Location: Armenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: VueJS 3, Tailwind, PHP/Laravel/MySQL. Mostly frontend developer with strong attention to UI/UX area (that's important to me)

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-ponamariov/, https://vpon.bio/, https://vpon.me/

Email: victor.ponamariov@gmail.com

Thanks for your comment. Yeah, I posted it mainly because I liked the artistic side of it - the landing itself is quite complicated (a lot of interactions), but I really enjoyed the creativity.

I'm also diagnosed with ADHD. Unfortunately, there are no ADHD meds available in my country at all. :(

I'm not exactly sure what ADHD feels like for me, but there’s one thing I’ve noticed. I used to take methylphenidate, but the effect was pretty small. In order to get it, I had to fly to another country, which was expensive. So I eventually gave up on that idea.

Now it’s been a year without stimulants, and I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or not, but for the first time in my life I’ve ended up in debt, with almost zero productivity, no finished projects, and so on.

It doesn’t matter whether I sleep well or not — over the past 12 months I’ve had different conditions (good sleep, bad sleep, good diet, bad diet, etc.), but overall, my focus has stayed close to zero.

By the way, I’ve never tried nicotine patches. I’m pretty sure I won’t find them here, but at least I can probably order them.

Where I live now there are pretty much no ADHD meds either, but I wouldn’t have moved here (for a better quality of life in general) if I didn’t have nicotine patches to keep me going. I order them on eBay because they are 4x as expensive in pharmacies here compared to other european countries. Start with a low dose (you can cut them). 7.5mg worked well for over a year, now I’m increasing it to 12mg. If never abused, neither amfetamine nor nicotine patches have great addiction potential ( I used to smoke a pack a day for 10+ years). It’s good to take a day off once in a while.

What I also require to function is a low carb diet, and pretty much no added sugars. Carbs destroy my mood, sugar is powdered ADHD, whereas protein and fats keep my brain silent. Lately I’ve been experimenting with tyrosine (a supplement of natural aminoacid found in many foods such as cheese) which gives me a bit the laser like focus of AMPH, and a minor crash in the evening. I use it sparingly but it’s good to have and very cheap.

Hope some of this helps. Email in the profile if you have more questions.

Wasn't sure which term to use, it's like "UX in real life".

It's still user experience if the object isn't a website.

That's funny that I found the link to my newsletter in this article that says:

"Even though this is a newsletter about user interface design, Viktor starts off by talking about the weather in Armenia and his vacation."

Want to run a successful (I exaggerate) newsletter about UI/UX? Start off by talking about the weather in Armenia :)

Well, it's a shameless promotion but I'm working on my UI/UX course. I make it with NuxtJS, so it's a custom platform.

The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with real-world practice.

https://doing-design-right.com/

I'm always afraid to lose something valuable that I might be willing to read years after.

But it never happens

3Gb?! Woah How many is that O_O

Probably includes metadata like favicon encoded in base64

- Looking at modals on mobile is the nail in the coffin. Due to the screen size it must take up the entire screen. What is the difference between that and "navigating to a new page" in the mobile UI metaphor?

That's a nice quote from the article

but if your aiming for the universal UI thats exactly what you have todo...the modal filling up the entire screen is a consequence of screen size, not of UI semantics

I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1?

It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots.

But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so).

Will it help - that's the question

I paradoxically only really started heavily using Twitter when it seemed to decay under Musk (because I wanted be along for the fun ride). But I can hardly imagine that there could have been more bots before than there are now. Almost all my tweets are immediately liked by some catfishing bot and there are crypto spam bots under every slightly popular tweet.

Same here. And good engagement dropped down significantly. When I had 10K followers, I can easily get 200-400-500 likes and they were more or less real because I also get a lot of impressions and replies.

Nowadays with 35K followers I get, say, 20 likes and ~3 of them are bots.

As someone who reported tons of stupidly obvious spam/crypto bots pre takeover I'm genuinely puzzled as to people reporting _increased_ bots as I can spot maybe one every now and then. Maybe it's because I'm a passive user, but to me it's solved.

Interesting. It could be that I never noticed before because I wasn't as active (and have gained a couple followers in the meantime, thus becoming a slightly more attractive target). In any case it's now bad enough to make me reconsider using the platform at all (that and the promoted replies and tweets by blue checkmarks). Related to your remark about reports: my last few spam reports got the reply that the tweets didn't violate the "sensitive content policy", even though I reported them as spam, not sensitive content. So something seems to be broken about the report system now too.

Your profile must have a target painted on it because that is not my experience at all.

There are definitely more bots in the replies to the people I follow (a dwindling number as they are all switching focus to bluesky, threads and their own email).

And many have the $8 checks so ... $1 a year is going to very little to the bot population.

Do you have a source on that?