Hi, I'm Bonnie, and I'm gay and trans and autistic! I'm friendly and I don't bite.

You can add me on discord at bonnibel.bubblegum if you want to talk to me about stuff! i love talking with people about the projects I'm working on and i don't have enough friends.

My current hyperfixations are:

• pokemon (since i was a little child)
• jojo's bizarre adventure (since february 2022)

In terms of hobbies, I spend a lot of my time programming and studying language. I mean linguistics in general, but specifically I've been studying Danish for almost a year and i've been having a lot of fun with it!

More generally i like video games (terraria, tf2, binding of isaac, that kind of stuff), geography, world history, data visualization, old media and tech, and archival work.

here is a cool little article from 1989 how we got the GUI on computers.

Some researchers still question whether overlapping windows offer more benefits than tiled, at least above a certain screen size, on the grounds that screens with overlapping windows become so messy the user gets lost. Others argue that overlapping windows more closely match users’ work patterns, since no one arranges the papers on their physical desktop in neat horizontal and vertical rows. Among software engineers, however, overlapping windows seem to have won for the user interface world.

This debate about if windows should tile or overlap shows how we took the desktop metaphor way to literally.

Smith took the term icon from the Russian Orthodox church, where an icon is more than an image, because it embodies properties of what it represents: a Russian icon of a saint is holy and is to be venerated. Smith’s computer icons contained all the properties of the programs and data represented, and therefore could be linked or acted on as if they were the real thing.

Gotta be honest I actually was not aware this is how desktop icons got their name, but it weirdly makes a shit ton of sense to me.