I like the AAA WCAG recommendation. I'd also recommend from my casual experience listening to lots of old people...
- a large font size by default, and maybe a font size slider on the homepage. Test everything at 200-300% scale as WCAG recommends
- don't change the UI! Or change as little as possible, at least for existing users. Which kinda upturns the whole always-updating nature of web SaaS but I think it can be done
- hire a good designer who can streamline your UX and screens and keep only the bare minimum features
- maybe offer human support? Like a phone number? Probably unreasonable for you tho
Wish I had ideas for simpler login and auth.
Have you found any successful design strategies in your 10 years? Any insights from user testing?
Kudos for a well-executed project and for a tight-knit community.
Funny coincidence -- I know someone else working on porting a local card game to software. Seems like niche traditional card games are more a European thing?
Any takeways from streaming? I hear it's eye-opening to look back at your workflows and bottlenecks. Like to see how long you take on certain things that you didn't realize were pain points. Not sure if you experienced that along with any other dev benefits, or if it's just purely fun.
My focus is on the educational and entertainment value, not really the progress or utility of the code I write. I originally started this as extended L&Ls for friends & fam who were just starting out programming, so they could see how I work through things.
My take away from that perspective is: be honest. IMO the best moments are me just failing. It's probably more fun and more instructive to see me struggle than to see me breeze through things.
And it better be entertaining because I work on stuff absolutely nobody cares about anyway. XD Right now I'm writing a microformats2 -> RSS converter in JQ...
Today was my first time on Twitch, which is way more social. Random people drop in and start talking to you. Very cool. Very different from youtube live, where it's only the people who already know you, IME.
Awesome! Anywhere we can look for updates, like a website?
FWIW, my shallow understanding of quantum computing as a programmer, in case you wanted perspectives from your potential audience:
- I thought quantum physics was a sham? Like on par with string theory. But apparently that's not true
- I hear QC only breaks certain kinds of cryptography algorithms (involving factoring big primes?), and that we can upgrade to more foolproof algorithms.
- I hear that one of the main challenges is improving error bounds? I'm not sure how error is involved and how it can be wrangled to get a deterministic or useful result
- Idk what a qubit is or how you make one or how you put several together
Your questions are helpful bar-setter for me, and more or less align with the questions that I had when I was starting out this project (sans the skepticism of quantum mechanics period, I take that as a given). Going down your list:
- Yeah there's a distinction between asymmetric and symmetric encryption schemes. Asymmetric schemes are typically used to make a shared private key which is then used in ensuing symmetrically encoded communications. Those asymmetric schemes are broadly vulnerable to quantum based attacks, hence the need to upgrade to 'post quantum encryption schemes' (PQS). PQS approaches have been developed and are slowly being rolled out, even though it's unclear when the threat of quantum-enabled cracking will be real.
- Yes, I cover this extensively. This actually relates to your last question as well, since error depends in part on what kind of qubit platform you're working with. A superconducting qubit naturally 'decoheres' (loses its unique state) over time, with some sort of semipredictable rate of decoherence, whereas photonic qubits sometimes just get lost! All platforms have some sort of built in error due to the fact that you are applying essentially analog gates to them, and these gates have some imprecision that may build up over millions of operations. I'd characterize the challenges as A) reducing error, and B) correcting the errors that inevitably occur.
- This was one of my sticking points too. The short answer is that there are a few different modalities all competing to be 'the one', and no one really knows what's going to win out. They all have their own (dis)advantages.
No, quantum physics is not a sham. Lasers are an application of quantum physics, for example. Usage of quantum physics principles in non scientific (thoughts are entangled!) or arbitrary macroscopic contexts (since electrons can cross a barrier, a human can pass through a wall) is an entirely different thing.
I think I watched some educational TV program like 15 years ago that did a poor job explaining quantum physics, or overhyped it and set off my BS detectors. Idk. A weird mix of poor memory and miscommunication and outdated information I think. EDIT oh and Schrodinger's cat! Doesn't make sense to me.
The latter points were things I gathered from skimming recent headlines and articles. I should read more thoroughly.
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Personally, the unnerving fact is not that ambient carbon dioxide is harmful in current concentrations (it almost certainly isn’t), but more that the average baseline concentration outdoors (which we have to live with and cannot really escape much) is rising seemingly drastically. It’s probably not going to be an issue in our lifetimes, but because it’s a global rise we can hardly even have a control group to test for any subtle health effects from a 100 ppm increase. Also, most advice and regulations about indoor concentrations rely on the fact that we don’t exclusively live indoors, we do get regularly exposed to baseline level outdoors, and rarely account for the fact that that level is rising.
- a large font size by default, and maybe a font size slider on the homepage. Test everything at 200-300% scale as WCAG recommends
- don't change the UI! Or change as little as possible, at least for existing users. Which kinda upturns the whole always-updating nature of web SaaS but I think it can be done
- hire a good designer who can streamline your UX and screens and keep only the bare minimum features
- maybe offer human support? Like a phone number? Probably unreasonable for you tho
Wish I had ideas for simpler login and auth.
Have you found any successful design strategies in your 10 years? Any insights from user testing?
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