A weakness I've noticed in many nocode apps is you're often stuck with their idea of a good coding layout. UI is fixed, so you can't create views uniquely useful to you, like adapting to outlier screen real-estate/aspect ratios.
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Replying to @yoshikischmitz
my guess is this is inherited from the underlying grain of the Web. it's hard enough to make a good fixed layout in a Web app, let alone a layout with moveable parts: there is no 'moveable part' primitive you can build things out of
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Yeah been thinking about that in relation to this: https://twitter.com/yoshikischmitz/status/1223860172805660672?s=21 … Also wondering how we can “hack this in” to existing web apps.
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I like the idea that you could 'carve' chunks out of a live Web app and move them around your desktop etc and they all stay wired up to the app in the back
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Yes!!! Also thinking how we can paramaterize what the “chunks” point to.
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This is still really rough but one thing I've been exploring is what it'd be like if this kind of "carving"(I've been calling it "pinning") was available at the OS-level, and apps were built with it in mind?pic.twitter.com/5tLFPTmIlh
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Do you remember OS X dashboard's safari widget? That was magical looking back https://alvinalexander.com/mac-os-x/custom-mac-dashboard-widgets-web-pages-safari-clips/ …
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