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Software manuals used to be great! I remember getting Windows 3.0 and reading the huge manual cover-to-cover. It went over almost every feature in great detail. Game manuals were fun too. SimCity had a wonderful manual with a nice background and history of city planning.

As someone who also doesn't know Jupyter, what sort of fun and useful things would I do with this? It looks like I can add content and some code blocks that I can execute. I guess taking notes and tinkering?

I'm messing with Elixir just for fun, so this caught my eye.

I've been having issues with my M1 Air and most recently my Studio. I've used a few different LG displays, and right now am using a usb c connected LG wide screen. The Studio is better than the Air, but it often fails to wake the monitor from sleep. Sometimes the power button on the monitor will help, but other times I have to unplug and replug.

One stupid workaround I've done is set a hot corner to "put display to sleep." Sometimes I hit my touch ID, and nothing happens, but I know the Studio is awake. If it's awake I can slide the mouse to the hot corner to sleep, then move it again and it will wake up the monitor.

I really don't understand why this is still an issue with these otherwise amazing machines.

Even the "just works" experience isn't great because it's just not intuitive to setup. There's no confirmation that yes, your iPad and this other machine are connected. It either fails silently, or you realize you can move your cursor over. But where do you move your cursor? You also need to setup Sidecar to tell it where your screens are located. The only way I got it to work was to look through third-party articles. I'd love to see a dropdown list of what machines I'm connected with.

In addition, going from my Mac to an iPad is laggy and it had the caps lock flipped between each machine!

What is really fun though is Synergy, which a few years ago was running a Mac, a Linux box, and an O2 all from the same keyboard and mouse.

I am serious, though I was just going through a stack of old floppies to see what was on them. I just decided to try to format one for fun!

We were one of their first advertisers! If I recall, we traded them some RAM and maybe a server case as part of the deal.

I found this out the other day while trying to format a floppy! For way too long I thought it was just the drive misbehaving.

I can't wait for more cars companies named after scientists! Maybe someday I'll be able to get a car from... Hertz?

As someone who doesn't know what Apache Spark is, this article reads like it could have been randomly generated.

Pitch, roll, and yaw. Yaw is sideways.

I love how advertising shows people drawing annotations. It always looks so pointless.

Why did they circle that boat? Who is going to see it? What is the circled date on the other example? Did it get added to a calendar, or did it just go nowhere?

Can't they at least show cool young people working in a beach shop circling pictures of surfboards for no reason, like actual stylus users?

Unrelated to making fun of advertising... What happens to these examples when the site gets updated? Does it store a local copy? What if you want to update it later, but your local copy is now out of date?

I did just download Windows 10 to try in a VM, so I guess I'll find out!

I'm hoping that dark, rounded square in the middle represents Apple TV!

I'm currently working on an 11/23 here: http://bensinclair.com/category/pdp-11

It's not quite as involved as this 11/04, but still a lot of fun. I'm not having much like right now though!

Now I really need to finish building my Z80 machine!

And I don't think the people "in" Ruby on Rails named Ruby!

How about we just always have Summer in Athens, and Winter in say, Vancouver. There, all good.

The new pricing is very good, and you shouldn't need to pay until you're running a lot of traffic.

I find the iOS SDK to be pretty solid. Push notifications also work really well.

I have also noticed requests fail from time to time , but it hasn't been too much of an issue.

What I don't like is the query system. What would be trivial in SQL is sometimes difficult or impossible.

I also just don't like that cloud code queries are all asynchronous. Promises help, but complex operations end up as a huge nest of promises. I just have no need for server-side code to be asynchronous.

The console has been slightly improved, but the data browser is still a bit painful. They like to break the back button quite a bit too.

I have one large app using Parse as a back-end, but otherwise I just use it for push.

I personally like the new promotions and social tabs, but we build lots of emailers for our clients and will probably have to educate their recipients as in the article.

I did have to manually remove Rackspace ticket updates from the promotions tab. I was wondering why they weren't responding to me for a little while!

Under OSX I use the Emoji characters to indicate what server I'm on, and I use the red police light character if it's a production machine.

You can also tell iTerm to report its terminal type as something specific, then do something like this in your bashrc to setup a different prompt if you're not on OSX:

if [ $TERM = "xterm-256color" ]; then

Not that it matters too much, but why did you call it Beluga? Beluga is a pretty famous Facebook acquisition, and is the first thing I think of when I see Beluga, besides the whale!

Did they make that drawing just for the blog post?

I don't know things work at GitHub, but our ideas are scrawled on random papers, whiteboards, and windows. We also never seem to have a perfectly posed pencil anywhere in sight.

Either way, I still love GitHub!

He describes poor quality, client-side apps that can be developed in a matter of hours. If he has made money, that's great, but he's not creating anything with long term value, like Instagram.

Apps like Instagram are businesses with passionate developers and back-end systems that you just can't do with random developers that will work on junk projects for no pay.