Dave Gauer

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Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs

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This is a technique I’ve used in actual for-pay software, but most recently in my text adventure game editor, Hiss .

My Notebook System

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This year is going to see my journal/log’s 10th anniversary and 100th notebook. (Update: 10 years reached 2022-03-31, 100th notebook 2022-07-28.) After many attempts to write this up, I’m just going to disgorge it all. This article is long and rambling and I make no apology for it. Feel free to skip around to any part…