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Unsung
Personal blog · unsung.aresluna.orgprogrammingdesignwriting
Unsung is a personal blog at unsung.aresluna.org about programming, design and writing. Since 2026, 52 different Hacker News readers have linked it 118 times, most often “Molly Guard in Reverse”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
A blog about software craft and quality
Most-linked posts?
- Molly Guard in Reverse4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-13
- Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 24 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- Flickr's URLs Scheme3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20
- A peculiar way to install apps2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-04
- The left hand should know what the right hand is doing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
- More Molly Guards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-06
- "Should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand."2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
- "Our programs are fun to use."2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-27
- "4B unique (and sometimes memorable) sentences"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
- Noise as Information and Information as Noise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-27
What Hacker News says?
And a weird tangent on deterministic, idempotent elevator buttons [1]: > I always get a bit nervous when someone tells me that in their country, you can press the elevator button again to unset it . The way I’ve seen this solved in a lot of countries across SEA is that you unset the elevator button by double-pressing it. It’s not intuitive, and I’ve only discovered it by accident, but it’s deterministic and idempote…
Comment linking /deterministic-vs-idempotent/
on “Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs”Submitted “I just chose words carefully” as a story · 1255 points
HN discussionAnd there was already precedent: https://deskauthority.saberkeebs.com/wiki.themk.org/index.ph... https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=59173 Early Mac design was excellent overall, but decided not to include these keys (maybe they were leaning towards Smalltalk-like context menus?), and then seemed to go into more cryptic and power-user in-the-know keyboard direction (like with the 3-icon key including specia…
Comment linking /_media/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-2-the-mac-side/6.1600w.avif
on “Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side”Submitted On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted as a story · 384 points
HN discussionShout out to the Mini Cooper's UK flag lights: https://unsung.aresluna.org/should-be-no-trouble-at-all-for-... which look like an arrow pointing the opposite direction to the one the driver is indicating for.
Comment linking /should-be-no-trouble-at-all-for-a-driver-to-understand/
on “Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles”Submitted Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs as a story · 349 points
HN discussionMy initial take from reading the headline was: no shit this is what mdma is for… Tangentially, The etymology nerd in me has been taunted by the current article thats been on the front page for the as of now last 19 hours[1] which conveniently has the origin of the term linked to in the first sentence! [2]… which @suprisetalk also links to in the article description!… So now I’m wondering why mdma has got the street…
Comment linking /molly-guard-in-reverse/
on “No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD”Submitted Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards as a story · 305 points
HN discussionThat Squirrel screenshot is fascinating: what happened to the traffic light controls? https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/as-a-windows-user-its-a-v...
Comment linking /_media/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/32.2096w.avif
on “As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program”Submitted Good type against all odds as a story · 215 points
HN discussionPhotoshop's interface is getting worse [1] and everyone hates Adobe, so there's a great opportunity for a tool like GIMP to step up and become the default alternative. It's got a lot of features, it's been around for a long time and has reasonable name recognition (for better or worse). However, unless they do a Blender and make a sustained effort to improve the UI, understand what people want and how it fits into p…
Comment linking /photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/
on “Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users”Submitted Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side as a story · 163 points
HN discussionThat page is copied verbatim from https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/ (which is linked at the top). The original page also has much better formatting.
Comment linking /molly-guard-in-reverse/
on “Molly Guard”Submitted Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side as a story · 111 points
HN discussionDid you try https://unsung.aresluna.org/ (which is linked from the logo in the header)?
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on “Lock Scroll with a Vengeance”Submitted “We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy” as a story · 67 points
HN discussion- bro you really need to ramp the ux of your blog - i just wanted to take a quick glance at all the posts to see if anything catches my eye - https://unsung.aresluna.org/all - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archive - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archives - https://unsung.aresluna.org/posts - https://unsung.aresluna.org/blog - none of the above links work, a lot of dudes sharing blogs on HN absolutely do not check if the…
Comment linking /blog
on “Lock Scroll with a Vengeance”Submitted "In every study that considered the question" as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Traditional, but Puzzling" as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pac-Man's Siren Call as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted "I've lost sentences of text to this incompetent implementation." as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playdate's update interface takes charge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Repeat in Excel 97 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xcode's Clever Minimap as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Because most users do not use dates before March 1, 1900, this problem is rare as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Solving a largely imaginary user goal" as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's iPod Recreation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CleanShot's Bulldozed Settings as a story · 3 points
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