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big screens and small screens.txt — Notepad✕

Big screens and small screens
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What makes something a big-screen task is cultural as much as it's about incentives. We buy stocks and book flights on a laptop because we learned to treat them that way, not because a phone handles them any worse. That pull runs hardest on general-purpose modalities, humanoids or the RGB camera steering a car, where no single obvious job anchors how people use the thing. So for early adopters, the narrative around a modality outweighs whatever it saves them.

Which leaves a real question: does a new modality change consumer behavior, or does it just clear the way for behavior that was already waiting?

Hailing a cab on the street, phoning for one, opening Uber: same problem, three modalities. Each one resets what feels easy and what feels normal. The behavior shifts because a new interface makes a different version of the task legible.

Foldables are next, folding down the wall between big-screen and small-screen work. My guess is they'll read well and stream badly. The more interesting bet is that they push traditionally big-screen tasks onto the go, and make filesystem literacy rarer than it already is.

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Education in tech.txt — Notepad✕

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a note on this notepad.txt — Notepad✕

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colophon.txt — Notepad✕

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this site is a resto-mod. the look is Windows XP "Luna" — blue title
bars, raised 3D bevels, Tahoma and Trebuchet and Courier — but the
guts are 2026: it's served from the edge, the colors are authored in
OKLCH and read period-correct, and there isn't a single font file
shipped over the wire (everything's a system font you already have).

a few of the moving parts:

· the homepage is one HTML file. inline CSS, inline JS, no build
    step, no framework. you're meant to be able to read the whole
    thing — just View Source.

· photos are shot on a Fujifilm X-T50 and a Leica, then run through
    a little pipeline: resized, EXIF-rotated, and encoded twice —
    AVIF first, with a jpegli JPEG as the fallback. jpegli (Google's
    encoder, built from source) lands ~25% smaller than the system
    one at the same quality. see /garage/encoding for the byte counts.

· the visitor counter is a Durable Object now, not a spreadsheet
    cell. the "now playing" list is scraped from a Spotify playlist by
    a little crawler that signs its own requests.

· this page is a Notepad window. you can edit it. it won't save.
    see the note in flux for why.

the whole thing is a slow project — a place to learn how the modern
web actually works by dressing it up like the web i grew up on.

built in public. always under construction, on purpose.

— aadharsh

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