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screwlisp<p>Hey everyone,<br>I made a simple <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> dynamically-resizing-for-cells table using <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/McCLIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McCLIM</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/commonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonLisp</span></a> Interface Manager while working on my <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/NicCLIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NicCLIM</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> (help menu display). If you didn't know what lisp's nsubst was like, I certainly used that.</p><p>tfw forgot link <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/minimal-keyboard-mcclim/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga</span><span class="invisible">mes/minimal-keyboard-mcclim/</span></a></p><p>Might be nice just to see it working like it says on the back of the box <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> </p><p>I'm not contending to be a graphic designer, but at some point you need a table of things, right.</p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> too I guess.</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>In practical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> design, it is important that you provide the user full control over those aspects of the program that are most important to them</p><p>🤨</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richpuchalsky</span></a></span> I agree on that part, and I see the lack of proper <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> (both of which can be qualifited in terms of being good!) as a main issue...</p><p>Tho it's shrinking fortunately at a good pace...</p>
B.Abderrahmane 🇩🇿🇵🇸<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@heikkiket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heikkiket</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>libreoffice</span></a></span> </p><p>Even with the Ribbon UI, LibreOffice's interface still feels a bit behind the times, more like something from 2007. <br>I think a complete UI redesign is needed to make it truly modern, fresh, and welcoming to new users.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feedback</span></a></p>
B.Abderrahmane 🇩🇿🇵🇸<p>I truly appreciate the power and functionality of LibreOffice, but I feel the UI could use a major refresh. <br>It's starting to look a bit dated, and a more modern, intuitive design would make it even more user-friendly for everyone. <br>Just some constructive feedback!</p><p>What do you think guys ?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feedback</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>libreoffice</span></a></span></p>
Joseph Szymborski :qcca:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timbray</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@signalapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>signalapp</span></a></span> did something incredible recently. I went to click on my little profile icon to change my image. The profile icon disappeared and I got a pop-up with something along the lines of: "The Profile settings have been moved to the Settings tab, which you can access by clicking the gear below".</p><p>I'm so used to things just disappearing from my <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ui</span></a>. Clearly a lot of thought and intentionality from the Signal people in terms of <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a> and changing it.</p>
Yusuf Bouzekri<p>In youtube latest update, if you search for something and your cursor happens to hover over one of the search suggestions, it will pick that suggestion when you click enter, without you clicking on it.</p><p>Let's hope this is just a bug.<br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ui</span></a></p>
Radio Azureus<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freiburg.social/@3rz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>3rz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RadioAzureus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RadioAzureus</span></a></span> @rl_dane </p><p>Things may have changed a bit. I ducked the string Amiga MUI, was pointed to the still functioning MUI site. Dug from there for famous MUI applications and then got to one nice one</p><p>AmIRC </p><p><a href="https://www.amirc.org/screenshots" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">amirc.org/screenshots</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I've included copies of the screenshots for our convenience </p><p>As you can see the scroll bars are properly formatted in MUI </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MUI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scrollbars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scrollbars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroProgramming</span></a></p>
Alex0007<p>Which button do you think mean "Clone document"? (The other one is "Copy to clipboard")</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MongoDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MongoDB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MongoDBCompass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MongoDBCompass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WeirdUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdUI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DesignFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DesignFail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserExperience</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linuxrocks.online/@OpenComputeDesign" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenComputeDesign</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@light" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>light</span></a></span> yeah, I literally have an allergy to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>, as it causes nausea, diharrea and vomiting to me when being exposed to it.</p><ul><li>And I don't have a problem with diving nor rough seas... </li></ul><p>Aa for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a>, there are ways to <em>objectively "quantify" good and bad</em>…</p><ul><li>And as shitty as it sounds <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GoogleLighthouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleLighthouse</span></a> does that quite good for websites.</li></ul><p>Maybe that's why I want to do the computing version of <em>"living in the woods"</em> and build a distro ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OS1337</span></a></span> ) with 80x25 display size <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TUI</span></a> at it's core...</p><ul><li>But then again some may also claim I do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS1337</span></a> because I can't be assed to do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinuxFromScratch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxFromScratch</span></a>, but that's at best a motivator...</li></ul>
Raúl Redondo<p>Consejo de un profesional de la analítica digital para conseguir que las personas acepten las cookies de seguimiento: molestar mucho.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkPattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPattern</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cookies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%C3%89tica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ética</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Do <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> reasoning models actually need all the iterative summaries they provide in their chains of thought?</p><p>Liu et al. filtered out the low-confidence set of these "self-affirmation reflections", reducing output length while retaining accuracy.</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.12353" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.12</span><span class="invisible">353</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/cogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cogSci</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a></p>
Data Science<p>Make interactive ggplots with {ggiraph}: <a href="https://davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/ggplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ggplot</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rebane2001</span></a></span> propably offering something like <code>album_carousel</code> function for an iTunes-Style Album Carousel where one just adds <code>path/to/image.png</code>, <code>alt_text</code> and <code>link_url</code> into a table and it'll <em>"automagically"</em> turn that into something that would otherwise necessitate dozens if not hundreds of lines of CSS manually including painful and labourus additions and deletions that are error-prone...</p><p>I mean, why else would one use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Frameworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frameworks</span></a> but to make it easy to get consistent design?</p><p>Cc: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span></p>
Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶<p>It's pretty telling of how much my nervous system has been trained by the web that I felt the urge to click, immediately countered by my red flag detectors, on the button illustrating the Wikipedia page for Dark Pattern (UX)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Webdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Webdesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/DarkPattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPattern</span></a></p>
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:<p>Question for accessibility folks and people who rely on screen readers.</p><p>I code nav so there’s no link when you’re on a respective page. Like this:</p><p>&lt;dd&gt;One&lt;/dd&gt;<br>&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="/two"&gt;Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;</p><p>But the aria-current attribute can be used with persistent links:</p><p>&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="/one" aria-current="page"&gt;One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;<br>&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="/two"&gt;Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;</p><p>Which of these, or using aria-current on a non-linked item, feels the most accessible?</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/A11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>A11y</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Code</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScreenReaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenReaders</span></a></p>
Marco Siccardi<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> trained an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> to teach itself good <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> code in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SwiftUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftUI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/14/apple-trained-an-llm-to-teach-itself-good-interface-design-in-swiftui/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5mac.com/2025/08/14/apple-t</span><span class="invisible">rained-an-llm-to-teach-itself-good-interface-design-in-swiftui/</span></a></p>
Christoffer S.<p>It's funny, and a little bit sad. I've now been running Fedora/Linux as my primary OS for both laptop and desktop spanning multiple years.</p><p>There have of course been a few little things here and there where I've had to dive deep into configuration files etc. But overall a very smooth experience.</p><p>And a few days ago I started work again after a long vacation, and that meant going back to my Macbook Pro.</p><p>I did not like it, at all. It feels ... sluggish. Just... not a great experience at all. I've come to expect the Fedora/Linux experience to be the baseline of what an OS/UX/UI fluidity should feel like. And I'm using Gnome. Imagine when the day comes and I switch to hyprland.</p><p>I really god damn love my Framework/Fedora experience. Can't wait to get my hands on the Framework Desktop setup.</p><p><a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Framework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Framework</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Fluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fluid</span></a> <a href="https://swecyb.com/tags/Love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Love</span></a></p>
Cheryl Lindo Jones<p>Being from the era of floppy disks, I will always find it humorous when an app uses a floppy disk icon for the save function. But it probably should be phased out already, replaced by a more current option. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a></p>
Brent Pruitt :: Artist<p>how am i to find work in an industry i have come to despise?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FediHire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediHire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FediJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediJobs</span></a></p>