Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: A Strange Delight
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/a-strange-delight
- Read date:: 2025-11-01
Highlights
The only emotion that software typically evokes is slow-simmering frustration; the best software often—aspirationally!—evokes nothing at all. (View Highlight)
We are not moved by detachment. Tools like Claude Code puts you as close to the technology as it can. (View Highlight)
The internet does not need more whiz-bang whirligigs or beautifully efficient minimalism. We can also go the other way, and build stuff that reminds us that computers are physical things too. Because real delight—and productivity, if we must—comes from feeling the machine that we live our lives on, rather than forgetting to see that it exists. (View Highlight)