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snarkyturtle··on GitHub having issues today
That's where I feel like it's actually pretty nice to not have CI tied to your source code. It's probably more expensive to use Travis/Circle but at least you don't have a single point of failure for deploys.
snarkyturtle··on Playstation is cutting off X sharing options
Social sharing in general isn’t really used I’ve found. Case-in-point: Spotify Wrapped. The vast of the majority of the users just screenshot their phones instead of simply clicking a button to share on a platform.

Granted, it’s harder to do that on the Playstation but the alternative is just … not sharing it at all which probably is the case for most gamers.

snarkyturtle··on Dating apps lose their luster with college students
I would posit that _most_ apps are losing luster. People are wary about Silicon Valley's business models and promises to make their lives better. Take Airbnb: it was supposed to be cheapter/more convenient but now people are using traditional services like hotel because of how expensive/inconvenient VC-backed platforms are. Same thing with dating apps, it just doesn't deliver on its promises and makes things more inconvenient than going to a house party.
snarkyturtle··on Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
Before they went down it seemed that there were many big publishers who got the owner to disable it for their sites. Either that or the sites learned to actually not send their articles unless the user is logged in (and didn't care about googlebot not scanning it).

It was just an effective way to get through substack/medium in my experience.

snarkyturtle··on Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
I think climate anxiety has a lot to do with continued spending. People aren't having kids, or having much long-term goals, _because_ they don't know how the society and the world would look like in 50 years. So why not just live in the moment?
snarkyturtle··on Exa Is Deprecated
In this context, it could read as he and his family, or just people around him. We're all not one person, we're a reflection of people we interact with. Hence, "they".
snarkyturtle··on Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup
it'll also crush the kids they run over
snarkyturtle··on Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim
We all will finally get to :wq life and I'm glad he left such a lasting legacy before he did.
snarkyturtle··on Threads users down by more than a half
Agree, they rolled out the "Following" tab and it's a ghost town. Shipping it with the algorithmic feed at least made it look like a lively, if somehwat chaotic place.
snarkyturtle··on Wall squats better at lowering blood pressure
Hell, even sit-ups are largely useless. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/sit-ups-c...
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: What's the best thing you came across on Hacker News?
I'm almost certain these were posted back in the day but:

Adam Morse's updated color palette: https://clrs.cc/

This really cool color scale generator: https://hihayk.github.io/scale/#4/6/50/80/-51/67/20/14/1D9A6...

snarkyturtle··on Tachyons – A CSS Toolkit
Tailwind was great because it made it obvious how the classes connected to the configuration. Tachyons was very much was marketed as a "bootstrap" sort of thing where it wanted you to use their configuration and that's it.
snarkyturtle··on Threads Usage Drops by Half from Initial Surge
The megacorp who actively designed algorithms that boosted content that made people angry, and allowed for third-parties to manipulate their APIs into influencing elections.
snarkyturtle··on Threads Usage Drops by Half from Initial Surge
It's possible sure but unlikely. There's a reason why there are countless news channels that span the political spectrum. Just because some orgs jump ship from Twitter, doesn't mean that all of them will, and there will be some orgs who tolerate it.

Twitter has a large user base who just use it because it has 500M daily active users.

snarkyturtle··on Nitter is working again
I mean, nitter has pages indexed on Google so it's not exactly secret
snarkyturtle··on Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10
Chill it's been in development for like 6 months and they wanted it to scale to 10M users. I'm sure a web interface is on the roadmap.
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
It doesn't have the hyper-local capabilities that reddit has but metafilter.com deserves a shoutout. It has an established community, has been around for _ages_ and is a good replacement for /r/all and the like.
snarkyturtle··on Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset
You're still apart. You're not gathered physically around the TV, able to make eye contact, jump around with joy, etc. It's just you and your friends in the walled garden.
snarkyturtle··on Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset
The most dystopian part of it is that it takes away from TV/Gaming from being a social aspect to everyone being in their own pod and silo.
snarkyturtle··on Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization
Tumblr. It's much more "empty" and full of niche communities. It'll also add support for ActivityPub so it'll be a decent way to hook into Mastodon servers as well. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-prot...
snarkyturtle··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Most of those aren't even allegations they happened in the open for everyone to see.
snarkyturtle··on BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
Gotta love off-by-one errors
snarkyturtle··on I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
Individuals can't control the environment but legislation can. Regulation can turn smoggy cities into breathable ones. Data works toward that goal.
snarkyturtle··on I've been told (many times) that “the good employees never get laid off”
*good young employees
snarkyturtle··on Vox Media lays off 7% of staff
One of their huge endeavors is to build an ad-tech company that serves ads based off of first-party data that they gather on Vox Media sites. It's a fairly ingenious way a media company is diversifying their revenue tbh, especially with the upcoming death of the cookie: https://www.voxmedia.com/2022/6/9/23161429/vox-media-unveils...
snarkyturtle··on Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration
Collaboration on Keynote is truly terrible.
snarkyturtle··on Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
yeah but you're also knowledgeable about all that shit and 99% of people with Android devices won't use alternate app stores. they'll download apps from the google play store, use google services, stream on google chromecast, watch things on youtube tv. google and/or samsung will get all that data and that's how they make money.
snarkyturtle··on Tailwind is a leaky abstraction
Except you should be learning a "language" anyway because that's what building a product is about.

To use your "rounded" thing as an example:

Design systems should have their own definitions of what a "rounded" thing is. The designs also probably have different types of border-radius based on if it's a container element, or a button, or a pill button, etc. So you define those as different types of "rounded". Small, medium, large. Round, rounder, roundest. They could be whatever you want. This way, your team doesn't have to remember that 10px = round, designers or PMs just say "round" and you use the "round" utility class.

Or if they don't like styling they can say "hmm what about 'rounder'?" and you use the rounder class.

That's what Tailwind aims to solve is to 1) define a common language across the team and 2) make that easily available for the FE dev to implement versus trying to cross-reference what "round" is.

snarkyturtle··on Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?
This is tens of milliseconds that we're talking about here too. It's really dumb to think that would be perceptive in developer experience.
snarkyturtle··on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
So basically any big city. The tourist trap where one wrong turn can lead you to homeless encampments, and the actual city that people live in.
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