Omar Rizwan
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Sorry for vanishing, we arrived at Glas for dinner 😉 As Katrine said they were making statements as masters of their craft; calling them “artists” in the modern sense would have bewildered them as alien to the world they worked in — and in any case “artista” was for grammarian/logician/rhetorician…
June 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Sorry for vanishing, we arrived at Glas for dinner 😉 As Katrine said they were making statements as masters of their craft; calling them “artists” in the modern sense would have bewildered them as alien to the world they worked in — and in any case “artista” was for grammarian/logician/rhetorician…
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yeah I want to be able to text an app to the group chat
June 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
yeah I want to be able to text an app to the group chat
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something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun
April 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun
(my first thought was drawing charts on it, but I think it's more evocative to imagine plotting individual data points on it as they come in, so it's like a disposable database table you're appending to. a whole chart feels too much like a finished artifact, not right for this form)
March 27, 2026 at 10:13 PM
(my first thought was drawing charts on it, but I think it's more evocative to imagine plotting individual data points on it as they come in, so it's like a disposable database table you're appending to. a whole chart feels too much like a finished artifact, not right for this form)
otoh, when I'm booking a flight or train or concert ticket in China or SE Asia or something, I'm always like, I should probably use the phone app (often I _must_ use the phone app)
the phone is the way the vast majority of people are interacting with the service! it's what the service was made for!
the phone is the way the vast majority of people are interacting with the service! it's what the service was made for!
this is what it looks like when you book flights from your phone
March 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
otoh, when I'm booking a flight or train or concert ticket in China or SE Asia or something, I'm always like, I should probably use the phone app (often I _must_ use the phone app)
the phone is the way the vast majority of people are interacting with the service! it's what the service was made for!
the phone is the way the vast majority of people are interacting with the service! it's what the service was made for!