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by ad-astra 4y ago
Good work!
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by ad-astra 4y ago
Incremental improvement is a much more reliable vehicle for improvement than radical redesign [citation needed]
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by ad-astra 4y ago
Big waste for great minds. But I guess it’s their choice.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Reminds me of Hackers (the movie)
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Cool stuff. Got stuck in the Accessibility Settings on my iPhone 12 Mini, the touch target didn’t register for some reason.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Awesome awesome awesome awesome, love reading about these retro hacking adventures. Huge props to the author!
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Agreed, always one of my peeves.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
There needs to be between 3 months to 1yr of onboarding before going in & trying to change everything. I always remind myself of this when starting new roles. One time my old team hired a hotshot in the gaming industry that came in tryi
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Have you ever read “I Am A Strange Loop”? You may enjoy Chapter 5, “On Video Feedback” if I recall correctly. I have a hunch you’d enjoy it :)
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Thank you so much for this treasure trove of links! This is exactly the kind of stuff I love learning about. Looking forward to going over this in my free time.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Agreed! Why write a native app when you can just use Babel to transpile to Google Sheets formulas? Sure it doesn’t support threading but modern devices are so fast nowadays it doesn’t even matter.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Hey, I share your passion for human interfaces - huge kudos to you. I built the main interface for the redesigned Amazon Photos iOS app and went through a lot of the things you mentioned - totally agree that it pays off. If you ever want to
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Former Dev that did Web -> Ionic -> RN -> Native iOS over the course of 6 years speaking here. - Web devs typically don’t have strong instincts for mobile apps, they require more mentorship & onboarding time. - Animation and in
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Hah, I’m so glad that my team writes 100% of our UI programmatically instead of using IB.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
FWIW Monterey on a 13” M1 Pro felt incredibly tight compared to any model I’ve tried before.
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by ad-astra 5y ago
In some cases it reminds me of my fundamentalist religious upbringing where everything was “of the world” and even trivial things like Pokémon, Christmas Trees, and Teletubbies were viewed as problematic and sinister
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Hey, I do full time iOS development, there’s tons of great resources, but out of all of them my favorite is https://hackingwithswift.com
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Same
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Hey, I’m from the photos org, how can I help +1 this?
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by ad-astra 5y ago
Hey Cliff, I’ll hop on the internal Amazon network tomorrow and figure out who I can talk to about this.