alt Hacker News> almost all of it is heuristic/technique (memorizing what/where things are) not unlike learning kitchen utensils and the locations of the drawers they’re in.
Then, in the next release, they move.
Yesterday's Blender experience: for some reason, mouse pans stopped working. Zoom and orbit still worked, but pan didn't. No idea why. Had to quit and restart.
Blender - or any super successful FOSS - feels to me like stumbling upon amazing vehicles and technology left behind in the fields in a post-war environment.
Who knows who made this thing, or where it was made. I discovered it, let’s see how it works.
You start twisting knobs and the damn thing turns on! You fly it around a bit, you get a ton of use out of it, maybe you reverse engineer it, fork it, make your own version.
Eventually a corporate knock-off hits the market and you buy one. They solved all the little problems and painted it with clear coat.
But there’s something missing, and I come crawling back to the field - where I keep finding all these interesting machines