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Simp 4 Ernest Shackleton
I make and care about software
locked out of @unlikelydoorway

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Thread of my nitpicking web design and user experiences

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@salmonwallet @toly @darkreaderapp 🫡

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Now you can (on desktop) https://t.co/lUV1CQuQ8l

[Fernando Borretti @zetalyrae]

I wish I could mute all tweets with gifs

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Bon matin

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GOOD MORNING

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Tweet everything that doens't exist

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Fish everything that exists

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Incorporate everything that exists

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Love everything that exists

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https://t.co/gjpETNGzzE

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I highlighted the "UI elements" I could distinguish, to be able to measure "amount of stuff going on". So far, 3 to 6 top bars (in red) depending how you count, 3 to 4 containers (in green), and a lot of things are "floating".

"I like UI density—wait not like this"

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Thread of my nitpicking web design and user experiences

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https://t.co/c3rrAPRBSD

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I liked using WinUI3, and want Microsoft devs to unshackle themselves from Win32. Still, there are 4 reasons why the redesigned Registry Editor "feels worse". First off, structure :

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"this web page could have been three web pages"

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I highlighted the "UI elements" I could distinguish, to be able to measure "amount of stuff going on". So far, 3 to 6 top bars (in red) depending how you count, 3 to 4 containers (in green), and a lot of things are "floating".

"I like UI density—wait not like this"

[𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘅 @Malix_Labs]

The GitHub PR Overview feature is a UI + UX disaster. Just look at this.

Also, Timeline and conversations are disjointed now?
Including their order?
About that: comments and timeline events are "newest first" by default.
How do you read conversations backward?

Wtf GitHub

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- What is this page supposed to help me do ?
- What is the necessary information in helping me do that ?
And then destroy everything that exists

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@theo >build a button "ask for a feature"
>instead of making a GitHub issue, it uses user's tokens to run the feature locally and adds a button in the UI for custom features
>RSI achieved

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@chiefofautism Big labs are less ambitious than @VictorTaelin

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Rewrite everything that exists.

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@rareuiHQ nvrm this below is MUCH better https://t.co/6bkgO8g3RR

[Romlib 🎄 @romlib_]

One shotted a way nicer WinUI 3 Regedit with Claude in ~1h that actually respects the original design and isn't just form over function. No idea wtf employees at Microsoft are smoking.

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I liked using WinUI3, and want Microsoft devs to unshackle themselves from Win32. Still, there are 4 reasons why the redesigned Registry Editor "feels worse". First off, structure :

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

Here's your first look at Microsoft's new WinUI 3 Registry Editor, but it's a developer sample preview, so it may not ship on Windows 11 anytime soon.

Windows Latest found the app inside Microsoft's open-source Reactor repository, and I built it myself on Windows 11.

It keeps the familiar two-pane layout but replaces the cramped Windows 95-era interface with native WinUI 3 controls, a dark-mode-ready design, and smoother animations.

It can read, create, rename, and delete registry keys, edit values, and search the registry. It even uses Mica, with no Electron or WebView2 involved.

There are still unfinished features, and Microsoft hasn't announced plans to replace regedit.exe.

This is a developer sample made by Microsoft, not an official Windows 11 replacement.

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@rareuiHQ Here's what I could salvage from WinUI 3. So to recap, the four things that were weird :
- weird spacing around the folder dropdowns
- lack of structure : dropdown lines, table column hints
- lack of varied contrasts : no colors, normalized text contrast, grey background
- idk

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@theodorvaryag @bee_fumo What in the sensory overload

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@bee_fumo https://t.co/c3rrAPRBSD

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I liked using WinUI3, and want Microsoft devs to unshackle themselves from Win32. Still, there are 4 reasons why the redesigned Registry Editor "feels worse". First off, structure :