mabedan

Recently I found out that the Translucent Blues album by Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers isn't on any legal streaming platform. Only one full-album upload on YouTube. Made me sad.

I can understand where they come from. If most of the pull-requests were AI-coded, well, the maintainers are equally capable of prompting Claude Code themselves.

I think the whole game of software engineering, open source or not, has completely changed. A lump of code doesn't mean or imply the same thing as it did 2 years ago.

Some design stuff are quite bad like the Liquid Glass, but the rest is fine I think. The M series wouldn't have gone as well as it did if software side wasn't up for the task

If Johny Ive stayed, he could have become CEO... Now he has to design Ferrari dashboards and AI Pins

He could have not wanted the job to begin with. CEO is no joke, and for him would mean to say goodbye to software forever.

lack of common sense

Walking in noisy environments is most of the usage people get out of noise cancelling headphones. The other use case is noisy workspaces or coffee places.

The app reminds me of the boom of (IMO) cool Mac apps around 2010. It's a great idea as well, I wish I had thought of it. The price is out of reach for me though...

Is there a tool which eliminates the animation, also when switching between apps with cmd+tab? I almost never use ctrl+→, I just know what application I want to switch to.

All these apps that I tried only fix the ctrl+→, but not application switching

To me it's a little like the situation with charging the Mighty Mouse. It's become a meme to post a picture of it on its side being charged, but if you own one it doesn't really matter, as you charge it once a month for 15 minutes while you're at lunch.

There are things which definitely do bother me like the Liquid Glass, but the window corners really don't bother me. And I'm into design and constantly inspect parts of ui with Digital Color Meter app.

I don't understand how these type of projects are still tried and get any traction... anyone who has tried them will 100% know it won't go beyond a happy path demo. If they want to seriously use/publish the app beyond playing around, it'll require weeks of iteration via AI, which will cost you an arm and a leg in tokens.

100% agree. My default is also DuckDuckGo, but I know for a fact that if the search is anything other than finding the homepage of a company, I'm gonna struggle with duck. I still use it because I want to not use Google, but Google is 10000000% a superior product.

Google Docs is a document editor (opening/saving Microsoft office compatible documents, with layout, etc), not a wiki/markdown editor. The La Suite Docs seems a product more similar to Atlassian Confluence.

it's truly a bismal experience compared to what else is out there (my experience is with rust, python and ts inside vsc).

Often autocomplete is hopeless and doesn't help you with the most simple things like picking from multiple initializers, or changing to a different signature of a function call.

the project setup is this mystery Xcode project file, instead of a standardized yml or something that anyone can modify and understand.

I have to say provisioning has improved a lot. I remember back in 2008, it was really a pain to get anything working.

This is not necessarily about Xcode, but maybe it should be: screen shots for your app. they need screenshots for 454 device types, and zero automation in their own tooling.

the layout is also very inflexible. they dictate a couple of panels and that's how you _must_ use them. that's unlike any other modern IDE.

Brother, maybe make a new username...

To believe that is … quite something

Right. GPT is a glorified keyboard prediction, and people should treat it as such. I don’t get it when people get mad at the output.

Or, stop starting wars

Quite sure it's done in order to speed up the camera app performance and reduce the time to first photo time. The camera module requires some tenths of a second to boot up and it makes sense to start that process at the earliest indication of user's interaction. In this case, a touch-down is a good indication, even if user ends up swiping instead of touch-up. The same thing happens in the lock screen, if you hold your finger on the lock screen and move 1 pixel to the left, the camera module starts up even if you don't finish your swipe to camera gesture.

which isn't unsurprising

There has to be an easier combination of words for conveying the same thing.

Great stuff.

The layout shifting animation on the page is making this very hard to read

Are they as accessible as GUI though (genuine question)

UI libraries have a lot of features for allowing people with disabilities to “read” and interact with the screen in efficient ways

I dreaded the thought of scrolling down because I knew I’m gonna stumble upon his face.

Loading percentage in the middle? I haven’t seen one of those since Micromedia flash days.

I read it the same way as you did

something where the structure of the site matched a folder structure

Kirby?

Interesting. The one more minute button is only available once a day for me

Can you be more specific? I’m curious.

My son is too young to use a phone but I plan to use screentime when he’s ready for a phone.

I use screen time for myself, with a 1minute limit for weekdays and 1 hour limit for weekends, for all social media, news and media consumption apps, and my wife has the password (because I have zero self control)

It’s a little different. Most of these improvements are just more training hours and better weights. Even if it’s about actual improvement in trining algorithm or other software tweaks they’re not open source and hence other than “look how marginally nicer the chat bot responds now” the post doesn’t provide value.

so it does not generate the truth.

It’s equally true for humans, benchmarks of intelligence. Most shortcomings in our working life is from miscommunications and misunderstanding requirements, and then simply by incompetence and making trivial mistakes.

It’s a little like saying calculators cannot do math because they don’t really understand numbers or arithmetic and they just do bit operations.

I understand the sentiment, but reality is that it does with words pretty much what you’d expect a person to do. It lacks some fundamentals like creativity and that’s why it’s not doing real problem solving tasks, but it’s well capable of doing mundane tasks that the average person gets paid to do.

And when it comes to trust and accuracy, if I ask it a question about German tax system, it will look up sources and may give an answer with an inaccuracy or two but it will for sure be more accurate than whatever I will be able to do after two hours of research.