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Definitely a fun read, I almost spit out my coffee after reading about Gen Z thinking nirvana is a clothing brand.

But I don’t follow with the whole premise. The mobility hypothesis is interesting, that people no longer see rich people as something attainable. But becoming famous through influencing or something on that vain. But famous people have been sellouts for far longer than i can remember. Kate bush did some weird promotion for a Dutch theme park called de Efteling and we have been messing with millennials for the past 20 years that nirvana is headlining the biggest Dutch music festival every year. “Ooh yeah i love that song”. And as far as I know Paris Hilton played half of the world into thinking that she was dumb as a rock.

Think that brands have given up on old school advertising. Just god lazy to give people a big bag of money for exposure. For how long will that work until people get bored of that? Yes, a music artist aligning themselves with Pantone as a color once is novel. But how many times does that really stay interesting? Just lazy advertising what only work for a couple of years until the larger crowed stops caring about the next branded Oreo deal.

If I had to guess it is the NX console extension that was compromised yesterday. But I’m not 100% sure.

https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-...

This is a great way to sour many customers for all products automatic owns. I don’t buy the “it must be a bug story.” They just flipped the switch and only deal with the squeaky wheels for people that complain.

Did I expect free updates and features forever. No, Only the bare minimum to keep it running.

Hell, if it was owned by a small company or an individual I wouldn’t mind donating to keep it maintained once in a while. I don’t feel the need for a subscription for a podcast app. The fanciest feature I’ve used in the past 10 years is the sleep after 15 min options.

Saddest is that they are advertising their own apps. Good to know which one to avoid.

At this point i don’t trust large programs anymore. Someone recommended to use Lens to manage a k8 cluster. That application was a 600mb install file and if I’m not mistaken double that after installing on a Mac. Desktop software has become so crazy. Meanwhile the blender download is 300mb. It is not that I’m looking for over optimized software. But a 2gb k8 console doesn’t spark trust in the developers to begin with.

This resonates with me, I’ve never considered knowledge as something you can live.

But comparing it with photography, it influences how you experience the world. Sometimes it makes you feel like an outsider documenting instead of being in the moment.

I always cringe a bit when people take endless videos of fireworks or concerts. There is a fine line between wanting te remember a feeling or moment and just brainlessly recording.

I’m wouldn’t be surprised if this second brain movement is similarly lacking its connection with “reality” and when lacking clear intention.

I disagree, Think this developer is the has the most overrated worldbuilding out there. People are just willing meaning on whatever they make. Just a cheap trick where gamers, starving for actually decent storytelling in gaming are walking straight into scrapes to fill a void.

I would grade something as portal 2, or dwarf fortress as literary vehicle vastly superior

What would you use instead?

I tried it a couple of times, but the showstopper for me was the hosting model was the show stopper. I think the premise of the language and platform has so many amazing aspects that are very exciting to me. But it also i had a hard time imagining pitching this together with unison cloud to my team. All the components together at this moment in time. A very big investment into an ecosystem.

Hope some smart developers would take the learning and try to integrate it with existing languages like clojure.

Still going to follow what unison is doing because it is so exciting

As a hobby comic creator I think the “paper” medium itself still has unexplored narrative devices. Think it might be fun to experiment with it a bit in vr, but I wonder if games are not more suitable then comics. Seems like you are trying to put a book inside a film, like the first scene in StarWars.

It’s not only push notifications, it’s the combination of everything communication channel combined. I recently unsubscribed to a services that kept spamming me their “lifetime subscription” product, while I already was on their yearly premium plan. Over the course of 2 weeks, I received 4 push notifications, 4 emails and 2 times when I opened the app it had a full screen ad. I’ll never use this product again. Ironically, this app focuses on sleep quality, focus and meditation.

4 years ago I was using a Fitbit, and for some reason they thought push notifications was a great channel to promote a new watch product. It blew my mind that someone at Fitbit thought that was a great idea.

Anyone considering using push notifications for marketing purposes, I’m sure you’ll make a couple of sales short term, but for me, you damage your brand

Super exciting, procreate is such an awesome program. Bold move of making it portrait. I bought my iPad a long time ago for procreate, best purchase I’ve done. It reawakened illustration for me. Curious what we can make with this. Although I can’t find the minimum requirements anywhere yet.

Think people didn’t get the link turd to polished turd in this blogpost. Is what you get when you ask a beginner artist without any guidance to create something, and instead of making something that has the right competition, perspective, proportions, colors and values etc, they tend to over render the image. Making it look “pretty”, the issue that it tries to compensate shitty foundations with glitters and sparkles, widgets, shadows and highlights.

Ultimately it often doesn’t have the right impact.

Ai art falls in the same category for me. Polished turds, bad writers, bad ideas, bad concepts, boring subjects.

I’m hoping it mostly inspires a generation to make cool shit and enjoy it. If you take a skilled artist to use ai art, the results are good, if you take beginners and give it tools you get polished ai art turds. Things that looks cool but ultimately missing the foundation to make it work.

At the same time, perhaps it doesn’t matter, and people want to have polished turds regardless.

Compare this to a game like unpacking, carefully crafted rooms and smart storytelling. Or vampire survivor, addictive gameplay loop with assets that almost seem like they come straight out of some gamemaker pack. In the end, it’s all about intend, and no amount of polish is going to fix

I do think these structures are beautiful. They seem organic and mechanical at the same time. It looks like something that has been constructed to withstand nature in an incredibly contrasted way. It conjures the same amazement I have with large planes taking off, it looks like it shouldn’t work, but it does. I can understand why people don’t find it interesting, but I for one am mesmerized by it.

This is the first video I’ve seen by him. I’m by no means a fan of clean code. But I think he’s making a fool of himself here. Picking out 1 code example from the book doesn’t proof that much on its own. This stuff is so language, os, hardware and compiler specific anyway.

The iPhone comparisons are extremely cringe. Real application do so much more then this contrived example. Something that feels fast isn’t the same thing as something is fast.

Would I advise beginner programmer’s to read this book? Sure, let them think about ways to structure code.

If he just had concluded with, that it is important to optimize for the right thing that would be fine. But he seems more interested in picking a fight with clean code.

And yes performance is a lost art in programming

Think it’s a different mentality, it’s nice that languages like Java and c# improve at such a rapid pace. But the every improvement also makes it worse and more confusing. I’ve used c# 4 years ago, 4 years of Java am now back to c#. Yes they added nice features on paper but it it made the languages so much more complex to write. The syntax is often similar but different. Just enough for me to need to Google basic syntax. Think most great developers use a subset of any programming language anyway. Can’t wait for c# or Java the good parts

Great, Google docs and share point, does that mean we have an extra dependency on Microsoft and Google not to break any of their apis? Managing formatting straight from a document sounds like a recipe for disaster if you don’t own the whole stack. I really wonder how a company like adobe is managed.I’m sure they have some great selling products with great margins. But the creative industry is beginning to hate their products more and more. Yes they might have a a good unmatched creative suite as a whole, but if professionals can’t do their work anymore because of serious deteriorating of quality between versions. Was following a Twitter rant from Ashe thorp a while ago, he isn’t one to whine about anything quickly, but that guy is so well connected and in think his network pretty much operates is anything cutting edge design wise, avatar, Microsoft film etc. At this point I chose for an alternative to adobe products they might be a better deal, but I wouldn’t trust your paying my mortgage on anything in adobe creative suite. I’d rather invest upfront in something that I know will get better over time instead of worse.

Ha, I thought the exact same thing. Besides that it is a pretty bad story that is written by a “child” not a story written for a child. It lacks any depth. It seems it is just using words without understanding it. Reminds me or searls Chinese room thought experiment.

Think it would be better to chose a topic that fits gtp3 model.

As someone using the German railway for a large distance destination couple a weeks ago it was a total disaster, we got stranded in a unfamiliar German city. Deutsche bahn told us they didn’t have any of their (partner) hotel rooms left. Just arrange something yourself. That was very nice because all the hotels were full anyway. It took us another 2 hours of calling to find something. I was exhausted when I finally checked in somewhere at 1 am.

I try to avoid flying, but the German railway is giving me nightmares. I frequently travel through Germany and it is the exception if there aren’t any large issues.

The article itself is very thin when giving its reasons. I’m sure it’s oké for people without the money to spend, but I would rather pay more for increased reliability. If the German summers are similar to how the Dutch maintains their railways, I’m sure they will plan a ton of construction while the masses of people that usually take the trains for work are on holiday. So I’m inclined to see this promotional as compensation for bad summer train service.

I think you are right, but a designer makes color pallets. Investing a bit of time in the psychology of hue or “color”, saturation and value might put you on the right track. It goes way deeper of course. But it a good starting point. Colors also obey to trends. A color palette usually has a hierarchy. Just take a look at dribble for some inspiration. Design borrows quite heavy on “stealing”. Of course don’t just copy paste something 1:1 but it might also be a good step. How we perceive Colors is greatly influenced by the relation of other colors in the composition/palet keep that in mind.

Nice work! I'm actually pretty excited to give this a shot. I like Flutter and Clojure. But writing Dart isn't the most fun thing I can imagine doing. Fun is something I find important in personal projects, but not so much my day to day work. I don't care about the language that pays the bills, the type of projects is way more important there.

I’ve been steadily drawing for the past 3 years. Slowly improving, what boosted my skills the most was getting an online instructor from a site that mostly facilitated language learning. Mostly because talking with real people about process, what you are working on, things where you might be struggling. My instructor help me pass those obstacles.

Draw a box drained my love got drawing and painting. I found it very repetitive and painful. The teacher warns for that, but still it didn’t work for me.

I do daily line-of-action.com sessions, it forces you not to think but to draw. Capturing essence and intent is more important than realism for me.

Just draw! Find people who inspire you. Don’t dwell on instagram and ArtStation. Perhaps take a look ob meetup if there are “shut up abd draw” sessions in your area.

I agree with the main sentiment from the article. Although I do think they are discussing Inversion of control more-so than dependency injection.

One of my first languages was .net and I was never able to really understand DI in that context that well.

Actually using javascript and ducktyping made me understand what it actually was.

I remember a .net job interview where I had to write a micro-service and opted to construct the dependency graph in the main function initialising "all" the classes there. Instead of discussing the pro's and con's of that approach they berated me for not using a DI framework (No I did not land that job, but in hindsight it was the most expensive job interview I've ever had. The room was filled with 8 developers going over my code).

The main thing the article glosses over is state. something people with a functional background hide from. But if you look at something like the httpclient in .net. I think it took the .net world like 10 years to start using the httpclient properly. Scope and lifetime of those kind of objects are important. managing connection pools, retry state, throttling or the incoming http request. DI does make that kind of thing easieR (I'm not saying it makes it better)

Look at clojure's component(https://github.com/stuartsierra/component), I'm not a clojure expert by far. But it is kinda DI/IOC in a functional language.

In closing we can agree that it is underused in the right places and overused in the wrong ones.

I would invest learning to develop for enterprise tools. Things like episerver, sitecore adobe cms, Shopify or sap stuff. Definitely would say it’s the most interesting way to develop software but companies are willing to shelve out the big bucks after buying some of these obscenely expensive license’s. Pretty well paid cushy jobs

Weird to blame a file format for a poor archiving job. I’m pretty sure if they did their jobs the source/project would still be available. How is restoring paintings from the 1500s any different?

It’s the walled garden they supported. What about Facebook comments on their articles? Think the realization that the internet is hard to keep immutable. These companies chose to use the easiest road instead of the best road and they are now paying the price.

As long they are more concerned with a/b testing their headlines then using more open standards I find it weird that blame flash for it.

Perhaps they should talk to musea instead. How they are preserving digital art.

What target group? Devs? Po? General org?

There are special rules for that specific scenarios. As long if you don’t live in the Netherlands yourself and it is the only property you own

If that means middle income families or starters are not able to buy those houses, and the investors driving the prices up. Then yes, it’s a problem.

Better late than never. The housing market in the Netherlands is currently terrible. I’ve “fled” the country for the next few years. Hoping that would be enough time for the market to get healthy again. It’s just insane that we made it this easy for people who were well off to begin with to profit. Just sold a house, the profit I got from buying and selling that house alone makes me nauseous. Makes me wonder why I work at all. Can imagine corporate investors are milking it for all its worth.

Check out umbraco, c# cms. Battle tested for ages, also has a hosted option

WOW, this is so nice. The drawings are really cute and the animations give it its own style. Bit of feedback the color palet all over the place. Could use a bit of hierarchy to help the focus of the viewer and reuse same colors to make it more coherent.