xinsight

Never underestimate the power of spite! :)

Is there a reason reader mode doesn’t work on mobile Safari? (Pinch zooming and horizontal scrolling is painful.)

cyclists simply cannot keep up with posted speed limits

Do you not understand what the word "limit" means?

Years ago, Apple banned Camera+ for allowing to take a photo with the volume switch (instead of using an onscreen button). It was "too confusing" and against their Human Interface Guidelines. Then they added that exact feature to the default iOS camera app.

24 was perhaps a bad number to choose, since I read that as 24 hours - which seemed a bit hasty. They could have written "November 9, 2022" or "two years" which seems further into the future.

Maybe i had low expectations, but i was impressed with homepod siri's understanding and how much it could do. I don't know why Apple doesn't just publish a list of all the commands. I documented what i found if anyone is interested:

https://xinsight.ca/homepod/

Or it backfires when people realize their newly purchased, expensive car doesn't do what they thought it could do. Tesla is not managing expectations well.

Not all log levels are persisted to disk (info and debug, i think?) so yes, there is info that you cannot get from `tail -f`

Maybe people are only just now starting to see Apple's intentions of locking down their system. I remember it being a bad omen a few releases back when i found i could no longer (easily) delete the Chess.app.

This was the one of the wonderful bit of insights from the suprisingly deep and insightful show "Bojack Horseman". Basically, there is is no such thing as "deep down inside i'm a good person". You are your actions.

I feel your pain. But ideally, once the PR code is merged, the end result should be solid code. Anything you write at a hackathon is fake/barely-functional throwaway code that only exists for the demo at the end. There's no architecture, no error checking, and just no time for anything elegant or any real insight into your problem space.

I initially loved React, but i eventually feel out of love due to the complex tooling required to use React (e.g. configuring webpack, evaluating data store options, evaluating form options)

If you're interested in a fresh, lighter, framework-free approach, have a look at svelte: https://svelte.dev/ I'm using it on a current project and loving it so far.

As someone who still uses a `birthdays.txt` file in their home directory... i fail to see any advantage to this setup. And a significant disadvantage would be losing the ability to tab-complete the note names.

I've heard the same rule with film editing. The editing is never done, you just run out of time.

Berlin has 431k street trees. Toronto has 11 million trees (including presumably ravines and natural areas) - and I'm sure other cities have similar amounts. Why do you think Berlin has the most trees?

If only the iOS date picker wasn't so fiddly and annoying to use.

Also, in the calendar app, when creating an event, i carefully select the date and time, and then i scroll down to set an alarm - and about half the time, the date picker takes my scroll so i lose the date i just entered. So annoying.

If it is difficult, then it's not a very good business.

Serious question: Why would you want to run a business that can only survive by paying people poverty wages?

I remember that article too! I used the same technique to make a convincing, non-duplicating flame-flicker algorithm for an led. 3 variables, all looping to different prime numbers and the sum of the 3 variables was the led intensity.

dilbert

That's the greatest thing about twitter: You never run out of fresh content.

This. I also do a `git diff > save.patch` if there is something uncommmited that i don't want to commit at the moment. A patch file feels more comfortable to me than git stash, as i can easily view the patch files, and reapply them with `patch -p1 < save.patch`

The video lists pros/cons for strongly consistent and eventually consistent databases, but only has pros for a "just right consistency" database. What are the cons?

Health insurance amakes an apples-to-apples comparison difficult.

A TED talk with Andrew McAfee made an interesting observation: once long-haul trucks are fully automated (the tech exists, it's just a matter of time), there will be a massive number of truckers suddenly out of work. Yes, other types jobs will no doubt be created, but i'm not sure many of those truck drivers will be in a good position to make the transition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMF-Z74C1QE

The "app" is just a bit of jquery that hides/shows divs based on their classes. It skips a refresh if the filter is empty ( to avoid creating an invalid jquery selector?), so if you set "View Partials" to "Yes" and then "No", nothing changes. Anyways, I just forked it and fixed it.

http://xinsight.github.io/template-chooser/

This is a simple little app, but it's a good example of how using the DOM as a model and a view (as most jquery apps do) doesn't create the most elegant code.

Is there a way to deselect an option without reloading the page?

For example: Under "DOM Structure", once you select "DOM" or "String", you can never go back to seeing all the template options.

Nice idea and implementation. One tiny criticism (and an easy fix): The big red button that you tap to send your card looks _way_ too much like a cancel button.

Nice resource. I'm curious how you're going to manage the content and keep it accurate?

Example: under Three.js there is a game listed "Super Grammar Ninja" that is clearly not using 3D. (Seems to use Impact.js)

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Amazon emailed registered app store devs back in February.