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Yeah, I’m always very worried since design tools shouldn’t just rely on CSS here (I don’t consider CSS well designed, plus its requirements and medium are very different!), but any time they do something else than CSS it comes, as you hinted at, with consequences.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 22h

Oh, also there’s this ongoing CSS confusion on whether % is of the item or of the parent. fr avoids that confusion.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 22h

(Also, it’s easier to type 1fr than 100%.)

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 22h

1fr seemed like a better text-entry user interface in that when you have many items, you don’t have to re-normalize them to add to 100% every single time you make a change. (Plus, if it exists in grid, people might naturally expect it elsewhere.)

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 22h

We actually debated doing this at Figma when I was there, too.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 27/09/2026

Oh, interesting! Strange that they went as far as doing this, but still didn’t solve some more rudimentary things I posted.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 26/09/2026

My love language is straightening jammed type bars on museum typewriters.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 25/09/2026

Uh, look at this MICR-inspired signage on an old building in Singapore.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 25/09/2026

@nickheer.com Is this a typographical joke with a certain “mark,” or am I reading too much into it

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 23/09/2026

Gorton in Singapore confirmed (although not very popular). That S in the last photo is something else altogether.

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Ben Zotto @bzotto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is so fun, I spent a long time looking at your library here. Your commentary on it made me think of this great little quotable

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20/09/2026

Yeah, for sure! Also there are books for reference you don’t *read* but that are useful.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20/09/2026

Thanks! I wanted to lean into the physicality of the space. I even swapped longer plants for the photo – the equivalent of the classic “bumping the lamp,” I suppose.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20/09/2026

One technique I was surprised worked was that on mobile, if you zoom in, I scale the card in the opposite direction so it always has a constant size on the screen. (This would be a lot easier/cleaner in a native app, but I couldn’t think of another way to achieve it in HTML/JS.)

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/09/2026

Do you know what car is this? The tiny one.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/09/2026

Did you see the Captain Disillusion video about this.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/09/2026

It’s been like this for years for me. It is not related to the recent view count change.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/09/2026

I just reproduced it on iOS. I tapped on this unwatched video and closed it after a second or two. Now it’s marked as completely watched.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/09/2026

If I play a YouTube video for 3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever. Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

This feels so fake I honestly thought this was a paper cutout for a second.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

They’re elsewhere in the typography section – they feel more type/graphic design than UX design to me.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

In the second part that just went out, I focused on the Mac, and bought all the white keyboards and took precise photos of them, which was *totally* not necessary: unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-...

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

I wrote recently about some keyboard symbols that were lost to time! The first part has the PC side, and the absolutely beautiful, proofreading-inspired symbols for Insert, Delete, and other things: unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-...

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

I made a little minisite that shows all of the (UX/product) design books I collected over the years – maybe this will be useful as a reference, or just fun to browse around? I tried to build an enjoyable UI for it, both on desktop and mobile. aresluna.org/my-design-bo...

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 17/09/2026

Fascinating vibes all around.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 17/09/2026

But once in a while there’s no wtf and those are the moments you live for

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Folks! Today is National Voter Registration Day. You do not have to decorate. Or wear a costume. Or send cards. (All are welcome, though.) All you need to do is check your voter registration: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/ If you're not registered, do it: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 16/09/2026

This is great (and a bit sad seeing how complex this stuff is in CSS).

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

howtovote.tips

How to Vote / Cómo Votar

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

That’s interesting! I do find myself using it exclusively on my non-dominant hand a lot, with only the thumb.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

What seems missing from the iPhone Duo left-handedness discourse is that I imagine quite a few right-handed people hold their phones in the left hand, so it’s not just about left-handed people. (I know I often do!)

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

I wonder sometimes if it’s become a sort of self-perpetuating meme.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

You can’t even type a shortcut for compose and start typing immediately, because there’s a little delay in between where your keystrokes get interpreted as you say. Bad stuff.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

Yeah, that I agree with. Those were interesting for the time but did not age super well, and you are right that no-modifier-key shortcuts should come with more attention to detail around focus states, which Gmail doesn’t have.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/09/2026

Got it. Space works too, but to me this doesn’t have the gravity of the other examples. Also, Gmail is not really inventing anything new here, just perhaps could fine-tune the existing system conventions it’s using. (And allow Tab to indent at least bullet points!)

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