I was curious about how design apps differ in their edge / corner / rotate hit areas, so I wrote a script to move my mouse in a 50x50 grid and track what the cursor was.
@wieslawsoltes Like Visual Studios updates are now within days instead of quarterly - it's highly disruptive with noisy attention popups and I think not always with the best impact.
Its one thing pushing frequently, its another pacing it "with" your audience/ customer in mind.
@wieslawsoltes I think this trend is going to change eventually again to find a middle ground. There is a lot of fomo right now and a race to the bottom to outdo perceived threads.
As a user I don't want to always be overwhelmed with feature and update noise. Quality values will return.
@relizarov Powershell always needs a
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
cmd.exe just always executes without blocking. Syntax on both is not pretty or fun to remember.
But ps has more dotnet eco system integration
@buizerd2050@ClintRutkas I tried looking up the settings like 3 times to disable it but even a google does not tell me how to disable the updates.
And then the dark UX pattern says (postpone, update) but not a disable or don't ask again. Really infuriating.
@ClintRutkas Winui3 was my first Windows GUI framework. It was very painful to onboard and learn the hard way to avoid UWP , AI SDK and more undercooked - often not compiling out of box.
Also cert signing cost is a big turn off.
Quality needs go up, less junk offerings
@wieslawsoltes Thats where Word desperately needs to pivot towards: Markdown. A more style agnostic format with more intent on structure & emphasis i.e. bold, H1, H2 etc.
Using Office Suite always feels like a fight with formatting - such clunky tools and waste of time.
Nice work 👏
@wieslawsoltes This is great, in past desktop apps i used to embed a webview with https://t.co/268hM6tIgh + C# /js bind data and selections because available native controls are clunky or sluggish with very large visible data sets.
Good stuff 👏
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@jeffteper Most of the official teams addons are often broken, inconsistent and slow. I.e. trying some out for the first time I often got stuck in some onboarding or login process.
I usually stay away from Team addons because of the poor UX and incompleteness.