Shinchy

This is a great summarisation of what I feel being a consultant feels like too. I often find an avid eagerness to produce the best there is, learn and adapt is a must, but once that fire goes out - like you say - you would never want to do it again.

I've been playing the game on the iPad and one of the annoying issues I have is that the captures for the handcrafted dioramas are quite low res. This results in a sort of blurry background, with sharp 3D models on top effect. It's a small thing but a constant nag that it could look so much better.

Really lovely work, I think it makes for a great digital CV.

I still remember using `display: table` and `display: table-cell` for getting vertical alignment as well.

While I love the opera, I've always found Einstein on the Beach really difficult to program to because of the distracting dominance of the spoken word parts (at least on some recordings) 'Oh these are the days my friend, and these are the days'. For me the Koyaanisqatsi score is the perfect stimulation for getting in the zone.

Had a song stuck in my head for weeks, I knew the Chorus and could hum it but had no idea. It found it though - Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs. I'm quite impressed, although it did think it was more likely to be Eiffel 65 - Blue, a song no one should ever search for. :/

I could possibly see the upcoming US Election causing a bit of an exodus from Social Media platforms as more people become drained by the fatiguing constant flow of extreme views from both sides (mind, I thought that last time).

I will say the big thing for me that made me put my mobile device down (of which I now barely use) was the sheer quantity of hours a day I was wasting away looking at it - this was being amplified by Covid. My thing was getting worked up by stupidity or hateful opinions on Twitter or Reddit (obviously the platforms helped out). The more I looked the more I got annoyed, seeking out arguments if you will. It wasn't until I just stepped back and realised that I'm seeking the opinions of a tiny tiny fraction of a global population that I realised how stupid it was. There are 7 billion people in the world, you can find any opinion you want - it's foolish to spend your day hunting these down and what's worse is that it starts to warp your own personal view away from who you really are. I think the catalyst was Covid for making me realise this, I think more people will start waking up to the same reality.

Thanks :)

This is one of the best band name generators I've seen.

Here in the UK Macintosh is still genericized as a rain coat.

I've worked extensively with various luxury brands that do this (to be honest almost all of them do). The reason is almost always brand integrity, they don't want consumers to think of their brand as being cheap so they only ever discount to a point. Add to that that some brands will allow unsold stock to be returned - obviously this means the seller will only reduce the price to a certain point before it doesn't make financial sense. And finally in some cases it makes more sense from a tax perspective to write off the unsold stock as a complete loss than sell it at a low amount.

I really like this way of looking at it.

I love that someone wrote a script to try and solve this problem.

I love it!

That's a great comment, it's very refreshing to hear someone write about a different reason for starting a business and how beneficial it can be.

I totally agree with you on the images part, I've been working with Gatsby for a while now and their own image implementation is dreadful. Thankfully you can just use the standard React method.

I've been through them all, started on Audition, then to Cubase, then to Pro Tools and finally settled on Ableton. There's just nothing like Ableton for composing, especially with the right hardware (controller or push). It allows you to get completely lost in a way no other DAW I've used can match. Although I do now use Pro Tools for mixing since I find it to be far superior in that area.

> Financial debt isn’t universally reviled in the same way. Your friend takes out a mortgage to buy a house and what do you say? Congratulations!

We do say Congratulations! - we say well done on finishing the project you were working on.

I do agree with the part on not putting too much worth on edge cases, however the biggest issue for me with Technical Debt is the increased time it often leads to in further development. So I wouldn't say it's something to completely ignore.

I've always found the Sheets Solution to be a little bit better as it feels more like a database. It also allows you to store lots of data in different ways, but maybe a google docs / sheets solution would be the best all round for something such as a blog.

Love it! That's a great setup, bet it sounds amazing through those SSL racks too.

Thank god! some of those were monsteras.

This is actually a really handy resource, I'm currently working on something with isometric hexagonal grids and it can get pretty complex at times.

I love this program, I find it so relaxing to simply listen to some music or a podcast and create some unusual works or art with it. I would love for the creator to make an iPad version one day though, I think using the stylus to work with this tool would be fantastic.

Unfortunately the technology still limits this in many cases.

TP-Link still have these issues and they're one of the largest manufacturers of wireless tech. In some sense a similar case to the Nvidia Issues.

Thanks, it's crazy that it doesn't look that fast in the video even though she's going over 180mph.

That sounds really cool, you don't happen to have any links to the Satellite Collision thing that guy put together?

I drove a Range Rover Velar - the interior is one giant touchscreen with additional sub menus, etc. To be honest I did find myself distracted from the road because of this. The worst though is the SatNav popups that will inform you about a better route, changes - or ironically to make sure you are concentrating on the road. All of which require you to use the touchscreen to remove so you can see where you are supposed to be going.

So I just thought I would put my thoughts into this, I've been using React Native to create a number of Apps for a very large company for a few years now. These Apps are used out in the wild and I get to see them being used. As a codebase I think it's great - a really nice way of working and creating something. It's got great integration with tools and the general code setup is really nice.

However; If I'm being honest I don't think I've ever seen a worse managed project in my career. Each version that comes out seems to be completely incompatible with the previous one. Getting the App to simply run can take far longer than it takes to actually build the app. There is no locking of library versions so things conflict constantly. Often times the team will update React Native to use some new feature, this makes all backwards compatibility with Xcode incompatible. I think I drew the line when the advice was, just update your whole OS, download the latest Xcode, Yarn and then this latest version will work.

To be frank, it's infuriating - and I know it's not yet 'officially' released but if this is the state of how they plan to manage React Native in the future, I can't see much hope in it. And that would be a shame, because as a framework I think it's fantastic.

Just finished reading it, fantastic book. Carmack had a passion for what we now call open-source even during the 80s era of Apple II development.