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Unity is betting big on VFX Virtual Production, what a huge step this is. Unreal is of course ahead in this space, with major productions like Mandalorian to back it up. This is very interesting and exciting to see what will happen. Weta is so beloved in the industry, and has so much expertise, hope nothing is lost in this transition.

Unity is betting big on VFX Virtual Production, what a huge step this is. Unreal is of course ahead in this space, with major productions like Mandalorian to back it up. This is very interesting and exciting to see what will happen.

Weta is so beloved in the industry, and has so much expertise, hope nothing is lost in this transition.

Adult humour, not sure how hackernews will like it. But this sketch tries to touch (in a sarcastic way) some of struggles of going back to office. I think they did a great job, and raise some thoughts/discussion around new ways of working

Project homepage link in the article is outdated and points to a sport bets website.

Wikipedia article includes a good link: https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/

It mentions and links to Haiku in the wiki as Hello done consenquently. Does this means Hello is the concept and Haiku the implementation? Should I install and try Haiku instead https://www.haiku-os.org/

Years ago, Treehouse had a refrenshingly easy to grasp, with great content, curriculum around web technologies. The tutors were super friendly and enthusiastic while retaining a good technical level (for the target) - I really praise their introductory courses. Shame to hear this, definitely some better communication was needed, but IMHO personal life details only take the real failures out of focus - business and people involved deserved much better out of the whole process.

Very personal opinion here: Apple innovated as hell, pure lab of goodness and years and years ahead of any other OS. Sad reality is that they are now a 100 billion mega megacorp, user is second in the money dance. I don’t see them as innovative, freedom (not as in free beer) means a lot and they don’t contribute to it at all, if anything even more closed ecossystem - long gone the days of OpenDarwin. Most people I know switched back to Windows for better drivers support. UX is still second to none in Apple, but at what cost? In the end, you want to press a button to turn on the system and get things done. I think there’s more than just Apple nowadays - but unique strengths in different contexts for sure

This is so true! Watching the new york philharmonic musical experiences in the subway, or yugop mono*crafts or v2 playing with physics, Hillman Curtis God is in the details, or the never ending games revolution (globulus, get the glass some of my favourites). Every website was a new experience to be discovered.

There were multiple attempts to bring Flash runtime back using webassembly (faster, secure), maybe we’ll see Flash content yet again… or maybe we don’t need it, but it was definitely a fun era.

Brilliant

Thanks, I wasn’t thinking only about docker desktop, but also more specifically docker cli and compose (but now makes sense)

btw for mac there’s Containerd + Lima https://medium.com/nttlabs/containerd-and-lima-39e0b64d2a59

It looks like a good drop-in replacement for docker?

“ Docker extracted its container runtime out into a new project, containerd. This includes Docker’s functionality for executing containers, handling low-level storage and managing image transfers. Containerd was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in order to provide the container community with a basis for creating new container solutions.”

from “What Is containerd, And How Does It Relate to Docker and Kubernetes” -https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/10075/what-is-containerd-and-ho...

Firefox is a breeze to use with great dev tools. Don’t even have Chrome installed atm, but may have to soon because of lighthouse.

Definitely pushing for Firefox to be part of default installation at workplace, we need to fight monopolies.

Thank you for this :)

“The Luxembourg unit (...) employs just 5,262 staff meaning that the income per employ amounts to €8.4m“

This puts things into perspective/scale.

My take from the article is to not sacrifice good engineering principles (e.g. code quality, tests, scalability, performance...) and re-scope, adjust number of feautures, etc when needed. That’s just the nature of engineering. As Product owners get more experienced (contextually) and better communicate with Engineers, scopes get better and sprints are more accurate.

Can sprints be used as highger level structure grouping pieces of work together, without any hard deadline involved? I think that happens in some organisations, with no or soft deadlines.

This is really great,loving the whole code catalog and podcast.

Codeflow looks interesting, but is mislisted as open source in the catalog[1] although private on github, and there’s a new sign up for beta option on their page - I believe it’s no longer open source

[1] https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/codeflow.html

[2] https://github.com/codeflowlang

Exactly same experience, from San Fran to Singapore and in between. Never really realised how good we have it, such a good point

As an alternative I've been using Ecosia, it seems to donate 80% or more of its profits to planting trees where they are needed most (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia)

Also considered Privacy friendly: https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/privacy/

Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...

It seems to me front end developer and backend developer still works, although front end developer role evolved, can’t see a need for this extra long names.

Yes front end developers do more, than when the web was just html and tables, but that’s just evolution.

You want to focus on the UI only, UI developer fits. With complexity increasing, web developer title doesn’t make sense as it is too generic.

But backend, being it in java or node is a backend. I don’t see the need for this new categorisations.

I think the question arises from Fullstack term usage? fullstack front end and fullstack backend has been thrown around in job interviews, so fullstack alone without context doesn’t make sense: I don’t think it ever did.

His 84th birhtday was very recent 31st Jan

Glassworks is such a seminal piece of work. Passages (with Ravi Shankar) is on my playlist for today

Thanks for the article!

This looks great! Lacks instructions on how to use it in the readme, and I wonder could it be adapted for other cartoon animations?

A blog post on how it was built would be a great follow-up!

Kudos to you, sir

From experience, the magician will take every chance to make this divide greater, and sell their expertise, rather than grow with (and help grow in domain) the blacksmith skills. You end up with magic: closed siloed knowledge. “How would the blacksmith ever understand magic?” was often something thrown around by magicians at meetings.

The (repetitive) blacksmith role is not an interesting one, digital revolution needs to come into place. Architects that build tools, self service systems are much more interesting.

Thanks for sharing

Wondering what happens to the data they read from each user?

Qbasic was the easy step into programming, but it was with turbo-pascal that I had most fun. I still recall eagerly awaiting for the monthly magazine that brought a floppy disk with source code I could study and try. But the best part, in the IDE, was the documentation, every keyword had an easy to access text explanation and fully working example. Borland was really great at this, same happened with turbo-c.

But there’s definitely magic to Basic, from a sheet of paper with line numbered, easy to understand (closest to language), instructions you can copy into a simple ide, to immediate results. There’s no entry barrier.

Such a nice story to read, thanks op.

it was all Macromedia at one time (before Adobe felt the competition, bought the whole company and rebranded the suite that included Flash). Macromedia Director had an even more powerful set of tools, until Macromedia Flash evolved the ActionScript language and with web dissemination really took over.

Amazing work as ever from the archive! Thank you and congrats

Boxer works really well as a self-contained executable dosbox app on macos. It’s source is available on github, but I’m not sure they’ve chosen a OSS license model

Quite surprised when opened the app, download with in-app purchases to find out a paywall - it’s unusable without buying

sorry to ask, but inflating downloads number this way? Can’t find a good reason...

The app looks great btw