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Time to cue the Extras outtakes with Gervais. Stewart was effing funny

I wonder why the iMac still has that chin design and small panel. They’ve been producing displays for long enough that the iMac and Studio Display should have the same form factor.

You should look into Jai’s metaprogramming features, which are ahead of everything else out there. Zig is really the only language exploring some of the same concepts with comptime, but doesn’t even come close.

There’s no such thing as UI “art” as a separate process from “UX”. User experience is just a vague term Norman used to describe the general impression of using digital interfaces. He’s never actually even defined what criteria constitutes “good” or “bad”. So the term is as useless as “dining experience” is for restaurants. UX designer as a title and quasi-discipline became a thing the same way “agentic engineer” is a title nowadays, they’re not actual disciplines, they’re titles void of any history that consultancy firms come up with to sell more services.

The real title for this discipline is “interaction designer”, as that stems from HCI research, which itself was an extension of systems design. There is a clear lineage. Also: user experience absolutely is an aesthetic field, but again because the title is vague in practice so is its education. The thinking is that “UX” designers have a set of skills about design that are scientific, but there’s virtually nothing about human interaction that’s scientifically provable. Like you don’t do A/B testing and move a button’s position from a delta result based off of Fitt’s law or Gestalt theory (I don’t think I’ve ever met a UX designer who knows about gestalt theory). You just observe results and move the goalposts accordingly. And again apropos aesthetics: user testing just never works with wireframes, the closer you are to the final result the better the feedback.

The need to science-wash this ultimately volatile process comes from the need to assure clients that their investment in an emerging market (digital platforms from the 80s onwards) has provably positive results.

Node was once the shiny new thing, so that argument is irrelevant. Deno got a lot of traction by promising to fix Node’s issues, some people trusted that promise, and Deno just didn’t deliver.

Aside from the technical aspect I strongly encourage everyone to also read about VISA’s founder Dee Hock, still a very underrated figure in leadership and finance.

Are you implying that removing the display would therefore be more space and power efficient than the actual 3mm display specifically calibrated to be powered by the built-in battery lmao. OP is just stupidly contrarian.

Because nobody's actually implemented it properly. VSCode's live share came close but was buggy and unusable.

> Disclaimer: This article was created with the assistance of AI and reviewed by the JetBrains RustRover team

Honestly there should be a filter for these types of articles. I’m not going to bother reading something another person did not even bother writing.

Stinky manager != stinky person

I know right. I’m glad DSLs have fallen out of fashion. Just use the platform.

Besides the new form factor, resizable apps are also meant to further bridge the gap between macOS and iOS right?

The article does not come from someone who relies of Figma for a living. It's easy to call it a "proposal doc" when you're working on a specific issue for a specific product. There are still millions of designers who use Figma to define and maintain design systems that span across products and platforms, where Figma is the source of truth.

Incoming rust rewrite branch ready to merge: +1,009,257 -4,024

Well put. SQL gets put in this category of foundational technology that has passed the test of time when in reality it’s more like an example of path dependence.

“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”

The devs doing these kinds projects no longer think of the code as maintainable, but disposable. It's quite the 180 for a community obsessed with reusable npm packages and not reinventing the wheel. Last year Cursor bragged about ditching their CMS in 3 days: https://x.com/leerob/status/1999513884382597485

The first sentence being "I was not planning to write this article" is the cherry on top.

I’d start with the immense packaging waste and shameless overconsumption tricks that are banned in basically any other industry.

Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty

They got their priorities right for sure

I think it’s about time to backup all of my GH repos.

Not really, realistically speaking it's now possible to use an agent to read code and make sensible summaries of a codebase faster than ever before, and it's exactly the thing you'd use to onboard yourself or someone else on the team.

This is just so much fluff. All the focus on "orchestrating" is ultimately accidental complexity.

Man i love last.fm even though it's been technically superseded (for most people) by Spotify's recommendation features. It just fit so well in the zeitgeist of 2000's indie scene, microblogs, early social media.

Technically it also means you can do whatever you want and yet still nobody does.

I think if Deno had held on to their initial values for a little longer the pressure towards node compatibility would have been mended by AI agents, because a lot of the pressure is the result of skill issues: if the only way you know how to set up is using express.js then any subsequent tool or runtime must provide a similar abstraction for a “smooth” transition, regardless of how bad the first solution was in the first place. Nowadays you introduce devs to new tech by delivering your product with a set of skills that in practice have replaced documentation and sometimes can be very good at showing better alternative approaches to whatever you’re building.

"standard" IT tools?

Now i need one that explains the css counters

I thought of the 2000 version first which made this much funnier in my head