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sciophilous
Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
The HN entry is still there, but I can't read the original post now.
The post on IA - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013342/https://eng.uber....
Thank you for that link. I recommend reading to the very last line.
much as I love and revere woz that is a terrible idea
Is that not 18.7.5 as released yesterday or am I missing something?
Hanlon’s razor applies
I loved Camino. I think I still have the binary on my MBA just to look at the icon and sigh
It is, shall we say, more curated
Wix was open sourced in 2004 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/1580079/microsoft-goes...
I have vitiligo and basically no skin pigment above my neck line - this product is excellent, reasonably priced, and ethical
I’m using Windows 11 at my new job and wow, it really is horrible (always been a server OS user at work, Mac at home)
This whole thing about it opening links in Edge despite your preferences is just.. bizarre! It’s like they had a bet on “hey what’s the most user hostile thing we can get away with?!”
I remembered this story the other day but couldn’t remember the name - and then coincidentally came across this link to it! https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
I used to have a DTC-690 - brilliant for parties. Sold it for £1 in the end to a happy customer.
The post links to a GitHub page, which contains this:
I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the [Pro Git blog](dead link)
The link is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20100828155504/http://progit.org...
how can she say that it's both no good at most things and simultaneous dangerous because of the job losses it will cause?
worse is cheaper
cowboys
The actual title is better:
3 Years of Extremely Remote Work
There was a decent BBC Radio 4 adaptation of this in 2016 - no longer available on iPlayer but it’s on YouTube -
I remote desktop from my Mac into Windows for work. I used to then remote from that Windows into another Windows server, at which point figuring out what the keyboard mappings were became extremely difficult!
For anyone (like me) who doesn’t know what 18F is:
18F is a digital services agency within the Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government. 18F helps other government agencies build, buy, and share technology products. The team consists of designers, software engineers, strategists, and product managers who collaborate with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve public service through technology.
Archive link - http://archive.today/Ez5q6
is this idiomatic C?
This is how I use AI at work for maintaining Python projects, a language in which I am not at all really versed. Sometimes I might add “this is how I would do it in …, how would I do this in Python?”
I find this extremely helpful and productive, especially as I have to pull the code onto a server to test it.