miniblog.

You can often estimate the age of a website based on how well it displays on mobile. All my sites end up with media queries in the CSS for narrow screens. It's so hard to design a single UI that scales from phone to desktop otherwise.

USB-A connectors seem absolutely massive when the majority of my connectors are USB-C. With hindsight, maybe the original USB standard could have been smaller. USB 1 came out in 1996, way before the modern smartphone, so I assume it was more focused on desktop devices.

I often use Quip for writing documents and I've started using Google Slides for presentations. They have fewer features than competing tools, but I like them. They have what I need, without being overwhelming. Maybe it takes a paradigm shift (e.g. desktop->web) to drop features.