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> It’s not the average, it’s the deepest and most accurate reporting.

Yes! I'm also a paying member but I'm deeply suspicious of this feature.

The website claims "we expose readers to the full spectrum of global perspectives", but not all perspectives are equal. It smacks of "all sides" framing which is just not what news ought to be about.

I was a stay at home dad for two years in my mid-thirties. Learned to make iPhone apps, and landed a job developing iPhone apps when my kid was two. It was my first programming job. Have been in the industry for a decade now.

Thanks for writing this.

I was a big fan of Adobe through the '90s and early '00s and also noticed their devolution post-Geschke/Warnock. I wish those complaining about today's Adobe could have seen how amazing the company and their products were back then.

Great article!

I have a PowerMac G4 1.25 DP that boots Mac OS 9.2.2 natively from an SSD (using a SATA to PATA converter board.)

It absolutely screams (Photoshop 5.5 cold launches in about 1.5 seconds), and I'm not sure how much of this is pure nostalgia, but the look and feel of classic Platinum Mac OS is friendly in a way that's really hard to describe.

Of course this machine is only useful for opening all my old documents from the '90s, but I plan on keeping it in a working state for many years to come, if for no other reason than to let the nerds of the future get a taste of what computing was like before the internet destroyed everything.

I totally appreciate it! And kudos on your personal mission.

Not that you don't have enough on your plate, but I wonder if you've been interested in doing a kind of "on writing" post where you can articulate your approach? I think your writing is unusual in that it has both specificity and approach-ability in equal measure. Like, it's precise but also friendly if that makes any sense. Definitely uncommon in any circles but more so in tech circles. (Also the layout/presentation of your blog is so nice.)

Edit: To be clear, and to quote a previous blog post of yours, "As a reader of my blog, you likely have above average ability to discern truthful information from lies, and you also probably can communicate reasonably effectively to other people." A few nuggets of wisdom on effective writing could help us trying to communicate with others. :-)

I don't have a question but I first heard about you because of Inconsolata (I instantly fell in love with it.) Also, your writing is just exceptionally good.

This article is just superb.

Yes! So great, especially after a night of drinking Belgian beer. These Belgian frites are the best fries I've ever had (and I'm old enough to have had the original McDonald's fries.)

I love them topped with mayo but some places have a curry option that is even better!

What journalism is actually for, and how capitalism actually works, are completely at odds.

I have no answers on how this can be squared.

Great point. The recommendation of the article seems pretty straightforward and uncontentious.

Not that I'm a fan of the major national news media but anything they can do to up their game I'd not be against.

Did the price of Halide just jump from $5 (or, $3 as I paid in 2017 according to my receipt) to $30?

Sorry, I made an assumption (that all three permissions were necessary) after granting camera permissions but not photo library or location permissions. The UI was not clear about what was actually required, and the "Continue" button was enabled but didn't get me anywhere.

Look, it's 2020 and tech is getting so human-hostile in so many different ways. I think it behooves us to make sure there's always a way our software can be used no matter how restrictive our users are with permissions.

Thanks for your response.

It could be that photo library access was the hard constraint. I wasn't going to allow that until I got to play around with the app. I'll try again and re-assess.

I was never a fan of the first version of this app, despite being a mobile app developer and a photography nerd. I paid for and tried the initial version (Mark I?) a year or two ago, and, aside from a few manual settings and RAW capture it didn't do a whole lot beyond what the stock photo app did, and Halide's UI was a bit worse to boot. But whatever.

Now I re-download Halide (the version I paid for a year or two ago) to see what this new version is all about and I'm presented with a bewildering splash screen, prompting me to subscribe (for what now?) and I do everything I can to not subscribe, and then I'm taken to the permissions screen, and it's asking for camera permissions (totally reasonable), photo library access (ok, but let's hold on for a sec), and location access (no thank you), and I can't get anywhere in the app that I paid for, without granting all three permissions.

Having location access a hard requirement for a photo app is just ridiculous. What product owner made this decision? IMO it's completely out of touch and user hostile.

Edit: turns out the hard constraint was access to the photo library. Which, how was I to know that? The UI seemed to indicate that I couldn't proceed until all the boxes were checked.

Look, I get that this is a specialized app and I understand the complexity and nuance related to app permissions. Which means the app developer has to be super clear about what the requirements are from the start.

10 year iOS developer here. I don't have any answers for you (not a compiler expert either) but yeah, auto-complete of Swift in Xcode continues to suck in a lot of different ways. It's a shame because autocomplete in Obj-C was so good for so long (I'd put it up there with VSCode/TypeScript with some caveats), and is still pretty great, but seemed to get a little worse itself when Swift showed up.

Would you consider releasing the core frequency detection module? (I'm assuming it's in C++?) I'm also an iOS developer and it would be fun to play around with it.

Is the chromatic scale you align your visualizations to just or equal tempered?

This app is really neat, and I'm curious about what your app is doing beyond FFT analysis.

(I spent like 15 minutes playing a 'simulated' church organ and watching the frequency pattern with the dots. It appears that each line is an octave with the leftmost dot in each row tuned to a G. Super fun!)

Edit: I'm thinking how cool would it be to add some kind of visualization like you see here: https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

I got a dopamine rush reading this!

Did you know that your last link is the original link for this thread?

I purchased a Nest thermostat and installed it as per the instructions. Set it to 69°F before going to sleep. I awoke at 3AM with the temperature at 83°F and no way to turn it off.

I had to rip it from the wall. It was one of the most frustrating technology experiences I've had in years, and I'll have to see something REALLY compelling if I'm ever to try home automation again.

As someone who develops for iOS and Android I agree. Xcode and the Cocoa Touch frameworks have improved a huge amount in just a few short years.

Meanwhile, the Android frameworks seem to be crawling and it seems like no one can be bothered to create a decent IDE for making Android apps.