karhuton

Joined 1 year ago

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Nov 29
UX/UI Designer & Part-time Developer
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Comment · 22 days ago
Asahi and GNOME teams, please take this as an guide to implement ”Mac input compatibility mode”!

Dual booting between a MacOS and Linux is a painful process of manual keyboard and shorcut overrides to get the linux side somewhat to the (better) mac way of doing this.

Comment · 1 month ago
Atleast some EU countries have ”strong authentication” services, which work like Google login, except there’s a network of trusted providers - like banks or telecoms.

To get started, you need get an account at one of the providers by physically visiting their store or office and show your ID. With their account you can sign up to the services or other auth providers fully online. Auth providers use 2-factor auth (typically website username + phone app), but they also include physical sim cards or key generator devices…

Anyways, while it’s currently used to pass some required personal info to the other party (name, social security number), it could propbably be changed to send just one bit: adult true/false.

Comment · 2 months ago
Your cheesing startegy sounds more like what would actually happen in movies, where the protagonists get a last minute dangerous idea to skip jump past the overwhelming enemies and save the day…

Funnily enough doing it yourself in the game may feel like just cheating, but watching a movie one would be celebrating along.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Big thank you for your work!

Has made managing kid’s TV viewing at home easier over streaming services.

Comment · 3 months ago
My understanding is Apple / Webkit is blocking custom element extension on native HTML elements, which would cut down this 500 line monster to:

class SaganButton extends HTMLButtonElement { … }

Anyone know the reasoning they’re blocking this?

Comment · 4 months ago
I’m currently living in a Northern European one and the income island thing was solved with city planning: the same area has mix of private and city owned apartment buildings. Some buildings are mix-owned too, so city owns like 50% of the apartments.

Here you’m find a person living on social security and someone with half a million apartment loan, having a neighbourly chat while their kids playtogether in the common courtyard.

Comment · 5 months ago
These are amazing. It feels so clear to see a visual ”map” of the cooking process before you even start.

This would help coordinate two cooks to make prepping more independent.

I’m trying to figure out if an landscape Ipad, with interactive elements for extra details if needed, would be a good UI for this.

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Edit: Showed it to my non-Engineer wife and she said ”this is horrible” after staring at it for 10 seconds. Maybe not for everyone…

Comment · 8 months ago
Stein means rock. Wolfenstein is something like Wolf’s rock.

Eisen means Iron. You could name it Wolfeneisen?

Comment · 8 months ago
Great work. As a European designer, really happy to see competition. Figma is slowly jacking up prices and companies are starting to lean on seats.

Figma has pretty much reached the point that they’re inventing features, pushing AI and expanding to other products (figjam, slides), because they’ve reached feature maturity on UI design long time ago and they need to make more money by expanding the other roles (PO, dev) from viewers to paid seats that actually use the tool.

So, you have a good fixed target here for Europeans: keep copying UI features from Figma and get European businesses to start switching over.

Your pricing is way too high.

World’s best UI design tool with all the extra tools? 16€. Your limited offer? 12€!

How about: 16€ ANNUAL. ”For the price of one month of Figma, get Vecti for the whole year.” - there’s a promotion text for the website too.

P.s. My list of must haves before I could consider switching:

- auto layout (w/ slots if possible!!)

- components

- very simple prototyping with click & scroll support

Prototyping is required for user testing, so I’d have to buy software for that if I’d use yours.

Edit: I want to follow your progress. Could you have a mailing list where you update your feature implementation progress - let’s say once a month?

Comment · 9 months ago
Did it and can’t say yet I’d be very happy with the decision.

The first new feature we got on BOTH models was synced alarms! Why? It was already most hated feature on a stand-alone setup.

Also, their communication system between the models is a VERY noisy ad hoc wiresless audio mesh network.

(I have to admit it works better than our Wifi across the apartment – but I guess it’s because there’s no legal TX Watt limits!)

Comment · 9 months ago
Great, finally something ambitious enough.

However, may I make a speculate here a little..

The brand and presentation seem to try to appeal to (young) tech savvy people; but those are the ones who are hardest to win due to so many different needs they have for their OS and software running on it. Similarly why people don’t move from Windows to Linux.

Thus, I’d be afraid this might very easily end up in the ”toy” category like the many alternative cloud or browser OSes.

So, instead, why not take a chapter from Chromebook’s.. book, and target the users with simplest needs: the non-technical. Those, who just ”need a browser in a laptop”.

New selling points: - No need to update it, it takes care of its self - No need to install suspicious apps, it can make the things you need - No menus full of apps, settings and actions you will never use; only what you actually want - You can’t break it, it can protect itself from accidents - Never again odd error messages, it can always explain them to you ELI5 and help to fix them

And lastly: - Nothing to ”learn” - always just ask and it’ll do it for you

Comment · 9 months ago
Great, thanks. Bookmarked.

Note: The last buttons slide below the browser chrome on iPhone Safari, when the there’s nothing to scroll.

Sometimes 100dvh helps instead of 100vh, if the document vertical size is used to define layout.

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