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dorkandstormyon Hotwire: HTML over the Wire

Am I the only one who was very, very surprised when the screencast immediately jumped into Rails? There's no mention of Rails anywhere on the landing page.

dorkandstormyon The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

The scary takeaway here is the draconian measures the US is expanding while everyone is too busy worrying about COVID-19 to notice.

The very same tactics that "taking the red pill" support. The NYT examines that misguided tweet with extensive background information (which the author of this article, it seems, doesn't consider). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesl...

He also apparently considers shutting down digital public services in one of the most hard-hit metropolitan areas with dick picks and memes as "hope."

dorkandstormyon The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

The scary takeaway here, in my opinion, is the draconian measures the US is expanding while everyone is too busy worrying about COVID-19 to notice.

The very tactics that "taking the red pill" support. The NYT does it some justice with extensive background information—which the author of this article, it seems, doesn't consider. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesl...

dorkandstormyon Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s

Yeah, no frequency capping. I got all Apple Card ads, which tarnishes Apple Card brand value. This feels like a dollar store theoutline.com. Brutalism doesn't work for long-form content, imho.

dorkandstormyon UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

It’s great and impressive that this was created and exists. As a professional designer, however, I strongly recommend avoiding this illustration style as it’s already considered passé and derivative. A popular twitter feed exists just to mock it. Try hiring an illustrator from upwork or directly via portfolios on behance or dribbble and make something unique. Many illustrators charge next to nothing because they have to now thanks to the commoditization of design via sites like this.

dorkandstormyon Blade Runner is set in November 2019: What predictions did the movie get right?

This article reads like a click-through from a Taboola/Outbrain chum box: designed purely to maximize ad viewability.

dorkandstormyon Sick of Your Shit, Apple

This seems like a foul-mouthed, unfunny tirade against Apple not fixing a clearly non-Apple related hardware issue. Why is it on HN at all?

dorkandstormyon ColorBox by Lyft Design

What's interesting here is that this applies Penner easing equations to color values. Would make for some very nice gradients if you interpolate between the values.

dorkandstormyon Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor

"Even if Olive is missing something you need, come back in a month or two and it's possible it will have been implemented." -- I'll just tell that to my client.