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by rahoulb 3y ago
If you clear a notification on your watch does it clear it from the phone? It's a tiny thing, but it's really nice to have. Similarly, if the notification has a "Reply" option (say a Slack message), can you reply on you
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by rahoulb 3y ago
This is one thing that no-one else seems to mention (not even Spotify). When Apple Music launched it was around the time that 3rd party apps were allowed to hook into Siri - so you could say "Hey Siri, tell MyToDoApp to remind me to do
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by rahoulb 3y ago
> Then, it’s just as usable by third parties without making promises about interoperability. I'd say this is the point. If it's "published as part of Obsidian" it implies Obsidian can break it at any time and the inte
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by rahoulb 3y ago
So they can whine about how regulation interferes with their ability to innovate
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I've not looked at Linear - but when I was freelancing I used Pivotal (free account) to just put all my clients' requests into one long queue (I had about 8 clients at any one time). I put in a very random guess as to the points v
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Many years ago I used to despair every time I used my dad's windows machine. Every time, his browser window was filled with loads of toolbars installed by various sites and utilities, leaving him with a tiny usable content area. I ke
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I was just about to say the Remote extension (proprietary to Microsoft so you can’t install it in the VSCode derived editors) is the killer feature. It allows me to leave my MacStudio at the office and work from a lower powered laptop at ho
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by rahoulb 3y ago
(applauds) That's also my go-to karaoke song (no codpiece unfortunately)
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Even John Gruber (Daring Fireball) described it as a shit sandwich from Apple.
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by rahoulb 3y ago
While it did some fitness tracking (especially the heart rate stuff which couldn't be done with a phone), it certainly wasn't promoted as a fitness device. There was all that stuff about "connecting" (where you could sen
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember the 90s and Microsoft. The olden days equivalent of the HN crowd (Slashdot? Kuro5hin?) hated Microsoft's behaviour but had to build on their platforms because there wasn't an alternative that would
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Like bootstrap it's a set of standard behaviours and styles. Bootstrap basically takes standard elements and when you add CSS classes and data properties, it styles them and adds some JS behaviours. Shoelace builds HTML custom elements
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by rahoulb 3y ago
The world has changed. I read somewhere that Windows 98 sold 15 million licences. Add in OEM machines and you've got a base of computer users in maybe the 100-200 million range - most of whom either had to use the device for work (w
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Totally off-topic but I really dislike the phrase "Those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach." It implies that teaching isn't a skill of its own. Some of the best football coaches were mediocre players (Alex Ferguson
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I found Every Layout incredibly useful and, even when I’m not using their components I rarely find myself writing a piece of CSS that just won’t do what I want (an all to common occurrence before the book).
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Those were the redesigned M1 Max/Pro versions. Mine is the M1-with-touchbar (same design as the intel version) which was released at the same time as the M1 MacBook Air - late 2020.
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I bought my M1 MacBook Pro not long after they were released. It's approaching 3 years old which is a pretty standard age for people to start looking at a replacement - I guess that's why they're comparing it to the M1. Slig
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by rahoulb 3y ago
The Songtradr press release says "we have acquired Bandcamp" - which to my ears sounds like "we have taken ownership of the company registration" (in UK terms). In which case TUPE would apply, if they were Bandcamp empl
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I don't know about elsewhere, but under UK law this would be illegal - precisely to stop this sort of thing happening. The new company has to offer employees a "transfer of previous employment" - so even though you're wo
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by rahoulb 3y ago
There are times when I find this utterly infuriating, but other times it's an absolute blessed relief. I know there's no point wasting time hunting for a solution (that may or may not make the situation worse) and I should just w
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I constantly get Mojave and Monterey mixed up. And I'm completely lost with Debian releases.
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Depends on your definition of big. Partly, you need mobile now, so any Rails stuff is likely to be back-end and hidden. Plus big investors like to go for the exciting stuff. But if you're looking at companies aren't household nam
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I don't really know how to describe it - it just "feels" better. Which isn't very objective I know, but is important for an app that I spend several hours a day in. There's some visual stuff: The default views, fon
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I don’t know about JetBrains but I have tried to replicate my VSCode + Remote Containers extension workflow in vim and Nova (which I absolutely love) and not got anywhere near.
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Yes. As long as your code makes sure it takes account of that flag everywhere that it is used. Otherwise your new feature could "leak" into the system for everyone else. Plus, as systems grow in complexity, there's always a
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Hit them with bullet points that they will care about right at the start to grab their attention. Then explain why it matters. """ Dear <<WHOEVER>>, I'm writing to inform you of a change that Google is propo
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by rahoulb 3y ago
That's basically what Smalltalk was back in the 20th Century. The OS, the development environment and the application (both code and live objects) where one and the same thing. To ship an "app" you would export the image and
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by rahoulb 3y ago
(I'm no expert on sysadmin stuff) They both achieve the same aims - reproducible setup - but (on Linux) a container is uses less resources than a VM, so it's lighter to run them both side by side. This matters for developer machi
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by rahoulb 3y ago
There's code-server ( https://github.com/coder/code-server ) which you can install on your own machine and is based off VSCode. However, it doesn't have access to some of the Microsoft VSCode extensions (altho
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by rahoulb 3y ago
Just want to say I'm using Shoelace in two Rails projects and I absolutely love it. Thank you very much.

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