msephton

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by msephton 2y ago
The Affinity apps (Photo, Designer, Publisher) are all 95% the same, too. They are basically the same shared frameworks with a slightly different UI. They can all open the same documents, for example. Whilst you can only create a table in P
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by msephton 2y ago
Great work! Pass on my thanks to your team. I feel the effort.
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by msephton 2y ago
Well done, keep it up! I also strive to keep my apps small and lean.
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by msephton 2y ago
On the plus side, my latest app (a browser for multiple Japanese shopping websites with unified search, and an icon!) is just 200KB (400KB installed). I use zero frameworks to achieve this. I also target iOS 15 just for kicks.
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by msephton 2y ago
This is about an iOS app. The Android app is "OK" at ~200MB.
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by msephton 2y ago
There's no need to wonder what it "could" be about, it's all explained at the link. :) I reported this size issue to them during beta test, and they ignored it. At the time I was on a limited cellular plan with no home w
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The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing(twitter.com)
57 points by msephton 2y ago|88 comments
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by msephton 2y ago
In the site footer small print it says it was "rediscovered" ...so who came up with this concept originally?
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by msephton 2y ago
This reminds me of something I wrote in early 2000. At that time RSS was less than a year old and if I'm honest I wasn't aware of it at all. I wrote a short PHP script to get the HTML of each site in a list, do a diff against the
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by msephton 2y ago
I have the full history in my blog feed.
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by msephton 2y ago
Me too!
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by msephton 2y ago
I use that too, but I think I'll use linkpreview in future simply because the results are less cluttered.
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by msephton 2y ago
My initial thoughts were that these issues were showing how things look on a non-retina display, or a display with non-default scaling. That does seem to be the case, but not entirely. I took some screenshots and I do not see the misaligned
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by msephton 2y ago
I ran some Daylight Computer photos from a trip to their factory through Google Lens and it was the Sharp factory in Japan. No doubt. It seems that they took a certain Sharp screen and simply took off the colour layer. Citation needed.
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by msephton 2y ago
Very enjoyable. I love these sort of thinking outside the box optimisations.
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by msephton 2y ago
The inherited decision thing reminds me of the fictional(?) "monkey ladder experiment" or "5 monkeys experiment".
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by msephton 2y ago
I absolutely agree with you on that. I had just edited my answer above to include a fi all paragraph basically saying the same thing. It doesn't need to be black or white, one or the other, it can be both or anything in between. The fa
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by msephton 2y ago
(author) I disagree, as you might expect. :) I'm an independent developer who makes video games, one of which - YOYOZO - was voted a GOTY in 2023. I can explain every single line of that source code and every parameter, variable and co
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by msephton 2y ago
(author) me too, for a while. I always thought it was an excuse back in the 1990s when it was the response to most problems with Windows. But in the years since I have grown to appreciate that whilst it can be used to explain away a bug, it
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by msephton 2y ago
Thanks, I think! :) I am a glass half full kind of guy so perhaps the text is a little more positive than neutral.
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by msephton 2y ago
Things always seem more compressed in time looking back. At the time it felt quite slow. I can tell you that around 1990 when I was programming my Atari ST the summers lasted forever! I used that machine for about 5 years. Then there was W
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by msephton 2y ago
I think we're talking about your personal take after reading of the post? Maybe. I specifically mention bugs and glitches, unintended consequences, happy accidents (unintended things that become intended by virtue of them being kept ra
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by msephton 2y ago
Right, but they were still shaped by human decisions.
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by msephton 2y ago
(author) I do mention this briefly in the article. Did you think I should have written more on this? I can't tell by your comment.
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by msephton 2y ago
(author) I wondered if I should even add the last section. My thinking was that if I didn't the discussion would centre on its omission, and if I did the discussion would centre on its inclusion. Catch-22.
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This behavior is by design(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
33 points by msephton 2y ago|26 comments
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by msephton 2y ago
I recently filed a PR adding macOS support to this.
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by msephton 2y ago
C was very popular throughout the 1980s, and was the first choice for systems programming. C was created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. In 1973 he used it to rewrite the entire Unix kernel. The popularity of both C and Unix grew alongside eacho
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by msephton 2y ago
I only go when I'm passing, once every month or so. Special meal out, isn't it.
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by msephton 2y ago
It's my local, so that makes it unique. It does have a quieter vibe than some of the other branches I've been in. YMMV

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