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nikitonsky: Maybe AI can put us out of this misery? Humanity on its own seems incapable of solving cross-calendar data format compatibility

#Calendar #Format #ics #iCal

nikitonsky: Calendar that starts on Wednesday? Sure, why not

nikitonsky: Month view in iOS calendar is quite useless. Yes I have an events scheduled for almost every day. I’m kind of aware. So?

nikitonsky: Time is a flat circle.

Also, why clicking “up” moves selection to the right/down?

Thanks Martin for the video

#AppleMail #Calendar #macOS

nikitonsky: Hell is selecting your date of birth by going back one month at a time

Thanks Anton Pinkevych for the video

#Calendar #Date #Pinterest

nikitonsky: Redesign rule #1: if you have no good ideas, you can always make round buttons square and square buttons round

Picture from twitter.com/@LukeW

#Google #Calendar

nikitonsky: Try to keep controls in place. In case of e.g. calendar, take into account that some months can span six weeks while most span only five.

Thanks @AndrewRichAdams for the video.

nikitonsky: I set up a reminder to myself at the end of the month. Guess what happened on Feb 29? Right, calendar switched to March silently, since there was no Feb 30. Which is a reminder that programmer’s logic is usually something completely different from people’s logic.

P.S. there’s a special setting in Calendar.app to get exactly what I want, but it seems to be buried deep down and, from the looks of it, Apple doesn’t really work on it all that often (see spacing between controls, calendar grid alignment, black border instead of light one, the fact that Ok/Cancel button were cut off by the edge of the screen).

nikitonsky: In new GMail design there’s no Compose button.

There are Chat, Spaces, Meet, Refresh button (yes, separate from the browser), layout selection, language selection, some sort of groups, activity indicator (for email?), Calendar, Keep, Tasks, Contacts. But no space for Compose button.

You can’t write a new email. In an email service. Literally

Thanks @altmindo for reporting this

nikitonsky: miniatures can’t have abstract details. Calendar icon can’t have just some date. Shell terminal miniature can’t have abstract text in it. It’s either real thing or something so generic and vague you can’t possibly read it. Otherwise people will start wondering if those details should be taken seriously or not, and that’s the question that you shouldn’t leave for interpretation