Pinch to zoom on Paul Graham's essays
Pinch gesture controls text density, turning static essays into interactive summaries.

So I made a quick interactive prototype — it feels surprisingly natural.
Sharing it as a UX idea, not as a finished implementation. I’d like to see whether this interaction makes sense for apps that work with trees: file explorers, object inspectors, project browsers, and similar interfaces.
Pinch gesture controls text density, turning static essays into interactive summaries.
Discrete hierarchical zoom beats infinite canvas for structured navigation flows.
Click-to-expand DB schema instead of joins, but DBeaver, DataGrip, and SQuirrel do this already.
Interactive decision tree viz for notebooks when dtreeviz already exists.
Vim-style tree-sitter TUI with live query highlighting for grammar debugging.
Tree-style tabs for agent sessions solve the flat-terminal scaling problem nicely.