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!
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@debcha It’s the best. So inspiring.
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I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and immediately had to write about it.
It simulates working at a help line for a videogame company in 1993, complete with fictitious games, and a physical 300-page binder of various documents. Amazing.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/this-sounds-completely-impractical-and-we-love-it/
I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
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I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
@mwichary I loved your point about how confirmation dialogs for closing/destructive actions are sort of a molly guard too!
I'm also thinking about the super annoying thing that Chrome does when you Command-Q to quit, where it wants you to hold down the keys to execute the command.
And, maybe a bit more of a stretch, the cars where if you want to open a locked door from the inside, requires you to pump the handle twice?
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@mwichary I loved your point about how confirmation dialogs for closing/destructive actions are sort of a molly guard too!
I'm also thinking about the super annoying thing that Chrome does when you Command-Q to quit, where it wants you to hold down the keys to execute the command.
And, maybe a bit more of a stretch, the cars where if you want to open a locked door from the inside, requires you to pump the handle twice?
@andy Oh, those are good! It’s interesting how people are divided on the ⌘Q thing. I love it personally, but I see how it depends on your usage patterns.
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@andy Oh, those are good! It’s interesting how people are divided on the ⌘Q thing. I love it personally, but I see how it depends on your usage patterns.
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I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
@mwichary About reverse Molly guards: Netflix uses one to nudge you into watching a next episode from a series. I consider this a dark pattern, because it's a debatable default.
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@mwichary About reverse Molly guards: Netflix uses one to nudge you into watching a next episode from a series. I consider this a dark pattern, because it's a debatable default.
@doekman I agree! I think Apple TV and YouTube also have it, but it’s toggle’able.
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@doekman I agree! I think Apple TV and YouTube also have it, but it’s toggle’able.
@mwichary It's there, but only on the web interface...
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I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
@mwichary this setting for airpods pro
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@mwichary this setting for airpods pro
@svenni Oh, yes! I always found it a bit awkward.
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I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary I remember when this was the norm! It was everywhere for a lot of the web sites I was involved with in the olden days. I have always done URL surgery. Probably comes from comfort with command-line interfaces and knowing how the backend software works.
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary that was the first web API I ever used. I didn’t appreciate it nearly enough until I used others.
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary Yes! Flickr was what made me pay attention to URLs as well. The thing I thought was a bit strange at the time is how the URL for the profile page was at a separate "root" path, `/people/mwichary`, which made the profile and photostream feel like two separate apps in a way. I remember wondering about that a lot!
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary Immediate internal share!
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@mwichary Yes! Flickr was what made me pay attention to URLs as well. The thing I thought was a bit strange at the time is how the URL for the profile page was at a separate "root" path, `/people/mwichary`, which made the profile and photostream feel like two separate apps in a way. I remember wondering about that a lot!
@gosha Oh yeah! I forgot about that.
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary I was taught that human-readable URLs were important, took it to heart, and now everything just makes me sad to look at the ridiculous strings. Flickr has really hung in there in a lot of ways, and I’m still very happy with the service.
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary Regarding the note about adding a human friendly slug to the end of a URL, do you have a thought or preference to putting that part before the unique id?
flickr.com/mwichary/sets/alishan-forest-railway-72177720330077904
On an app I run I went with that style so the all the human readable bits could be typed and autocompleted. It does seem to be a little harder to read since it’s in the middle of the text though.
For example: https://app.mythic.nz/book/public-storybooks/sharable-public-storybooks/v4dUmg8Jjk6LmQYQlqy6Pw
`public-storybooks` is the collection slug, and `sharable-public-storybooks` is the page title slug.
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@gosha Oh yeah! I forgot about that.
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@gosha @mwichary I can’t cite anything specific (too long ago, and before my time) but in the beginning when things were more amorphous it wasn’t entirely certainly that photos would be the whole show. “Social networks” were just beginning, and even Flickr let you list your favorite books, movies, etc back then. Setting up /people/ probably made sense for a lot of possible things to come.
