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		fouc on June 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock I feel like the constant upgrade cycle of OSes with API breaking changes around the OS's GUI layer has a tendency to kill off most of these playful apps. TL;DR: playfulness is killed by the arms race of constantly upgrading to the latest version of everything.

Bluestein on June 26, 2024 [–]

You very well could be right. On a "systemic" sense, in order to devote effort to these whimsical things, you needed stability "everywhere else" ...

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