pketh

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1. 31.▲
   Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C (2022)(lapcatsoftware.com)

   61 points by pketh 3y ago|72 comments
2. 32.▲
   by pketh 3y ago

   Mine isn’t particularly advanced or cool but I built this little directory of kaomojis (text-based emoji) with a cat mascot while I was in San Francisco for an interview at Flickr (this was a long time ago). At the time I was a junior desig
3. 33.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   Update: after using bing, moved to pexels, which seems quite nice
4. 34.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   I’d rather be a sandwich artist
5. 35.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   I think this one might just last
6. 36.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   I use bing in my app for image search, anyone have some alternatives they’d recommend? (I tried unsplash but their dev approval process just never worked for me and I couldn’t get to a human)
7. 37.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   I agree but I also wonder how much of this is a failing or ceiling of capitalism? Where things can never be complete or perfected, where we have to invent new problems to sell new crap?
8. 38.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   Thanks!
9. 39.▲
   by pketh 4y ago

   I wrote a blog post about this very topic, including how I balance user needs with my own aspirations https://pketh.org/how-i-build.html
10. 40.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Hi creator of kinopio here, I tried Evryca out and I like what you’re making, and I think your roadmap makes sense - keep up the great work :)
11. 41.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    I released an update that allows you to turns off sticky card animations for new users, and after 20 cards are created, 'unlock's the feature and allows you to turn it off if you'd like. more info: https://twitter.
12. 42.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    I enjoy that everyone who ported Neko, went on to have an illustrious career
13. 43.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Released an update that only fades out the header/footer when pinch zooming, so it stays visible when swipe scrolling. Also while fading during a slow pinch, it will no longer fade back in until after your fingers have left the screen.
14. 44.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    i would like to have the header/footer fixed in position but safari ios doesn't accurately send position information during swipe scrolling that would let me keep it fixed without jittering. (Because the app is designed to be pinc
15. 45.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    it's hard to tell whether the animations are functioning as designed for you, it's possible they're bugging out/skipping frames on your device. If you're able to email me a screencast (hi@kinopio.club, or post on th
16. 46.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Ahh that makes sense, android has some known issues that I want to resolve this month so I’ll add these to the list - thanks! (tracking in https://club.kinopio.club/t/bugs-on-android/346/13 )
17. 47.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    The header and footer, including the logo hide on mobile during scroll because mobile safari doesn’t send enough info to position them accurately during flicks. Are you seeing flickering on iOS or android?
18. 48.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Ah ic, are they jittery in the sense that they’re skipping/dropping frames or moving unexpectedly fast?
19. 49.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Are you referring to focusing/blurring on a textarea/input? (Eg when clicking a card and then it’s text?)
20. 50.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Which animations? I def would want to fix/tweak that
21. 51.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    pleasant/enjoyable to use was my interpretation, which I think is a sufficiently high bar that few websites (and native apps for that matter) meet
22. 52.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    relevant but also self-promo: I build https://kinopio.club a spatial thinking tool that's also (I hope) a good website. I'm only one person without the resources to build separate ios/android apps so the website n
23. 53.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    This post is by Jeff Johnson. I submitted it to hn because I thought it was a really nuanced take, and because I thought his conclusion that not all programming languages need to be for all skill levels makes a lot of sense
24. 54.▲
    Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C(lapcatsoftware.com)

    6 points by pketh 4y ago|1 comments
25. 55.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    It’s mainly for dev rebuild performance. I also use vite and it’s a pretty nice build tool that’s relatively easy to configure and quite fast. It might also affect your production build times, but prod builds are far less frequent and perf
26. 56.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    > Money that could instead be spent money building more schools and paying teachers more. I get the logic but irl that sounds like a false equivalency to me, We don’t spend money on ornamentation/whimsy *and* we also don’t spend mon
27. 57.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    Oftentimes constraints are a feature. What was the title of the paper and what did you winnow it down to? If the latter is clearer, then maybe the constraint does more good than bad
28. 58.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    A counter example from societies and software that seems to grow and scale well are biological systems like tissues. Maybe we could design better software and better teams using patterns from biology instead of the romans of old.
29. 59.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    A private beta is not what I’d consider a shipping product, but you may have a different definition of that
30. 60.▲
    by pketh 4y ago

    I'm sure it exists in some form, but it's not currently a shipping product