The next episode of “things I will not make but I hope you will” will be about terminal emulators.
Specifically, calling out the conflation between GUI/CLI, mouse/keyboard, and novice/expert.
For all their flaws, the success of search engines and LLM UIs have demonstrated that normal humans *do* want keyboard-controlled, prompt-based interaction, and will use it even if there are obvious downsides.
Maybe we can untangle prompt-based interaction from terminal emulators and shells.
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samir, hibernating
In response to this postWelp, I wrote the first draft and it’s… more pie-in-the-sky, handwavy, arsehole-in-the-ivory-tower than I anticipated.
I will probably still publish it and hope people can look past that and take some useful things from it.
I’ll be home tomorrow. Editing on Sunday, publishing on Monday. I think.
@samir lol, that's how I felt about my article about Doug Englebert, the mouse thing and Apple - publish it anyway :)
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