Native apps suck too. i cannot list 10 native mac apps that are truly great, including Apple’s own. To me these days native on desktop means web, not Appkit. I can resize the whole interface with a common shortcut, I…
Have both and none is falling apart. Both have their advantages, the Sample is a more robust and also just bland, KO2 is more fun and interesting. It’s comparable to Nintendo vs Sony, both excellent in their own way.
Unfortunately a very large part of the population is living their digital life inside closed platforms nowadays and this is getting even worse with younger generations who literally think tiktok and instagram is _the_…
Go to modular meets, music instrument expos like Superbooth, dj sets and live concerts. I met all my best friends this way, everybody is a record collector, beat maker or techno producer. Record conventions are also…
Couple of things that helped me in similar situations: - volunteer: find a place you can help others, go cook for the homeless, work with other volunteers, not only are you doing good and meeting new people, you also…
I rarely feel that any more, especially with the latest liquid glass updates. I used to work on high profile native apps, but embraced Elektron after Figma destroyed Sketch, the supposedly superior native alternative.…
Berghain puts stickers on your phone cameras, it’s pretty non intrusive while substantially improving the party experience. I didn’t see a single phone in the air on the dancefloor. It was quite refreshing, felt like…
It looks like they made a decision to include icons for every menu item and the developers for each app had to come up with an icon association for all menu items. I’m sure they realized along the way that this was a…
Electron is usually a business choice, it’s performant enough at the fraction of the cost. it has very little to do with developers being lazy.
I’m curious to hear where you think this is a showstopper. I’ve been testing some Flutter apps lately and other than some mismatches in platform UI elements they have been smooth. I wonder what you would think of apps…
That is one way to look at them. The other is more akin to a parasite, wait for small companies to invest and innovate and once a product is proven in the marketplace, copy it. I don't really want to judge them, cheap…
When I was working with TextKit years ago I was constantly using the Hopper decompiler on iOS SDKs to understand the internal workings of these frameworks. Documentation is sparse and calling functions in the right…
The fact that they reversed the change so easily proves the point that there wasn’t a good reason for it in the first place. I feel the same about Liquid Glass, so far I have not seen a good explanation on what actual…
Excluding their cables Apple products held up incredibly well for me. Maybe I’m just lucky but they outlasted every single Android phone and non Apple laptop. It would be interesting to see actual statistics about the…
+1 really enjoyed the whole collection of short stories from Cortazar when I read it at uni. https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Selected-Stories-Julio-Cort%...
PRNG = pseudo-random number generator. I think it would have made sense to spell it out in the first sentence and go with the acronym from then on. Like the author does it with multiply-with-carry (MWC). Makes it more…
The first time I registered to Mastodon it autocapitalized my user name on the web form. Thus I ended up with a capitalized name. I didn’t like that as all my Social handles are lower case, thus deleted the account and…
I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or…
Before Three.js there was Papervision3D for Flash written in ActionScript. While it was not a direct port I imagine a lot of ideas were already established and pretty straightforward to implement in Javascript. Happy to…
I could not disagree more, SwiftUI is a black box that is great when it works but is infuriatingly incomplete to this day. I filed dozens of radars in the past year. I’ve worked on app of the year type applications and…
I’m on the opinion of boycotting visionOS as a protest on their link tax decisions, green bubble shenanigans and other non competitive moves. The future should be innovative and inclusive with fair competition and equal…
I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.
Who are “some Swiss companies” exactly?
After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks. There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.
This, the 404mkii is a really strong machine on all fronts, if they manage to give us a proper looper in this year’s software update I will be over the moon. I like TE but their gear always ends up being closer to a toy…
Native apps suck too. i cannot list 10 native mac apps that are truly great, including Apple’s own. To me these days native on desktop means web, not Appkit. I can resize the whole interface with a common shortcut, I…
Have both and none is falling apart. Both have their advantages, the Sample is a more robust and also just bland, KO2 is more fun and interesting. It’s comparable to Nintendo vs Sony, both excellent in their own way.
Unfortunately a very large part of the population is living their digital life inside closed platforms nowadays and this is getting even worse with younger generations who literally think tiktok and instagram is _the_…
Go to modular meets, music instrument expos like Superbooth, dj sets and live concerts. I met all my best friends this way, everybody is a record collector, beat maker or techno producer. Record conventions are also…
Couple of things that helped me in similar situations: - volunteer: find a place you can help others, go cook for the homeless, work with other volunteers, not only are you doing good and meeting new people, you also…
I rarely feel that any more, especially with the latest liquid glass updates. I used to work on high profile native apps, but embraced Elektron after Figma destroyed Sketch, the supposedly superior native alternative.…
Berghain puts stickers on your phone cameras, it’s pretty non intrusive while substantially improving the party experience. I didn’t see a single phone in the air on the dancefloor. It was quite refreshing, felt like…
It looks like they made a decision to include icons for every menu item and the developers for each app had to come up with an icon association for all menu items. I’m sure they realized along the way that this was a…
Electron is usually a business choice, it’s performant enough at the fraction of the cost. it has very little to do with developers being lazy.
I’m curious to hear where you think this is a showstopper. I’ve been testing some Flutter apps lately and other than some mismatches in platform UI elements they have been smooth. I wonder what you would think of apps…
That is one way to look at them. The other is more akin to a parasite, wait for small companies to invest and innovate and once a product is proven in the marketplace, copy it. I don't really want to judge them, cheap…
When I was working with TextKit years ago I was constantly using the Hopper decompiler on iOS SDKs to understand the internal workings of these frameworks. Documentation is sparse and calling functions in the right…
The fact that they reversed the change so easily proves the point that there wasn’t a good reason for it in the first place. I feel the same about Liquid Glass, so far I have not seen a good explanation on what actual…
Excluding their cables Apple products held up incredibly well for me. Maybe I’m just lucky but they outlasted every single Android phone and non Apple laptop. It would be interesting to see actual statistics about the…
+1 really enjoyed the whole collection of short stories from Cortazar when I read it at uni. https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Selected-Stories-Julio-Cort%...
PRNG = pseudo-random number generator. I think it would have made sense to spell it out in the first sentence and go with the acronym from then on. Like the author does it with multiply-with-carry (MWC). Makes it more…
The first time I registered to Mastodon it autocapitalized my user name on the web form. Thus I ended up with a capitalized name. I didn’t like that as all my Social handles are lower case, thus deleted the account and…
I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or…
Before Three.js there was Papervision3D for Flash written in ActionScript. While it was not a direct port I imagine a lot of ideas were already established and pretty straightforward to implement in Javascript. Happy to…
I could not disagree more, SwiftUI is a black box that is great when it works but is infuriatingly incomplete to this day. I filed dozens of radars in the past year. I’ve worked on app of the year type applications and…
I’m on the opinion of boycotting visionOS as a protest on their link tax decisions, green bubble shenanigans and other non competitive moves. The future should be innovative and inclusive with fair competition and equal…
I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.
Who are “some Swiss companies” exactly?
After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks. There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.
This, the 404mkii is a really strong machine on all fronts, if they manage to give us a proper looper in this year’s software update I will be over the moon. I like TE but their gear always ends up being closer to a toy…