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@mwichary@mastodon.online · 7h ago

Love the emerging theme of cats being too fast for my lens’s slow autofocus.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 16, 2026

I designed a lil fantasy keyboard on a plane. Two Tabs, bigger and simpler modifier keys. Bonus: A bit more symmetry.

(The original is in the second image for comparison.)

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 16, 2026

In this promotional photo from Apple, the headphones are more expensive than the computer.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 15, 2026

When researching for my Fn/Globe essay, I found that Centre Pompidou’s site has a bunch of cool photos of Richard Sapper’s IBM PC Convertible models and prototypes. Really fun to see a computer evolve this way.

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/recherche/oeuvres?terms=convertible

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 12, 2026

I am planning a trip to Germany (especially South Germany) in a few months. If you have any recommendations for tech history, museums, industrial sites, nerdy things, I would appreciate them.

Stuff like Deutsches Museum, the cool train in Wuppertal, Arithmeum and Analog Computer Museum, ZKM, Landschaftspark… Anti-recommendations (“overrated,” “not worth the time”) are also welcome.

Thank you in advance!

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

@octothorpe@mastodon.online A regular order as far as I know.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 09, 2026

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Mar 04, 2026

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like this the pop-up contents that appear are misaligned… …which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that if you click at the bottom, a click and release *without moving your mouse*, which was always 100% safe (and a way to “peek” into a menu to see what’s inside), can now accidentally change your option.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 27, 2026

A very good use of Gorton.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 23, 2026

I would love an app that looks something like this.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 15, 2026

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)

1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 12, 2026

@gruber@mastodon.social This is so embarrassing I winced. (I work on complex stuff and indeed you sometimes forget about all the states, but the job is to build processes that catch those things that escaped your memory.) https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/02/12/more-macos-263-finder-column-view-silliness

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 12, 2026

Dammit Chuck we had a perfect Gorton situation right there.

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 12, 2026

@marioguzman@mastodon.social @mpt@mastodon.nz Hahha

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Feb 01, 2026

Thank you everyone for suggested books! With help from @scottjenson@social.coop, I turned it into a page on my website, hoping that maybe it will help someone in the future: https://aresluna.org/ux-books-not-written-by-white-men/

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Jan 23, 2026

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!

You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.

Hope you like it!

https://unsung.aresluna.org/

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Aug 08, 2025

It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have any idea why an app is asking, what should I say, what is the penalty for choosing Don’t Allow, etc. What a frustrating experience.

(Edit: I’m showing Chrome here but I am getting them for so many other apps without seemingly any rhyme or reason.)

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@mwichary@mastodon.online · Apr 18, 2024

Over the last years I amassed this little collection. They go from 1951 to 1979. I will scan them and put them up on Internet Archive, just like I did with the first one I got (https://archive.org/details/TypewriterMysteryGames), and this will make me happy, and I’m not sure I can explain why.

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