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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   This is what confused me. The discussion made sense to leave it up to the browser to implement, but I can't understand why they didn't require it in the browser WebSocket implementation — they even suggested it and then forgot abo
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   There are definitely legitimate use cases, like rendering text tiles in parallel workers and letting the main thread blit them all together. Text rendering is one of the slowest canvas drawing operations, and blitting is super fast, so this
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   Depends on what you want to do - sing, play, listen better? I would recommend getting a ukulele and learning some easy 3-chord songs that you like. It takes some time to get decent at, but it’s easier than guitar and they’re pretty cheap. Y
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   I love seeing everyone else’s hobbies. It’s important to be well-rounded. Somewhat tech-related, I like building and repairing electronics and vintage mechanical things (Singer sewing machine, old door latches, old Macintosh; you get the id
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   Brandon James Greer[0] has some really good vids on pixel art, including 1-bit. I recommend trying it out for yourself in Aseprite, or if you have an iPad/Apple Pencil, Pixaki is actually really nice. [0]: https://youtu.be&#
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   Incredible! I feel like there’s so much room for improvement for mainstream input methods. Amazing this existed in 2007 — too bad I can’t use it on my iPhone.
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   If it's a WebExtension, it's usually not too hard to port to Firefox ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... )
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   > (NOTE: my use of male pronouns is deliberate; it is almost always male IT engineers who have this unreasonable optimism. Female IT engineers in my experience are generally far more conservative and realistic, almost to a fault, which i
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   by news_to_me 5y ago

   I've been working on Elixir projects freelance for over a year now, and it's become my preference for new projects. Elixir is one of my favorite languages because I feel like it really increases the leverage each developer has in
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    by news_to_me 5y ago

    I totally agree. In my friendships, I highly value people that will tell me when they disagree, and I try to avoid people who are hard to disagree with. Some of my favorite people are stereotypical “New York” types.
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    This looks great! Would have been helpful when I was bootstrapping my Mac for internet access. Speaking of which, does anyone know of a Raspberry Pi setup that will emulate a modem and bridge an internet connection? I've been using SLi
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Whoa, super cool work! I can see Coprocessorjs being really useful. I love seeing modern dev for 68k Macs. The toolbox can be a pain at first, but it's not so bad once you internalize all the different managers you have to remember. Ma
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    This is awesome! I knew something like galvo motors must exist but I never looked deeply into it. I'm going to have to use something like this to build a better automatic cat laser.
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Why sarcasm? Yahoo Answers represents an important slice of online culture from the early 2000s. Are our kids supposed to just believe us when we tell them how babby is formed[1]? [1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    I agree, and to be clear I've never really been in a position to worry about hiring anyway. But I would imagine building a medium/large team with varying experience levels (including juniors) would be easier with a more establishe
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    +1 for Ecto, really a game-changing library.
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    In terms of language, Phoenix is a complete replacement for Rails for me. I feel more comfortable growing a functional codebase, and the BEAM means I don't have to worry about scaling as soon as I would with Rails. I think it's a
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    This is a great idea! Maybe we can encourage it by upvoting posts that include salary info.
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    SEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote Preferred I'm Zack, a full stack Web developer specializing in web applications and productivity tools. I have experience with Express (Node.js), Ruby on Rails, Phoenix (Elixir), and Wordpress. On the fr
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    > The crater is loud and deeply rumbly and makes you feel the raw power of the Earth. I'm using this in my next Zork clone ;)
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    This is also why I started freelancing and limit myself to ~20hr weeks. I actually feel just as productive as I did working 8hr days salaried, since I have much better mental health with the extra free time. The only real downside is findin
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    What a coincidence! I was just in the middle of implementing LZW compression this weekend[0]. Compression algorithms are very interesting, and underrated. [0]: https://sr.ht/~zjm/lzw/
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    https://xkcd.com/1172/
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Satisfying to see Kjetil Golid’s work mentioned — one of my favorite artists! https://www.katevassgalerie.com/kjetil-golid
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    But... why? Doesn’t all this seem needlessly complex? How are users better served by adding complexity to the front end? Certainly there are complex UIs that require sophisticated front ends, but you probably aren’t building one, even thoug
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Have you ever heard of free software? ;)
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Dithering is so cool! I love the different looks you can get with different algorithms. I added dithered output to a little 3D renderer I’m building and I think it looks super cool [0]. Also, it’s mentioned in the monochrome article, but Lu
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    These guys are a huge inspiration for me and my personal work. I really love their approach to technology, and I wish there were more people exploring alternatives to the tech co/startup/capitalist grind. (Maybe there are? Recs we
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    Yeah I find this method way easier to understand than scan conversion. Fabian Giesen has a great series of articles from 2011 that explains it well[0]. Also the original 1988 paper by Pineda is a surprisingly easy read, and it's only 4
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    by news_to_me 6y ago

    I’m one of those Karens — fuck your bike’s noise, it should be illegal, at least in the city. Electric can’t get here soon enough so we can have fun and get some sleep too.