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by deergomoo 2y ago
I’ve been (very) casually dabbling with iOS and Mac development on and off since about 2011, and the one constant has been that Xcode is incredibly janky. My first time was for a university project that I almost missed the deadline for beca
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by deergomoo 2y ago
React Native renders actual native widgets to the screen, so for example on iOS you would write to cross-platform abstractions but you’d still get real UIKit components on the screen. Flutter draws its own components that can look superfici
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> or wanted I forget if this is something Lynch ever explicitly talked about, but the way he pulled this off was masterful. We’re in an era of franchises, sequels, and reboots, and all a lot of people wanted from The Return was more Dale
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by deergomoo 2y ago
There’s some fair points in there, some unfair ones, and some outdated ones (unsurprisingly given it’s nearly 13 years old).
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> but did they ever actually fix the WTFs from PHP 4 Depends what you class as a WTF. The older parts of the standard library are still wildly inconsistent in function naming and argument order, but that’s never going to change because i
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by deergomoo 2y ago
There’s still tons of new projects being started in PHP. Frameworks like Laravel and Symfony are massive and actively popular.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I am so, so tired of what technology has become, and it’s far from over yet. At least on the software side I can focus on the small web and applications from independent folks with no intent to abuse. Hardware is much harder. I’m glad I can
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Anecdotally even palm rejection seems to have gone to absolute shit in Notes with iOS 18. When I go to write now there’s like a 50% chance the scroll position flies up the document. I also tried their “handwriting improvement” feature that
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by deergomoo 2y ago
The “play the podcast my wife sent me the other day” example is interesting to me. That shouldn’t be difficult to do without AI. Yeah asking a thing is always gonna be quicker (provided it works), but a well designed app should make that
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I feel like there must be some sort of disassociation that kicks in when you spend long enough in the upper echelons of these gargantuan corporations. It's almost like spending long enough dealing with abstractions like MAUs, DAUs, and
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Same for me. I enjoy what I do, but if I didn’t need the money, I sure as wouldn’t be doing it for someone else. I’d just be working on whatever projects I found interesting. Career goals? Keep things as they are. Work is only something I h
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Heh, my employer is rolling out Zscaler this year. The limited trial a few months ago was hell for folks using WSL primarily, with Docker images adding an additional layer of pain. The people in the trial got very little done until it was d
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I already had a GBA Everdrive but I picked a GB/C one up because for about a year after release, the FPGA cores didn't support the display emulation features of the Pocket, which is a good chunk of the reason I bought mine. I beli
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by deergomoo 2y ago
The PS2 had DVD playback, huge popular franchise support, and the very positive reception of the PS1 going for it. I don't know how it compares to the Dreamcast in raw horsepower, but compared to the GameCube and Xbox it was firmly at
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> IMO it is sad that the sort of… anti-establishment side of tech has suddenly become very worried about copyright It shouldn't be too surprising that anti-establishment folks are more concerned with trillion-dollar companies subsum
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Same deal with DRY, the principle is obviously correct but people can take it too literally. It's so easy to get yourself in a huge mess trying to extract out two or three bits of code that look pretty similar but aren't really
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Another red flag is boilerplate. By definition boilerplate is something that you have to type not because it's required to specify the behavior of the code but simply because the language design demands it. Boilerplate is always u
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Composition over inheritance is one of the most valuable lessons I learned earlier in my career as a developer. In fact these days, I'm hard-pressed to think of a case in which I would prefer inheritance as my first choice to model an
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I am still very sad that the point we started getting high-DPI displays everywhere was about the same time we decided to throw away rich icons and detail in UIs in favour of abstract line art and white-on-white windows. Maybe it was on purp
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Greg Jackson from Octopus (who are the largest energy operator in the UK) has been calling for this for some time. I don't live there but his name comes up a lot in several of the clean energy podcasts I follow. Smart person that
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by deergomoo 2y ago
As someone who owns an insignificant midrange gaming build and has been irritated at the inflation of GPU prices with crypto and now genAI, I’m glad someone is.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
It’s not a popular choice for it, but PHP is also fantastic for the sort of things described in this article. A relatively recent version is pre-installed on many *nixes, it has a decent enough (and gradual) type system, and standard librar
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by deergomoo 2y ago
If you are creating tooling for people to create GUIs, it should always be possible to make those GUIs accessible. I’m not saying this one doesn’t—I don’t know if it does—but in the general case it absolutely should. Not everyone is going t
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I read a lot of blog posts from both sides in the most recent big "web components vs frameworks" brouhaha a month or so ago. The conclusion I came to was that both sides' arguments were mostly correct but orthogonal to each o
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Reminds me of that old George Carlin bit. "The planet is fine. The people are fucked"
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> I really care about the environment but it is getting a bit exhausting I recognise it's a silly, tiny, small-minded thing to get hung up on, but it irritates me to no end that if I stop at McDonalds to grab a milkshake I've g
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I feel like it will be a long time before this is considered essential, if it ever is. An end-to-end 2.1 setup will get you 4K120 with e-ARC and numerous flavours of VRR and HDR (though I don't think those last two are necessarily tied
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by deergomoo 2y ago
It seems to be quite variable over the world. WhatsApp is massive here in the UK but pretty much only as a chat app.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Please do yourself a favour and download a proper podcast client. There are so many great ones out there, they’re often from independent developers, and podcasts are one of the last parts of the modern web that actually work how the web was
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Pretty much hit the nail on the head. Personally I do try my utmost on the patience and teamwork aspect. It might well be naive, and I’d much prefer to not have to, but I’d rather give the same feedback a dozen times, even if I’m despairing

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