Ashanmaril

Being able to discern a difference in a side-by-side test doesn't really mean much.

You can tell which of 2 similar shades of blue is lighter next to each other, but if you were to look at one and then another a day apart you probably couldn't say which was lighter

> Excellent "customer" service

Do these guys offer hosting services? I'm looking to switch from Google Cloud

It's in line with the modern rule where your actions don't actually matter, you just have to state that your values are in line with popular opinions and you're automatically absolved of being a huge scumbag.

When I started my first job programming job out of university, I spent a lot of time pairing with one of my teammates (online) at the beginning. Not necessarily because it was enforced, but I think we figured it would just be a good way to learn. This went on for a few months, over time I'd take shots at doing tasks for myself, some with more or less success.

Then eventually that teammate moved to a different team, and suddenly I was doing a lot more stuff on my own and... I learned WAY faster. I suddenly realized how dependant I was being when we were pairing all the time. Call it a self-discipline issue maybe, but if I ran into a roadblock I'd just ask him for the solution cause otherwise it felt like I was wasting time to not figure things out for myself. But once that crutch wasn't there, I had to think about things for myself more, and it was like a couple week before I was feeling way more confident in my skillset.

The most strong password is p@ssw0rd, I use that one for everything

Stadia's death doesn't mean the death of game streaming. There's other competition in that area on the market (GeForce Now, XCloud, PS Now), and unfortunately it seems pretty much inevitable at this point (as much as I also hate the idea of it)

But I can at least say I'm glad Google isn't getting a foothold in yet another area of technology

Give it a year or 2, it'll be rebooted with a messaging feature

I remember reading a few years ago from a teacher that was teaching a class that involved using the school computers, and a good amount of the kids seemingly didn't comprehend how to use a desktop OS with a windowing system. I can't remember the specifics but they seemed to only use it within the constraints of what they were used to from using smartphones and iPads. Like only using 1 app at a time in fullscreen, and didn't really understand dragging and dropping between different windows.

For my personal desktop PC I've gone through a few mechanical keyboards of various switch types. Never got that into it as a hobby or anything like some people (expensive and honestly I don't care THAT much)

For work they provided me an Apple magic keyboard, and as much as those mechanical keyboard guys like to hype their fancy keyboards up... I actually think I like the Apple keyboard more. I can type faster and more comfortably with it. I did a typing test on both keyboards the other day and was getting around 80-90wpm on the mechanical keyboard, but with the Apple keyboard I could consistently get closer to 100. I think it's something about the low key travel, I can key my inputs in much faster.

"Gram" also means grandma. The full English translation of this name is "Gramgram"

I wish Google would pay attention to the favicon colors thing with their new icons. The new Gmail logo looks bad on pretty much every background because it has various light and dark colors in it, and isn't on its own backdrop, so pretty much any color it sits on, one of the colors kinda blends into it. It looks so bad

Glad to see the new web versions. The current version at web.telegram.org is pretty outdated and limited. I also didn't like the favicon for an unread message because you could barely tell the difference between it and the standard favicon. It bugged me to the point where I made a PR to fix it myself but it seems like the repo wasn't really being touched much. Lots of PRs with no activity from the maintainers.

Yeah, I remember being excited at the beginning thinking we finally had one cable to rule them all.

Now we're a few years in and seeing a USB-C port just fills me with dread cause I know I'm gonna have to do research. And I yearn for the days where if I'm hooking up a monitor or something, I see an HDMI port and know exactly what that port is for and what kind of cable plugs into it. Seeing a USB-C port in something could mean any number of things.

I also heard that rumour about the ports, but I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced with them releasing this new iMac with only USB-C ports. If their desktop Mac doesn't have ports, why would their laptop?

I mean, the idea with MagSafe is that if someone trips over it, it won't yank the device to the ground, so that still applies to stationary devices.

But on the other hand, I'm not sure who has a desktop computer with cords draped across areas people are walking.

You probably don't hear as much hate for JS as a games language because it's not even on the table for a consideration when making a moderately intensive game

I recently heard someone say "cow tailed" instead of "kowtowed"

That was a really informative read. I think myself and many others figured the biggest issue with WASM right now is purely the inconvenient development flow, and if you are willing to put up with it you'd just automatically get better performance. But there seems to be much more to it than that.

I hope WASM can continue to grow in both of those areas, cause I still like the idea but it's clearly still an immature technology.

Wasn't that kinda the idea with the Github arctic code vault?

Because it was about 5 years ago Windows 10 launched and they switched from a model of getting people to buy copies of their OS, to making Windows into an ever-evolving service that exists to get people into the Microsoft ecosystem.

Also if you've ever hit play/pause on the keyboard it launches Apple Music.

And not macOS, but in iOS they've had a giant row offering an Apple Arcade subscription trial at the top of Settings for a while

I really don't see a tooltip having that much pull on the web development zeitgeist

Why is a 2-handed input better than a 1-finger input?

The Discord/Twitter "buttons" on your site actually highlight one of the issues here. You can't open them in a new tab, or hover to see where they're taking you. They also don't make the mouse react properly to being on something clickable (though that could be fixed with a `cursor: pointer` style)

I don't know how much pull Safari has. Seems like a lot of web devs don't test on Safari.

I know this isn't damning evidence or anything, but I noticed recently that the header image on front page of Thunderbird's homepage[1] has an image of the app (in a Mac window, funnily enough) that doesn't size properly on Safari[2]. It squishes horizontally, I assume due to some weird CSS implementation difference.

[1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-CA/

[2] https://i.postimg.cc/rwWmDynk/image.png

It's also very nice when you're moving some markup from one file to another and not having to worry about where certain styles are coming from and copying those over too

I think programming is easy to get into if it's just something you enjoy (which could apply to anything, really). Throughout getting my CS degree it seemed like there was a pretty clear line between the people were going through the motions of the courses and making it through based on what was taught and the information provided, and the people who just enjoy programming and do it for fun in their free time. If you're the latter, you'll probably naturally pick up the required skills cause you're engaged and want to learn more.

I didn't even know that was a thing until the other day where I saw someone post on Twitter that they got an email that had basically a web storefront within the email. It was selling some product and it had a color selector and cart, the whole thing. I assume the checkout process would kick you to their actual website but it's still kinda crazy.

It's a sad fact of life that if you want a good phone that will age okay, and be supported for at least a few years with OS/security updates, and will have decent customer support if you run into issues, you're just gonna have to get a phone from one of the big guys.

Making a phone is hard. Every time I see one of these niche phones that tries to appeal to a crowd with offers of "privacy" or "user control" I think it's neat and it would be nice if it was realistic. But it's just gonna be another poorly-supported phone, offered by a small company that doesn't have resources to handle the inevitable complications of selling a smartphone, and where you have the option of being either in:

* Google's privacy nightmare Android ecosystem

* Un-Googled Android where you can't use the Play Store and a bunch of apps you'd want to use don't work

* Some kind of Linux distro for phones that will probably have an even worse app ecosystem than the previous option

I didn't even know it was still around. I remember installing it on my Nexus 4 to play around with it in like 2014 and it seemed like a mockup. All the "apps" were just links to mobile sites. Which I suppose is to be expected since Twitter or Facebook is never gonna make an app for a platform with no users.