The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact
this was posted in 2015. the years come and go but tumblr is eternal.
we are only a few years away from seeing the most talented programmer-archaeologists to ever exist, but they will converse with us only in skibidi toilet references. we have doomed ourselves to this fate
ORPHEUS (1950) ↳ dir. JEAN COCTEAU
Is this relatable fellow youths?
im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search
Your irregular reminder that you should have ublock origin installed for a significantly better internet experience. advertisers have tried to make it as shitty as possible; fight back! Give yourself an online experience worth enjoying!
Most websites check for adblock now.
They do NOT check for UBlock Origin. :)
*Scrolls past*
*reluctant sigh*
*scrolls back up*
*rebogs*
ok i just got this thought out of nowhere but blog divers (people who scroll through a blog and reblog things that were posted YEARS AGO) are actually a super important part of the tumblr ecosystem
With people going inactive and deactivating, a lot of classic tumblr posts and also missed gems get lost because those connections get broken. Even on my own blog I forget about posts I made until I see someone in my activity reblog one of them- which then inspires me to reblog it myself because it was a good post and I want my new followers to see
do not feel bad about diving through someone's blog and reblogging shit from years ago, it keeps dashboards alive
(and if anyone has a problem with that, they can just block you or they can delete the root post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, two things that have absolutely no effect on the grand scheme of our lives)
Cycling nutrients (old tumblr posts) from the ocean floor (mutual's blog archive) to increase (dashboard) ecosystem productivity
Whale Fall Scavengers Spreading Vital Nutrients From The Surface Back Into The Ecosystem
Forgot to post photos of this casual new wave look I did the other day
One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.
"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF
I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.
"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?
and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!
I know I sound like a broken record when I praise Windows 95 UI, but holy fuck Microsoft figured this shit out already about 30 years ago. It's all there, black and white, clear as christmas:
So much of modern UX woes stem from not knowing, or intentionally ignoring the genuine design study put forth into GUIs in the 90s.
3D elements are 3D in a specific way with lighting from a specific side to make it obvious where a window element begins and ends.
The gradient always should from from one side, and keep it consistent.
Make your color shading and shape of scroll bars consistently side and easy to press. I have a 4K display, don't make me hunt for the magic activation pixel that makes your 3-pixel wide scroll bar appear.
It's a desktop application, I've got the screen real estate to spare to have the actual GUI elements present on screen at all times (I know, heresy).
The moment aesthetic takes precedence over form and function, you've failed as a UI designer.
And any argument about "we don't have the resolution" can go right out the window, we were having nice, clear and legible interface widgets on nine inch screens in 1984. We continued to have nice, clear and legible interfaces on machines vastly less powerful than today's and on screens vastly less pixel-dense than today's. We used to know what the hell we were doing. At least one of these examples even has on-screen instructions in case the widgets functionality isn't immediately apparent.
(images sourced from The GUI Gallery)
since this has come back to my dashboard again i want to call attention to one more thing that these GUIs have that modern ones don't even try to do.
RESIZE WIDGETS.
Do you tire of trying to grab and resize a window whose border is literally only 1 pixel wide?
Do you see how large the corner widgets are in those clips above? Those are at least 16x16 pixels. They're almost as large as the Close buttons on a modern GUI. If you can see the bottom right corner of your window, resizing it is a snap. You can aim much more easily at a 16x16 widget than you can at a one-pixel-wide vertical line.
OK, maybe technically Windows' borders are wider than 1 pixel. They're technically 3 pixels. That is still just really goddamn tiny compared to 16 of them.
We used to be a society. Look at this. Look at this.
WINDOWS FUGGIN' 95 HAD THE CORNER WIDGET. Why the hell can't Windows 11?
Wait while we’re all being unhinged about, like, stew. We all obsessed over the Joy of Cooking as children right. Right
The Joy of Cooking is a cookbook written by a committee of midcentury American goofballs who weren’t sure if your life circumstances were going to call for cooking woodchuck, wedding cake, or both at the same time. But the one thing they could arm you with? Unshakeable confidence and a wine pairing. Absolutely demented manual for living, 100% recommend imprinting on it as a child.
YES our first stop will be the Backpacking menu. We find it incidentally next to THE weirdest vintage things to do with bacon. Hello, bacon and rice custard. Why are you, somehow, a small act of violence in our day. We then see the actual menu with its genuinely extremely useful information including “welcome extra munch items.”
Referencing here also, useful information about building fires, which leads you to the Ritual Psychic Incantation of Massachusetts to determine what setting an open fire is on. This spell is to be performed nonverbally. and Mississippi will also do if you are a coward. Do NOT use anything except a US state!!!! Memorise this fact diligently as you may need it later
finally what other menus do we have, you ask? Normal ones of course
Lots of people asking “is this the one with the squirrel/rabbit diagrams” of COURSE it is that one
“Does it really have woodchuck”
Yes of course. Take one (1) woodchuck
Shout out to @arthurwilde for pointing out this is the one with the recipe for opossum that starts by first keeping the opossum as a lil pet.
File that under recipes you don’t need to make tiktokers try
@tartsandcrafts OH MY GOD
I have a vintage copy with the squirrel diagrams but fun fact: The Joy of Cooking is about 900-1000 pages. In braille, it is 30 volumes long. Volumes.
Oh NO! And this is a book with so many references and cross references that it’s almost unusable as-is!
Forgot to come back with a shot from my work. These are braille volumes of the Joy of Cooking
I am so excited by this, thank you so much for sharing!
In storage I have the Windows CD-ROM of Joy of Cooking. If anyone knows how to extract the database files in a usable way that might be helpful
Also, this is the original cover image
Note: there is no cooking referenced in this image. The joy is in smacking things. A water-dragon is there but we’re not exactly aiming for it and it looks friendly. This is because Irma knew we’d be out here, fighting for our lives, every day. The actual recipes are indeed less important than knowledge and confidence. The water-dragon, which represents Cooking, is awed by the carnality and joy of the Chatelaine. She is sainted for this; her handbag is absurd, and represents keeping it silly. Thus endeth the lesson
@ingridverse - has anyone taken you up on that offer?
If not, then if you're able to share the files via Dropbox/Google Drive or similar, I'll take a look.
I can't find my CD ROM but fortunately someone uploaded it to the Internet Archive
Oh my goodness thank you @ingridverse ! What a great resource!!
See you space cowboy.
