Nostr notes by Marcin Wichary

Also, just a lot of thoughtfulness and good kind of opinionation ...

2026-07-14T19:36:12Z

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Also, just a lot of thoughtfulness and good kind of opinionation all around.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nazhamid/116919200341117660 I’ve ...

2026-07-14T16:39:13Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nazhamid/116919200341117660

I’ve been using Aphera in beta and it’s a great alternative to Lightroom for serious photo flows, with some interesting new ideas.

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2.5 years in the making, and Aphera 1.0 is now live and available to download and trial (no cc required), or purchase (50% off for the next two weeks).

We think it's a wonderful way to work with images in a considered and intentional manner that gets you flow back. We built this with our needs in mind, and we've found others are enjoying it too. Lots more to build and to come!

https://aphera.co

Oh, do you mean in navigation menus? I was specifically only ...

2026-07-08T17:08:21Z

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Oh, do you mean in navigation menus? I was specifically only thinking about playing the video.

It I were to review some video playback interfaces on Apple TV, ...

2026-07-08T03:41:10Z

It I were to review some video playback interfaces on Apple TV, which ones are interesting? (Good or bad.) So far I have native, YouTube, HBO Max, and Netflix.

I know software updates can be exhausting these days. On top of ...

2026-07-06T16:21:12Z

I know software updates can be exhausting these days. On top of regular weariness of things changing, there’s stuff like Liquid Glass, or thoughtless AI integrations.

So, I’m curious: Was there a recent software update you can remember, anywhere, that just made you happy? Something that made an app genuinely better for you, or showed a developer listening to users, or was just plain old delightful?

I’ve always been curious if other people could easily suggest ...

2026-05-12T21:37:42Z

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I’ve always been curious if other people could easily suggest alt or cw that you could accept easily through UI. But maybe that’d be abused somehow.

DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere. ...

2026-04-09T01:00:06Z

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DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! ...

2026-04-09T00:58:29Z

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!

Please send help I keep buying programmable keypads ...

2026-04-03T21:34:58Z

Please send help I keep buying programmable keypads

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like ...

2026-03-04T03:32:06Z

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like this the pop-up contents that appear are misaligned…

…which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that if you click at the bottom, a click and release *without moving your mouse*, which was always 100% safe (and a way to “peek” into a menu to see what’s inside), can now accidentally change your option.

Making a website work well in Mobile Safari feels to me exactly ...

2026-01-06T03:50:56Z

Making a website work well in Mobile Safari feels to me *exactly* like making stuff work for IE6 was back in the day: Always some arbitrary behaviour, spending hours to restore normalcy, and the best case scenario is a nasty hack.

Every time I publish a new essay something like this comes up, and this part of the process is always so unpleasant.

Right now I’m staring at this problem in iOS 26 (related to an image carousel) and just… it’s so frustrating and depressing: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256138682?sortBy=rank

Thank you! I follow their YT channel and it’s on my list. Are ...

2026-01-05T17:32:43Z

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Thank you! I follow their YT channel and it’s on my list. Are there specific reasons you like them?

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in ...

2026-01-05T17:25:06Z

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process.

I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!

(Will work on any device, but worth checking out on the biggest screen you or your neighbour might have.)

https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

Sort of curious about something. We’ve been seeing all of these ...

2026-01-04T19:39:13Z

Sort of curious about something. We’ve been seeing all of these cool shaders approximate CRTs by adding scanlines, distortions, etc. But did anyone ever write a CRT *simulator*? Like actually simulating the electron gun running and hitting the mask etc.?

This would be sort of an equivalent of raytracing or doing emulation via FPGA. It would definitely be a lot more costly, of course, but I’m curious if we have enough performance already and whether the results would be interesting.

When you really want the internet, but the internet doesn’t ...

2025-12-27T16:15:51Z

When you really want the internet, but the internet doesn’t exit yet.

I wonder how many services like this existed. The old Netflix (Qwikster, heh) is maybe the most famous one?

Whoa. Entrance (I think?) to the naval museum in Madrid. ...

2025-12-24T02:31:54Z

Whoa. Entrance (I think?) to the naval museum in Madrid.

Wrote down what I learned so far and open questions in this new ...

2025-12-15T17:19:21Z

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Wrote down what I learned so far and open questions in this new doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QNavHjds1OdkKsfqLYx6EF0ohA-Qh_dZc8OK9TFrQk/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z1r9lwho309s

…in case you are interested in seeing where I am and what are my next steps, and maybe have new ideas. Thanks in advance! The doc is free to comment, or you can always ping me here.

#MarkupMonday

This doc is also good! https://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/002029

2025-12-14T16:58:35Z

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This doc is also good! https://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/002029

Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books! Signing the ...

2025-12-13T21:52:46Z

Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books!

Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…

…but Glenn Fleishman (npub1etn…cpgd) had this great idea of signing a 100 books in advance at the printer’s, when they were still uncut signatures – so some people would be get a nice surprise. Even bought super nice pens just for that occasion. It was a fun moment.

Oh look, here’s some ampersands. ...

2025-12-13T14:37:10Z

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Oh look, here’s some ampersands.

Believe it or not, I’m still figuring out where HTML got its ...

2025-12-13T05:56:27Z

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Believe it or not, I’m still figuring out where HTML got its angle brackets.

But despite grabbing a lot of interlibrary items, I am not sure I’m getting any closer. I still have some ideas, but one involves going to a museum in Maine, which might take a while.

However, good news (for someone?): There are now over 40 papers and books I scanned that deal with history of markup. Enjoy!

https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?tab=collection&query=subject%3A%22markup%22

Actually, just in July!

2025-12-08T03:04:09Z

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Actually, just in July!

How is it doing? I remember there was a small fire a year or so ...

2025-12-08T03:03:30Z

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How is it doing? I remember there was a small fire a year or so ago.

Ah, yeah, that’s a great point! Immediately found this for ...

2025-12-07T14:50:25Z

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Ah, yeah, that’s a great point! Immediately found this for SWAC, which was from 1950. And there were some earlier computers.

Yeah, chasing anything that’s “first” is kind of futile ...

2025-12-07T14:26:13Z

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Yeah, chasing anything that’s “first” is kind of futile anyway. Someone might have done something one night in the 1950s and then threw it away – and we’ll never know.

The digits are octal. 4 is 010 or -X-. 7 is 111 or XXX. Then you ...

2025-12-07T05:28:26Z

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The digits are octal. 4 is 010 or -X-. 7 is 111 or XXX. Then you just have to figure out the orientation – definitely feels vertical. Might be harder to debug A since it’s so symmetric.

I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font ...

2025-12-07T04:11:10Z

I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever.

The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.

The font is so simple it took up half a page in a manual. I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?

Thank you for answering! Your site is super fun, by the way.

2025-11-11T13:54:12Z

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Thank you for answering! Your site is super fun, by the way.

I really love this idea, but it’s hard to support seeing how ...

2025-11-11T13:32:18Z

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I really love this idea, but it’s hard to support seeing how the list of contributors appears to be 100% men. That’s the part of the 1980s we don’t need to be bringing back.

The sum of all fears (13 missing because of classic superstition. ...

2025-10-31T02:58:41Z

The sum of all fears

(13 missing because of classic superstition. 4/14/24 missing because “4” sounds like “death” here in Taiwan. 2 missing because the lobby is tall.)

I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this ...

2025-10-20T23:25:01Z

I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this animation of a cat on a loop:

I have seen so many rotary phones that it’s hard sometimes to ...

2025-10-16T19:51:15Z

I have seen so many rotary phones that it’s hard sometimes to imagine an alternative to that interface. But here’s one – a “Trommelwähler” (drum dialer) from Germany, model Fg Tist 264.

(Apparently it wasn’t very successful.)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trommelw%C3%A4hler

Another cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a ...

2025-09-29T19:53:46Z

Another cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a Nowa Huta (Cracow) steelworks – named after Lenin originally.

eWorld > iTools > .Mac > iCloud Scanned this old eWorld ...

2025-09-28T08:15:22Z

eWorld > iTools > .Mac > iCloud

Scanned this old eWorld brochure I had lying around.

https://archive.org/details/welcome-to-e-world-brochure

Here are some of the many weird phones to be found inside. I ...

2025-09-16T17:53:45Z

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Here are some of the many weird phones to be found inside. I particularly loved the first long boi.

This is from Houweling Telecomm Museum from Rotterdam, a really ...

2025-09-16T17:47:49Z

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This is from Houweling Telecomm Museum from Rotterdam, a really cool place.

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2025-09-16T17:31:13Z

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A 2-pixel tall pixel font. (!) ...

2025-09-12T19:29:17Z

A 2-pixel tall pixel font. (!) https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all ...

2025-08-29T04:17:14Z

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak.

You can read it here: https://aresluna.org/the-primitive-tortureboard/

Hi! Do you happen to have a link or screenshot?

2025-08-29T00:44:28Z

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Hi! Do you happen to have a link or screenshot?

What was the worst connector ever made? I know some people hate ...

2025-08-15T05:05:09Z

What was the worst connector ever made?

I know some people hate on the Apple 30-pin connector, but I always had a soft spot for it.

SCART, on the other hand – what a nightmare. I still sometimes remember how utterly unpleasant it was just to put it in or disconnect it. The sound and the feel were all dentist-office-grade. Absolutely dreadful.

@npub1gvj…3r2z More of a permanent link: ...

2025-08-14T02:31:05Z

Hypertalking (npub1gvj…3r2z) More of a permanent link: https://aresluna.org/hypertalking-mac-collection/

Hope the move went okay!

It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have ...

2025-08-08T14:22:54Z

It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have any idea why an app is asking, what should I say, what is the penalty for choosing Don’t Allow, etc. What a frustrating experience.

(Edit: I’m showing Chrome here but I am getting them for so many other apps without seemingly any rhyme or reason.)

I tried to find the artist, but no luck!

2025-07-28T20:41:39Z

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I tried to find the artist, but no luck!

Art from the just-opened new L stations in Chicago. ...

2025-07-28T01:31:48Z

Art from the just-opened new L stations in Chicago.

This is good writing. ...

2025-07-19T13:33:12Z

This is good writing. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/

A few people reminded me recently how ten years ago I translated ...

2025-07-17T03:16:53Z

A few people reminded me recently how ten years ago I translated into English a short (sci-fi-ish) 1976 story from my favourite writer, Stanisław Lem.

Lem’s stuff continues to be wildly prescient, and I feel like that story has even more relevance today than it did in 2015.

I just moved the story from Medium to my site for a nicer reading experience, if you want to give it a shot!

https://aresluna.org/one-hundred-and-thirty-seven-seconds/

Cool! Thanks! It’s fun to see

2025-07-09T15:14:37Z

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Cool! Thanks! It’s fun to see

Oh! Do you have a photo?

2025-07-09T14:41:07Z

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Oh! Do you have a photo?

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about ...

2025-07-08T23:36:53Z

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference

I like scanning and putting up interlibrary stuff on Internet ...

2025-07-05T03:58:54Z

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I like scanning and putting up interlibrary stuff on Internet Archive.

This is the first one I got. Not sure yet if it’s going to help with the HTML bracket investigation, but maybe it’ll help someone else! https://archive.org/details/gca-standard-101-1983

Is this going to go anywhere? Unclear. But I like this part. ...

2025-06-25T14:06:43Z

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Is this going to go anywhere? Unclear. But I like this part.

Fired some interlibrary requests. Wish me luck!

2025-06-24T00:39:52Z

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Fired some interlibrary requests. Wish me luck!

They really are killing me. ...

2025-06-23T21:18:08Z

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They really are killing me.

They are killing me. In the old article about the history of it ...

2025-06-21T03:12:00Z

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They are *killing me*. In the old article about the history of it that I just discovered, they are using… square brackets.

This might be more interesting. <P1> and <P2>! ...

2025-06-21T02:37:17Z

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This might be more interesting. <P1> and <P2>! <#> for styling! Excited to dig and learn more.

This is the earliest appearance of < > I know of today, ...

2025-06-21T02:32:27Z

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This is the earliest appearance of < > I know of today, from 1979.

This thread might slow down, as next step will be some interlibrary requests!

Thanks to my emails but also people who were participating today, ...

2025-06-21T02:18:43Z

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Thanks to my emails but also people who were participating today, I got an email from one of the key players that sent me some great leads and info to investigate! (Including a PDF of the report I was salivating over earlier.)

It turns out the angle brackets are at most from 1979, if not earlier. More to research!

Still digging. “To encourage acceptance, the authors of the ...

2025-06-20T21:20:44Z

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Still digging.

“To encourage acceptance, the authors of the SGML specification followed other design objectives: the ability to enter text and markup on "the millions of existing text entry devices"; no character set dependency; no national language bias; and markup usable by both humans and programs.”

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000465.shtml

Yeah, I’m curious how they became the example/default value.

2025-06-20T18:18:45Z

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Yeah, I’m curious how they became the example/default value.

More from the same person writing about “chicken scratches.” ...

2025-06-20T11:49:42Z

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More from the same person writing about “chicken scratches.” Includes a tantalizing cover page of a working document.

https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol23/html/Mason01/BalisageVol23-Mason01.html

I sent some emails, but I am not sure if this is going to go ...

2025-06-20T11:04:48Z

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I sent some emails, but I am not sure if this is going to go anywhere. It’s wild that there isn’t an authoritative answer online, given how much of modern “online” uses HTML and angle brackets.

Very interesting! ...

2025-06-20T10:38:41Z

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Very interesting! https://jtc1info.org/sd-2-history/jtc1-subcommittees/sc-34/

Not sure those are available online…

Poring over SGML Handbook from Goldfarb himself (Goldfarb is the ...

2025-06-20T10:13:48Z

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Poring over SGML Handbook from Goldfarb himself (Goldfarb is the “G” in GML).

SGML had some wild features!

https://archive.org/details/sgmlhandbook0000gold/

The other way around, right…?

2025-06-20T09:55:18Z

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The other way around, right…?

This is from the standard, which I found online here: ...

2025-06-20T09:51:51Z

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This is from the standard, which I found online here: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub152.pdf

(That footnote is prescient.)

There are references to an 1980 draft, but wonder if that would be explained there. There probably also also working group notes…

A bit of a progress in figuring it out here, but not much yet: ...

2025-06-20T09:49:25Z

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A bit of a progress in figuring it out here, but not much yet: https://tilde.zone/@mhd/114715005404149186

Ironically, I wonder if the answer is even online.

It was the tone that bothered me.

2025-06-20T09:44:16Z

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It was the tone that bothered me.

Now curious exactly why SGML chose angle brackets! Would love to ...

2025-06-20T09:29:09Z

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Now curious exactly why SGML chose angle brackets! Would love to see a written statement. This is the closest I got to an answer, but it’s not really an answer.

https://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.connolly.html

Always love the one random Masto know-it-all holier-than-thou ...

2025-06-20T09:00:52Z

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Always love the one random Masto know-it-all holier-than-thou passerby, keep it up! That’s what makes everyone love this network.

Once in a while I imagine how much more pleasant HTML would be to ...

2025-06-20T03:37:34Z

Once in a while I imagine how much more pleasant HTML would be to type if only different brackets were originally chosen.

[div]
[p]
[a href=‘’][/a]
[/p]
[/div]

No single Shift press was necessary here.

Went Gorton hunting in Baltimore. ...

2025-04-19T00:39:16Z

Went Gorton hunting in Baltimore.

This is the same essay ported to Medium in 2014. Medium was such ...

2025-03-19T01:12:18Z

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This is the same essay ported to Medium in 2014. Medium was such a breath of fresh air for me (this was after I joined, but a lot of those design decisions come before me, so I am not patting myself on the back here). Nice, stark, way, way mode modern layout, huge images.

https://medium.com/re-form/in-the-footsteps-of-robert-moses-2780ee00a648

Also, this might be a fun comparison: the same essay in three ...

2025-03-19T01:11:28Z

Also, this might be a fun comparison: the same essay in three different times/settings, all still online.

/

This is the original edition, in 2012, using bespoke HTML/CSS I did. It feels so… quaint today. The images are buried, the entire thing is ostensibly responsive, but still feels 1990s in some ways. The image interactions are so basic. (It used Typekit! Remember Typekit?)

https://aresluna.org/stories/in-the-footsteps-of-robert-moses/

Still don’t quite know what to do with this project, but just ...

2025-03-17T02:57:04Z

Still don’t quite know what to do with this project, but just updated text.makeup with new Unicode/emoji, SF Symbols, transgender symbols, and a few other things.

The most tricky part, however, was adding explanations for Punycode in international domains, because that encoding/escaping is wild and non-linear!

Check it out → https://text.makeup

Holy shit no. First goal: 1/5th the size, max.

2025-03-13T13:53:50Z

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Holy shit no. First goal: 1/5th the size, max.

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2025-03-13T13:43:40Z

Uh oh. Started seriously mapping out another book.

Did anyone ever write a little memento/recognition of room-like ...

2025-02-20T03:13:46Z

Did anyone ever write a little memento/recognition of room-like user interfaces? In my head it‘s nice, interactive, and very fun. Like a videogame where you switch between worlds.

Microsoft Bob and Magic Cap are the most popular, but I feel there is a long tail of those in other shells and videogames.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at ...

2025-02-14T21:34:42Z

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

Whoa!!!!! I think i did it. Apparently there is a will-change CSS ...

2025-01-25T18:02:26Z

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Whoa!!!!!

I think i did it. Apparently there is a will-change CSS property, and setting it makes it work in Safari!

(I have to set it on the image within, not the object that’s being transformed.)

I was at it for weeks now! This is so cool.

https://caniuse.com/will-change

It seems like no matter the order/timing the biggest items are ...

2025-01-25T17:58:42Z

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It seems like no matter the order/timing the biggest items are shown properly, and it’s the smallest ones that get delayed/deferred. That seems like maybe some sort of built-in Safari prioritization?

Neither seemingly switching to a non-retina resolution for more ...

2025-01-25T17:48:57Z

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Neither seemingly switching to a non-retina resolution for more GPU memory (is that how it works?).

Spacing out transitions with setTimeout instead of timeout-delay ...

2025-01-25T17:47:51Z

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Spacing out transitions with setTimeout instead of timeout-delay doesn’t help. Very interesting.

But when I space out the transitions (via transition delay) so ...

2025-01-25T17:47:00Z

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But when I space out the transitions (via transition delay) so they don’t even overlap each other, I still that problem. That’s peculiar because the amount of work is less. Maybe the delay still spools them up, or maybe it’s more about GPU texture load or something?

When I make transitions much longer, it still has the same ...

2025-01-25T17:45:44Z

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When I make transitions much longer, it still has the same problem but that makes sense if framerate or performance is prioritized – it’s still the same amount of work, just on a longer timespan.

(Neither did Math.floor()-ing transform coordinates.)

2025-01-25T17:44:02Z

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(Neither did Math.floor()-ing transform coordinates.)

Argh, I’m kind of back where I started. Simplifying the syntax ...

2025-01-25T17:42:23Z

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Argh, I’m kind of back where I started. Simplifying the syntax of transitions didn’t help, which makes sense because I imagine they all become one transform matrix anyway.

It seems like I might be hitting some performance threshold where Safari just doesn’t render objects where the work would be too hard to… preserve frame rate?

(Also switching from AVIF to PNG didn’t help.)

I thought maybe I had mismatched transforms they couldn’t be ...

2025-01-25T17:37:57Z

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I thought maybe I had mismatched transforms they couldn’t be transitioned between, but they all match.

Perhaps Safari just chokes on these too complex transitions and gives up on them?

Ah! Removed transition and they all show. So something to do with ...

2025-01-25T17:34:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…55xj
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Ah! Removed transition and they all show. So something to do with transitions, not transforms.

Signs pointing I might just be stupid after all!? In the grand scheme of things, that’s good news.

Safari Technology Preview still has that issue. Changing my mind ...

2025-01-25T17:32:04Z

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Safari Technology Preview still has that issue.

Changing my mind again that this is *not* a logic issue, because I actually remember see it even with simple image loads in other places of the site. Maybe this is something about how I programmatically generate image tags in JS…

None of the below ↓ options seem to matter.

The problem doesn’t go away when I remove scrolling and add ...

2025-01-25T17:26:35Z

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The problem doesn’t go away when I remove scrolling and add “overflow: clip/hidden.” Thought maybe scrolling was what introduced this – memories of old Safari and checkerboards, etc.

Hmmm. Replacing all the images with one (very simple) image still ...

2025-01-25T17:23:52Z

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Hmmm. Replacing all the images with one (very simple) image still shows this effect. This is very peculiar, but changed the way I’m thinking about it. It’s starting to feel like a code logic bug rather than performance-related.

Removing all the other stuff from the page doesn’t change ...

2025-01-25T17:19:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…t9l2
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Removing all the other stuff from the page doesn’t change anything, so this seems localized to this area/div.

debugging out loud The images are in AVIF format – maybe ...

2025-01-25T17:16:04Z

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*debugging out loud*

The images are in AVIF format – maybe it’s to do with that? But I would imagine them loaded/decoded on load() event.

Doesn’t seem to have to do with rotations/transitions because removing them and doing simple things still showcases this slowdown effect.

(It’s really hard to do a nice transition without knowing when ...

2025-01-25T17:01:54Z

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(It’s really hard to do a nice transition without knowing when something’s going to actually show up.)

This is not a webdev problem I’ve seen before: In Safari ...

2025-01-25T16:59:52Z

This is not a webdev problem I’ve seen before:

In Safari (second video), an image that is already loaded/cached (and gets a load event early), might still take a while to actually show.

In Chrome (first video), a loaded/cached image shows immediately as expected at the moment of the load event.

This might have something to do with compositing performance, or… Does anyone know? I’ve been struggling even finding the right terms to search for. Thank you!

I am aware of this, but it doesn’t have Office: ...

2025-01-01T23:00:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…v9xz
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I am aware of this, but it doesn’t have Office: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/

Also spotted this, but cannot get it to run (locally or online): https://archive.org/details/office97demo

Kind of a random question, but maybe someone will know. I have a ...

2025-01-01T22:59:59Z

Kind of a random question, but maybe someone will know. I have a simple Office 97 Excel spreadsheet and I want to take a period-appropriate screenshot of it – Windows 98, VGA resolution, crisp fonts, all that.

Are there any clever ways to go about doing that? I could probably find a pirated Windows 98 and Office 97 somewhere in my archives and install on a local… DOSBox? But I was wondering if there is something online?

Weirdly proud that my Internet Archive keyboard/font document ...

2024-12-23T16:12:14Z

Weirdly proud that my Internet Archive keyboard/font document collection is now 500 items and close to 100GB!

https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?sort=-publicdate

I scanned most of these obscure documents over the years, and it felt important to me to give back this way – if anyone wants to research keyboards or write the next keyboard book, now a lot more of this stuff is online.

Does anyone here remember Norton Utilities? I realized recently ...

2024-12-03T05:03:02Z

Does anyone here remember Norton Utilities? I realized recently how much of an influence those had on me back in the day. This suite of little useful nerdy DOS tools that eventually got packaged together and had their own little shared UI universe…

In hindsight, together with Norton Commander, this was the first GUI I used in my life! But also there was something amazing about having this kind of a Swiss Army knife. A little toolbox of getting under the hood of your computer.