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This morning I was configuring an app and it gave me three options for cursor styles: box, underscore and vertical bar.The vertical bar has always made sense with me—it lives in-between letters, for example: when I see "test|ing" I know that my cursor is in-between the final "t," but before "i." If I type "X" I'll get: "testXing."By contrast, in this app the box cursor is like this: "test[i]ng"...
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Every week at work I get a bunch of reminders which I schedule in apps like Slack, Google Calendar, etc. These notifications arrive always within the minute that I scheduled and it always impresses me! Delightful!I want to learn about how a this type of system is designed. I've searched a lot, but haven't yielded anything about systems that handle scheduled notifications.Some wonderings: - What...
My work uses Google Calendar. I'm amazed that I always get notifications for meetings on time and in multiple mediums (i.e., email, push notification, etc).How is a notification system like this built? I've been poking around for time-based event systems, but I don't think that's the right thing to look at.Finally, how can you scale this? I'm just imagining a ton of distributed cron-y things,...
I'm about 70% through this book. I've done every exercise and have meticulously journaled about each concept as I encounter them into my Zettelkasten.
Best part: you can read it online and then determine if you want the physical book (which I prefer for math).