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I'm going to use this for user interviews since I have a hard time talking too much during the introduction. Also, stand-ups...

We have a PHEV from Chevy (the Volt) and it has the best dashboard ever. Knobs for the stuff you want (A/C, Volume, Skip, etc.) And touchscreen for the stuff you don't (GPS, Apple/Android Auto, etc.)

This Technical Communications textbook is one of the best set of instructions and recommendations on how to clearly communicate in written and verbal modes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1319245005/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_...

I always recommend it to researchers and anyone who has to write documents (most folks in tech).

Just chiming in here as a UX professional to say that design decisions like hiding controls that people obviously need to use the product is 98% of the time a business decision - made by a CEO or anyone far enough away from the product team that they'll disregard any research and overrule the designers because "it just looks better" and their name is on it.

I wholeheartedly agree. Making automatic alt-text available for those types of posts would go a long way in addressing the accessibility issues that plague image posts on Twitter. Their current UX for adding alt-text is painful and content authors are unlikely to use it... Seems like a great place for automation/OCR

That's not true! You can get involved as an individual contributor and become a part of the web standards community. There's even a contribution guide: https://wpc.guide/

The article does not detail steps on how to disable all service workers, though. It only explains how to unregister the existing twitter service workers. I assume twitter goes and re-registers a new one, once you visit twitter.com again.

With the release of WSL2 and the new versions of Docker that take advantage of it, I would say that most of the pain around the WSL toolchain has been resolved.

Compared with trying to get anything working in powershell or dealing with the slowness of git bash or Cygwin, WSL2 is a breeze.

The only pain point I still have is running Linux GUI applications. It requires running an XWindow server on the Windows side and letting WSL talk to it over TCP. Apparently MS is working on that now and hopes to have a solution later this year on the slow ring of windows update. That'll make running things like Cypress a hell of a lot easier and (fingers crossed) prevent me from squinting on HiDPI displays.

For those (like me) who are wondering why their Firefox still looks the same, "If you live in Europe, you’ll find the update available today, August 25, 2020. If you live in the USA, you’ll see the update on the 27th of August, 2020" [1]

[1] https://www.slashgear.com/firefox-daylight-update-revitalize...

Wallabag. It's fantastic and I use it daily!

This is awesome, Tanner! Thanks for writing it.

One thing I think may be missing from this post is examples on what "include design early and often" and "leverage design for more than UI" looks like.

Some examples–like how design artifacts (like service blueprints, context maps and personas) can help non-design team members contextualize their problem and get to actionable solutions earlier–have helped me in the past make the case for involving designers early and often.

I've often seen how centralized design orgs can get caught in the trap of only getting called when there's "there's some UX to wireframe". Getting ahead of this perception early on in establishing a company's software development culture can do wonders for cross-discipline collaboration!

This is a great idea but the sentence on the demo / example page really irks me, "cross design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff"

I think I know what you mean but I can't help but feel like that sentence is denigrating the work of an entire discipline that _also_ works on "hard stuff" like figuring out how to address user need with usable interfaces.

I have a similar app I'm working on called Tome:

- https://tome.cfapps.io

- https://github.com/d3sandoval/tome

Mine is focused on collaborating on Poetry and other Prose. I'm currently working on implementing versioning and sharing features.

This looks like an awesome bit of competition! Is it open source?

If you really care for each other, they'll find a way. My family has realized that group message are the only way to communicate quickly with one another. I have friends and family with whom I correspond via snail mail. And email bridges the gap between those who prefer digital, but not texting. As others have said, the conversations are more meaningful, even if they are less frequent

You can scroll your thumb along the spacebar to "aim" the cursor on android. I do like the knobs of android better than the zoom-and-select that iPhone does.

Would love a way to sign up on a mailing list so I can get updates on when this will be released. Looks awesome and can't wait to try it!

Employees create value for the company they work for. If you can demonstrate that you are more valuable than what they're paying you now, then it's a pretty straightforward conversation.

One way to do this is to find out what others will offer you on the market, as others have suggested. Another is to identify how your work pushed company/team/individual metrics in the right direction. Being able to say "My work on [this project] led to a 25% decrease in churn" demonstrates your ability to provide monetary value to the company. If they want to keep making more money, they would be wise to keep you.

I just replayed ocarina of Time and I'm pretty sure the Forest Temple map is mixed up with what looks like the Spirit Temple.

Great work! Very cool to see these games come to life on my phone!

We did the same thing! Glad to hear we weren't too crazy in doing so

Came to this thread to suggest squitch. Glad it's mentioned here. I really enjoy it's three generic concepts - deploy, verify, revert - and not having to tie my migrations to any particular language or ORM. In additon, it's supported on every operating system I've used with it and has got a docker image in case that's not good enough.

For a second there, I thought I finally found the other person on the internet who was a jEdit zealot. But then I realized it's the same person I've known for years ;)

What makes you stick to Atom? I switched to VSCode due to Atom's terrible performance when opening huge files.

/woosh

I think the commenter is referring to this infamous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I really like notion.so

It's clean and fully featured and, for the price, might be just what you're looking for.

I loved Astro. Came to this thread after hearing the announcement :(

There's quite a few apps (both open source and proprietary) that enable haptic feedback for the touchbar. I recommend trying them out if you're missing the feeling of actually touching the escape key.

I think they leverage the same feedback mechanism that the track pad uses to make it feel like you're actually clicking.

Links: - https://www.haptictouchbar.com - https://github.com/niw/HapticKey - https://community.folivora.ai/t/touchbar-haptic-feedback-imp...

I wouldn't be too sure about that minority: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/14/if-the-u-s-h...

And the data on sexting shows that it's very much a minority of Americans who send/receive nudes: http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/10/23/teens-adults-and-sexti...

You mean this commercial? https://youtu.be/O0QB-b_s2pY

I mean... There's at least two holes, right? One at each end of the tunnel?

Seems like you can put rap with anything and it'll sound good!

Here's the Killers with Eminem: https://rave.dj/3OYTG3uFFUrMIg

If you're interested in other oral histories and video game stories, I highly recommend Read Only Memory [1].

I've been diving deep into some of the articles there lately and am excited to see what else they come up with, given how so many of these stories are locked away within the mind of a few game devs.

[1] https://readonlymemory.vg/