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I’m pretty sure “minimal design” just means “cool design” nowadays.

Yea em dash with spaces looks better to me too, I find that it’s harder to read if the em dash is there without surrounding spaces. Looks too cramped, not separated enough.

How does Manifest v3 compare to Safari content blocker API in terms of ad blocking capability? Currently AdGuard for Safari (from Mac App Store, the one that uses native content blocking API) has 7 content blockers categories you have to enable, and each of them allow 150k rules, amounting to over a million rules total although you can’t count it like that really. V3’s 30k per extension and 330k total sounds like a lot less.

Is there something more to it than just the amount of rules, is v3 still better than Safari?

What would be the use cases for such tool? If I need to ask, I won’t need it?

Yeah I hadn’t used a Windows machine for a year or so, and fired up Edge Dev just recently. The amount of adbloatware is truly baffling, it’s almost incredible.

Afaik Windows doesn’t ship with a default PDF viewer other than Edge’s, so they probably made a pretty sweet deal with Adobe to let them in to upsell their subscription.

Wonder how it compares to ‘Amazing AI;’ a native Mac app for Stable Diffusion I stumbled into earlier today.

Link: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai

Shows just pretty much empty screen, with one black polygon at the top: https://i.ibb.co/3Ms9m6T/SCR-20221121-qgw.jpg

I’m counting 3 sidebars at the least.

…with the mandatory change.org petition.

Yeah it’s been extermely slow with the updates. The Bear 2.0 is currently on Mac-only beta but not yet open (unless you join their beta forum and ask for access), but even then, it doesn’t have the web app. I’ve seen the Bear team say that they did a full rewrite (in C++ I think?) so that it would be easier to implement the web app in future but who knows how many years in the future that is.

Imagine being a Notion user that’s been wishing for sensible things like offline mode or performance improvements on large databases/docs and finding out they’ve spent their time and money on this instead.

Yeah I thought at first the video was skipping or rewinding or something when I tried to play-pause-play my way though it as it kept repeating essentially the same thing over and over.

Sounds like some next-gen Lorem Ipsum.

Yeah I understand that now. I’ve learned a lot about Mastodon in these days and it’s not that bad really. I just had this choice-paralysis as I had this idea that I’d have to pick ONE and that’s it. Kinda like if when joining Reddit you’d have to pick just one subreddit and stick with it.

The big revelation was that it doesn’t matter that much.

I don’t understand what’s the point to this federation thing, other than to offer bad user experince. Shouldn’t “decentralized” be like the number 30 in the long list of things a popular/fun social platform should aspire for, not the number one?

I swear I’ve tried to find an instance but either the focus of the instance is too specific, has only couple dozen people, or doesn’t accept new members because there’s too much of them.

Is the bot spam a problem to any average Twitter user like Elon claims, or just him (one of the most followed account in the app) and maybe couple others?

The situation already exists on Mac for example and it’s very inconvenient imo to have to buy everything from a different website, trying to keep up who charges what and when, keeping track of the license codes etc. I’m not a fan.

Apple would definitely let them to get into audiobooks, Spotify just doesn’t want to give them the cut. As a platform owner Spotify takes a cut from the artists, aren’t they playing the same game as Apple?

If they somehow get regulators to allow 3rd party payments on App Store, that would be a terrible thing for the users. I don’t want to start giving out my credit card number to every random company I want to purchase content from.

The UX issues Apple rules create are legit concerns though, but it just kinda feels they’re used as a veil to get to the bottom line, which is to get around the IAP system. It’s always about the money.

Yeah the App Store rules suck and that’s all on Apple, but I find it a bit silly for Spotify to repeatedly act surprised about them. It’s the same cycle: Spotify wants go around App Store rules → Apple says no → Spotify fires up the timetoplayfair dot com with slightly tweaked text to fit whatever issue they have this time.

I’m glad (← sarcasm) if a modern pricing page lists *the actual price* without needing to create an account or install the app first.

I’ve been very happy with https://feedbin.com

It’s a paid RSS syncing service and web app too, costs $5 per month, I use it with Reeder (and NetNewsWire etc). It doesn’t have any social cruft or AI assistants or ML companions.

I was also a Feedly user when I decided to try Feedbin, and I immediately noticed how much faster fetching the feeds was on Feedbin. I also like to have my email newsletters in same place (forward them to a Feedbin-provided email address), and I can have filters to mark things like sponsored posts and podcast show notes as read automatically, basically like mute filters.

Feedly premium tier costs pretty much the same, and I wonder how well it would stack against Feedbin. There’s also Inoreader which I think offers pretty similar feature set for a pretty similar price.

Feedly free tier is excellent, and you can work around many of its shortcomings by using an RSS reader app. For example, Feedly free doesn’t offer full text articles, but I can extract the full text with Reeder/NetNewsWire/etc on the client-side. If you really don’t care about speed, mute filters, or reading newsletters in your RSS reader, then Feedly free tier is already more than enough.

Probably the biggest difference is that Designer is a combo of a raster and a vector editor, while Inkscape is a pure vector editor. Also Affinity suite supports more color spaces, like CMYK for print stuff. Affinity apps are also very well optimized for Mac and M1, while Inkscape I hear is not.

But there’s probably many reasons against choosing Designer over Inkscape too.

Tell how it goes please.

Oh wow. Reminds me of Wall Street Journal where you’d have to change your address to somewhere in California to gain the ability to cancel online. Otherwise you have to call, because only California has laws against such behavior.

Here’s a screenshot of paulgraham.com:

https://ibb.co/zmmyZHH

This is legitimately the worst looking and confusing site I’ve seen in a while, and should be used as an example of how to not design a site :)

Even the blog post themselves are pretty bad with left-aligned columns and the most low-contrast header (the “P A U L G R A H A M”) on the top. It looks like some sort of CSS mishap rather than something deliberately designed.

Yeah the “example post” names Bear Blog as a direct source of inspiration.

Created out of authentic admiration of Herman's genius idea of Bear Blog, Mataroa.blog is like Bear Blog but also a bit different. Namely, it has built-in first-class support to export your blog, and it also supports image hosting.

What’s up with the naming :)

You can create multi-stop gradients easily with this tool, but doing so with pure blue and yellow looks nothing like the blend of those two colors would look. I think you should just pick colors that fit better together, unless the rainbow effect of walking along the hue angle is the effect you’re going for.

Yes it sure feels like that too. I like Hobbit music too, like how Misty Mountains Cold song is sung by dwarves at the start and it then develops into a full-blown hero theme later. It’s just they kinda overuse in not-so-impactful scenes and it loses its … well, impact.

Yeah it’s pretty much perfect. You hear it from the first seconds: Galadriel/Lothlorien theme as the the voiceover starts over black screen, turns into the ring theme as the title card appears, and changing into the lighter Shire theme when she talks about it, waving different themes into each other, after finally ending in Fellowship theme as the title ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ appears.

Even after Boromir’s death you hear a sad and dark hint of the Fellowship theme as it fades away into the moment the fellowship truly breaks and Frodo decides to leave on his own.

Imagine my disappointment when they used the Nazgul theme in the Hobbit, in the final warg/orc fight scene. Just threw it all away because it’s something that sounds ominous.

I live in Finland, I don't think we are a priority country when it comes to Google's datacenters. We have geniunely unlimited data caps though which helps for sure.

I've been playing on wifi with a 100/10 Mbps connection. There's sometimes these lagspikes if I play in browser, but the general input latency has never been something I've noticed.

I'm a casual gamer at most, and maybe I'm not noticing it as much as some CSGO-pro would.