Dude, I know. I've been implementing user interface toolkits since the early 80's, but I've still never heard of a "Tolkit", which you mentioned twice, so I asked you what it was -- are you making a silly pun like "Tollkit" for "Toolkit" or "Lamework" for "Framework" or "Bloatif" for "Motif" and I'm missing it? No hits on urban dictionary, even. And also you still haven't explained whether I'm a revisionist or not.

Just like you, I love to write articles about user interface stuff all the time, too. Just in the past week:

My enthusiastic but balanced response to somebody who EMPHATICALLY DEMANDED PIE MENUS ONLY for GIMP, and who loves pie fly, but pushed my button by defending the name GIMP by insisting that instead of the GIMP project simply and finally conceding its name is offensive, that our entire society adapt by globally re-signifying a widely known offensive hurtful word (so I suggested he first go try re-signifying the n-word first, and see how that went):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233793

(While I would give more weight to the claim that the name GIMP is actually all about re-signifying an offensive term if it came from a qualified and empathic and wheelchair using interface designer like Haraldur Ingi Þorleifsson, I doubt that’s actually the real reason, just like it’s not white people’s job to re-signify the n-word by saying it all the time...)

Meet the man who is making Iceland wheelchair accessible one ramp at a time:

https://scoop.upworthy.com/meet-the-man-who-is-making-icelan...

Elon Musk apologises after mocking laid-off Twitter worker, questioning his disability:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-08/elon-musk-haraldur-th...

The article about redesigning GIMP we were discussing credited Blender with being the first to show what mouse buttons do what at the bottom of the screen, which actually the Lisp Machine deserves credit for, as far as I know:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237231

I made a joke about how telling GIMP developers to make it more like Photoshop was like telling RMS to develop Open Software for Linux, instead of Free Software for GNU/Linux, and somebody took the bait so I flamed about the GIMP developer’s lack of listening skills:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238274

Somebody used the phrase "Easy as pie” in a discussion about user interface design so I had to chime in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239113

Discussion about HTML Web Components, in which I confess my secret affair with XML, XSLT, obsolete proprietary Microsoft technologies, and Punkemon pie menus:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253752

Deep interesting discussion about Blender 4.0 release notes, focusing on its historic development and its developer’s humility and openness to its users’ suggestions, in which I commented on its excellent Python integration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38263171

Comment on how Blender earned its loads of money and support by being responsive to its users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38232404

Dark puns about user interface toolkits and a cheap shot at Motif, with an analogy between GIMP and Blender:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38263088

A content warning to a parent who wanted to know which videos their 8-year-old should watch on YouTube to learn Blender:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288629

Posing with a cement garden gnome flipping the bird with Chris Toshok and Miguel de Icaza and his mom at GDC2010:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=299606531754&set=a.5173...

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=299606491754&set=a.5173...

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=299606436754&set=a.5173...