spiralganglion

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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   I work with CoffeeScript (yes, I'm the one person, hah), SCSS, and HTML. No frameworks. No editor extensions. As minimal a setup as possible, aside from my two fave transpilers. The perf I'm taking about is just purely motion to p
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   16" MBP, i9, top GPU. As maxed-out as you can max-out a MBP. I'm a musician, animator, and gamer — and I read Dan Luu's blog posts, haha — so I'm quite sensitive to input lag.
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   I didn't mean to suggest that VSC was slower than Atom — only that it wasn't meaningfully faster. The fact that the typing latency felt equivalent (ie. not native ), and that I couldn't visually customize VSC to my liking (d
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   Sublime has fantastic perf, and for the first while with Atom (when it struggled with any file bigger than a few dozen KB) I kept Sublime around for big files. But I don't like how Sublime looks. It doesn't look designed to me —
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   I see a lot of folks here comparing this to VS Code and asking "Why would I use this instead?" — I am exactly on the opposite side of that equation. Why would I use VS Code when I can use this? I've been using Atom for most o
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   You should join the future of coding community. It's full of like-minded people working on similar projects. https://futureofcoding.org
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   Some pre-7 versions of iOS would adjust the sheen on certain graphics (like one of the Settings icons, if memory serves) based on the gyroscope, so as you rotated the device the specular highlights would appear to move. Not exactly the same
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   Relying on the UA string for browser detection is an anti-pattern. Instead, you should do feature detection. Modernizr [1] is nice, but you can also just do it yourself. Look into CSS @support too. [1] https://modernizr.com
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   by spiralganglion 6y ago

   I'm a musician, so my inroad to safely playing with electronics was circuit bending. You can buy kid's toy pianos and soundmakers and such for effectively $0 at thrift stores. Unscrew the casing, crack it open, pop in fresh batter
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    I'm the solo dev on an industrial training website. We have a short lesson about the basic electrical units (voltage, current, resistance) that might serve as an approachable introduction or handy reference: https://www.lunc
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    For anyone unfamiliar with those ANSI valve symbols, you'll find a charming explanation of them here: https://www.lunchboxsessions.com/materials/hydraulic-schemat... (Disclosure: I'm on the team that built th
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    We do this at my company, and it is purely for altruistic reasons. If people aren't happily making good use of my service, I don't want their money. That's the entire calculus. Netflix is vastly bigger, granted, so who knows
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    I avoid using this 4th param "spread", as the effect varies wildly between browsers. Safari and Chrome, the two most popular browsers on mobile, are also the two most different, with Firefox and IE/Edge (pre-Chromium) landing
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    What does it mean for an economist to be "leading"? How is that assessment made. On what basis / criteria?
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    As I see it, processing isn't visual programming, it's a text language for making visuals. Certainly though, it's a superb project.
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    Suggestions welcome! This was only my 3rd interview since taking over the show, and I have a lot to learn.
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    You may enjoy: http://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    Non-binary. Many people also spell it "enby". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    Host of said interview here! I had a blast interviewing Miller, even though I now have nightmarish visions of imperative constructs rummaging around in my patches, and nasty text fields sneaking up behind my objects, haha. For future interv
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    by spiralganglion 6y ago

    Hey, I know the host of that podcast! He has some weird opinions about visual programming. Makes sense he'd be interested in Orca.
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    Yeah, it's sort of the opposite of low-code — give people a super powerful art tool that gets even more powerful if you learn some basic coding, and tons of people will learn to code just to make cool things with it. It's how I st
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    Seems like this is affecting more than just their camera business. Do we know which division the PlayStation now falls under? This is a big year, with the next generation consoles just around the corner. So far, Sony has been keeping a low
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    These are vastly more artistically satisfying than the OP, and most other GAN images that are presented as art. That's a great statement about process mattering as much as result (or is that just my POMO talking?) Thanks for sharing th
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    Orca, with Devine Lu Linvega(futureofcoding.org)

    2 points by spiralganglion 7y ago|0 comments
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    I'm using the MBP in clamshell driving a 2560x1440@60 Apple Cinema Display at native res, and seeing the GPU drawing 20W constantly (via iStat Menus). The laptop's internal display is set to native 2x. The fans sit just fine at th
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    > because the laptop CANNOT be 2mm thicker Well, they did make the 16" a fair bit thicker than the previous models.
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    I opened it and instantly thought — "Ohhhh, you got me!"
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    worrydream.com is the website of Bret Victor, a popular researcher and proponent of computation as a new kind of dynamic media rather than simply a substrate for software. He's made a number of influential essays and talks, and is now
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    This just looks like typical game dev code to me. You treat the code like a scratchpad, exploring the space and looking for things that work well. Lots of things written once and never touched again, lots of things written with magic number
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    by spiralganglion 7y ago

    5 has been true for years, especially among arts/music communities.