New And Improved!

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight.  I’ve used Fitday.com in the past with a lot of success.

Unfortunately, they’ve redone their website it is almost totally unusable.  It’s always been an annoyance that the site doesn’t remember me if I close the tab and come back 1 minute later.  Cookies and session management are important.  But, now I have to go to the site, log in, click away from the beta site to use the old, and then the page times out.

Oh.  It looks like this is mostly a Firefox problem?  It’s working okay in IE.  I like some of their new UI changes, but much of it isn’t very good.  I know it is a free site, but if it is not usable, then it doesn’t matter how many Google ads you have.  The Google ads should be moved so they are less obtrusive.  The AJAX’y bits are nifty, but not everything requires or should be this interactive.

Well, now that I can open it in IE1 I guess I’ll give it a fair shake and let you know how it goes.  :)

  1. Which I hate doing… []

RepG – the best one of them all

Adam, if you read this – the latest RepG is AMAZING.  Getting to preview an STL, convert to GCode, and then to an S3G file all from the comfort of the friendly RepG UI is fantastic!

It’s not that I’m scared of the Skeinforge UI or anything.

It’s just that it stalks me while I sleep, steals my happy innocent dreams, and replaces them with a theater of shadow puppet parade of horrors.

Skeinforge UI suggestions

I rather enjoy building the easy-to-use user interfaces for another website of mine.  I’m always tweaking it and trying to make it better.  Small change, test, ask for input, LRR.1

My last post gave me a great idea.  A large physical console with actual knobs, switches, and dials that all operate Skeinforge.  If I had one of these, I would want it to look like the center console of a TARDIS.  Some of the best Doctor Who moments are when he’s zipping around the console, tapping, flipping, twisting, turning and generally being wacky.

Imagine being able to do that sort of thing and then have a plastic object (of a seemingly correspondingly random quality) pop out of the center?

  1. Lather, rinse, repeat. []