thomasqbrady

This is phenomenal, but my biggest question is (which is probably a more of a long-term one that comes from genuine curiosity/fascination, not doubt): does she use it/enjoy it? I'm so curious to see what happens over time. Does she learn the functions of these buttons, years before having words for what they're doing? Does she write some music? Does she grow up expecting things with knobs to be this interactive/creative? SO cool!

This is fantastic in every way. The hardest part of participating for me was finding more time closer to the holidays as the challenges got harder. Fewer, better challenges, with more space between them and the end of the year is a brilliant solution. So excited and grateful.

I've been using Base for [checks... considers retirement] about 15 years!? It's ALWAYS been great, AND has improved over time.

How does licensing work, here... could you use this to develop an indie game and sell it?

I’m super confused.

1. What is under the “Apple Intelligence” umbrella and what isn’t? There were a lot of AI features shown before that branding was brought up, I think. 2. The only supported iPhone is the iPhone 15 Pro? But any M1 iPad? Does this mean “Apple Intelligence” or all AI features announced? For instance… 3. For instance, is private cloud compute only available on iPhone 15 Pro?

“It’s says it’s’paired’ but not ‘connected,’ but the manual uses those words interchangeably…”

“Do you see a ‘forget satellite’ button?”

Looked in several places, but I can’t figure out exactly what sort of microcontroller they aim to support… are we talking ATmega? ESP32? ARM Cortex M? All of those?

So. So. Poorly. The most stressful, traumatic, job I’ve ever had, the end of what might have otherwise been a lasting friendship.

Yes. I have a set that appear to my iPhone to be legit, including auto-connect/disconnect, noise-canceling modes and all, though the functionality isn’t actually reliable. My iPhone doesn’t seem to know any difference between my real AirPods Pro 2 and these fakes.

I think in the Mann household that one probably doesn’t need to be written down. It’s been thoroughly reinforced.

When you see a paper like this, what, if any, path is there to seeking this kind of treatment? I know someone who would likely be interested in this, but I know from prior experience of my own that just trying to reach out to the researchers listed is a long process that can be fruitless. Is there an intended/better way? I know about clinicaltrials.gov, but that’s only helpful if there’s an ongoing study of the thing you’re interested (which is less likely if you’re reading about findings).

What you say you’d like is what I’m looking for, too, but what you say Primo is doesn’t sound far enough off that I understand your complaint. When you say “customize blocks” I guess that doesn’t include changing the text? Or perhaps it doesn’t constrict the possible actions enough for you to feel safe handing it over to a client?

This piqued my curiosity, but there are so many apparently broken links on the site. What components are there? What’s the accessibility story? What does it actually do (SOUNDS like a GUI editor to configure Tailwind class names for a component, but can’t confirm that, nor tell whether I can only configure YOUR components or add my own). Hard to motivate myself to spend even $50 to find out what I’m getting.

What's RLS? Row Level Security?

Everything I would have said is already here in other comments, so I’ll just say +1. I’m 44 and had a period around 40 where I thought this was happening to me, too, and I’m quite convinced it was NOT mental decline. Im doing better than ever because of just exercise in my case, though I may still investigate ADHD.

Looking closely, this only works if you know the font name, size, and weight used, or at least can guess it, manually, before feeding the pixelated version into the tool? Still quite fun, but not as scary as the headline made it sound...

I'm super intrigued by this, and feel like I'm 99% overlap in a Venn diagram with the target user, BUT… when the browser plugin immediately requested the ability to see everything I did on every site I ever visited (and the first one it asked me about was my employer's wiki with trade secrets galore), I clicked "deny" and moved on.

Might still be worth a shot on personal devices, but with the say Safari syncs history across devices via iCloud, I'm not so sure…

Is it still demonstrably better than other reading apps (Reeder, Instapaper, etc.) without the plugin?

What’s the “Demo Mode” part of the headline refer to?

Anyone know of a good “getting started” guide for Amiga emulation? Trying to set one up to play this game, and having no luck so far.

Is it still called "Sherlock-ing" if Apple isn't the one doing it?

Adobe XD : Sketch :: Shasta : Descript (https://www.descript.com), right down to the advertising style

There are a lot of answers here I partially agree with, but there's an overarching concept that I think they're missing: there's no market for it. Adobe never stopped working on such a tool, as others have pointed out below, in that they still ship Flash's successor Animate. They kept Flex going as long as they could, too.

I think the reason people aren't terribly aware of Animate, and why there isn't a competitor product—whether open source or commercial—with a big name is that we don't need/want it. I haven't looked at the numbers in a while, but last I checked most web traffic was coming from mobile devices, and heavy, high-gloss interactions akin to what Flash afforded and what could be accomplished with WASM/WebGL are not what people want in their mobile browsing experience. They want fast. WASM/WebGL may be pretty efficient, and may be the best way to accomplish the sorts of things Flash was used for in much more efficient ways, but they're still not the best way to render text with a few buttons and images (i.e. a typical web page). The use-cases that had us reaching for Flash in the "aughts" just don't come up very often in web development these days.

When users DO want heavy, high-gloss interactive content, they're going to the App Store/Google Play to find it, not the web. This gives the developers the choice of building those experiences with WASM/WebGL if they like, but the vast majority are choosing native SDKs or a game engines. Against those options the WASM/WebGL offering is just not competitive, yet (the APIs, tooling, community is just not as good, yet).

And the use case—a wallet that users are likely to sit on—is not the easiest in which to make a safe ultra-thin battery...

I guess I wasn’t clear. I’m not saying the 4th and 5th notes don’t have a special sound to anyone. I’m saying that 1) just exactly how important their resonance is to you is influenced by your culture. It’s not that atonal musicians didn’t notice the resonance. They weren’t drawn to it as much. 2) The logic given was “if you want your scale to include the 4th and 5th, then 12 notes is inevitable.” The “if you want your scale to include the 4th and 5th” is the a built in assumption that you want something like the western scale, so it doesn’t seem that impressive to me that they then arrive at the 12-tone scale.

This piece is a good example of circular reasoning, isn’t it? The question “Why are there 12 notes in Western scales?” Is answered first by presuming that 4ths and 5ths sound pleasant (to whom? a Westerner?), the “4th” and “5th” being intervals ON a Western scale, which the author then reverse-engineers back to the 12-note scale which they assumed from the start. There are other scales you could start from, in which 4ths and 5ths aren’t so special…

This topic is near and dear to my heart. My encounter with this issue, and the way I approached it, have defined my career (been doing this about 22 years, now, and have gotten to work at some dream jobs with names you've heard in the meantime and currently). I did a few conference talks about it, but I won't link those unless someone is curious, just to make sure it doesn't seem like I'm trying to get views or something.

TLDR: No shock here, if you think about it long enough, but the answer I found was empathy. This professional relationship between designer and engineer (which I've found through many interviews—formal and informal—to be the same for architect and engineer, stage designer and carpentry shop, etc.) is still a human relationship. It's easy for a lot of people to forget that, or to think that professional relationships don't require emotional intelligence/work/etc.

Fairly early in my career as a front-end engineer I landed at a fancy advertising agency. We built high-end interactive marketing sites for big names. We had a lot of hot-shot designers who were VERY excited about themselves, and were, frankly, watching Mad Men a little too closely and drawing the wrong inspiration. It was quite easy for me to start blaming them for the parts of the design -> engineering hand-off process that weren't working. Their designs seemed to ignore the constraints of the technology, the budget, the schedule, etc. And several of them jerks who would quickly throw the engineers under the bus and say "the engineering team at the last place I worked could have done this in a week."

Then one day I started a new project with a new designer. He dropped by my desk with design specifications that contained all the info I normally had to go spelunking into design source documents to try to ascertain myself. This guy had put them all in one place for me to make it easy. I was shocked. I noticed something that wasn't technically feasible in the design right away, and thought I'd test the waters. "Could we do this differently? The technology won't allow this exactly because of [blah blah blah]." He listened. He asked if we could both think about it a little longer, him thinking of alternative designs and me seeing if there was some approach I hadn't thought of that might make it possible.

The next time I spoke with him, as he was about to walk away, I said, "Hey, quick question… how come you're not an asshole?"

I'm so glad I asked.

I've already gone on a while, so I'll try to summarize. Essentially, he told me a story from his days in art school. Final exams, which for his art program meant turning in a lot of finished graphic design projects, which meant getting a lot of digital artwork printed, which meant going to a print shop and handing over all the money left in his bank account and then just sitting there for hours waiting for the prints, realizing that he had not control over what happened at this point. Did the printer install the fonts the way he'd asked? Were the color spaces configured correctly? Did the printer know what they were doing? Were they any good? There wasn't going to be any time to re-print (let alone enough money to pay for that), so his final exam was completely in the hands of this printer.

"That's how we often feel working with engineers." He said. "We turn over to you design files that we're proud of. They're beautiful. Then we just have to wait and see, a lot of the time, what actually ends up getting shipped. Often what shows up doesn't resemble our designs. The wrong fonts, the wrong colors, padding, margins. Sometimes the layout itself isn't even close. And we're powerless to do anything about it, and if we speak up too loud we're called prima donnas."

I immediately realized how I'd been complicit in this pattern so many times. How many times had I totally missed things like padding/margins that didn't matter to me because my untrained eye couldn't even see the difference unless it was pointed out to me? How many times had I said "eh, good enough" rather than trying a little harder, or going back to the designer to see if we could find a middle-ground?

I thought of the design specs he'd dropped off and how helpful they were. I realized that the only way forward was to mimic his style: respect for each others' disciplines, empathy for the struggles that each of us had in our work, dedication to work together—to set each other up for success and put the quality of the work before our own personal convenience.

For me that approach got me jobs I thought I would never qualify for. I got so good working with designers I became one. I've worked as a front-end engineer, a design technologist (hybrid designer-developer), and even as a straight up lead designer (UX/interaction design) for the past 15 years. My career has been rewarding (getting to go to/speak at conferences around the world, getting to co-author an O'Reilly book, etc.) beyond any dreams I had early on, and I think I owe so much of it to that designer and his lesson in empathy.

This is a side-note that might be as important (or more so) than the main thread. Why was I able to empathize with him so quickly, instead of getting defensive, as was my wont at the time (and still is more often than I'd like)? I think the key was the STORY he told. It's so easy for us to drop ourselves into a story as the main character. When he told that story, I was the art student frustrated with the printer. When the tables turned and I realized I was actually the printer in this story, it was a powerful moment because I had put myself in the designer's place. My defensive instincts were coming out in defense of the main character of the story (me as the designer).

Can you say a bit more about what you mean? Are you talking about this: https://api.slack.com/future? If so, I'm not sure how it relates, but maybe I'm missing something?

I started using Sketchup in 2005, I think, and got pretty good at it, even doing some paid projects. I found it's approach to 3D modeling intuitive. I have yet to find another 3D modeling tool that works this way or is nearly as intuitive (Tinkercad comes closest for me). I don't use SketchUp enough to justify the licensing fees they've been wanting for many years, now. $119 is close enough I'm tempted, but having to use it in a browser when I'm using it for the purpose of 3D printing does not sound fun.

Anyone have any recommendations for similar apps—i.e. apps that are focused on architecture/industrial design (not character modeling) that don't expect you to do CAD as soon as anything gets interesting?

I won’t lie. I saw a16z and somehow just translated that as “Amazon,” despite knowing exactly who they are (and having pitched to them–not personally–at a previous startup).

I can't be the only person thinking, "sure… share my novel business ideas with Amazon… the company known for pushing vendors out of their store with 'own-brand' look-alikes—among many other undesirable behaviors in a business partner."

Been looking for something like this for years, however I can’t imagine any of the places I’ve worked being okay with uploading an IPA. A paid on-site license/plan would serv you (and potential enterprise customers) well…