hci

IDE concept http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837512

Minimal todo list iPhone app "almost entirely controlled by gestures". I use it every day. UI takes a few minutes to get used to, but after that it doesn't get in the way much... Learning which swipe means "check" and which means "delete" took me about three days, though.

talk by Bret Victor

available for iOS too

"I now have a dozen little scripts that do nifty things with mail. [...] And every time I write one, I feel like a genius. The whole system just delights me. I want everything in my life to work like this program."

About CLI: > The power of this representation, though, goes much further. > More difficult things can build upon the general pattern that > evolves from the syntax: > > create playlist "country plus katy" from last 11 > > Harder, but are we really ramping up the difficulty considerably > over what we can achieve with a GUI? The GUI version of that > last command isn't hard, but it's... fussier. It no longer > "just works."

"Always consider the implicit capabilities of the unimpaired user, and take steps to even the playing field. That's what accessibility means. Not special treatment, but tailored access to the same treatment."

"I anticipated a weird and slightly arduous journey, especially when it came to using the keyboard. To my great surprise, I picked it up immediately. Within 30 seconds, I checked the weather. Next, I read some stock prices. Amazingly, it even renders stock charts, something the blind have never had access to."

"If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data from log files on a bunch of different machines, demux that into a time-ordered event stream, pipe it through something to munge it into some slightly different format, ship that off via post to some web address and get some JSON back, parse that into some other shit, do some computation over it like aggregation or date math over time stamps with unlike representations, wrap the results up in an HTML table and send that table in a MIME-enabled e-mail to myself I think I am going to *explode.*"

Conceptual video about the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices.

"Where is the iPod logo? On the back! The interface makes the brand."