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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards â Unsung (opens the original)
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In my recent visits to German and Polish museums, I noticed a recurring theme: modular industrial dashboards, which I imagine have by now been all replaced by software. I donât know much about these â please write me if you do â but I wanted to share them anyway, perhaps for context, or amusement, or inspiration. Theyâre interesting design systems, and interesting interaction systems as well. This was a very cool physical display for air traffic control, at the The Deutsches Museum in MÃ
âThey had no concept of a duty of care to their users.â â Unsung (opens the original)
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A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle. Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature: Persistent undo is one of my favourite feature
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side â Unsung (opens the original)
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Various old computers had their keyboards adorned with unique symbols. Companies like Commodore, Atari, Amiga, or even â in its previous life â Apple chose to put their company logos on keys, and there were other weird and obscure keys on weird and obscure keyboards. But it was Appleâs recent push to move their American keyboards closer to European ones by embracing more iconography, that made me think of forgotten key symbols less obscure, ones that belonged to platforms we still use toda
âWe want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy.â â Unsung (opens the original)
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I often link to John Gruberâs Daring Fireball posts with a nod, but this time around I want to offer an opposing point of view. About a month ago, Gruber linked to a Markdown editor written by Sean Malseed in 2026 for the early 1980s Macs, and commented: I absolutely love that this exists. I donât like the actual app at all. I guess âfull screenâ mode is the point of some âdistraction freeâ editors, but I for one would never look twice at a Mac app that didnât use windows. Full-scr
âI just chose words carefully.â â Unsung (opens the original)
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I donât think anyone particularly enjoys typesetting in monospace. Regular text is okay â at least as okay as it can be: Right aligning is also fine, as long as you donât mind counting spaces, but centering already gets tricky, as you donât have a half space to make things truly even: And full justification is where things get particularly weird. The spaces are just too large, and cannot be distributed evenly, creating a really unpleasant feeling: The solution used in typesetting elsewhe
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