Xavdidtheshadow

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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
I know Jira has support for linking tasks semantically (X blocks Y; is blocked by Z) but I wish more task managers had better support for this. A few do, but very few of those will actually show you a task graph. I actually wrote about this
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
I've got https://xavd.id , which I'm very proud of. @xavdid is my username across most sites (except for very old accounts, like this one)
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
As another commenter notes, programming with a specific goal in mind is a good way to start. People can't sit down and learn "math", it's too broad a subject. Instead, you sit down and learn how to do a specific task (so
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
> if you're looking for performance you probably aren't just blindly using the standard library sort anyway That's so interesting- I think I have the opposite response. I figure unless I'm doing a very specific case t
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
I loved my pebble(s). 2 great stories: 1. They supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, w
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
I like some of their ideas for sure. I think it's a good starting point.
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by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago
Sure, makes sense! It's a tough balance to strike, to be both informative enough to cover all the cases and slim enough to show only the breaking changes.
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Ask HN: What Makes a Good Changelog?
5 points by Xavdidtheshadow 4y ago|4 comments
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
Thank you!
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
https://xavd.id/ It's basically just text and images, but I'm proud that I did the whole thing (content, design, implementation) and the overall attention to small details. Also, I love the domain. @xavdid is my u
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
I wanted to use this, but it doesn't handle Smart Sync, a feature I find myself really taking advantage of. But, I'm glad this sort of thing exists!
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
> obscure and difficult-to-predict I mean, I think there's something to that. Bash has a lot of arcane rules; I personally never write an `if` statement right, what with the `[[` vs `[` and having to surround the condition with whit
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
Do you have resources to this end that you'd recommend?
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
KFP is one of my favorite movies; I (an adult without kids) watch it yearly on my birthday. It's got so much heart and it's fight choreography is up there with other all-timers (ip man, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, the matrix).
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
It's not about 100% prevention. Nothing, short of 0 human contact, can guarantee that. It's all about adding layers of prevention that each drop your chances of catching it (and its potential severity) by N% each. Get enough of th
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
When people turn a necessity (housing) into an investment (and by extension, a source of profit), then people/companies with means will buy up as much as they can and hold it, reducing the supply and raising the price of something that
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
> the 10 movies or so I watch per year is cheaper than a subscription service. I think the value here _really_ depends on your usage patterns. For you, it sounds like individual discs make a ton of sense. But, many people watch more movi
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
They have to strike an interesting balance- enough people have to find romantic success on the app (and tell their friends) to get new users, but not be so successful that too many users stop using the app.
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
The touch bar was very interesting tech! My favorite use was scrubbing songs/videos and being able to adjust the brightness of my monitor and screen independently. That's where the tech shined- having context-dependent UI elements
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
I go back and forth- each works much better than the other in certain situations, which makes it tough to 100% want one over the other. I only got a FaceID phone late 2021, so I'd become very used to TouchID. FaceID is better for:
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
(I'm a Zapier employee on the Dev Platform team; my comments are mine alone and don't necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer) You may find the Zapier's developer platform useful. Instead of using pre-built integratio
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
My employer makes a tool that does this! It's a screenshot tool we had been using internally for years that we released last year. It takes a sample of the colors in the image and uses them for random-looking obfuscation. So it's
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
I'm not sure it qualifies as "great", but I am a programmer! https://xavd.id/blog I write about all sorts of things, some of which are technical. Here's a favorite Python article: https://xavd
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
I like the idea of DRF, but when I only dive into it occasionally, I find it has much too much magic for my liking. "Just defined this class w/ this property and then it `just works`!" is really hard to follow if you're
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
This lead to some great headlines as the Switch was launching: > Sure, Breath of the Wild is fun; but how does it taste?
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
This is extremely cool! Being able to tweak glyphs on the right and use them on the left is pretty amazing feeling.
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
> We do major version bumps on a yearly cycle and people get stuck on 8 year old versions and won't upgrade We do the same thing and have the exact same experience, unfortunately. Software is a messy business and it's hard to a
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
> It was wrong when it was implemented, never documented, but has a currently defined behavior that most people don't want That strikes me as exactly the sort of guarantee that's _not_ made by semver. You can rely on that beha
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
I really love their example of an NFT that changes based on where you see it. I've been kicking around an idea of selling a bushel of NFT's and then later changing all the images to the text "I spent money on a monkey but all
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by Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
Bummer. My favorite movie of his is "What's up, Doc?", just a hysterical bit of comedy.

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