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by allenu 1y ago
I was viewing on desktop and the blank space all around made it immediately feel like an article that required a scroll to view the content below the fold. Seeing the timestamps change as I scrolled and seeing a progress "bar" upd
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by allenu 1y ago
I remember seeing a blog post about this exact thing using nice little square NFC cards with the album covers on them. For anybody interested: https://hicks.design/journal/moo-card-player
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by allenu 1y ago
I loved this era of tech. I had a Sony CLIÉ PEG-SJ22 and used it a ton for to-do lists and random notes. I was surprised at how easy it was to learn Graffiti and how quick it was to use it. Not as fast as typing, but better than hunting and
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by allenu 1y ago
This is something I've always thought would be useful as well, but after seeing some demos of it in action [1], I'm now not so sure. One of the issues I see is that because of the infinite zooming/scaling, there's no sen
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by allenu 1y ago
I kept hearing about Claude Code for a while and never really tried it until a week ago. I used it to prototype some Mac app ideas and I quickly realized how useful it was at getting prototypes up and running very, very quickly, like within
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by allenu 1y ago
I think that's true with known optical illusions, but there are definitely times where we're fooled by the limitations in our ability to perceive the world and that leads people to argue their potentially false reality. A lot of t
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by allenu 1y ago
Absolutely. I only just started using Claude Code on Sunday and I tested it by taking a small project that I was toying with and extending it with lots of features that I had thought about adding but didn't have the time. Then, I explo
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by allenu 1y ago
As a solo builder myself, I totally agree. You get lost in your head a lot of times since you're the only one who understands the problem set you're working on, the progress you're making, and the challenges that still lie ah
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by allenu 1y ago
It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a co
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by allenu 1y ago
My design process is heavy on prototyping directly in code. I usually start off with sketches in pen and paper and then a quick mockup of the UI directly using Swift code since my apps are for iOS and Mac only. I don't have any testers
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by allenu 1y ago
I'm working on an update to my flashcards app, Fresh Cards. The current version has a lot of limitations, so I've been working on a rewrite that improves all aspects of the app, for nearly a year now. Most recently, I've been
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by allenu 1y ago
I started working in MacBU about 3 years after the article. It was split between the two locations when I joined. (Outlook for Mac and PowerPoint were both in California.) These photos look like Building 115 to me, though I didn't go i
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by allenu 1y ago
I love the idea, but I wish the sentences were capitalized and the dashes were fixed. I think the spaces between dashed elements need to be removed. Right now, I see things like "cyber- neon" or "bomb- ware". In a simila
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by allenu 1y ago
If you're in Seattle, there's also a large statue of the robot from Laputa: Castle in the Sky here. It's standing on the front lawn of a house in the Ballard neighborhood. I had recently seen the movie when I first encountere
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by allenu 1y ago
There must be so many tiny little differences like this. I remember when I lived in Toronto for a bit that the way they phrased whether you wanted a fast food order to eat at the restaurant or to take home was a little different from in Alb
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by allenu 1y ago
I always loved the term "keener" growing up and was disappointed that it wasn't a term of use down here in the States. It's essentially the same thing as a "brown-noser" but a little less graphic.
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by allenu 1y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. I didn't phrase it quite right. Arbitrarily scrolling in mid-conversation is rude, but somebody picking up their phone to look something up or read a text message now happens without a big fuss, whereas
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by allenu 1y ago
The early criticism was overblown, but I think there is a slow, gradual degradation of social values when ubiquitous technology allows people to disengage easily. I remember being annoyed when a coworker had AirPods on constantly, even when
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by allenu 1y ago
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. If something takes a bit of work to join, it'll naturally attract only people who are invested in improving the community. I imagine new communities that get popular need cool people to get it started a
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by allenu 1y ago
I see the value of these services, but there's definitely an impersonal and formal nature to them, which takes away some of the humanity of just meeting people IRL and deciding to spend time. However, it feels like there are fewer thir
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by allenu 1y ago
I'm not a huge table top gamer or anything and have checked out my local shop to play with others. It was definitely fun, but I'll admit that it wasn't for me and I stopped going. If you are into board games, you definitely s
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by allenu 1y ago
The keyboard shortcuts should help a lot! If you can nail navigation from the keyboard, it'll go a long way to make the UX feel breezy. I made a corkboard/index cards app for Mac and iOS called Card Buddy and I spent a lot of time
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by allenu 1y ago
I've also discovered that breaking down tasks into micro-tasks helps me get going on things. I've found that I get easily overwhelmed if I have a massive list of things to get done, and adding another task to it makes it even wors
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by allenu 1y ago
My theory is they straightened it out so it looks almost like half of a representation of a house, i.e. Finder helps you find and organize things in your "home".
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by allenu 1y ago
I don't like it. From the videos, it looks very distracting in motion since the content underneath has a subtle effect. If anything, I want my UI to disappear until I need it, not call attention to itself.
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by allenu 1y ago
This makes so much sense. The use of place-names for marketing (Sequoia, etc.) was fun, but as a dev, it gets confusing having to look up when the OS came out and which version number it is. I'm sure regular users have the same problem
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by allenu 1y ago
Looks like a really interesting idea here! Congrats on shipping. I just downloaded it to play around with. The screenshots are well done and make the app feel like something exciting to try out. I would work on trying to simplifying the lan
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by allenu 1y ago
I agree. For most people, having a zero-friction way of recording a short thought or idea and being able to search for it later is more important than creating a vast network of connections. Tagging is "good enough" for most needs
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by allenu 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm currently working on a big rewrite of the app, so it's good to know I should work on reducing the friction of creating cards, such as with the share sheet or some other integration. Like I said in the
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by allenu 1y ago
I appreciate the detailed answer. That's a really good point about the software boundary and how that adds friction to just creating cards in the first place. I like the idea of an inbox where you just toss things you think are worth r

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