markogresak

Based on my experience from 2-3 years ago, I would say to avoid it. It would be a decent pick for a really small team without a lot of product management expectation, which would probably be served just as well by something like trello. Example: We wanted to create tasks from Intercom conversations and the only way was a custom implementation. Using their api was not a pleasant experience. Also there were annoying UI bugs that made the product feel unpolished. I ended up using tampermonkey to fix and improve the UI. We ended up switching to jira and it’s 100% an upgrade, we were happy with the change. People shit on it when it goes down, same as github, but then it’s all fine and dandy the other 99% of the time.

You can disable the grouping feature.

What I did to reduce the noise in my mailbox is to unsubscribe from all marketing emails, and I move the ones that still come through to spam folder. It was a bit tedious at first, but now gmail is doing a pretty good job at automatically filtering out senders that do not respect my request to unsubscribe.

I saw a post about ST4 beta here on HN about a month ago. Decided to pay for the license to support the devs, as I was using just the evaluation version before I’ve started by programming career, and then I’ve switched to IDEs and went back to editor world with Atom. ST introduced me to the world of multiple cursors and easy to usr shortcuts. Atom ported that well, and it’s the first thing I set up in vscode (thanks to the atom keymap package).

Sadly, I agree with the post I saw on the other thread month or so ago: “too little, too late”.

I see a lot of mention of how ST is fast, and that’s impressive. But being fast does not make my job web dev easier. Vscode still delivers a superior developer experience, it’s easier for me to understand what’s going on under the hood and work with plugins. The speed is good enough, I work around the slower startup by having a window open at all times while working, so opening a new file is nearly instant.

I’m still glad that I’ve paid for the license. It makes me happy to see small apps that pack a punch and are fast, rather than going for the lazy way of using electron and eat up resources like crazy. I intend to give ST more time on my personal projects. But I just don’t feel as productive, and to me it matters when I’m using an editor almost 8h a day.

The ModMic is also excellent

I have a ModMic 4 and I am disappointed. I used it for voice calls with my Sennheiser Momentum headphones.

- Accidentally pulling on the wire will cause it to turn on the magnetic handle and create unpleasant noise for others. - It picks up signal from the phone trying to connect and transmits it to the listeners as buzzing sound. So I had to put my phone far away to avoid that. - The mute switch does not really mute, it’s more like turning the volume to 10%. Learned that the hard/awkward way. - Sound quality is mediocre, to me it always sounded like any generic mid-range headphones+mic combo.

If I could test ModMic before buying it, I would pass. I’d rather put the money towards a standalone mic (e.g. yeti) + boom arm. It’s expensive, but the quality is way better. I now use Røde PodMic with Scarlett Solo. It’s whole other price tier, but I do not regret spending that money, which I cannot say for the ModMic.

I’m genuinely interested in how one would pull $0.5MM in donations from a one-off meme site. Why would one donate to such a site?

Asana IPO'd last year and still wasn't profitable

This is interesting to hear. From my research last year, it’s more expensive compared to Jira. I had to use Asana at work for high-level planning and it was, in my experience working as an engineer, an inferior product compared to Jira. The only upside I could see is the reporting/project overview and search. But these features are only useful to the manager. For me, it’s just a cumbersome tool. I’ve tried to get used to it, but I wasn’t sold.

Some things that made it difficult to use Asana: - No markdown support for the longest time. - No code block formatting. - Old comments collapsed by default, which hides the full context. This caused people to miss information and ask questions that were already answered.

I do realize Jira and Asana are not trying to address the same problem space. But to manage a team of engineers I would pick Jira every time.

Given your goal, I’m surprised you haven’t found a solution to this already.

I had a similar goal, and with Atom, I’ve solved it with a hacked-together script that automatically backed up the installed packages and replayed the apm install when I called the script.

When switching to VSCode more than 2 years ago, there was a popular plugin to sync (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod...). And as a sibling comment mentions, there’s now a built-in sync.

I’ve used it since the beginning and it works flawlessly. I’ve even used it between macOS (primary device), Windows and Linux (popOS) machines and it works great. VSCode does a great job in keeping platform-specific settings so you don’t break it for the other device.

It’s much better than the approach I’ve used with Atom because I do not have to think about it, it just happens in the background. The only thing you need to do is to enable the sync and then let it do its job.

I solve that with multiple desktops feature on macOS. You also get that on Linux and newer versions of Windows. I use either trackpad swipe or ctrl+[left/right] to navigate.

The important thing is to set the desktops to be static (disable the “smart” rearranging) and set the windows to always open in the same desktop.

This makes my experience on a 16” screen so great that I have a hard time adjusting to using two monitors.

You can get it on linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/github-desktop-bin/ (mentioned in the official docs) or https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop.

What I dislike about Linux in general is how often the mentality for an app is “you’re using Linux, just find the repository and figure out how to get the release to your system or build it yourself”.

I get better “ Product vs. Product” and “Product Review” results with ddg these days.

Once I took the time to read one of the sites and it’s obvious it’s generated content, and awful at that. I still reading pros and cons of one of the product and the same thing was mentioned under both, just with different wording.

GPT-3 or similar is going to make this way worse.

The only time I still use google (via !g on ddg, what an awesome feature) is to search for local info or in native language. But even here ddg is getting better, especially if I append the name of my city or country.

We did this at my previous job. We tried with docker-sync and that was already a good improvement (~5x faster web app load speed). But the real improvement was moving to running the app natively, another 10x improvement. I’m talking about ~5s load times (default docker setup) to <100ms.

I like the simplicity of setting up a docker project vs. having to figure all the bits and config for your machine. But the slow fs is unbearable.

I myself used to be an Apple Calendar user. Eventually I had to switch to Google Calendar for work. Plenty of our users are in the same boat and Google Calendar doesn't support native functionality.

Huh? I’m using the native calendar app all the time since I got my first macbook 7 years ago. I was using google calendar before and it was seamlessly migrated. I am using multiple google accounts and also the icloud account for calendars, never had a problem. It syncs back to google and between different devices, it works with inviting other people and so on.

The only feature that google calendar UI does better is help to find a scheduled time. But I always agree for a time before creating a calendar event, so that’s not something I’d miss. Also, it generates the google meet link, which is again useless since I use zoom or whereby. But even if I wanted that, I’d either have to use the google calendar UI or an app that replicates this feature.

What I nice about the native macos calendar app is that it does natural language parsing, for example, “Meet with X on Monday at 12” will create “Meet with X” event and set the date to the closest Monday, the time to 12:00 and duration to a default 1h. It’s basically like you’re making a note, but it becomes a calendar event.

dev finally breaks down and tests it on any other non-Apple device

Why the need for an extra device? There's a setting in the System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars: "Always".

Or it will automatically show scroll bars if you're using a mouse.

If you're a web developer and your target audience is not limited to only macOS and mobile, you should have the Show scroll bars set to Always. I'm using a mbp for most of my web dev career and I've always caught these bugs during development.

What I do agree is that Windows or Linux makes this setting a default, which makes it more obvious. While testing on different devices is always better, it's not necessary to catch these trivial problems.

how breathlessly we (as an industry) talk about things like “autopilot” instead of “driver assist”

Is this true? I was just purchasing a car and did a lot of research. I was looking only at the European brands because I like the overall offering. There are different names, but none too flashy or promising too much.

How they call the driving assistant systems:

- BMW: Driving Assist (Regular/Plus/Professional)

- Volvo: Pilot assist

- Mercedes-Benz: they just describe the functions, i.e. active cruise control, steering assist, etc.

- VW group (VW, Skoda, Seat): Travel assist

Horses are well adapted to living in very cold weather. How do you think they survived in the wild? It’s only because we decided to close them inside that they need to have a cosy spot and blanket when they go out.

When they live outside, they get a thick coat, which is very good at isolation. Even if they get wet from rain, the water is repelled so it does not get to their skin. A good indication of this isolation is that snow will not immediately melt as it hits their fur. The only thing they need is enough to eat, as they still expend more energy to keep warm.

Source: my SO and I have 2 horses at home and they live in the open all the time. Their only shelter is a small roof as an extension to the barn, so there’s a dry place for the food.

How did you get used to the different modifier key layout? I am missing the cmd every time I try to switch to Linux. I have tried rbreaves/kinto, but it was not working well for me, so I decided to keep the native layout.

It took me about 2 weeks to get kind-of used to the different modifier keys, but it did not feel the same.

But the thing that made me switch back is when I was buying a laptop. I was set on not going with Apple anymore after my previous macbook screen died 2.5 years in and they were asking almost 1000€ to fix it. But I could not find an option that would match the 16" macbook laptop. I was considering the build quality, screen size and its resolution, battery life, usb type-c charger, trackpad experience and the overall software support that I will expect from a daily driver to do my web development work. I was seriously considering the dell xps 15 9500 that launched this year, but I saw a lot of feedback about generally poor battery life on linux and some cases of trackpad problems.

I was thinking about getting a second, cheaper device like System76 Pangolin and see how it works and use this as a transition to a different platform instead of going all in by immediately switching the daily driver.

I use Chrome/Brave only for work, so I started using Safari for the personal stuff to separate the history and open state, since I use the same device for both.

I was using Safari 14 since the day it was released for macOS Catalina. The animations, for example when you open the link menu (cmd+L), make it sluggish. And that's on last year's 16" macbook pro without any heavy load, so it should not be slow.

Dev tools have improved, but so has Chrome. They still have a long way to go. I'm a frontend developer so I use these tools daily and I still use Chrome only because of the superior developer experience.

The touchid support is a neat feature, but 1password gets very close to it and I can use it in any browser. The only place where I was truly surprised with Safari was when you log to icloud.com, Apple pulls some 1st party magic there.

I'm now using Firefox in place of Safari, it feels faster and snappier. Checks all the boxes listed in the parent and then some, except native fingerprint support. I wonder if Safari is somehow performing better on big sur. I will test it during the weekend when I upgrade.

Bad DDG results are a myth at this point. It was true a couple of years ago. But they’ve improved a lot and last few months I rarely use google as a fallback.

I always wonder how much of a productivity impact does a complex setup like this have over a single screen with multiple desktops.

A few years ago, I have bought LG 34UC98, a 34" 21:9 ultra-widescreen monitor. I thought "Look at all that screen space, it will be great for my performance". I've used it maybe a few weeks, and now it's almost exclusive to gaming and movies. My girlfriend likes to use it for large research tasks, to open 3 documents side by side. So at least someone is using the monitor for productivity improvement.

Now I'm back to a 15" macbook and I use 3 desktop setup, with apps assigned to a specific desktop, so they always open in the same space. I also disabled the feature where macOS tries to be smart and arranges the desktops based on frequency, which makes the position unpredictable. From left to right: 1. Mainly terminal, with an occasional GUI for git or database. 2. Editor (VS Code), using the native tabs feature so different projects are grouped under one app. 3. Browser, slack, mail, spotify, and other currently open apps (notes, iMessages, etc.).

Note: I changed the display setting to "More space", which increases the resolution from the default 1680x1050 to 1920x1200 to have some more space. But I had a 13" macbook before, which was 1680x1050 at "More Space" setup, and it worked well too.

How do you handle paste from word? Could you share some code? :)