Weasel Hills Golf & C.C. (hole 19)

Lots of screenshots. This is some top tier posting imo

certified golf game heritage posting. ⛳🏌️

Cohost does not need to be A Website That Does Everything. Back when I used to use message boards, private communications happened over a completely different service. You'd specifically exchange your contact details with the person who wanted to DM you.

I suppose there's both more, and less, such services now. We don't still have AIM or MSN Messenger (as they were - I know there's revival attempts now). But seemingly every platform that exists for single person to single person communication, has it as a side feature of a bigger do-everything service. Oh, add me on Facebook Messenger. Oh, here's my Discord tag. Find me on Telegram.

It definitely wasn't all roses back when dedicated one-on-one messengers existed. If your AIM name got shared around, nothing really stopped someone else from just dropping a message at you. But because those platforms were designed around messaging, one end to one other end, they did it well enough. Compared to, say, Twitter and Tumblr's DMs, which are abject misery to work with. Yeah. Let's not turn Cohost into that.

Finally decided to make the leap from WordPress to a static site on Neocities, and today I'm taking the tarp off of what I've been working on for the last month and change!

This will be the new home of my blog, where I write about video games, among other things. I'll also be using it as a general personal website, where I catalog the tools I use, websites I like, and generally try to create a Place with a Vibe!

Take a look around, and subscribe to the RSS feed if you're interested!

I just got done augmenting @doodlemancy 's related rant about the size of scrollbars in modern UIs and was reminded, again, of another way in which we were once a great civilization.

Open an Explorer/Finder/uhhhh PCManFM? window right now. Observe the lower-right corner of said window. It is probably rounded, probably a pixel thin even at high-DPI mode, and it is unclear where your mouse arrow should be pointed in order to grab that window to resize it. Worse, for Windows 10/11 users, the grab point - while larger than the visual border - is probably only a few pixels wide.

Now observe the other three pictures, of Apple Lisa OS, Acorn RISC OS, and Amiga Workbench. Notice how the grabbable corner of a window is not only very large, but comes with a very clear and obvious pictogrammed widget. We used to have this EVERYWHERE. Windows XP had it, even. Then we lost it, somewhere over the years. Window borders suddenly needed to be so thin as to be invisible. Who resizes their windows anymore? Everybody just clicks that big, attractive MAKE IT HUGE button. Even if that means inflating a browser window to the point of making text too wide to comfortably read.

This shit used to be big and clear and present. UI design nowadays is so obsessed with conformity that Lord forbid the user be presented with any way to customize it and take it away from the expected status quo. Even something so simple as knowing where to grab a window, to make it slightly bigger.

(img sources: macOS is my own screenshot, all others courtesy of Nathan Lineback of Toastytech.com GUI Gallery. )