Alex Shyshko

Software Engineer.
FP, Haskell, Elixir, Clojure/JVM.

[Johanna Larsson 🏳️‍🌈 @joladev]

I want to share something I built for the Elixir community: https://t.co/uMhmmBAlAi✨ I want to make it easier to find events like conferences and meetups, to help the community grow. For feature requests or feedback please let me know! 🙏 #myelixirstatus #elixirlang

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Act on press

This is a UI design hill I will die on, and it dismays me how often and hard I have had to fight for it.

Almost all interaction methods have a “press” and “release” event associated with them. Whenever possible, you should “do the thing” when you get the press event instead of waiting for the release event, because it makes the interaction feel substantially more responsive, and it reduces user errors by not allowing the focus to slide out of the hot box between press and release.

Even a “ballistic tap”, where your finger is intentionally bouncing off the button or touch surface, involves several tens of milliseconds delay between the press and release, and most button presses have well over a hundred ms dwell time. There is a delight in interfaces that feel like they respond instantly to your wishes, and the benefit to every single user is often more important than additional niche features.

Game developers, with simple UI toolkits, tend to get this right more often, but “sophisticated” app designers will often fight hard against it because it is mostly incompatible with options like interactive touch scrolling views, long press menus, and drag and drop.

Being able to drag scroll a web page or view with interactive controls in it is here to stay, and nets out way better than having to use a separate scroll bar, but there are still tons of fixed position controls that should act on press, and it is good UI design to favor them when possible.

In the early days of mobile VR, the system keyboard was a dedicated little OpenGL app that responded instantly. With full internationalization it became prudent to turn it into a conventional Android app, but the default act-on-release button behavior made it feel noticeably crappier. The design team resisted a push to change it, and insisted on commissioning a user study, which is a corporate politics ploy to bury something. I was irritated at how they tried to use leading questions and tasks, but It still came back one of the clearest slam-dunks I have seen for user testing – objectively less typos, expressed preference, and interview comments about the act-on-press version feeling “crisper” and “more responsive”.

So, I won that one, but the remaining times I brought it up for other interfaces, I did not, and you still see act-on-release throughout the Meta VR system interfaces.

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

@gfixler Similar to cat?
what's your $ less --version?

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

https://t.co/dSwD818IV1

[Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone @AVMiceliBarone]

New paper: https://t.co/hEInv1P6mY
LLMs are good at programing tasks, and they are now being widely used to assist code generation.
But do they actually understand the semantics of programming languages, or do they rely on superficial, "shortcut" correlations?

Let's find out!
1/

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

Sunday read.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit.

I think the winners are:

1/ Enter your phone number

[MG @_MG_]

Love it

[Rob Herley @robherley]

Finally released https://t.co/GEAONuN7Mt 🎉

Need to upload a code snippet?

echo "something" | ssh https://t.co/GEAONuN7Mt

It's a free, anonymous, open source, snippet hosting service

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

Performance Excuses Debunked https://t.co/xqk8HVsTxl

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance https://t.co/kQssKzwVtQ

[Denis Pushkarev @zloirock]

So, what's next? https://t.co/qCSsKXpGFu

[Shubham Sharma @Shubham_pen]

Best of TCP/IP Cheatsheet
Credit: https://t.co/GGG2USFV0t

#infosec #cybersecurity #pentesting #oscp #informationsecurity #hacking #DataSecurity #CyberSec #Hackers #tools #bugbountytips #Linux #websecurity #Network #NetworkSecurity #cybersecurityawareness

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

A Short and Direct Walk with Pascal’s Triangle by Rhys Goldstein https://t.co/UWutGec431

[Strange Loop Conf @strangeloop_stl]

"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher @jackrusher from Strange Loop 2022 https://t.co/xVTDtUoNGN

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google. https://t.co/tZO4zAJL6p

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

/1 How will you design the Stack Overflow website? If your answer is on-premise servers and monolith (bottom), you would likely fail the interview, but that's how it is built in reality!

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

@voidlizard когда уже будет unstructured-part2?

[Saent @getsaent]

We'll buy you a ☕️ if you still think #multitasking is effective after watching this explanation by @henrikkniberg. https://t.co/TA2wJvFRYf

[Alex Shyshko @oshyshko]

@rssh1 ping. (dm не доступен)