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Looks great. Although it could really use a "tt" ligature. Just look at the names "Scott" and "Letteri" and you'll see what I mean

This person's blog is very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

RIP to one of my favorite YouTube comment formats:

> "<dislike number> of people <something funny related to the video>"

Bezos in that spacesuit and cowboy hat ...completely made my morning LOL.

To be reinstated...

> when conditions permit

> if conditions allow

So. What exactly are these "conditions"?

ENHANCE!!

Very cool! Heads up that I've been stuck on "Generating Head. (1/2)" for >10 minutes now. Should I restart the app + try again?

The whole concept of having "open" and "closed" Battle.net was genius. If you want to hack, be our guest! (But you can only play with other hackers.)

That experience of trying to mod my character was – I'm fairly certain – what eventually got me into programming! (Unfortunately I was on a Mac, so I couldn't use 90% of the so-called "trainers", much to my disappointment at the time.)

I recall meeting one specific player on Open Battle.net (their username was "iceblizz", I think) whose hacked sorceress was unbelievably OP. They also had a super-cool personal website -- and both of those things really kindled my curiosity ( ... "How on Earth did they build that website?" ... "How are they so strong with negative 2 billion HP??")

The author does a good job of summarizing the relevant aspects of fetching data in a modern web-app.

However, by NO means should all of this be handled by one "data-fetching library" - as he suggests.

IIRC, the WhatsApp founders had an agreement with Zuckerberg to keep WhatsApp ad-free. I'm not sure whether that agreement was written, or merely verbal. Nevertheless, Zuck appeared to honor that agreement for a time.

But of course, all roads at Facebook lead to ads – and they were pressured relentlessly to monetize. This is why they both left Facebook, and even left a large pile of $$ on the table:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive...

I think the article was useful and worth keeping up. (However it seems that the author himself unpublished the article from his Substack.)

All of the visceral reactions to the article are... very revealing. It's an opinion piece, and you don't have to agree with it. If you felt angered / hurt / offended by the author's words, I would challenge you to do some introspection – and explore the reasons why it generated such a strong reaction for you. You may find the process to be quite beneficial!

Sounds like you need to merge more often.

What a shocker!

So what exactly was this "Biden story" that he wanted to publish?

Why are web notifications even a thing?

> Apple does this too

This doesn't sound familiar. What case(s) are you referring to?

Sure, she likely exaggerated things for narrative effect.

I sympathize with those who are enslaved to their devices. It's an addiction, and it often correlates with mental health issues. Such people need help and guidance – not sarcastic dismissal.

But, like any other addiction, the first step is taking responsibility. Instead of blaming the world for "hacking" your brain and sub-dividing your attention ad infinitum ... Take a step back and figure out what is (and isn't) under your control. Break the cycle. Have the courage to reject things that aren't serving you.

There are real problems here. But I can't see past the author's terrible personal habits that magnify every single one of them.

Nobody forced them to: - start their day by reviewing COVID numbers - allow push-notifications from "news" apps - listen to NPR while showering - generally allow social media to dictate their mood/schedule

All of these habits are as easy to change as they are damaging.

Edit to add: In no way did I mean to belittle those who are afflicted by social media / news addiction. It's a very real problem, and such people deserve help and guidance to lessen their suffering.

Wow, this hit close to home. It's refreshing to know that this happens to other people as well!

Interesting. I shot the night sky recently with my Sony a6300 and a cheap Sigma 19mm wide-angle lens. After reading this article, I reviewed some of those photos.

I don't see any examples of the star "punching" effect, but this might be the result of bad focusing, etc. as the article mentions.

Does Apple actually claim that its "rules are [en]forced evenly w/o exception", or is it merely implied by their (carefully crafted) public statements?

It's because they follow the doctrine of "mobile app as a walled garden". Presumably you will engage more over time if you're using the app (because you can't leave it as easily.)

I'm not sure how effective it is. But it's dogmatic for this generation of product designers.

I was hoping he would discuss Github as a whole, as implied by the headline.

Instead he complains about the Trending feature. I did not even know there was a Trending feature, and I've been using Github since 2012.

Ah, the life of an early adopter!

> communities with controversy aren't necessarily 'unhealthy'

I recommend you explore the concept of "agonism" – which claims that (certain forms of) conflict and disagreement are essential components of a healthy democratic system. Many parallels could be drawn to online communities (specifically) and the curation of productive, social spaces (in general.)

In this era of conflict avoidance and information siloing... promoting the right sorts of disagreement might actually do a great social good!

Good luck with your assignment.

There are some interesting ideas in this article, but it's nearly all speculation.

TL;DR - Advertising was always the primary business model, even in the print age.

They seem to have a flawed core assumption – that everyone is hell-bent on maximizing their personal wealth. In other words, every person will dedicate their entire intellect toward the goal of making money. This doesn't really match up with reality (thank goodness).

Former Apple + TestFlight employee here (3 years at TF + 2 at App Store post-acquisition)

Apple is very territorial about developer tools. They do allow certain businesses (like Fastlane) to operate in this space (a tacit acknowledgement that those tools provide value) yet they deny others (like Windmill) the right to operate.

This follows the typical Apple ethos of "we can do it better because we're vertically-integrated". However this only works if your product is damn-near perfect. And Apple is infamously imperfect when it comes to software/services.

On top of the competence issue, they also have no real motivation to improve tooling. They know that developers will build stuff no matter how onerous the terms, and no matter how nitpicky is their approval process.

If they re-framed their perspective, and began considering devs as "users" in their own right, then perhaps they, too, would experience the tender love + attention that Apple lavishes on its end users. But this is simply not how they view it, and there is little political will inside Eddy's org to accomplish such a shift.

The former version is more specific and therefore accurate.