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by dceddia 3y ago
Just to add one more, this article from Erik Kennedy (the guy behind learnui.design) and the “copy work” technique noticeably helped advance my design skill. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/02/improving-ui-de
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by dceddia 3y ago
Hmm interesting. Wonder if they have some non-symmetrical parts, like the location of the engine maybe?
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Port and starboard are indeed fixed (same with bow and stern), so that no matter which way the boat is moving or the passengers are facing, those words always refer to the same physical sides of the boat :)
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by dceddia 3y ago
Sorry, yes, that was a dog. Let me try again and this time I will definitely not hit anything. Sorry, that was another dog.
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by dceddia 3y ago
I was thinking if the model is: buy Version 1 for $99... then next year, Version 2 is out with lots of new features for the upgrade price of $79 -- well, then nothing really stops you from releasing new features under Version 1, but at so
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by dceddia 3y ago
That would be a choice, wouldn't it! The thought crossed my mind but somehow I see people not being happy with having to pay $X to unlock every little feature, heh. "Tell 'em what's behind tab number 3, Johnny! Johnny: M
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by dceddia 3y ago
Yeah, that's another way to go, and I considered doing that. The main thing I didn't like about that strategy was how I'd be sitting on lots of unused code between major releases. All the new features sitting on my SSD for mo
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by dceddia 3y ago
From the developer side I feel like this type of license makes the most sense to me too. After selling a desktop app with a license like that for a little while though, I’ve also unfortunately realized that not everyone understands it. I ha
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by dceddia 4y ago
I just ran across a mention of gpt4all in another thread, and it looks like the team is working on training up GPT-J as an open alternative to the Llama-based model: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all#short-term
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by dceddia 4y ago
Yep, templates are type-checked, even though it's not JSX. Svelte is already running a compiler on the components anyway, to figure out the reactive stuff and to generate the minimal code required to update those specific spots in the
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by dceddia 4y ago
I don’t know if there was an implicit “besides Svelte” in there, but if you’re open to it, Svelte works well with TypeScript. The types flow into the HTML expressions too. I also like how little boilerplate there is compared to e.g. adding
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by dceddia 4y ago
I was just thinking this morning about how one day, probably soon, we’ll have people reminiscing about how they miss seeing typos in writing.
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https://archive.is/lCA9m
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Small Businesses Face Big Tax Bills from Research-Deduction Change(wsj.com)
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Much like Chuck Norris references in movies from 2004, I get the sense that this advice is a product of its time. One of those “it makes more sense if you were there” things. (It even starts off acknowledging that it’s an article about curr
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A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf](alvyray.com)
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by dceddia 4y ago
I ran across this when I found samply [0], a CLI sampling profiler. On samply's GitHub there's a link to a sample profile that opens in the Firefox Profiler and I was in awe at just how fast it is! Try dragging your mouse over t
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Firefox Profiler(profiler.firefox.com)
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by dceddia 4y ago
I’ve had good luck with this CableMatters USB KVM switch. It switches the USB devices along with a DisplayPort. So I leave the monitor’s input alone, and run its DisplayPort to this, and then DP cables out to my Mac and PC (well, DP-to-USBC
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by dceddia 4y ago
Regarding stretching, I found the book Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to be a huge help. It has lots of suggestions for kinds of stretches to do based on the kind of work you do, but my big takeaway (and according to the author, the most
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A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf](alvyray.com)
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by dceddia 4y ago
You might already be aware, but I wanted to mention it for anyone else who might be interested in software performance - Casey has a new “performance-aware programming” course [0] where he goes through how to write performant software. It’s
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by dceddia 4y ago
I’ve always thought of this rule (and the similar Profit First strategy, which I personally follow) as more of a guiding principle. When taxes, salaries, and expenses come due, those need to be a priority, so before any money flows in or ou
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by dceddia 4y ago
The “industry where 80% of bookings were still done using pen and paper” seemed like a red flag to me. To my eyes that means they don’t need/want/buy tech solutions to this problem and it’ll be a huge uphill battle to convince the
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by dceddia 4y ago
I’ve been on the lookout for a better way to do embeddable videos. The YouTube one is fine, but for a landing page, it’s not great that YT (of course) tries to get you to watch recommended videos right afterward. I was actually going to say
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by dceddia 4y ago
They already are – there's a system webview on Windows and macOS. There are a few "Electron alternatives" that use the system webview instead of bundling a copy of Chromium. Tauri [0] is one of them, built around Rust, and it
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by dceddia 4y ago
Of the things on the list, the redirects jumped out to me as the most likely culprit. Second guess would be the algorithm change. You could look at individual pages before & after - mainly the top performing few, looking at what queries
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This rings a bell for me too... have you read Developer Hegemony? It reminds me of that book.
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I like this XKCD and I think about it a lot, in a “is it really worth my time to do this?” kind of way. One thing the time-based framework doesn’t account for is the mental energy you could save. A small example: I sell a software produ
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by dceddia 4y ago
I was curious about how much this would be to rent, because definitely the cost of those servers is outside the budget! Lambda has 8xA100 40gb for $8.80/hr: https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud#pricing

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