Taggart Tech

If you've seen any of my videos, you know that I have a somewhat...nontraditional shell setup. I thought I might take a moment to explain why I set it up the way I did, and how.

When I was about nine, I saw the way-underrated movie "Explorers," starring a very young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix (!) for the first time. The movie involves creating a spaceship out of a very hacked-together Apple computer and a Tilt-A-Whirl.

A year on from writing "Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", much of what I had feared has come to pass. In fact, in many cases things are worse than I expected.

There's nothing a user interface designer loathes more than complexity. Every design—at least, every modern design—seeks to minimize clicks, icons, visual noise. What if instead of a button, we had a borderless icon? What if instead of navigation controls, we used gestures?

And what if—hear me out—instead of search results, we had language model-distilled text delivered to you, hot and fresh?