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by jgruber 2y ago
The comparison JSON is apt. The first few years after I released Markdown, it was far less popular than I expected and hoped it would be. But it grew, and then for a years it was as popular as I’d expected. But then it kept growing, and now
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by jgruber 2y ago
If rST were actually easy to write and read I would have just used rST instead of creating Markdown.
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by jgruber 2y ago
> In fact, 90% of what I wrote before I knew markdown was valid and decently formatted markdown already. Bingo!
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by jgruber 2y ago
I have no regrets on this one. I thought people would use both, and people do use both.
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by jgruber 2y ago
I couldn’t say it better myself. Thanks.
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by jgruber 2y ago
Well said. But, uh, there’s no “maybe” about Markdown being intended for writing a blog. That’s literally exactly what I made it for — for me to write Daring Fireball.
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by jgruber 2y ago
Isn’t that sort of what we’re seeing on VisionOS, where Netflix and YouTube are both like “Nah, we’ll wait…”?
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by jgruber 2y ago
Microsoft would welcome a law that forces Sony to allow Xbox Game Pass on PlayStation.
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by jgruber 2y ago
Correct. If you enable Lockdown Mode, the JavaScript JIT compiler is disable by default in WebKit: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 So Apple considers its own trusted JIT a security threat surface.
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by jgruber 2y ago
Apple’s BrowserEngineKit allows for the use of JITs. I have a link to the docs in my article.
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by jgruber 2y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. I’m guessing these cheap fake Lightning headphones that use Bluetooth are just using off-the-shelf Bluetooth components that are dirt-cheap, and that there are no equivalent “off-the-shelf” Lightning components.
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by jgruber 4y ago
You think the Mac version of Messages was ported via Catalyst two years ago and it’s a dead end? I don’t.
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by jgruber 4y ago
Correct. Sharing contact information is opt-in, and what gets stored on the server is only salted and hashed phone numbers, not even names. It’s just a way to find people on Wavelength whose phone numbers are in your contacts. Also, if you
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by jgruber 4y ago
Wavelength’s threading feels Usenet-y to me.
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by jgruber 4y ago
> e2ee handwaving but there will never be proof unless they open-source it. This is a good point, and the Wavelength team is well aware of this. > but suspiciously not matrix.org I will admit I’d not heard of Matrix until your mention
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by jgruber 4y ago
I considered that, but it felt like a spoiler. I wanted to tell a story, and it felt natural and fair to me to put that advisory disclaimer in the chronology. I don’t think it’s misleading, because anyone who lost interest before getting to
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by jgruber 4y ago
That’s a great question, Messages that specifically mention “@AI” are visible to the bot (obviously), but only those messages. Not the whole thread.
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by jgruber 4y ago
That’s why declining the refund is opt-in, not opt-out.
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by jgruber 4y ago
Exactly the sort of thing I’ve noticed. Thanks much for quantifying it, though.
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by jgruber 4y ago
Why should developing the feel of an app be any different than the feel of a game. That’s what good apps are like. It’s like you can play a good app as much as you use it. All good tools and instruments in history have been crafted like
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by jgruber 4y ago
Syncing what? Syncing anything?
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by jgruber 4y ago
I am not “anti remote work”. That would be absurd (and, personally, hypocritical). But I strongly believe that remote work isn’t good for some teams, and for some roles. No remote work for anyone: bad policy. Everyone on every team can work
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by jgruber 4y ago
Correct. I am not talking about frame rate.
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by jgruber 4y ago
That’s like asking for “measurable criteria” for evaluating a movie or novel or song or painting. It’s art. I will offer another quote from Kubrick: “The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain
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by jgruber 9y ago
I think I missed the mark in several ways with my review of the original Apple Watch, but I complained strenuously about the fact that the display doesn't always show the time -- something I'm used to because I've worn a trad
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by jgruber 9y ago
I don't recall ever overly praising the Pebble. Here's everything I've ever written about Pebble: https://daringfireball.net/search/pebble I really only wore mine for about a week, finding it more annoyi
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by jgruber 9y ago
Which products do you think I should recommend a competing product over Apple's? On phones, tablets, and computers, I personally much prefer Apple's OSes, and I usually prefer their hardware as well. But even when I don't pre
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by jgruber 10y ago
The Deck was just one leg among several on the DF revenue stool. Weekly sponsorships for the RSS feed and my podcast are still going strong. And, Jim Coudal was open about the problems The Deck was facing -- the end didn't come as a su
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by jgruber 10y ago
You built a content blocker that only blocked The Deck?
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by jgruber 10y ago
Not even mentioning it says what I think about it more than anything I could write about it.

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