gelstudios

like .playstation or .airbnb or .nike

> Your product needs enough features for the optimal user experience and no more

https://cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.308-spr05/files/palmdoc...

Does it boil down to compatibility with older hardware?

One concern I have about the instant-replay feature is the potential performance implications when monitoring multiple tabs or windows. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of all sites in this way and prefer better controls there.

I saw the block list inside the extension, but I think an allow list makes more sense for this use case. That way, .ycombinator.com or .example could work as opt-in for instant replay, and ideally, those domains could be preconfigured at the team level.

Acknowledging Chrome's extension per-site permissions is a valid option, but it's clunky.

+1 vote for a datadog integration, in addition to backend data I would love to see this work well with RUM. For now, I'll settle for jamming a common ID into Jam.Metadata and see how that works out.

I also thought Jam would accept bug reports from end-users and look forward to the development of that feature.

Comments synced to timestamps in the recordings are nice. Have you considered a scribble/annotation like the still screenshots, but for videos? The annotations could be anchored to the comment timestamp, and they would help capture a UX micro-interactions that may not be obvious in a still or video.

> June 5, 2002 - Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla software. A full-fledged browser suite...

IIRC one of Mozilla's v1 killer features was "tabs" in a time when opening links in a new window was the only (mainstream) option for a meandering web junkie.

Trademark games are pretty common in consumer tech. FaceTime and iOS are high profile examples of names ("marks" in parlance) that ended up licensed / transferred.

This snippet highlights the focus on UX (beyond the look and feel!), and as creators I think many of us can relate to (and maybe remind others...) how great products require deliberate care in design AND implentation.

> The user interface received particular scrutiny. Hawkins set firm limits that any slow operation be reworked instead of showing a busy indicator, and explicit error messages should be avoided. Graffiti was a given because handwriting had to work, as no physical keyboard would have fit at the time. Mindful of how unusual such a device would be to many users, Ed Colligan declared that Touchdown should “delight the customer,” and developer Rob Haitani established a design theory he grandly christened the “Zen of Palm"

I think only consonants and digits are used in device serial numbers.

A segment is the character (really byte) limit for a single message.

Curious, what was the worst thing about Twilio?

FYI I went straight for api examples, and the docs page looks like a placeholder https://docs.postack.dev/quickstart

That readme should include a mention of its intended platform .... "on a playdate"

Luckily you can run it in the simulator without one!

A few years ago I had the privilege of meeting the woz after an event at which he was a speaker.

I was surprised at how humble and patient he was with people vying for his attention, many asking for him to autograph laptops and whatever else they had at hand.

I got his attention when I asked him about tetris and we geeked out a bit over it. Thats a story for another day but I did walk away from that conversation with a prized souvenir -- an autographed $2 bill: https://imgur.com/gallery/TQo0KOi

... and a laser cut steel business card :)

Almost very PDA in the market had a fairly distinct OS -- or at least custom "spins", not unlike android today with manufacturer customizations.

I owned (and loved) several palm OS based devices, but I always looked at the folding "tiny laptop" form factor of the Psion series (and the Zaurus) with major nerd envy.

About 8 years ago I was enjoying a lazy morning with my dear grandmother, who was feeling particularly chatty as she insisted on making us breakfast.

Having previously recorded her making traditional foods (empanadas + tamales) in her kitchen before moving away, I had always wanted to interview her about life.

There was no better time to start, so I elevated my iPhone off the kitchen table and recorded her stories that morning.

The stories would turn out to be an amalgamation of different eras of her life, from growing up in a small village in Colombia, working as a seamstress, starting a small business, and raising a family in a strange land US. Many of the details were slightly intertwined and a little mixed up. The accuracy of the stories was not as important as her willingness to tell them.

She passed away a year ago, and that recording has brought comfort and laughter to her sisters, children, and grandchildren.

gracias mi abuelita, te quiero.