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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 07/08/2026

It's refreshing to see a deep UX write-up of something seemingly simple yet apparently tricky I admit, I didn't get it on the first go Bonus points for more than one reference to NNGroup materials

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 06/08/2026

Happy to finally bring it to the world! As always, it's only the beginning. There is so much work to do to let your builds avoid doing the work!

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 13/06/2026

Even though I can't solve it, it's a beautiful twist on the NYT classic

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 04/05/2026

Robo-ducking is less ambiguous and more intent-revealing than "grill me"

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 27/10/2025

I am yet to see another company that makes you anxious literally on the sign-in page It'd be strange if you can't immediately guess, but it says in the small font as well

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 23/10/2025

Internet-of-AWS-Things

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 09/07/2025

This perfectly summarizes my expectation of AI status quo -- tons of make up from designers for features you can't rely on, only *hope* that they work and do the right thing

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 18/05/2025

This is creative! Will prolly keep the top posts top, but rotate the bottom posts

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 18/05/2025

At this point, Slack must have "reduced motion" option to suppress all animated tripping vibrant custom emojis everybody uses for engagement

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 04/05/2025

Modern music notation is based on fonts! Though the design is quite different from regular fonts used for languages I learned a lot from a video by @tantacrul.bsky.social, who designed Leland www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4...

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How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

YouTube video by Tantacrul

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 16/02/2025

You'd think we are past geocentrism, until you remember any modern fiction with multiple dimensions

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 16/01/2025

The most beautiful and probably the most expense *changelog entry* ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpc...

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Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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Jacqueline @notjack.space · 08/01/2025

refactoring will continue until morale improves

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 03/01/2025

This is why I think the longer term future of software isn’t necessarily “app builder”, it’s more an entire OS where you start solving a problem and interactive interfaces are used as appropriate.

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 02/01/2025

Bugward compatibility is a friendlier name for the Hyrum's Law

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Garden Computing @garden.co · 30/12/2024

It’s time we properly introduced ourselves… garden.co/news/hello-w...

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Hello World!

(A love letter to computers)

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 26/12/2024

Off-by-29 errors aphyr.com/posts/378-se...

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Seconds Since the Epoch

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 26/12/2024

Great article to pause and ponder on timeless topics of mature software engineering Complexity, dependencies (on code and people), testing testing testing

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 24/12/2024

What's the equivalent of jazz improv in software world?

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