EricHolden12

inside job /exit strategy.

Cheaper steam engines meant more coal burned, not less.

inb4

- Don’t me think steve krugman - Design of everyday things - something by nielsen norman

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seriously: - The best interface is no Interface - Collaborativeproduct design - orly -

But now they’ve allowed alternative app stores so why are PWAs still required?

Patient care apps as PWAs? Yikes.

Such a sensationalist post.

The ramble about designers being responsible is very shallow. “Designers” at these companies don’t have much say in what needs to be designed, they just have to figure out how it will look.

From coffee makers to software, there are plenty of people and companies that have the “do one thing well” ethos. You just have to be willing to pay a premium because in the modern age of global capitalism where making something abundant and cheap is easy, the opposite is much harder.

You fell for the Keurig meme. You want a coffee maker that just makes damn good coffee and will last you a long time? Get a solid italian made espresso machine. Or a Moka Pot, or a Chemex.

You spent $12 on a coffee maker (Westinghouse? Black and Decker? Sunbeam?) and yes it’ll make you a cup of black coffee, but nobody wants just black coffee. I want my black coffee to have hints of orange, chocolate, and citrus. I don’t just want black coffee.

Same with software. Simple doesn’t mean “black cup of joe” which would be akin to a command line app.

Simple means something intentionally made that sweats the smallest details within a specific function. I want my software to do one thing well, but be delightful to use. I want it to be fast, I want it to look nice, I want it to be simple and easy to use. And if it is all those things I will pay a premium for it.

“Things” app is an example that comes to mind.

Another thing that helped imessage cement its position was that teens often had an ipod and you could use imessage on an ipod, so those teens talking to their friends were using imessage and when they switched to iphone that mental model carried over. Blue bubbles were familiar and green bubbles were alien.

This whole debacle has somehow made Apple. responsible for fixing SMS, which is not their job to do so.

I really hope Apple holds their ground and doesn’t cave to this pressure to make iMessage more interoperable.

For the longest time nobody batted an eye to iMessage, claiming it’s garbage and suddenly when it’s grown to the size, feature set that it’s at now there’s a mark on it.

Blue vs green bubbles is a subtext of an unspoken class system:

iPhone = for rich people Android = for poor people

Thus if you’re a teen and you have a green bubble, you are poor.

You are a great example.

It’s this mentality which is the problem — that only PMs are thinking about customer/biz success and so they must prioritize and figure out what everyone should work on and when it should be done.

Let’s do a rewrite in Rust. What does this engineer know that we don’t? Why would they say something so incredulous. What if they are thinking about the customer and biz but from a different angle.

Builders - people writing code and designing the actual functionality and experiences somehow became strictly “resources”. The thing that made tech great and allowed for so many companies to flourish was the tech/geek/nerd/hacker spirit that let those who write code decide what to do and how to do it.

Now, we’ve McKinsey’d the whole thing into boring processes that make work for people who don’t design or code. Jira, Google Docs, Slack, etc etc etc

You buy a first class ticket for an airline and you get access to the lounge in the airport with fast wifi and snacks.

Outside there are people with different tickets screaming to be let in because they know someone in there and it’s not fair that they can’t go in.

And Migicovsky is on the side trying to dig a little tunnel into the lounge.

iMessage is a perk of using an iPhone. You want to use iMessage? Get an iPhone.

Frameworks have chosen to add abstraction layers that “simplify” writing code because it makes it easier for the not so great programmers to write code.

This has been desirable for one main reason: making writing code easier for the surge of new programmers entering the field. It’s the reason Facebook made React — the people they were hiring out of college were smart and capable but we’re not nerds about the technology.

The biggest proof of that is how many devs are still scared of CSS and don’t feel comfortable writing it, and why the adoption of Tailwind has surged.

>Pakistan and Khan mess. Super happy they finally arrested him. We shall see how it goes, I'm optimistic it should stabilize pakistan.

Hahahahahahahaahahahahahaha.

By this, your definition of stabilize is that the USA is again more firmly in command of Pakistan as a country. Khan is an antagonist who tried and failed to get Pakistan to be truly independent and not controlled by any other nation. Pakistan is unfortunately a pawn in geopolitical moves, and with his arrest the stooges in place will happily bend and dance for the powers that be as long as they can pocket a tidy sum.

Yes, and?

>The origin was from the muslim community, whose political leaders realized that for them to seize power, a democratic setup with majority Hindu population will be impossible.

Or put in other words, muslims being a minority in India didn’t want to now have new rulers as India got independence from the British.

mastodon could’ve been the one if there was an avenue for someone with a strong product sense to lead it paired with better marketing. Instead we got a bunch of nerds using words like federated, self-hosted, open to talk about it and ensure it’s place in history next to the facebook killer “diaspora”

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. Mastodon has the same problem Diaspora did. Their name/branding is terrible and doesn’t resonate with non techy people. Nerds who make cool tech shouldn’t be in charge of naming it.

Mastodon would be far more popular if it wasn’t called Mastodon.

Elon Musk is a loser.

Literally just by showing up.

People have a distorted view of exercise, thinking that every work out, every gym session has to be intense but in fact the most important thing is to do something.

Have a gym membership? Just show up and walk on the treadmill for half n hour and go home.

Don’t have a gym membership? Go for a walk around the block.

All that is exercise.

The magic happens when the repetitive act of showing up starts compounding in unexpected ways.

You feel the benefit so going the next time is less effort, and you may walk a bit longer.

That in turn affects the choices you make about what you eat, when you go to sleep, the quality of you’re sleep, the increase in dopamine from all those activities, which then feeds back into the cycle.

So literally the easiest thing you can do is do something, don’t expect overnight results because that kind of expectation informs the perceived effort (which is high), which results in people doing nothing.

I know it can be difficult to think putting your health and and mental well-being first especially during stressful bouts.

I’ve had undiagnosed ADHD since I was a teen (now 32) and recently got a diagnosis and started using medication (Vyvanse).

Without a doubt the only thing that has ever come close to helping me feel “normal” has been exercising regularly. Whether it was going for a run, or lifting weights, the stillness you feel through medication is something I only felt after a nice workout.

So that’s what i’d recommend. Put your physical health first, eat better, exercise regularly, and top it off with something low effort but high reward like yoga or meditation. That is the only way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/exercise-...

Companies over hired during the pandemic because they issued stock to new employees to artificially boost their share price.

Not having a long term plan for how the company needs to evolve to respond to changing customer needs and market trends.

Many companies have a difficult time coming up with a 6 month roadmap, and often if they do it’s so porous that new priorities will constantly change that roadmap so the things you wanted to get done simply don’t.

Visionary companies have an outlook well into the future because they not only understand what their customer needs are today and how they can make money by providing that value, but also know how they can leapfrog competition by innovating in the long term in their respective industries. Apple is a great example of a company that has done this.

Management styles, leadership etc come and go, they can be trained, but often a company that lacks focus and “here’s where we’re going to be in x years” is going to feel pains show up in the organization in different ways (people leaving, leadership changes, demoralizing culture, lack of talent, lack of care and passion from employees, etc)

Does it have anything close to Figma’s auto-layout capabilities?

Isn’t this the version Wes Bos did? If so you should give him credit.

Apologizing is so easy when you pocket nearly $1b from the sale.

Dorsey is a genius honestly. He somehow got the richest guy in the world to buy the biggest dumpster fire in the world.

Forget Twitter, Square etc This is is Dorsey’s magnum opus

Oh man, this takes me back.

i remember learning CSS/XHTML and getting your website to pass the validator so you could proudly show the badge on your website was a big deal.

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