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by jwells89 3y ago
Particularly if you’re running OS 9 or older Classic Mac OS, as it barely does anything that isn’t user-initiated, which naturally means a lot less disk activity.
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by jwells89 3y ago
The G4 desktops are all pretty cool machines. One of these days I’d like to get ahold of a Quicksilver/MDD motherboard and see if I can figure out a way to fit it into a modern ATX case. The original tower cases were neat but not great
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yep, the designer taking into account the strengths and limitations of the UI toolkit being used and remembering to design for more than just the happy path (e.g. accounting for long strings and variable fonts) will get you 90% of the way.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yes, your first paragraph is the big standout in my memory. GitHub and Google Code were clean, uncluttered, and focused in a way that SourceForge was very much not. Almost what Google was to Excite, Lycos, etc in the early 2000s.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yes, I liken a proper menubar to the index of a book. You should be able to find just about every function a program has in its menus. It also serves as a key shortcut cheat sheet which is important for cultivating a fervent base of power u
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by jwells89 3y ago
A big contributor to the popularity of flat design is how non-designers could make reasonably ok looking stuff with it, whereas more graphically rich style unavoidably requires the work of a skilled graphics artist (which a few developers h
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by jwells89 3y ago
Progressive disclosure is an important principle in designing good UIs, but as you’re pointing out it’s often misused or used to excuse cuts and burying things for the sake of aesthetics. When applied correctly, all the term really means is
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by jwells89 3y ago
Conversely, I find it frustrating when UI designs targeting some of the most capable displays that have ever existed make little use of the incredible color, contrast, and sharpness offered by those displays, sticking strictly to vague mono
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by jwells89 3y ago
My childhood was in a rural area the US known for lagging behind other parts by a decade or more, so I can relate even though that was in the 90s. Lots of quiet evenings doodling away in a notebook, getting lost in my imagination, pondering
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by jwells89 3y ago
Maybe, if they’re provided with interesting things to do and fun places to go. Those both started drying up several years before smartphones entered the picture, with suburban areas becoming particularly desert-like. It shouldn’t be a surpr
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by jwells89 3y ago
I find it depends on how many things are in the toolbar, and if the icons are actually icons or monochromatic glyphs. A toolbar that’s populated only with the most frequently used functions and employs full color, uniquely shaped icons can
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by jwells89 3y ago
I think an argument can be made for toolbars if they’re customizable with no holes barred on customizability (looking at you, Firefox, with your non-optional hamburger menu) and can be hidden entirely, should the user choose to do so. For
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by jwells89 3y ago
Biggest problems with TypeScript IMO are that it’s a layer rather than a language proper and that untyped JS problems can too easily worm their way in if you’re using any libraries at all. Also depending on the group of developers involved,
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by jwells89 3y ago
Longtime mac users definitely have a preference for apps that are not only native, but designed to be good citizens of the mac desktop by abiding by its UI conventions, feature progressive disclosure of power user features, etc.
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by jwells89 3y ago
In addition: - WYSIWYG editors are bad about making small unintended changes that can easily slip by undetected (Interface Builder in Xcode for example often changes XIBs/storyboards just by viewing them) - WYSIWYG editors bury bits
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by jwells89 3y ago
That unavoidable independence that comes with long-term human settlements (especially in places further than the Moon) is interesting to me, if only because historically interesting things happen when significant numbers of people establish
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by jwells89 3y ago
Will have to try it to see how well it works in practice, but very cool. I can see this being popular for side project apps written by iOS devs that otherwise wouldn’t have an Android port.
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by jwells89 3y ago
The first two paragraphs has been my experience on Android too. Android Framework is an incredibly disjointed mess that leaves you neck-deep in half-baked APIs. Compose is better for sure. I’m still figuring it all out but it’s a marked imp
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yep, this is a problem I’ve encountered several times. Even if none of your own code has unhandled throws, you’ll inevitably get crash reports coming in from fooLib throwing an exception somewhere because the moon was in the wrong phase.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yeah, I have no interest in keeping 15 digital wallet apps, even if they offer incentives, for the same reason I don’t carry a physical wallet for each physical card. Now I could see an argument for wallet apps being generic so e.g. the app
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by jwells89 3y ago
I love the internal/external labeling. With a little thought it can make for code that reads more nicely than is possible otherwise.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Kotlin is probably the most similar in syntax to Swift out of the languages I’ve written, but it’s somewhat quirky and opinionated and I’m not sure I agree with its opinions (lack of guard statement, no ternary ifs, etc). Also it involves J
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by jwells89 3y ago
VS Code isn’t too bad, it after ~20 years of Xcode/Project Builder, muscle memory for keybinds and UI in general is strong. Hoping that someone uses the LSP to write a cross platform “Xcode Lite” or something along those lines.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Cost and support networks are both big factors here. 30-somethings are probably more likely to have replacement rate or more if it’s affordable to do so and there’s family/friends around to lend a hand, but few enjoy such circumstances
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by jwells89 3y ago
Good question. Maybe the amount of toll reduction should depend on the number of people carried and the weight of the vehicle, encouraging lightweight vehicles that can carry a lot of people. Probably should have a hard cutoff too so e.g. o
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by jwells89 3y ago
Though it might be a good idea to also encourage carpooling with reduced tolls, because presumably one bigger car carrying 5-7 people is better than 5-7 smaller but still bigger-than-city-cars carrying 1 person each.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Not a parent, but I feel the same about myself. Having a kid at 22 would’ve been a mess to say the least. Looking back at that age halfway through my 30s, at that point I wasn’t much more than an overgrown 16 year old that could legally wal
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by jwells89 3y ago
On Macs (and presumably iOS devices with a keyboard hooked up) it can be produced by pressing ⌥⇧K and will render so long as the receiving text field can render a system font that contains the symbol.
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by jwells89 3y ago
A lot of desktop software devs are averse to anything but old style full access to everything all the time, but yes I agree. Most software has no good reason to put files anywhere outside of its own application bundle and ~/Library&#x2
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by jwells89 3y ago
Krita is a close second to Blender in terms of well-run creative FOSS projects. Would love to see more projects take their approach.

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