Imagining the UI I'd want for a somewhat-modernized dumbphone...

I'd want something single-handed & power-efficient which promises a minimalist on-the-go featureset, without sacrificing ease of texting! That's my goal.

You'd operate it using a joystick (doubles as a D-Pad) & 2 additional buttons (typically for "Back" & "New"). The joystick would serve as a keyboard, when you move it in loops according to onscreen labels.

The UI would be menus of your texts, contacts, files, etc.

1/?

I wonder: Would there be a market for the machines I enjoy designing?

Here's the ones I've designed:

a) A machine redesigned from the silicon on up specifically for securely communicating over the (somewhat as-is) internet. Should be serviceable for media creation, though video would be a slight stretch.

Includes a user-accessible database-filesystem.

b) A RISC-V machine running off an SD card or 2, or booting into a bespoke Lua interpreter.

Has a straightforward I/O memory map.

1/2!

GRUB includes multiple blitting routines, & a wrapper branching upon the blending operation & both image formats to invoke the appropriate implementation. These serve to copy or blend pixels from a bitmap over to a rectangle within a target framebuffer.

In each of the numerous cases this involves some offset calculations, an outer loop over the Y axis, an inner loop over the X axis, & actually copying the data over. Possibly with format conversion and/or colour blending.

1/1 Fin for today!

Telegram is gone! - Lazybear:
https://lazybea.rs/telegram-is-gone/

CSS or BS - Keith Cirkel:
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs/

via https://roytang.net/links/2026/#8d524b46818a9925c5fa5288a17356ac

What's the best numbers I can cite for how insane the level of investment is?

How much money has been sunk into LLMs? How much training data have they harvested? How much of the available hardware have they bought up?

SVG clickjacking - lyra:
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/

Uses for nested promises - James Coglan "The If Works":
https://blog.jcoglan.com//2026/03/23/uses-for-nested-promises/