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The yes desk

Yes.
And here is why.

This domain has always said yes to things. Now it says yes to software — and shows its working.

What this desk is for

Most software you open because you have to. Some of it you open because you want to. This desk only covers the second kind — the pages you go back to on a Sunday because they are a pleasure, not because a ticket said so.

The format is short on purpose. One property, one letter grade, one line of ruling, three or four frames showing the thing actually happening, and a table at the bottom of every number we counted with the minute we counted it. If a number came off a page rather than out of a file, we say which. If a page claims something we could not verify, we do not print the claim.

And every review names at least one thing wrong with the property. A rave with no flaw in it is an advertisement, and we are in no position to write advertisements: the people who publish this desk build the software it reviews. That is the whole reason the flaws are in bold.

Graded so far

Grade AVIZZI

VIZZI. Yes, and —

Forty-nine ways to draw a sound, twelve of them at once, and exactly one FFT feeding all of them. Heavy on arrival: 689 KB before a tile has anything to show.

Grade A minusORBIT

ORBIT. Yes, and —

Ten thousand satellites, every position computed in your browser, offline. The elements behind them were 26.3 days old when we looked.

Grade B plusJoke Vault

Joke Vault. Yes, and —

1,142 jokes written by a person and 7,468 built on the spot, and it labels every one. The tab says 8,610; the shelf serves 8,569.

How a grade is decided

Open it the way a person would. Use it for longer than is comfortable. Count everything that can be counted, against the live page, and write down the minute. Then write one line — because if a verdict needs a paragraph, it is not a verdict yet.

An A means it gets better the more you know about it. A B means it is a genuine pleasure with something in it that has not been finished. Nothing here is scored out of ten, weighted, or averaged. It is a letter and a sentence, and you can disagree with both.

The portal is still here

Before it was a desk, yea.llc was a portal — a thousand reasons, eight categories, a manifesto, a generator and a thirty-day challenge. It has not been thrown away. It lives at yea.llc/portal/, exactly as it read, on its own address.

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