Links #143

Chris Heath’s interview with Robert Caro back in March. Loved this. Good to know that when Caro passes, the 950+ pages he has completed so far of volume five of The Years of Lyndon Johnson will still be published. (A decent argument in favor of polishing as you go.) On a related note, my wife and I recently watched Turn Every Page, Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary about her father Robert Gottlieb (whose memoir Avid Reader I very much enjoyed) and Caro and their work on The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and we loved it. So delightful.

Marcin Wichary’s history of macOS settings panels. With working in-browser demos for most! Wichary’s work continues to amaze me.

Inkscape is getting a UI refresh. Very much looking forward to this.

Blender is coming to tablets like the iPad. Ooh.

Alex Russell on React not providing good user experiences. Yep.

Ted Gioia on how Lalo Schifrin composed the Mission Impossible theme song. Fun.

Benj Edwards on an MIT student using machine learning to print polymer masks for restoring paintings. Nice to read about “AI” that isn’t LLMs. I love that the masks are nondestructive, too.