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Made by Many
Company blog · madebymany.com/blogdesignweb
Made by Many is the company blog at madebymany.com, writing about design and web. Since 2010, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Apple's aesthetic dichotomy (2011)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this agency blog for its skeuomorphism essays, a post on EC2 SSH tooling, and an office project story about 'Is the toilet free?'. Most links are neutral citations, with one dismissive comment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Made by Many is an independent, award-winning, strategic digital design & technology studio.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple's aesthetic dichotomy (2011)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-10-24
- Moltar: A tool for listing and interacting with EC2 instances2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-20
- What if AI is a failed dream?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-14
What Hacker News says?
It correctly identified my refrigerator and bookshelf. Color me impressed. Things like this make articles like this one seem silly: https://www.madebymany.com/stories/what-if-ai-is-a-failed-dr...
Comment linking /stories/what-if-ai-is-a-failed-dream
on “Seeing AI for iOS”Submitted Is the Toilet Free? as a story · 229 points
HN discussionain't feedback a relic of all 'press-double-hard-to-be-sure' buttons? With handwriting recognition it shouldn't be that hard. also, http://madebymany.com/blog/wizards-and-haptic-gestures
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on “Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices”Submitted Apple Watch – What can you do with it? as a story · 131 points
HN discussion"Apple set the bar for realistic textured apps. Developers followed." IMHO, this was to be avoided. I think this move on Apple's part to move towards such literal skeuomorphism was a major step back. After decades of learning that literal analogies on computing devices simply doesn't work all that well, Apple decided to forget about all of that lesson learned stuff and just throw it all away. Even Gruber can't manag…
Comment linking /blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy
on “Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android”Submitted Replacing Ruby on Rails: Let's Go as a story · 125 points
HN discussionRelated: http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy . This writer brings up an excellent question: for whatever reason Apple seems to think having skeuomorphic interfaces is a good idea.... so why isn't this reflected in the hardware itself? Why is the macbook/ipad not designed to look like a notepad or briefcase?
Comment linking /blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy
on “Skeuomorphism: The Opiate of the People”Submitted What if AI is a failed dream? as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThis is a better article about skeuomorphism for those interested: http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-p... PS - Skeuomorphism definition: "Strictly speaking it means retaining design features from earlier designs when those features previously had a specific reason for being that way, but do not any longer." - http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy
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on “The condescending UI”Submitted Doing things the wrong way to get the right result as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThis is my take on this: uses a tagging convention on your EC2 instances. Can also run commands in parallel over a set of instances. https://github.com/madebymany/moltar http://madebymany.com/blog/a-little-tooling-goes-a-long-way
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on “Show HN: Ssh2, simplifying EC2 ssh'ing”Submitted Apple's aesthetic dichotomy (2011) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionA friend of mine works for MadeByMany and they sound pretty awesome - http://madebymany.com/
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on “Who are the finest UK design and dev companies...”Submitted Bzzzt: Opening the door with Websockets and Raspberry Pi as a story · 45 points
HN discussionHave you heard about "Is the toilet free?" ? https://madebymany.com/stories/is-the-toilet-free
Comment linking /stories/is-the-toilet-free
on “Ask HN: Anyone got any project ideas for fun office tools?”Submitted Apple's aesthetic dichotomy as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Native Styling Patterns as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making sense of caching in Rails as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Ruby on Rails Part 2 – Amazing Tooling as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted I love Systemd: Running an IoT Product Service with Python on Raspberry Pi as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can a few well chosen words improve inclusivity? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Good Choices as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write scalable CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Ruby on Rails – Go and Deploy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I talk about when I talk about prototyping as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with Swift and WatchKit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the Meeting Room Free? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Time Travelling Designer and other stories of Agile Design | Made by Many as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guide to Continuous Integration for iOS Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Picle App, from 15 to 30,000 users in a week as a story · 2 points
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