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Can you provide some examples of modern layout systems? I’d be curious to see what’s on offer.

I have experience with various iterations of UIKit’s auto layout, Yoga, as well as CSS and some Swift UI. I’ve found CSS to be considerably easier to work with, particularly when using flexbox and grid.

The cable/charger situation was worse in the pre-smartphone era. I remember two variants of Nokia, several for Sony/Ericsson and an even greater number for Samsung. Most phones had proprietary audio connectors too. People are now able to switch between all major smartphone brands without purchasing new cables or power supplies. If you wanted to, you could just use your USB-A power brick with a USB-A to USB-C cable.

Is React irrelevant? Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey places it first overall for web technologies [1]. I’ve always considered React to be one of the more straightforward front end libraries, so it’s surprising to hear it being called bloated.

1. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

Ah interesting. I only have a viewer account, so I imagine I wouldn’t be able to use such a plugin.

I’ve haven’t worked at a company where Figma is used “correctly”. It’s mostly used as a canvas to dump designs, slideshows, flowcharts and diagrams.

For example, N/Shift+N moves forward/backward a frame. I’m yet to see a Figma file where frames are correctly ordered or laid out, rendering this feature almost useless.

You might be thinking of Objective-C metadata, which contains information about classes, protocols and categories. Unlike symbols, metadata can’t be stripped.

Disappointing to see so many comments here repeating the same thing. Who knows what the author has planned for this project, or what prompted them to build it. Maybe they intend to add support for skins, or maybe their main goal was to experiment with Qt or learn about Fast Fourier Transform algorithms.

I generally use https://www.taste.com.au. No bullshit prologue about how a distant relative used to make the recipe in question. Just and overview, photo ingredients and steps. Everything else is secondary and usually worthless.

AppCode was more or less Android Studio for iOS. Both are based on IntelliJ. It’s a shame AppCode was recently discontinued.

I switched from nvm to fnm a few years ago and have never looked back. Zero performance issues and it supports .nvmrc files.

https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

This is probably going to cause the price of large format porcelain bench tops down. They have less silica content than artificial stone and granite. I believe they are also cut to size off-site.

I’m in the same boat. The UX on Reddit is in the same ballpark as AliExpress’ app.

Since Apollo was shut down, I’ve completely stopped using any Reddit app on my phone. Sink It[1] makes the mobile site tolerable, for cases when I end up on a Reddit thread off the back of a search engine query.

1. https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635

It seems like every thread has a few “well actually” top-level comments. It’d be interesting to do some sentiment analysis to see the numbers.

Agreed, it’s one of the most well refined Apple features in recent years. The teams behind sound at Apple have been doing amazing work.

Speaking of bricking devices. One of Apple’s greatest shames was releasing Apple TV 4K, which lacks a USB port. This model could only be unbricked by Apple, until iOS 17 made it possible to do so via the iPhone recovery feature.

I can relate to this. At my previous company, the first PM our team had was absolutely amazing. She had an engineering background but transitioned to management ten or so years ago. At some point, she was promoted and the replacement PM, while good, was not as good.

Fast-forward to my current company, the PMs here are absolutely shocking. The people they report to have no clue. It seems like every PM at my company has fallen upwards, as a result of newly hired PMs quitting shortly after they join. Engineers here are technically competent, but lack direction. Projects spin up before requirements have been defined, leading to massive losses of time. I’ve considered reaching out to my former company’s PMs to offer a referral, but it’d be a disservice to them.

I just realised you can long press space to enable moving the cursor, then tap the keyboard with another finger to toggle selection mode on.

In my experience, a lot of people don’t actually know how to use hooks correctly and find them frustrating as a result. It depends on what you’re used to, but I find that class based components leave too much room for scattered logic. Let’s not also forget those who abused `shouldComponentUpdate`.

A scene in the second most recent episode of Ted Lasso, when a character uses Siri on their iPhone triggered Siri on my HomePod Mini in the same room. Siri attempted to follow the instructions spoken by the character but failed miserably. If Apple is going to plug their half baked assistant in their shows, the least they could do is prevent it from being invoked. It may vary by language – I’m in Australia and the character speaking has a British accent, yet sounds nothing like me.

There was also a period of about 18 months where running water in my shower would trigger Siri on my Apple Watch. Dismissing Siri was pointless, as it’d get triggered again 5 seconds later.

Better yet, using the Shortcuts app for iOS, create a shortcut that opens a URL with `prefs:root=PASSWORDS` in Safari.

For macOS, you can make the same shortcut open `/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/SafariSupport.bundle/Contents/PreferencePanes/Passwords.prefPane`.

A single shortcut can be used to accomplish this, using the OS check and an `if` condition.

Then add the shortcut to the home screen as an icon and it’ll also show up in Spotlight search.

An elliptical CSS `clip-path` containing a slightly too large spinning beach ball might also suffice. It’d at least stop the edge wobble.

Sensor size, relative to megapixels is the most important factor for quality, especially at night.

Here’s a good starting point: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/best-current-recommended-camer...

On iOS it’s written using a fork of Texture, formerly AsyncDisplayKit. In my experience, Texture outperforms UIKit’s auto layout and rich text widgets significantly.

https://github.com/TextureGroup/Texture

Are there no laws about minimum notice or severance pay?

I’m glad Australia has decent laws to protect workers. It’ll be interesting to see if Australian Twitter staff who are locked out of their accounts have been laid off and what happens next.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/tools-and-resources/fact-sheets/...

What’s the alternative though? Many of the items are unwieldy. For the items that can be carried with you around the store, you pick them up off the shelf and take them to the checkout.

I use an Apple TV to watch all of the content on my TV – streaming services, Plex, apps for TV channels, etc. Since they added the match frame rate feature[0], the judder is eliminated entirely. It's a bit jarring as the screen flashes blank when transitioning from the home screen (60fps) to video content, as the TV's frame rate is adjusted, but it's worth it, IMO.

0. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208288

Has anyone had any luck with any of the biography services available? I remember hearing about Story Terrace, but am not sure on the quality or thoroughness, especially considering the price point. It does sound like a nice idea though.

Switched from Cypress to Selenium a while ago. It is noticeably quicker to respond to network request waits. Additionally, I prefer Playwright’s locator abstractions to Cypress’ queue/alias system.

People in their 30s should be avoiding college bars if they're actually looking to meet people and have some kind of connection.

It's pretty easy to strike up conversations with people at bars and events. I know people who met their long term partners on overseas tours, at work and at music festivals. Not everyone uses dating apps, not every person at a bar is ancient or has daddy issues.

This might interest you: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot recently reached 100% byte matched decompilation.