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storojon Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

"B" is "buy" in Counter-Strike, and "B" ls "look back" in a racing game.

What kind of consistency did you expect across Mail App and Safari? How do you "Reply" in browsers?

storojon The Psychology of Software Teams

(3) has an exciting title but the methodology is: "we observed 10 (ten) developers ..."

storojon John Ternus to become Apple CEO

> Enable the “Reduce motion” setting in System Settings.

> This is always the default answer to this question online, and I’m sick of it! It doesn’t even solve the problem, but rather replaces it with an equally useless fade-in animation.

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...

storojon iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

Noone complains about Windows 9 because Windows 9 does not exist.

storojon What’s new in Swift 6.2

IMO async/await and Combine are two completely different things.

What is the alternative to Combine's CurrentValueSubject or combineLatest()?

storojon Russian Names (2018)

> Is Alex/Alexander a nickname for Sasha

it's the other way around: "Alexandr" is the "canonical" name, and "Sasha" is a shorter version of it

In Russian some names can be used with "sha" suffix that makes the name sound "softer": in many cases it's how parents call their kids.

Mikhail -> Misha; Mariya -> Masha; Alexandr(Male) or Alexandra(Female) -> Alexasha -> Sasha

storojon TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end

There should be a well-defined list of undefined behaviors.

storojon Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update

I clearly don't understand what kind of security are we talking about in this particular case of using a 3D printer. A protection from what – someone comes to my home, connects to my wifi with my password, and then – prints a huge cube to waste all my filaments? Where's the real threat here?

storojon Ladybird browser spreads its wings

Because they can

storojon Ship Something Every Day

> do most of the hard work, and give it to somebody else to finish up the easy part and ship the solution

once I realized that the hardest part is actually _finishing_

storojon Cursor – The AI-First Code Editor

  import foo from 'foo'

  > add comments

  // imports
  import foo from 'foo'

oh thanks, now I know that these lines that start from "import" are actually imports

storojon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

iOS Developer

  Location: London (UK)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: iOS, Swift/ObjC, C++. ~10 YOE
  CV: https://storoj.github.io/cv
  Email: dark.storoj@gmail.com

storojon jq 1.7

Is ".*" necessary? I think "^_" should be enough.

storojon Homebrew 4.0.0

IMO installation failures are equally bad, no matter if they happen in 1% of cases or in 100%.

storojon Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

> I will not do take home assignments for free if they take more than 1h of my time.

How is it possible to do anything meaningful in just an hour?