. Some of the corners are overly rounded but that seems pretty minor.

On the other hand, I'm glad people are making a lot of noise about it because it would be nice if Apple could spend a couple of OS cycles on the basics of improved UX.

jemmywon Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

Why did they think you were an idiot? I graduated in 2004 and I don't recall anyone thinking a CS degree was a bad idea.

jemmywon Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s

Further info, it's ranked as one of the easiest places to do business, in part due to the simple tax system:

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/10/25/n...

Not that that's necessarily the best thing in the world, I believe there was some trouble a few years ago because being easy and cheap to register a business led to a lot of dodgy shell companies.