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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Agreed! My process for creating something like this involves a few steps, but is pretty straightforward: 1. Draw vector art in Infinity Designer on my iPad (with pencil) 2. Export as svg, and then clean it up in Inkscape (simplify paths, fi
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
As the link says, deprecation has been suspended for a long time now. SMIL support is here to stay.
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I love SMIL animations. If you're curious about what you can do, here's a few examples: https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin http
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
> Furthermore, in the Bay Area Founder-VC scene, FK/PK tension simply isn’t perceived as a problem. Founders increasingly think of themselves as capital allocators who think in bets, and the angel investing scene has brought founder
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
"Merchandizing! ...every kid's favorite: Space Balls the Flame Thrower"
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Great article. Highlights the need for better tooling to create the connective fabric between personal sites. Mine: https://www.pcmaffey.com
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
If you’re collecting and relying on demographic data than privacy probably isn’t very important to you.
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People treat privacy as a human right, not a good to be traded(twitter.com)
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Or roll your own: https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics
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An App for When You Get Punched in the Face(firetower.us)
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You can skip all multiples of 3 also.
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Yes, using an ad-blocker list is exactly what I was planning. Would then blacklist from the index any sites that serve ads. Would prolly also at a minimum, heavily penalize affiliate links.
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Ive got a half baked project for a blog search engine that won’t index any pages with ads...
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I wonder. If you took the average value of all RSU/options granted over the past 10 years in tech, I'd venture to guess the number would be closer to 0 than not.
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Yes, one of my principles is “dev before design” which is a slightly different vector than UI before API, but a similar enough reversal that demonstrates your very good point about flipping / disagreeable principles.
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> A simpler approach would be to have a single variable for state, and only allows switching between well known states! In web apps, this is the route, as the browser comes out of the box with a familiar and handy UI for traversing and s
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
For something a little more practical, I recently came across this postgres id generator[1], which Ive been playing around with as a solution for ordered, scalable bigint ids (that take up less space than standard uuids). [1] https:/
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
You don’t need javascript to build a website. You don’t need a doctor to solve every health problem. And you don’t need a lawyer to resolve every conflict between people. Eg. Where would the internet be if only programmers built websites?
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
I only use gmail in chrome. And I only use chrome for google services (and development). It's like a quarantine. All my other browsing happens in firefox...
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
I designed my home page as a thin homage to web server root index.html pages. Though I'm most proud of my SMIL animations. https://www.pcmaffey.com
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Automation is the how, but not the why. We automate things that have become trivial, so that we can do something more meaningful. It’s important to understand the functional value of programming (ie. automation), but what really inspires le
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
I really just wish exact match search still worked. But now, words are all vectorized as every search engine tries to determine "my intent", resulting in a deluge of fuzzy matches. Maybe I'm old school, but I don't want
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Reading The Overstory right now, which is a Man Booker winning fictional exploration into the survival mechanisms? consciousness? endangered status? of forests. Edit: I read the title as “fractured forests are endangered wildlife”... which
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Use craco. https://github.com/gsoft-inc/craco I needed it to get CRA working in a lerna/yarn workspaces monorepo. Super impressed with how easy config is.
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
VC is a pyramid scheme. A VC's entire focus is selling "a narrative" to other VCs, so they can push their portfolio companies' next round or raise their next fund. Only a rare few treat their portfolio companies as custo
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
I want to see niche search engines: - a search engine for blogs - a search engine for dev questions - a search engine for shopping - a search engine for diy etc. Im really tired of sites trying to centralize and own this content. The key to
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Hope this helps: https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Isn't it funny how so many of us would rather scan through a bunch of comments than read the actual article? I'm not sure what that says about us...
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
Fun fact: Turkish coffee, Cypriot coffee, and Greek coffee are all exactly the same thing... except perhaps for the ethnicity of the hand serving it.
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by pcmaffey 7y ago
AI that detects AI seems entirely plausible. And like all “anti” measures, is another arms race (and if I put my scifi hat on, is what may lead to AI self-awareness).

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