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With xray focusing away from improving the editor experience and more on this new version control thing [1] for now, it doesn't seem like we'll be seeing a GitHub-provided alternative to Atom for some time.

[1] https://github.com/atom/xray/blob/master/docs/updates/2018_0...

Reeder crashes for me if I leave it open all of the time, usually sometime between the 24-48 hour mark. But if I'm just opening it, reading, and then closing, it seems to be fine.

Do you have any examples of games like this? I know there are singleplayer games that require you to be online even when playing solo(i.e. Diablo 3), but when you're solo, you can still pause the game. Curious to know what developers don't allow such actions.

For those who don't know him by his real name, this is TotalBiscuit/the Cynical Brit.

That's what has been said for a while about Electron: it'll be optimized and less heavy. Most applications use Electron are just as heavy as they always has been, and where there are exceptions, it's more due to moving away from the Electron-stack and putting functionality in lower-level languages, or things like this where it uses only a few elements and defers to other rendering techniques.

When you're looking at an album in Music, there's a play button right above the song list that will play it in order and should disable any previously enabled shuffle mode. It just goes off of whatever iTunes metadata is setup, so if that is correct, it'll play in order.

The Apple Music parts can be disabled in Settings. It's not quite as nice as it was back in the day, but I've found that doing that helps to make it closer to how it was.

It takes quite a bit of tweaking to get JetBrains IDEs to work like other macOS applications. Even AppCode has some issues there.

Swift outside of Xcode hasn't been the best of experiences even on macOS. Swift Package Manager works well from the CLI(although the Rust compiler's error messages have spoiled me), but using other editors usually requires some sort of sacrifice. A lot of them have inconsistent code completion if any at all, or no debugging or inline error messages. It's not bad for working with small Swift scripts, but working on a bigger project without those tools isn't great.

Before the Apple Watch, I hadn't worn a watch ever either. Adjusting to having something on my wrist took a week or two, but it seems like just any other article of clothing to me now. I don't even notice it there.

See Slack. If Slack were still some plucky startup, I can understand it using Electron. But it's been around for a while now, and a more performant native application doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon.

Is that not what it says? The last sentence of the first paragraph is "By reaching first for Markdown, then for LaTeX when necessary, writing is easier and more enjoyable", which would be that premise but applied to any situation where LaTeX is overdoing things.

I use e-mail just as much today as I did 10-15 years ago. Some communication takes place in real-time messaging services, but e-mail is still useful for long-form communication, and less timely messages. IMing can't replace e-mail for me for all purposes.

I've done something similar to this the past few weeks by basically turning my iPhone into a glorified iPod that has the added bonus of receiving phone calls. No Safari, no games, and the only custom app on there is my podcast player. There are less apps showing on the phone now than with a fresh install of iOS.

Moving most of the phone activities back to my computer or tablet makes it, like you said, a more conscious choice, and easier to not constantly check for updates.

The Command Line Tools include the Swift compiler without needing Xcode installed. Open up a terminal and type “swift” to enter the REPL or “swiftc” to compile a Swift File. SPM is included too.

If they’re not already installed, running one of those commands will prompt you to install them.

It wasn't until a later version of iOS that you could setup an iPhone without iTunes. The same independence should come to the Apple Watch eventually, it just might take a few more versions.

I wear mine through most of the day and night, and have done so since it launched. It's a lot more useful having Siri on my wrist for those types of needs, plus the health and sleep tracking is good information to have. I find that I don't use my phone as much as I used to, since I can read messages on it and just respond with voice. And it's great for doing small tasks like changing songs when I'm on the train and using a phone isn't convenient.

It can't replace a phone just yet, but the convenience for many tasks has made it a worthwhile purchase for me.

There's multiple kinds of the bottled Soylent, including non-caffeinated ones that are meant to be closer to the powder + water mix. The pictures indicate that she's drinking those.

Theres a middle-ground though that doesn't require you to go back to analogue listening from decades past. Use something like iTunes or whatever other equivalent application with your own music. If you're not comfortable with possible tracking from digital downloads, you can still rip CDs to it. Seems more convenient than going back to LPs and all of the physical management that that entails.

Where do you draw the line on this? I can understand that unknown companies running on some obscure GTLD might raise suspicion, but what about a personal blog or someone's side project?

This post mentions how the text storage has already been moved to C++, and the possibility of moving parts of the rendering to C++ as well. Is this part of a trend for Atom to move at least key components to C++ and away from the web stack? Or am I off base with this thought and it's been lower-level to begin with, but these are just optimizations on that?

On a Mac Mini (Late 2014), it works just fine on an LG 25UM58-P monitor. Looks and works the same as Night Shift does on iOS.

There's a PDF available that makes it a little better.

https://resilientwebdesign.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Resili...

When they first went up a few hours ago, delivery date was on the 20th or 21st. They're just backordered to January now.

At the moment, I use Caddy's built-in Markdown and template features [1], and simply rsync a bunch of markdown files to my server. It's basic, and certainly not as performant as hosting out static files, but it works well enough for my low-traffic site.

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown

If you're referring to the missing guy who they thought was part of the Boston Marathon bombing, that was also reddit.

I've been using Pocket the last few months after having used Instapaper for a few years.

For iOS, I find the Instapaper app to be a lot better than Pocket. A ton of font options that don't rely upon paying the Premium subscription, and the UI is less obtrusive. I also like that when you share links from the Instapaper app, it sends the actual link. Pocket's app shares links as redirects, so everything shows up as a shorthand pocket.co/nnnnnn type of link. Both can have links added by an iOS share sheet, which is convenient. Pocket does have a nice feature in the app where it can refresh the article, in case you know what you're reading is outdate.

No Android devices, so no clue how it works on that platform.

The web experience is mostly equal, although Instapaper looks cleaner and still has more font options available than Pocket.

Neither platform is perfect with regards to transcribing articles. While I haven't done direct comparisons, it seems to me that Pocket falls back on displaying the original webpage more often when the site isn't a normal blog or news article. When it does transcribe the page down, it seems to include less non-article stuff(social media links, etc.) than Instapaper does. It seems to be a wash there.

For my own personal conclusion, I like Instapaper more, but Pocket works well enough.

Along with some of the other great suggestions here, soundtracks by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have been mainstays for me. Throw in some Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts and you have a nice dark soundtrack for working to.

How's that? The iPhone 7 includes Lightning EarPods, Lightning-3.5mm adapter, and works with any other Bluetooth earphones.

iPad only. It's listed in the App Store as TIS-100P.

US App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tis-100p/id1070879899