Author: Rauf Aliev

Do not enter without knocking

The first rule of a good interface: explain why someone should do something (enter an email or check a box) or not do it (do not touch the furniture, turn off the mobile phone, or maintain silence). In our country, people don’t understand why embassies or airplanes require turning off mobile phones, yet you can’t touch exhibits in a museum with hands. This is because it’s not explained.

So that’s what you are, northern reindeer!

The first painting I saw today. Mark Rothko, “Untitled” and another, Pat Steir “Magic Nightfall”

You might not like iPhones all you want, but having 82 percent battery left after three hours of YouTube videos compared to my old Samsung is just out of this world. Also, I’ve forgotten to turn off the camera many times (it wasn’t recording, but it was displaying the camera’s view). It never led to any noticeable battery drainage.

An intriguing lecture about poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms, as well as toxins from them

an interesting lecture on global warming

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=SXIh7VHLEoI&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7VGtgSUB8DM%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded

@[1637446765:2048:Tae Youn Oey] They exist! Letterpress printing has been used in China since 1040 AD. Thousands of tiles, immense manual effort, for over a thousand years.

http://idsgn.org/posts/the-end-of-movable-type-in-china/

I wanted to write that the use of eye tracking mechanism in phones will be common in a couple of years, but I decided to search online to check if there was anything on the topic. And here is an excellent study, with an analysis of options and ready solutions.

https://medium.com/@taolu_99738/developing-of-eye-tracking-application-for-smartphone-b875c50ee0c3

Walking home from work, and Mars stares at me from the darkness