midenginedcoupe

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by midenginedcoupe 4mo ago
I switched from brew to https://asdf-vm.com/ for this very reason. I don't understand how devs don't use a tool that makes multiple versions of everything possible.
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by midenginedcoupe 4mo ago
Pretty much all of it, really. If you want their fancy windowing stuff, I think you also need to use their apps. Terminal, IDE, etc etc. Switching to a different terminal is friction, switching to a different IDE is a really big jump. My be
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by midenginedcoupe 4mo ago
I'm confused. The homepage explicitly calls out that "Cate is not a window manager replacement" yet as far as I can tell pretty much all its features are window management. And the ones that aren't would be better off li
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by midenginedcoupe 11mo ago
Pro jazz trombonist here. All there is to usefully say about piano roll notation, with or without colours has pretty much already been said. And if you want more (much more) detail, then Tantacrul (designer on MuseScore) has done a great vi
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by midenginedcoupe 1y ago
Font size is one of my biggest bugbears with HN, as well as the terrible colour contrast on downvoted posts. I scratched my itch with a custom UserScript https://github.com/mgladdish/website-customisations/tree&#x2
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by midenginedcoupe 1y ago
There's a reason why I call BDD a Billion Dollar Disaster. I've not yet seen a Cucumber or equivalent suite not permanently broken on a mature codebase. Typically a dedicated testing team will fight tooth and nail that this is wha
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by midenginedcoupe 1y ago
Is it me or does the browser feel like the wrong level for this sort of helper? MS have the right idea in doing it at the OS level, it's just their implementation sucks becuase of the non-trivial security implications.
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by midenginedcoupe 1y ago
But I think that's my major issue with the app as I understand it. Starting by choosing which muscle to work is a really odd choice. If you're novice enough that you don't know which movements to choose then you're also
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by midenginedcoupe 1y ago
Interesting timing, Stronger By Science have just made their programme bundle free for every body: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/program-bundle/ Maybe making use of these could solve the exercise selection and prog
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
They resisted this change for years, but eventually gave in and fixed it. You no longer need to hand out your phone number. https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
I've been using it as my daily dev machine for ~5 years now. As per the article, the usability tradeoffs are considerable. But the separation of domains into separate VMs is really lovely. If nothing else, having a separate VM per clie
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
It's been scrubbed for years. The best I can find is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080906122656/http://www.bilebl...
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
Reminds me of the good old days reading the Bile Blog. I suspect this one will go the same way once the consultancy takes off, which would be a shame.
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
Mercedes World have a Formula 1 car exploded like this. It's fab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAWi1dh8Fs
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
A friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step form. All the questions were literally "This is question 1&qu
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
No, it hasn't. Although GDS lost their teeth (and their technical way) some years ago, this rule is still a major win for end users. To be honest, I'm sick of seeing techies fob this one off just because they want to use [insert f
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by midenginedcoupe 2y ago
What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to unde
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
I've also spent much longer than I'd like on this same problem. Having a lightweight-enough service to convert html->pdf on the fly, with good fidelity, and that can create an accessible pdf seems to be impossible. If you can
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Amen. I'd only add that the sort of music they're aiming at is already pretty much at your end state. Muzak (and its slightly more advanced cousin Library Music) isn't about human expression, but about a background noise to c
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Fab. Fascinating to see how clunky apple.com looks even relatively recently.
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
It's a really shitty, user-hostile way to run a website and is a beacon of the tech-bro "screw you, I'm fine" attitude that I utterly detest around tech. Fix your styles, make it accessible. Don't be an a-hole. And
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
My experience of building accessible systems for low-literacy user groups is there's pretty much no such thing as dumbing down too much. But the one big lesson is user test, user test and user test again. People will get tripped up by
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
I think you misunderstand. I did challenge the flag in the correct place in Google's byzantine UIs. I just don't remember today exactly which UI that was. The flag was raised against web content on our domain - it claimed our onli
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
It's beside the point, but is it just me that finds this reply really quite rude? You wouldn't jump in to someone's conversation with such a demand, especially in response to them recounting an experience that was stressful t
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
This evidently doesn't work for all flags. Your own experience != all other peoples' experience. My domain ownership was already registered even before it was flagged. I _think_ it was the search console I used to request a review
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Surely you'd agree that breaking a government service for 3 entire days is unacceptable!? Ideally they'd have an SLA measured in hours, the lower the better. Like 1. Because the consequences of their bot flagging a domain are so s
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
This bot's behaviour made me drop all Google products. A few years ago it marked my company's entire domain as unsafe without any reason. Any human would have been able to tell the flag was incorrect, but "algorithm says no&q
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Huh, I had no idea that's what the black bar was about. I just assumed it was a bodged css rollout every now and then.
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
This isn't trying to solve that problem at all. It's yet another flavour of insurance to add to your existing insurance. Yet another layer of the same guff that exposes ill people to bankrupcy in the first place.
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Seen from outside the US this is wild. Yet more middlemen to deal with middlemen. And you wonder why US healthcare is so expensive with such relatively poor outcomes.

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