I will occasionally link to a post from the blog that I feel really good about, if you don’t mind!

From this morning, a review of the documentary Koolhaas Houselife, ostensibly having nothing to do with UX design:

https://unsung.aresluna.org/movie-review-koolhaas-houselife/

A post about the pretty inspiring and strange software that is Strudel, sort of a command line/text editor for music. I want my CSS authoring to feel this way.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/we-can-go-deeper-by-patterning-inside-of-our-pattern/

An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really interesting way, plus the history of how ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 ended up where they are.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys/

I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and immediately had to write about it.

It simulates working at a help line for a videogame company in 1993, complete with fictitious games, and a physical 300-page binder of various documents. Amazing.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/this-sounds-completely-impractical-and-we-love-it/

I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†

I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.

(† Not related to the street drug.)

https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/

@mwichary I loved your point about how confirmation dialogs for closing/destructive actions are sort of a molly guard too!

I'm also thinking about the super annoying thing that Chrome does when you Command-Q to quit, where it wants you to hold down the keys to execute the command.

And, maybe a bit more of a stretch, the cars where if you want to open a locked door from the inside, requires you to pump the handle twice?