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by eddieh 7y ago
Would it help if instead of software "architecture," we called in software "organization?" It seems like nobody would demand "proof" if Martin was arguing that it is faster and easier to find a book in a librar
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by eddieh 7y ago
I once worked on a team of about 30 people building a website for a university that could have been a team of one dev and one designer and a static site generator.
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by eddieh 7y ago
Dropbox ended up be an institutional requirement where I was working. Now I just let iCloud do it’s thing. It isn’t great, but it is less buggy than Dropbox.
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by eddieh 7y ago
Unison and Wings 3D are both projects I wanted to make changes to when I was using them. Downloaded the source code for both, spent a day or so reading and fiddling and got bored. I actually like learning new languages, but I don’t have the
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by eddieh 7y ago
Maybe, I really like Lisp and especially Scheme. Don't get me wrong. I just think that a lot of projects suffer from being written in a language with a small community or even, at the time of conception, a thriving yet fleeting communi
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by eddieh 7y ago
Absolutely, I have a entry in my journal about wanting to rewrite Unison in C. Never got around to it, but it would still be fun. The same goes with Wings 3D, cool app, but Erlang? Really?
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by eddieh 7y ago
What do you mean "share" the road with cars? I walk almost everywhere. I have a Zipcar account that I use less than once a month and a bus pass that I use even less frequently. It is hard to say how many of my neighbors are car-le
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by eddieh 7y ago
I used to use it daily to sync projects, music, and documents between computers too. It was really nice once I got it configured to my liking. I would sync my work computer to a external hard drive and the external drive to my home computer
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by eddieh 7y ago
I live in a suburb of Seattle, I haven’t owned a car for about two years. It used to be owning a car was liberating, but now I think the day I sold my car was one of the most liberating days of my life.
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by eddieh 7y ago
A sizable number of Mac users are not really Mac users, they happen to use a Mac at work or for some other reason, and usually end using the likes of Chrome, GIMP, Gmail, Google Docs, and all manner of Electron apps.
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by eddieh 7y ago
I just think of the 3 vertical dots as vertical ellipsis. I often use vertical ellipsis when making a list that continues. e.g. — History of Empire and Colonialism — History of Religion and Society — History of Race, Gender, and Power ⋮
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by eddieh 7y ago
Actually the icon looks like three menu items. It is a pretty good icon for signaling that it will open a menu. The hamburger nomenclature seems to be an ex pos facto name for something that rightfully should be called the menu icon.
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by eddieh 7y ago
I think you're right about this. I'd much rather read LISP for Poets or LISP for Future Presidents than something with a title that is insulting or degrading. There's probably a considerable market for books that educate and
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by eddieh 7y ago
Ctrl-d deletes caracters forward on macOS. Super easy when caps lock is ctrl.
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by eddieh 7y ago
I set up Emacs so Meta works on words and Super works on symbols. So I type_the_identifier_in_lowercase then type s-b to move the cursor to the beginning of the symbol, then type s-u to uppercase the symbol and move the cursor back to the e
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by eddieh 7y ago
Oh dear god?! https://medium.com/@bengreenier/hijacking-spotify-web-contro...
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by eddieh 7y ago
You’re not alone. I really love the butterfly keyboards and I really hope we are not forced to regress back to the old keyboards.
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by eddieh 7y ago
Yes, remapping caps lock to either control or escape is supported by Apple, but not remapping to both control AND escape.
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by eddieh 7y ago
After remapping my caps key to be both control and escape I honestly don’t know how I used to work with the real escape key. If anything, Apple should build this mapping into macOS so I don’t have to use some third-party app to do it.
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by eddieh 7y ago
Personally I think it is time for Apple to drop the "i". For lots of stuff they already have stopped naming with the "i", Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Music. Maybe they should also just start capitalizing properly too. P
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by eddieh 7y ago
Or: [F]ist [i]ndexes [s]earchable [t]ext
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by eddieh 7y ago
- Empty window stoplight controls (breaks HIG). - I been waiting over two minutes for it to open a blank document created in the web version...three minutes still blank. - Had to close and re-open. Still takes a few seconds to load a blank
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by eddieh 7y ago
I doubt that claim so much. Every Electron application I've ever used is seriously deficient in many ways. First every app has its own set of UI controls, so right there you loose one of the best things about native Mac apps, consisten
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by eddieh 7y ago
I still love how OmniWeb can do vertical tabs. I wish Safari had an option for it.
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by eddieh 7y ago
Because Mac applications are more than just rendering APIs, its about the windows, menus, controls, and a complete cohesive UI that works like all the user's other applications. As a Mac user I'll always pick a Mac only app over a
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by eddieh 7y ago
Metal, Core Image, Autosave, QuickLook, and supports the Touch Bar
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by eddieh 7y ago
Yes, there's so many great Mac/Apple only applications that beat the pants off of any cross-platform apps, especially stuff built with Electron. I use some great apps on a daily basis that are Mac or Apple ecosystem only. Acorn -
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by eddieh 7y ago
Sounds like you want https://buildbot.net
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by eddieh 7y ago
Yes. I was looking for a modern _human_ curated directory of web content just the other day and found nothing usable. I don't think that excluding commercial entries would be necessary, but perhaps there could be some way to filter com
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by eddieh 8y ago
Why not Sinatra + ORM in that case?

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