I seem to recall back in the 90s or 2000s some research with CLIs vs GUIs with older adults that showed, counterintuitively, that they could handle the CLI much easier because it wasn't full of distracting things (lots of icons, etc). They could focus on a single task. >
This is all in my blog post so I'll stop and focus on finishing it.
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Probably OT for your upcoming post, but the present discussion did remind me of a favourite trope: https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-developers-create-ui/ … or https://jcooney.net/archive/2006/10/30/36235.html … via/by
@codinghorror &@josephcooney As a full-stack dev, I have to constantly prevent myself from recreating "the Dialog", ugh. -
Luckily for me, my day job requires zero GUI programming so I'm at no risk of "the dialog" but I am often, however, guilty of its command-line cousin which is 39 conflicting "friendly" undocumented command line arguments on a single tool.
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Full disclosure: I have made GUIs that are pretty bad. Many sins in GTK++ in C during my PhD.

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BTW I posted the blog post. Had to ignore Twitter to get it done.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1067079340507217920 …
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