rikroots

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   by rikroots 4y ago

   Any ML model that decides to use my code as part of its code suggestion functionality has a fool for an algorithm.
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   I'm glad OSC have listened, and reversed their decision to require two "administrators" per project. Even though I've received $0 from OSC since registering my project with them, I like the fact that OSC is more than jus
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   A few years after I left the civil service I found myself short of cash and took a seasonal job with a well-known UK high street chain as a temporary stockroom assistant. The work was similar to working in an Amazon warehouse, but with rudi
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   I can't answer your question, but it does remind me that I read a really interesting article in Slate about Rod McKuen a couple of weeks ago - https://slate.com/culture/2022/10/rod-mckuen-best-selling-po.
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   The key takeaway I got from the article was a word I've not come across before: avocation - an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. I've known of the concept since before I started work[1], bu
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   I believe SVG and canvas both have strengths, and weaknesses, and should be used where it makes the most sense for each technology. When it comes to charts, SVG has an obvious benefit in that it comes with responsiveness built-in, and is fa
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   My side project is a JS canvas library. I don't monitor it: no logs; no tracking; no service uptime stuff. I do check the GitHub repo daily, just in case someone has wandered in and asked a question (3 questions so far in 2022). In a m
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   Star counts on a repo are both essential for devs who need to assess a range of libraries/products for possible use in their own product (as indirect indicators of support, community, etc), and yet also toxic for anyone trying to build
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   by rikroots 4y ago

   Nobody seems to have mentioned the (planned) advances for gradients. I love gradients and have had a lot of fun implementing them (beyond what the 2d canvas API offers) in my JS canvas library[1] > Gradients can't be animated though
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I wouldn't call this list "canonical", rather it's the list of agreed blend modes set out in the W3C Compositing and Blending Level 2 specification[1][3]. Other products have different views on what sort of blend modes t
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I agree - prefers-reduced-motion is a user-controlled OS-level setting (like prefers-color-scheme) which apps and websites should do their best to respect. Sadly we live in a world where developer time is a cost, and the cost of respecting
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    There's links to lots of canvas libraries here: https://github.com/slaylines/canvas-engines-comparison
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    The good thing about self-publishing (in particular: ePublishing and/or print-on-demand publishing) is that you can go back and correct your work whenever you want to.
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    Yes - this is my understanding of the requirement. When I was coding up my poetry website I decided I wanted to give users the chance to share the poem they were reading on Facebook or Twitter - both of which require their cookies on the us
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I've tried "retirement" twice now. The first "retirement" was actually a 3 year unpaid sabbatical (study for degree, write books, etc) which extended for another four years after I ran out of money and struggled to
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    > I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money. This is the truth that hurts. I get to work closely with some extremel
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I love the internet because every day it teaches me that there is a whole world of stuff out there, a planet-load of humanity struggling to overcome stuff and deal with stuff and celebrate stuff just like I/family/friends/nei
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I don't "hate" TS. I understand how useful it can be. But I don't enjoy working with TS code - especially in large codebases which have been touched by many developers, each with their own understanding of how to use TS.
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    While I broadly agree (my view: copyright lifetimes should be more in line with patent lifetimes), most other people who create work - in particular those who create work to help them pay their bills - would disagree. Fortunately there&#x27
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    That's an easy question. After 7 weeks of training, I quit the Army and moved to London.
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I saw earlier this year that the Figma team had (finally) got around to thinking about the accessibility of their UI. Out of curiosity I went hunting to see if Penpot has UI accessibility built-in. It's not one of the founding principl
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    In my (limited) experience, smaller housing associations seem to show more care and attention than larger ones. It shouldn't be that way. As to the quality of subcontractors - I have good experiences and bad experiences. I always give
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I don't understand why the article assumes there's an either/or situation here (maybe it's written from a US-centric POV?); there's a lot of good money to be made from maintenance and waste management. For example h
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    Ah! Thanks for the explanation. I'll need to fix this in my library.
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I think I understood your requirements, so I tried to knock up a 2d canvas filter demo[1] which met them. Sadly I don't think I met them, but I did end up creating a crazy weird motion blur effect (that's new to me) so thank you
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I prefer a more utopian view. Software engineers will live in a world where cheap and efficient power will be available to all thanks to big advances in solar/wind/tidal/etc energy generation, and similar advances in battery&
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    On the frontend, one thing that I discovered when implementing color spaces into my canvas library was that the CSS HWB standard[1] allows the hue part of a color (which is an angle value) to be supplied supplied as either 'Ndeg',
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    Publishers, and the authors whose work they publish, and the estates of dead authors - they like money. I don't blame the authors: writing a good book takes a lot of time, effort and frustration. But when a book leaves copyright for th
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    by rikroots 4y ago

    I often forget about /newest - particularly if I get distracted and spend too much time reading a link+comments for something currently on the front (=landing) page. I've been thinking about maybe building myself a personal single
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    Show HN: Curved carousel demo in 2D canvas (no GPU or worker code)(codepen.io)

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