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> Audiobooks are just a different medium.

When I read I build internal voices of the characters or narrators through the pages as a part of my imagination engaging with the words of the book. With audiobooks this never happens.

> It's also entirely free with no gotchas.

Not true since it requires you to sign in with Canva account.

Unfortunately, I've also come across .astro files that I'm not allowed to touch and yet have to work with them (some internal corporate dinosaur which has not been updated for a while).

For my personal site, it was a 5 minute work, as usual :)

It's Nokia all over again: Having all ingredients for success and yet stubbornly not succeeding.

The switch to strict HTML compilation is just not cool, and actively prevents upgrading sites which need to deal with remote content that is not written in strict HTML.

I also wish there could be a general purpose content processing API so I can plug a different format than markdown (such as typst)

IntelliJ has free open-source distribution so you don’t need to pay anything for using it. To each their own, I guess.

Or PERIBOARD-413 if you need steeper angle. Perixx keyboards are cheap (and you’ll feel this cheapness every time you use them) but that’s why they are so good: a low-barrier entry to try out ergonomic keyboards before moving on to something more premium.

Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.

Out of all the things listed, dependency tree and compile times are the most problematic things I face in Rust projects. As stated at the very end of the article, if you need tighter feedback loop, you might be happier with other languages.

I do feel weird about a major chunk of this article dedicated to ORMs; I guess people think they are still worthwhile, somehow.

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.

Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.

Looks interesting.

> The Licensee may not modify, translate, adapt, alter, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer, change or alter the embedding bits, the font name, legal notices contained in the font software, nor seek to discover the source code of the font data, convert into another font format, create bitmaps, add or subtract any glyphs, symbols or accents, or any other derivative works based on the electronic data in this product.

This is why I haven’t bought it. I like to subset fonts to reduce the size. Any font license that prohibits this just gets ignored by me, no matter how good it is.

This is something that can bring me back to Deno. Binary size is still pretty big IMO. If they can trim down runtime based on the specific uses of standard library (sort of treeshake Deno runtime itself), it would be revolutionary. Java promised this with `jlink` but sadly failed to deliver for wider adoption.

What a time! A browser was supposed to be the "user agent".

Regardless of what people say about Firefox, I've been using it for uBlock Origin and containers for ages, and won't be trading it for whatever performance, battery life, compatibility gains people continue to use Chrome for. Choose whatever is important for you, though.

At some point and scale, engineering (and "other" people, really) become a liability than resource. This is where the rot within surfaces through the tainted skin and there's no stopping it. It just gushes and scorches everything—people, goodwill, cultural relevance, and all.

It requires you to always keep your Wifi radios on. What I meant was that the hotspot option should toggle Wifi radios when needed (and not always). This is possible through Shortcuts but is a bit finnicky.

Many ePub readers allow you to ignore formatting. And that’s exactly what I do.

Waiting for the day when I can set my own Search Engine in Safari, set Wifi hotspot as default (it defaults to USB / bluetooth), and use iPhone hotspot to update my iPad (iPad refuses to download updates when connected to iPhone hotspot even when Low-Data mode is disabled).

Not launching in EU feels like a smell. It does look interesting enough for me to try it out before disabling Apple Intelligence again.

Since I don't care about Apple Music at all, I just lock the ~Music/Music folder. It prevents the app to launch while still keeping the key functional in other apps.

Might as well report all users of internet to authorities for using internet because internet can also be used to commit fraud.

> The fastest, most compressed columnar format for big data

How large a dataset can it tackle? I work with Parquet files spanning 300million+ records (~800MB files) using DuckDB and it works within seconds.

I might be interested to see benchmarks against Parquet and Vortex. A DuckDB extension would be great as well.

Every single time I experience Gradle, I’m grateful Maven exists.

Vue 2 to Vue 3 has been equally painful for atleast one app I know about. Compare that to last three versions of Astro (with web components) and it has been a breeze.

> I migrated from Angular 4 to 18 (including ngrx and material) and didn't find it especially problematic.

The pain varies from project to project. Mine has been touched by a generation of developers of different levels of proficiency. A more disciplined project would’ve been easier to migrate in retrospective.

I think Angular ecosystem really missed the train with schematics (even ngrx!). Schematics could tackle a lot of toil if implemented exhaustively but apart from Angular and Material, nobody else seems to implement them effectively for brownfield projects.

Angular 2+ is equally horrible. Having spent 6 years on various versions of Angular, their migration story time and again has been an incredible pain.

These days I use web components for component writing and frameworks to handle routing, state management, bundling, and so on.

> And we’re bringing back compact mode.

This design is already a success IMO.

> I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind.

> I got curious about what writing more semantic HTML would feel like.

This is so relatable. In the beginning of my career, I used to add so many dependencies for things I did not know. But these days, I mostly work on removing dependencies because I'm a lot better at using the web platform. I treat the web platform and browser primitives as materials to build what I want rather than a blank canvas to paint things from scratch.

I guess it is time ... (sigh)

> I am biased towards Perl

This entire article reeks of bias of someone who hasn’t looked at Java since Java 8.