Abstracts to articles I probably won't write.

Hypotheses to posts I may never publish.

These ideas are fermenting. They're not ready to go in the oven, but why don't you pop some of the bubbles forming in the dough?

TUIs are an indictment of GUI development

Developers make TUIs because making GUIs is too much of a hassle, to the detriment of both CLI users and GUI users.

Most apps are clubs, not businesses

Apps are clubs mistaken for businesses, to the dismay of their users and investors alike.

Work chat is replacing structured communication at the cost of productivity

Sellers of chat apps promote them as company-wide communication tools. Companies adopt them for fear of being perceived as old-fashioned. Employees without secretarial or clerical skills at those companies are left to figure out how to use them, virtually always sub-optimally.

No more follower counts on socials

Let's get rid of follower counts on socials. Online platforms that advertise follower counts incentivize growing an audience over all else. The business models of these platforms tacitly rely on users equating a high follower count with attributes like quality, integrity, and trustworthiness, even though that's not often the case with a metric so easily manipulated. Platforms should ditch follower counts and the veiled suggestions that come along with them, or society should regulate entities with big enough audiences like they were broadcasters.

Epaper tablets should run Oberon

Epaper tablets are good for reading. Oberon is a heavily text-driven system, without being a Unix-like command line, and it's all about making cool stuff happen when you activate special text as commands. Responsive epaper tablets like Daylight should run Oberon System and use the stylus to select and activate text commands.

People want to write their own software

There is a reason people keep making idiosyncratic versions of todo apps, Writeroom clones, personal knowledge bases, static site generators, and so on. Authors of those projects try to position them as products for others to use instead of wondering what about computing makes it so that other people can't just as easily make their own versions.