mmclar

Please don't give me a hint if I didn't ask for it! Maybe make a hint button that becomes enabled at a certain time.

I posted on Bluesky about NYT the other day after getting repeatedly dark-patterned: https://bsky.app/profile/mmclar.bsky.social/post/3mkiznfgvvk...

IME crosswords traditionally say "Word before...". Also thanks for the game, I love it and was excited you used one of my submitted clues a few months ago.

Can you please make it (and keep it) so that friendships are symmetrical? I.e., "friend" rather than "follow". IMO that's the enshittification inflection point of Facebook.

"What do you do?" and "How do you earn a living?" are different questions and it's on you if you confuse them.

Not email; social networking. Symmetrical just means the relationship is the same from both sides. Imagine a two-way "friendship" relationship (old-school Facebook) vs. a one-way "following" relationship (more recent Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc.).

I'm surprised there's not more discussion here and in general about symmetric- vs. asymmetric-relationship networks. Facebook worked in the beginning because relationships were symmetric and there was no concept of getting "follows" -- friendships are modeled after real life ones, where the friendship is between two people.

I can see why the big networks moved away from that: pushing "content" has a lot more friction when relationships are symmetrical. What I don't understand is why there is no upstart trying to bring that back.

Not yet!

I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next month.

I'll update here when I do.

I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline, which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server. It also includes an import function for exports of your Google Timeline data so that your historical data from that can be integrated as well. I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next month.

What if I'm not in the location I care about? Musicians are famously people who are often on the road.

Knowing the rules and 'seeing' the ways that pieces can move are different things. I could see this being helpful to someone who has a working knowledge of the ways pieces can move, but hasn't yet built their skill of visualization thereof.

I scrolled all the way through that and don't know what it does.

Why call it "name and shame" and not just "name"? Be honest about the behavior and let people judge for themselves whether the behavior is shameful. If an action is above-board, the actor should not mind being named.

Require that a person besides the author has to review code changes before they are allowed into a code base. Do it under the guise of 'transparency' or 'being on the same page'. Don't let him see your post.