What do you do when managing context takes longer than doing everything by hand? For example, for an existing project where reading a Jira ticket may not suffice and you need to examine unbounded amount of something else, which is usually kept in developer head? Do you begin to treat that as new kind of code/documentation debt that only matters with these new tools who are always amnesiac? How much do MDs really scale?

Consistency is the absolute fucking worst design principle.

I’d tweak it to say that a foolish consistency is the absolute worst design principle. All things being equal, consistency is a good thing, but it sometimes gets prioritized to the point of absurdity and becomes counterproductive.

There are two different things that can be called consistency.

Visual consistency means that your app looks as similar as possible across platforms. Regardless of those platforms' native UI. It's the bad kind.

UX consistency means that your app behaves the same across platforms, but adopts their style and conventions. You actually want this.

I think the core issue here is that consistency bounds are arbitrary and some people tend to push to much on these. Finding the middle is hard and is political. Arguing with UX or QA whether previously unrelated features on different screens should behave the same is exhausting. That's why I prefer small projects where I am the only customer or all users are extremely aligned (internal developer tooling).

It definitely isn’t. It’s good in many contexts, but zealous adherence to some pithy design principle without consideration is bad engineering and bad design.

yeah, but somehow consistency was not a concern when picking icons for menu items. as pointed out by some previous discussions on this matter.

i also hate this "consistency" idea. was working on mobile app for android/ios. and a requirement was for apps to look identical on both platforms. whyyyyy. sure for designer it looks nice, but as a user who uses either ios OR android im used to conventions of particular platform. why throw that all away just to look identical an both platforms.

Been using experimental tsgo in VSCode for several weeks and it's night and day, can't wait enough for TS7 to ship everywhere. Awesome job, guys!

Any idea how close TS7 is?

This is an article in Wiktionary about the word "how".

>having to choose whether to walk through the easy, normal, or hard doors in game to set the difficulty level was a nice touch i'd never seen before.

Have you played Quake 1 campaign before? That literally what you do at the start - walk through one of three doors.

No, never really played video games much. I suspected it was only new to me, but it made a strong impression, it is such a clever idea.

And then there's the "nightmare" difficulty, but you have to find that hidden door!

The author released the design as public domain, very commendable.

Phones are just an easy target. Dumb phones still have address books, these are social networks too that can be exploited. In fact, that's how Chechnya prosecutes and kills unwanted people, like gays or regime opponents - by unraveling phone contacts.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688