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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

Here is mine: www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree#...

hankgreen.com

4 × 3

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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

Admittedly, I don't open it often

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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 is basically a whole new scale of pretty 404 pages

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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

Also, some blogs just feel homely, regardless of content. I wonder how people arrive at that, and if that is a conscious decision or just the author's vibe.

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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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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 13/01/2025

Can you share how you exported the data and what did you use to put it in an html one-pager?

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Jacqueline @notjack.space · 08/01/2025

refactoring will continue until morale improves

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 07/01/2025

Since everything is flattened until fixpoint, does it mean there is no way to override an intermediate node, like a list? It seems there will be no way to recover the structure, unless you supply your whole custom interpreter

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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

Apparently, there is a dedicated website: www.hyrumslaw.com And, of course, there exists an xkcd xkcd.com/1172/

hyrumslaw.com

Hyrum's Law

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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 · 29/12/2024

Aah, that's such a shame I tried the web version. The minimalistic style is clean and has a great balance. Great job!

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 29/12/2024

Why is the game not available on newer Android phones, like Pixel 5? It seems minimalistic and not requiring anything special. Does Google force devs to recompile their apps against newer SDKs or something similar?

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 26/12/2024

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

aphyr.com

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 · 26/12/2024

It's not! The phrase has a nice ring to it. But if it's a reference to something, I don't get it 😅

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 26/12/2024

This has a strong cultural reference vibe to it, though I am clueless

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 24/12/2024

Hackathons are not it, in my experience. The ever-present friction requires to endure and overcome. Jazz is never perfect, but it flows

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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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el @elliot.website · 22/12/2024

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 24/12/2024

Somebody once told me `ln` is like `cp`, now I can never forget that it's ln <source> <target>

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 22/12/2024

My first wiki is live! It's rather empty now, but I'm happy with a template. More content coming soon wiki.alllex.me

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

Who coined the term “coined”?

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

Everything that happens in the RAM stays in the RAM

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

tweets => flits Swift and light movements of thought

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

It's for the 1st class passengers, everybody else hearing it is an accident

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

I am happy that Adoc will have a clean specification. In the spirit of great design, they also take a step to remove(!) some things -- a virtuous collapse as coined by @briangoetz.bsky.social

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Alex Semin @alllex.me · 21/12/2024

X-pats is a gem of a modern word play

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