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It's how everyone with a smartphone learns how to write these days. Editing large blocks of text on a smartphone is still extremely annoying, so people get used to hitting send between every few words.

I have a similar setup with 2 2016 MPB M1s connected to an LG ULTRAGEAR+ display via a UGREEN KVM and a Minthouz Dock. Switching between them got to be so annoying that I had to disable sleep on both devices using this command:

    sudo pmset disablesleep 1

You would think this would negatively affect battery life when the laptop isn't docked, but I haven't noticed much of a change. It's also nice to be able to shut the lid on a whim instead of trying to keep the lid open so my downloads don't turn off while I'm moving from one room to another.

I agree that this isn't communicated well, but I think the idea he's going for has nothing to do with virtualization or containerization. It's reducing all application level actions to a sequence of events, complete with the data that would get passed in. That way, you can replay production events, complete with production data, locally for debugging purposes.

Unfortunately, that also makes this a PII security nightmare.

That market is growing because of AI. Everybody I've seen use AI gets to a certain point where it breaks and they don't know how to fix it. They have a choice to make, then: ditch it and pay for real software that works, or pay somebody to fix it. Hopefully, they've used that AI generated software to create enough cash flow to afford somebody to fix it.

How much does it pay, relatively? The last time I looked into jobs in the UK and in Europe, I could make more money flipping burgers in the US.

I'm working on GPS tools to help support my current contract. I've found there are no good tools for tracing a route on a map and having a mobile device think it's traveling that route. I'm not just talking GPS coordinates, but speed, direction, motion detection, precise timing between waypoints, being able to play these trips forward and backward, step by step, etc. I'm talking time-travel debugging for GPS applications.

It's still early days, but I have a demo running. Unfortunately, it requires using a drop-in replacement library for CoreLocation. That alone may make it infeasible.

It looks nice. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

A system for instrumenting GPS routes.

A user reports a location bug on their morning commute. You're 2,000 miles away. Instead of flying out to reproduce it, you replay their exact GPS trip on your simulator. Same route. Same speed. Same timing.

Record & replay real GPS routes for iOS.

Video here: https://x.com/LyleMakes/status/2064438713124270233

A MacOS desktop app and a mobile app for instrumenting GPS routes.

Screenshot here: https://x.com/LyleMakes/status/2063784301594853657/photo/1

I ran into some interesting limitations when trying to test a friend's trip tracking application.

I can record a sequence of events that includes just about anything the phone can do: lat/long changes, speed, orientation, changes in motion state (idle, walking, driving, etc), geofencing, bluetooth state changes, wifi state changes, etc. Everything timestamped.

But, how do you play this sequence back in a way that makes the app think you're taking the same trip again? I was hoping the OS (iOS and/or Android) would provide a mechanism for this. And it does, but only lat/long. Nothing else.

The missing information is very important when trying to debug what's going on in my application on any particular trip. Now, I know I can create my own version of CLLocation that will generate these events whenever I want them, but I was hoping to find a solution that didn't require changing application code to support. I would like to take my findings and create a product that can help people do this sort of testing and requiring them to switch out CLLocation everywhere it's used in their application is a difficult sell.

I'm working on GPS tools to help support my current contract. I've found there are no good tools for tracing a route on a map and having a mobile device think it's traveling that route. I'm not just talking GPS coordinates, but speed, direction, motion detection, precise timing between waypoints, being able to play these trips forward and backward, step by step, etc. I'm talking time-travel debugging for GPS applications.

It's early days. I'm not even sure it's possible.

An old school WYSIWYG RAD GUI builder for native applications. Because I don't accept that native app development needs to suck as much as it does.

Just because it's popular, doesn't mean it's financially successful. Take a look at YouTube. They lost money hand over fist for decades.

> I don’t think this is necessarily what is happening.

This is exactly what happened with my niece, my nephew, and all of their friends.

Which isn't to say they've outgrown all of the games they played when they were younger. They still play minecraft, stardew valley, kirby, mario, etc. I don't know why, but they all bounced off of Fortnite after they hit a certain age. I wonder why.

But, why? It's been 30 years. You'd think somebody would have figured out how to make a decent GUI toolkit or framework.

Probably. The RADDBG folks recently created their own debug format (RDI) to replace PDB and DWARF. Could be worth a gander.

https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger?tab=readme-ov-fi...

Wouldn't that be more of a RAD tool, like Lazarus[0]? Or are you suggesting you could do both in the same tool? I'm not doubting it's possible, but those are two very different (and large!) products from a functional standpoint. Combining them is going to be quite the undertaking.

[0]: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

If you have patience, the first 30 or so episodes of Handmade Hero are pretty good.

https://guide.handmadehero.org/code/

Are you working on the original codebase or the OpenJK fork?

This is a great video by SuperfastMatt on the engineering behind and evolution of the Tesla door handle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bea4FS-zDzc

You can do the spaced repetition logic yourself with a leitner box. Details here: https://ncase.me/remember/

The product in question has a cast part. How do you do that in low quantity by yourself? Sand casting?

> Even with messy hands

Why would you do this while you're cooking? I do all of my calculations before I start, usually in front of a computer.

Tallow is popular right now, but plain old butter is just as good, easier to work with, and doesn't make everything it touches taste like beef.

These companies carry Errors and Omissions insurance.

> Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems

... that "normal" people can't understand or use. That's how you get things like this story of Tom, told by ThePrimeagen[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUPs5N9I6I

Welcome to the age of ATS. Nobody reads cover letters or resumes anymore. They read the summaries that the AI inside the ATS generates.

The Koerner Office[0]. I have a lot to learn about all facets of business and Chris does a good job of keeping things practical and simple. The episode about hummingbird food[1] in particular blew my mind.

The Wookash Podcast[2]. Some of the best technical programming conversations I've heard in recent years.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcFBcfrmC2k

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@WookashPodcast

In software, we often talk about tackling the hardest problems our industry has to offer. In marketing, what you just described is the hardest problem that industry has right now. Somebody who can come up with a viable solution will change the game completely, and not just in software. In music, books, movies, TV, videos, video games, etc.