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by crabl 5y ago
The closest I've managed to this has been through AppleScript (which likely violates your "no accessibility tools" criteria): https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/type-to-siri/13328/17
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by crabl 5y ago
That's interesting: I would have assumed academics would be less inclined to use tools like PowerPoint, but I guess I'm mistaken! It really goes to show how ubiquitous it is as a tool for thought. Do you mind if I ask what the con
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by crabl 5y ago
This is likely a result of me working in a corporate bureaucracy over the last few years, but I've observed executives using PowerPoint for the purpose of articulating and iterating on their thoughts, and it goes without saying that Po
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by crabl 6y ago
Spaced repetition, while reasonably useful, doesn't come without its challenges as well. For instance, how can you be sure at the outset that you have designed a good prompt [1] that will enable recall versus recognition? And even once
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by crabl 6y ago
Sweet! Thanks!
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by crabl 6y ago
Completely serious: in addition to "pages", if there was the ability to define "endpoints" that respond with JSON, I'd be in!
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by crabl 6y ago
Yeah man, my e-mail is in my bio now!
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by crabl 6y ago
Hey! I'd love to compare notes if you have some time! Couldn't find an e-mail for you though... mine is in my bio now if you want to reach out
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by crabl 6y ago
You know, the trouble is, you're absolutely right. I _could_ have just said "I'm working on a note-taking app", but nothing about that seems particularly weird or hard. To address the poetic waxing more directly, it&#x27
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by crabl 6y ago
Existing mediums for note-taking (Evernote, Notion, Roam Research) are not sufficient for doing knowledge work over long periods of time. The functions these incumbents serve are primarily as “stores of knowledge” that we save because it’s
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by crabl 7y ago
That's very true, but for me that's an acceptable tradeoff for not having to write much code or spin up a database, docker container, load balancer, or worry about security. Dark is great for getting a project off the ground and g
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by crabl 7y ago
Being a part of the Dark beta ( https://darklang.com ) has been incredible. It makes setting up a simple backend with persistent storage a breeze.
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by crabl 7y ago
I don't know about that... I think the only conclusion you could draw from this might be that the market for iOS and Mac _RSS readers_ are almost the same size. You might even be able to stretch it to say they are the _same_ market.
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by crabl 7y ago
Yup, exactly this. The fact that most iPad "creativity" apps (looking at Procreate, Notability, Photoshop, etc) are using essentially the same set of interactions as we have on the Mac at the moment (limited to a single input meth
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by crabl 7y ago
What about coalescing the lists of applications requiring specific permissions, for instance, and presenting that to the user at the end of the setup process in a more structured step? I'm imagining a list of "here are XYZ applica
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by crabl 7y ago
I think the coolest aspect about Unison, is that they're trying to reify the concept of a codebase ( http://unisonweb.org/2016-09-17/editing.html ) into something more than just a collection of lines of source code.
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by crabl 7y ago
If you ever find yourself in Mountain View on a Saturday around 11AM, I highly recommend taking in the IBM 1401 demo that happens at the Computer History Museum: singlehandedly one of the coolest things I’ve experienced. Having the opportun
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by crabl 7y ago
Couldn't you theoretically shove all of your untrusted "non-I/O" libraries into a Service Worker? They wouldn't have direct access to the DOM or network I/O that way. It would involve writing some glue code, bu
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by crabl 7y ago
How do you generally start your checkout line conversations?
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by crabl 8y ago
This has some eerie similarities to [Backbone.js]( https://backbonejs.org/#View-extend ). That's not necessarily a bad thing, because Backbone was doing its level best to compete as a framework in its heyday, but it&#x27
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by crabl 8y ago
As someone who has used (and suffered at the hands of) NSLayoutConstraint, I'd actually love to see a more accessible and generally understandable version of this come into existence. Constraint programming is an underrated area of res
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by crabl 8y ago
Rather than a pendulum, I think the reality is that typed languages are now going through a significant period of evolution, especially with the advent of _gradual_ typing. TypeScript, for example, is just a superset of JavaScript, but with
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by crabl 8y ago
Apple has shown and continues to show willingness to embrace web technologies once they show clear promise or stability[1]. They might not implement "hemorrhaging edge" technologies immediately, but if the technology supports it,
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by crabl 8y ago
The deep irony here is that https://www.data.gov/ is still down due to the government shutdown.
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by crabl 8y ago
Having learned French in school as well, I can confirm that it is the same feeling!
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by crabl 8y ago
As an aside, many languages (like Hungarian) lack grammatical gender and gendered pronouns entirely. Having learned English afterward, it took conscious effort on my part to remember to include the correct gender when talking about people i
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by crabl 8y ago
I wrote my own task management application that I use to organize long-term goals (and different aspects of my life) into high-level categories (represented by sections on the page like “work” vs. “home” vs. “personal”), and more granular c
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by crabl 8y ago
1. Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda - Great insight into how Apple teams develop products, and creating a “demo culture” 2. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - Gripping prose and an altogether incredible storyline 3. It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy
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by crabl 8y ago
A big reason for the lack of long wait lines is because Apple's retail org under Angela Ahrendts has been trying since 2015 to actively discourage that behavior [1], and they have SUBSTANTIALLY better control over their supply chain no
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by crabl 8y ago
Tangential to this, he says Airbnb has 100 mobile devs writing about 80k LoC of app code, 40K LoC of infra, and 220 "screens". We've got an app with about the same "dimensions", developed in a similar timeframe, wit

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