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This is amazing!! In a world full of 'please wait for your receipt' and dot matrix noises... this feels totally magical.

Thanks for sharing this, it's crazy how much super fast experiences still surprise us.

I think you're right. Speed is a component of the User Experience. My point in writing this is that when you abstract to a higher level, the beauty of the UX was that you can instantly do whatever you want. Your thought -> your touch -> action.

However, I think you make a great point that the two are interrelated.

My straw man starting point would be: A poor user experience that is lightning fast can still be a great experience.

But a great user experience that lags or is slow will typically not be successful.

The iphone succeeded because it coupled a great user experience that was so fast that it felt like interacting with objects in the real world.

This is interesting. Would love to see an interview with Dino Ignacio / Deadspace which has a super futuristic in-game UI.

Congrats team - excellent product! I e used it since Zeit and absolutely love it.

I use it as a one line deploy tool for my personal sites. It’s incredibly simple / set-and-forget and supports custom domains, rollback, etc.

For my simple sites it feels like hosting is just solved. Every time I rev my site I just push to git and I’m done.

Coming from someone who conducts lots of remote job interviews (not yc), some basics still apply: 1. Make sure you have solid internet, switch off your video if audio is breaking up. 2. Invest in a cheap mic (e.g. $20 lavalier) so you can be heard clearly and headphones so you can hear clearly w/ no echo. 3. You can’t read the room / body language as well so make sure you pause occasionally and ensure you’re answering the question sufficiently. 4. Like any interview, undertake a calming exercise beforehand (deep breathing etc)

I remember this book! I think it was red with a yellow font maybe? Agree with you on the alert(‘hello’) :)

Maybe we're the HN equivalent of Fight Club?! Am I Brad Pitt or Edward Norton

Not sure if this helps but I had a similar issue with my joints (arm, shoulder, wrist) where I would scream in pain when lifting a small book or anything above 3 lbs.

The issue was caused by my immune system acting up which would cause my tendons to become inflamed. After a year of misdiagnosis, Doctors found some heavy medication (methotrexate balanced with plaquenil) to help regulate it. One of the medicines side effects was listed as ‘death’ on the label.

After a year of experimenting, I found that major diet changes (lots more hearty greens, way less sugar and carbs, no caffeine or alcohol), improved sleep, reduced stress (quit my stressful job) completely alleviated my symptoms. I would still have flare ups from time to time which I reduced via physical therapy / exercise (to strengthen muscles supporting my tendons).

Just sharing as I had a somewhat similar condition and was surprised that the fix didn’t have to be a pill.

Very impressive! This is awesome. Have worked on sculpting tools before and it's pretty dang intuitive out of the box.

Two minor suggestions: 1. On mac the undo mappings would normally be CMD+Z. Not sure if it's possible to map this in the browser or not but took me a moment to find Ctrl+Z (via menus).

2. The starting geometry is a circle with a flesh-colored tone. Not sure if this is randomized but it leads to quickly creating weird human-ish shapes. It also defaults to a mirrored circular/spherical brush. May want to consider a different default tone as you'll likely get lots of female anatomy drawn w/ the current settings.

This is cool. Curious to see how auto tiling works but I really like the simple parameter editing for entities.

I have a level editor I rolled after frustration with tiled and end up using for all of my projects. Every time it’s not quite right and I discover some basic bugs. Feels like I spend more time fixing bugs than making levels.

Seconding!

Thanks for sharing. I skimmed the article looking for a specific set of info but may have missed it: how do bodies naturally/organically generate vitamin D and can that be sufficient or are supplements necessary? (E.g. I surf 5 days a week with sunscreen and go for walks regularly. Will I have enough vitamin D or should I supplement?)

The article doesn’t dig into the real meaty topic - why are modern websites slow. My guess would be 3rd party advertising as the primary culprit. I worked at an ad network for years and the number of js files embedded which then loaded other js files was insane. Sometimes you’d get bounced between 10-15 systems before your ad was loaded. And even then, it usually wasn’t optimized well and was a memory hog. I still notice that some mobile websites (e.g. cnn) crash when loading 3p ads.

On the contrary, sites like google/Facebook (and apps like Instagram or Snapchat) are incredibly well optimized as they stay within their own 1st party ad tech.

I’ve been getting back into electronic music production and there’s a growing group of people who previously used ableton, logic, etc that are moving to pure hardware production (it’s called Dawless) to reduce screen time. Many are software engineers or work a day job at a tech company.

Interesting trends to keep an eye on.

Some other ideas after poking around quora and the PM subreddit:

* How to use metrics when you suck at metrics.

* What are the 3 metrics you should look at every day (broken down by type of project)

* How to build a diverse team of PMs

* The best PMs I’ve ever seen do... (anecdotes from amazing PMs)

* The worst PMs I’ve ever seen do../ (anecdotes from terrible PMs)

* How to get the most from your PM as a (designer / engineer / biz dev / etc)

* how to get the most from your (designee / Engineerin : biz dev / etc) as a PM

Thanks for sharing this! I’ve followed you since that show HN post (tried the product back in the day but never stuck) and am happy you have achieved success!! Nice work!

Dx7 is such a rad synth!! I had a few vintage synths when I lived in New York but sold them due to space. Just started getting back into it and there is some really cooo hardware out there. Especially digging the Elektron line right now. Picked up a Digitakt which is a funky sampler / drum machine / sequencer. Has allowed me to drive my synths via midi without using software or a laptop. Very refreshing and a totally different workflow.

Very cool. I always expect a link like this to either be some super basic examples (e.g. how to implement flocking) or articles detailing techniques used in games from ~20 years ago.

Very cool how recent and modern these are (along with super reputable authors)

I was working on something similar (small mmo) a few years back and would have killed for at least one example that had been shared. Part of this was to see how they did gongs, part of it (more importantly to me) was to know that there were other crazy people out there doing the same thing!!

Github felt like it deserved a callout here (Free if open, paid if closed). And there's no mention of free to play games which is a business mdoel powering a large chunk of a big industry.

Same - I was hoping for an epic surfing story at desert point

Can’t speak for OP but at my company IC stands for ‘individual contributor’ (as opposed to a manager)

Thanks, this is super thorough!

I hadn’t heard about this project, thanks for sharing!!! QWTF was one of my first competitive games and I loved making custom maps for it.

Have you checked AT&T? I live in Santa Cruz (a small city) and was surprised to find that they wired my neighborhood for fiber last year. Price is competitive with Comcast and it’s been solid since I signed up a few months ago.

Thanks for introducing me to the Microbrute!! Just watched a ton of videos and I like how simple the design is. Looks like it’s a great starter kit (in the video I watched, they recorded a simple piece then spent a bunch of time tweaking sounds to figure out what each one does).

Great idea to show viability of solar setups! I’ve installed a simple solar panel / charge controller / battery solution in a van and was surprised how simple it is to get up and running. The tech is really reliable and is super affordable.

I have a 2015 Impreza and find the built in UI cumbersome and annoying. It has a few bugs where it can get stuck on a specific menu and it also doesn’t update the song that’s playing via Bluetooth from Spotify etc.

I feel like there are a ton of nice improvements to be had from the 2015 version if they could be figured out: 1. Better Spotify integration with album cover display, playlist scroll 2. Mirror google maps to the display 3. Show any push notifications that come in via your phone 4. Display engine diagnostic info when check engine light is on 5. Display a nice background image when not in use

These are just a few features I’d personally love to see, not sure if any are at all feasible.

Great story - thanks for sharing :) In hindsight, do you think it was any different? (Microcomputer vs mainframe for the disassembled you were talking about building)