eviks

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by eviks 8mo ago
> Man pages are such a constrained format and it’s fun to think about what you can do with such limited formatting options. Replace it with a better format
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by eviks 8mo ago
What if the app set up an encrypted container for you in a similar "immediately ready to use after installation" fashion?
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by eviks 8mo ago
Do they plan online portal for content banned in the U.S.?
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by eviks 8mo ago
What are the benefits of cramming everything into an app instead of using better editors in an encrypted container?
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by eviks 8mo ago
> * Makepad - from the demos I've seen this looks really cool, especially for arty GUI projects like synthesizers and car UIs. However it has basically no documentation so don't bother yet. Have you seen their intro that also h
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by eviks 8mo ago
Are there gui frameworks that allow setting such type of constraints in a visually intuitive manner so that you don't have to remember to manually adjust element height when toolbar height changes?
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by eviks 8mo ago
> Think of them as the composable building blocks of a domain specific language for manipulating text, one that can become a powerful tool in expressing yourself. Writers are renown for ther love of coding domain specific languages! They
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by eviks 8mo ago
> long-running ad campaign So you confirm the previous point about zero information
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by eviks 8mo ago
> It's telling me that I should rather focus on getting viral/lucky to get a shot at "success". It doesn't? You'd need to know the odds for the tell. Like how many incompetent grifters are there, how many of
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by eviks 9mo ago
Doesn't make sense, the improvements can still be worse than pre-glass, and it's not guaranteed they will be better. Also, what's the rush, why not implement it after it's improved? The predictability is the opposite - y
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by eviks 9mo ago
Aim wider: why window and not screen?
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by eviks 9mo ago
> MSDF was another option I considered, you could also look at sub-pixel rendering Seems like a much superior tech due the ability to reproduce sharp corners, would be interesting to read why the regular SDF was chosen (there are some re
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by eviks 9mo ago
Nothing happened, just that the bureaucrats are slowly catching up with new technologies to make them as free as everything else
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by eviks 9mo ago
You need to wait for a meta-blog about removing banners from the blog
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by eviks 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003569
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by eviks 9mo ago
> sooner or later ... design in the latest SDKs Or don't use the latest SDK and don't be forced "next year", but continue for many more years. Also "later" is definitely better in such cases because there is
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by eviks 9mo ago
Or without which the system would function much better because all poorly functioning systems would fail, forcing designers to focus on fixing the faults
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by eviks 9mo ago
> Using a trackpad gesture is just as quick Definitely not, many of swish gestures require you to move the mouse cursor to the title bar, which takes time, also holding a key and performing a simpler gesture can’t be slower than performi
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by eviks 9mo ago
It's easily resolvable - you just need to allow custom forms, then every user can pick one of the 3 most popular forms or tweak them to his unique preferences. Of course, this should also be true for window shape so you can remove the
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by eviks 9mo ago
Why is keyboard a problem if your left hand is always on it? It's easier to do than a mouse only gesture and easier to remember
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by eviks 9mo ago
Pedantic, you don't know the distribution, so the chance could be higher
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by eviks 9mo ago
It's amazing how much effort is wasted adding various OS degradation features (like poorly readable redesign) while bread & butter basics are broken for decades (it's a bad primitive to require pixel-perfect precision for resi
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by eviks 9mo ago
> You create a backport just for yourself for your own device without needing the store, no distribution/App Store is needed. It is needed, you can't install a custom app permanently on iOS. By the way, what if you only have iO
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by eviks 9mo ago
No, you don't get it, otherwise you wouldn't repeat/add irrelevant points to a thread filled with them
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by eviks 9mo ago
Ok, to get back to the original point: does making one of your platforms worse jibe with the quality philosophy?
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by eviks 9mo ago
> You can create an app today that is compatible with iOS 15. You forgot to address the point, which was about distribution, not creation The previous paragraph is similarly irrelevant, for example, "aren't required to" -
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by eviks 9mo ago
It doesn't make sense because the previous version also matches the OS it's on, liquid glass degradation isn't mandatory and "much easier" is still harder than doing the better nothing. Your suggestion is just as se
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by eviks 9mo ago
> think it looks better (on Mac and iOS) than any other Liquid Glass app what a weird comparison, the baseline is the previous version of the app > standout features of the app is just being native, not trying to re-invent the wheel w
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by eviks 9mo ago
> gotta pick your battles carefully Ok, and how is wasting time making the design worse to follow the OS instead of spending that time implementing missing features a carefully picked battle? I thought the philosophy was prioritizing qua
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by eviks 9mo ago
Their new version 7 implements the lower quality design of liquid glass while also blocking all ios versions below the latest (so you can't get bug fixes and slow features with the better design). How does that fit the philosophy?

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