Hype is a business tool. Too many #UX folk don't know about the Gartner Hype cycle. Even those that do don't understand how it's being used to manipulate us, making our discussion of #genAI so complicated and scary. This is my attempt to calm things down a bit.
https://jenson.org/hype/
The amazing #foss #dj app @mixxx is redesigning its #ui #ux. https://mixxx.org/news/2025-08-06-qml-project/#linuxaudio
The amazing #foss #dj app @mixxx is redesigning its #ui #ux. https://mixxx.org/news/2025-08-06-qml-project/#linuxaudio
The vision for The Web from the beginning has been that everyone should read and write. These days we primarily read or browse the web. We don’t really write so much anymore, especially long form content. People used to write on blogs. Now their writing is constrained to social media sites. We need a Web Writer app as opposed to the web browser — to leverage URLs, images, and formats to create a true read-write web
The vision for The Web from the beginning has been that everyone should read and write. These days we primarily read or browse the web. We don’t really write so much anymore, especially long form content. People used to write on blogs. Now their writing is constrained to social media sites. We need a Web Writer app as opposed to the web browser — to leverage URLs, images, and formats to create a true read-write web
Thanks to @s3phy again for helping me understand another area where IPv6 is broken in Linux desktop networking configuration tools: connecting to a SSH server to create a SOCKS proxy using the NetworkManager SSH plugin. That thing only checks if the gateway address is a valid IPv4 address 
I reported the issue here: https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/130
#IPv6 #networking #sysadmin#réseau#réseautique#UX#SSH #proxy#VPN#GNOME#Linux#NetworkManager
Thanks to @s3phy again for helping me understand another area where IPv6 is broken in Linux desktop networking configuration tools: connecting to a SSH server to create a SOCKS proxy using the NetworkManager SSH plugin. That thing only checks if the gateway address is a valid IPv4 address
I reported the issue here: https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/130
#IPv6 #networking #sysadmin#réseau#réseautique#UX#SSH #proxy#VPN#GNOME#Linux#NetworkManager
Hype is a business tool. Too many #UX folk don't know about the Gartner Hype cycle. Even those that do don't understand how it's being used to manipulate us, making our discussion of #genAI so complicated and scary. This is my attempt to calm things down a bit.
https://jenson.org/hype/
This is a great 2023 presentation by Máirín Duffy ( @mairin) & Madeline Peck, about the benefits of using #PenPot ( @penpot) in design projects at Fedora and other Free Code projects;
https://peertube.kaleidos.net/w/950c184b-b05d-44d5-8b50-621fb30e5db7
Good read from @simon on the privacy UX challenges that come with building #AI tools, as evidenced recently by ChatGPT's share controls.
For many users these spaces feel similar to sending private messages. So even in a "Share" dialog, it needs to be super-explicit exactly how that circle is widened.
Another amazing insight from @benpate
> "Overall, designers of desktop applications seem to have abandoned the fact that a desktop computer is capable of displaying several applications and windows at the same time and that many users are accustomed to this. Instead, we're increasingly treated to small-screen, single-app paradigms copied from smartphones."
> "Overall, designers of desktop applications seem to have abandoned the fact that a desktop computer is capable of displaying several applications and windows at the same time and that many users are accustomed to this. Instead, we're increasingly treated to small-screen, single-app paradigms copied from smartphones."
UX feature for Mastodon unfinished thiught:
Fine tune of range. Build feature like:
Sort friends and followers by known relationship status with User.
User can load "an algorithm" or make their own in visual UI.
make lists from algorithm.
Sort toots into groups based on lists.
Create Aliases to notify groups (into client side alert settings).
UX feature for Mastodon unfinished thiught:
Fine tune of range. Build feature like:
Sort friends and followers by known relationship status with User.
User can load "an algorithm" or make their own in visual UI.
make lists from algorithm.
Sort toots into groups based on lists.
Create Aliases to notify groups (into client side alert settings).
Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.
This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559
Top stuff. Would read again.
“On inclusive personas and inclusive user research”
https://ericwbailey.website/published/on-inclusive-personas-and-inclusive-user-research/
Gonna stuff this into my next ‘Selfish Accessibility’ talk where I grumble about personas.
Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.
This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559
Top stuff. Would read again.
“On inclusive personas and inclusive user research”
https://ericwbailey.website/published/on-inclusive-personas-and-inclusive-user-research/
Gonna stuff this into my next ‘Selfish Accessibility’ talk where I grumble about personas.
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