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There are quite a few gems in the Tailscale blog. I've come back to their posts about NAT traversal (https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/) and how Tailscale works (https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/) a few times, not necessarily for the technical content but for how well they're written.

The post from earlier today got me thinking about their blog post about the Steam Deck from last month. I was kinda surprised that someone hadn't already submitted it.

I don't mean the specs but the quality of the hardware design itself.

Apple wasn't always like that, just the current iteration of Apple. Back in the 80s and 90s Apple was more focused on longevity and building really great user interfaces than purity of design. Their Human Interface Guidelines were some of the best in the industry and they spent a lot of time and money on human factors research.

The quality and warranty are the primary reasons I bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer a few years ago. Most reviews say the washer isn't the best at actually cleaning clothes but 99% of the time I don't need to remove stains or dirt, I just need to wash clothes from daily use. In addition to the reliability I really like the controls. Nothing fancy, very easy and obvious with a 7-segment LED display that will likely last forever.

That's the one. It was full of those fun little notes. A nice balance of humor without going over the top. Helped me figure out how to use all of the features of the printer.

I think one of the first "quirky" computer books I can remember is a user manual for the Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer from the 1980s. It was written in a much more relaxed, personable style than almost any other computer books of the time. https://www.apple.asimov.net/documentation/hardware/printers...

I considered this too and started discounting it when I looked more closely at the paths in the images. The holes aren't perfectly spaced and each hole seems to be at a slightly different angle. But yea, could still be some kind of submarine with an unknown tread or wheel system we've never publicly seen.

Is there something explaining what differentiates joystick from other frameworks? The Readme explains what joystick is but not what's unique about it.

I was wondering if I had mixed up radiographer and radiographer.

The chairs are definitely interesting. I can't think of any rooms like that where family or friends have been allowed. Maybe we're both right and it's a multipurpose "hospital" room? Might make sense for a small town that needs a doctor's office with basic exam capabilities.

I think it's an x-ray room. The wall with the window for the radiologist to look through and the arm above the table.

I always thought it'd be cool to get my whole genome sequenced and keep a copy in my wallet. I don't know why but having a copy of my source code in my pocket seems cool.

Looks like HTMX already has something like this, just client-side. https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/

That's probably safer in some ways than filtering server side.

I just tried to order the Wifi devboard and got a similar response (I live in the US). I ordered the actual Flipper Zero a few weeks ago but forgot to order the accessories. I hope I can still get them at some point.

I imagine it would be somewhat easy to provide a way for the APIs to include a way to filter the resulting HTML they produce. A CSS path as a URL parameter that the API runs to only return the content of the CSS path.

There's probably some kind of balance between giving every partial it's own URL and allowing each partial to support a filtered response. You could write a little middleware for your http server to support the filtered response on every endpoint that returns HTML.

Fran covers that in the video.

But you didn't get the 30-60k payout to pay the lawyer.

Yea, but they've been getting more expensive with inflation.

I've considered buying an IPX or IPC case and putting a few raspberry pis in it. That was such an awesome form factor.

Check out AgentJayZ's videos on YouTube if you'd like to learn more about jet engines in general: https://www.youtube.com/user/agentjayz

> The terrible UX is just the tip of the iceberg. Things often just… don’t work. And good luck getting someone to talk to about it.

The same can be said for AWS. Even when you have access to Proserve getting answers can be difficult.

I'd like to see more languages with built-in, language level support for unit tests. Pyret (https://www.pyret.org/) does this but is considered a "learning language". I'm aware that to many people co-locating units tests with the functions they're testing is "bad" but I find it to be quite the opposite. The two are so tightly coupled that having the unit tests in a separate file, sometimes in a separate source tree, is counterintuitive to me.

I'm of two minds here. I agree with you but hopefully having Biden involved in the briefing will draw more attention to what I think it one of the coolest large science and engineering projects in decades (just my opinion).

I've wondered about this a lot recently as I've spent a lot of time recently fighting with Terraform, Atlantis, CircleCI, github and AWS. The first half of my career was deploying code to various UNIX machines. When there was a problem I could login to that machine and use various (common) tools to diagnose the issue. I may not have had root but I was at least able to gain insight into what was likely the culprit. The interface was immediate and allowed quick iteration to test out a solution.

It feels like we've lost a lot of that observability and immediacy with the cloud. It's not as easy to quickly understand the larger picture. You can understand the state of various services with the web console or command line tools but tracing a path through those services is much less obvious and efficient.

I'm kind of nervous to even discuss this as I wonder if it's just my age showing, especially since I see very people mention this as one of the downsides of various cloud solutions. Maybe I'm just jaded?

Many years ago I tweeted something about a project I was working on, tagging #HTML5 and #CSS3 or something like that. There as a Twitter bot that retweeted anything with an #HTML5 tag, and another, seemingly independent bot that retweeted anything with #CSS3. They didn't keep a list of seen tweets. I really enjoyed watching them retweet each other for a few hours until someone intervened. (Thankfully the bots were both on batch jobs that ran every 10 minutes or so and not streaming off the firehose or some similar, more focused streaming endpoint.)

And, unless you setup an appropriate DNS server and the default from your ISP, then they also know that you looked up the site's hostname(s).

iOS, where Apple only allows WebKit-based browsers, so basically Safari.

I've been burned by eBay enough times at this point that I generally avoid using it unless I have no other choice. Is there a good alternative with fewer scams, better customer support and a better user experience?

It is somewhat wild to me that PC towers are still a thing. So many other tech products have had significant form factor reductions in the past ~40 years yet gaming PCs have largely remained unchanged. (I understand we've had massive increases in computing capabilities, especially around 3D graphics and the power and cooling required for them.)

The listen count is huge for checking out new artists. Find a new band, try the first four or five tracks to see if they're a band you're interested in. At least YouTube still has view counts... for now.