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Re:I accidentally spammed a year of calendar invites on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:48AM (#47555668)
Yesterday my setup broke and I accidentally spammed a year of calendar invites to my address book. If you're wondering how something like that can happen, I wrote it up.
Re:Experiments in blueprint-driven development as an alternative to vi... on Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:50PM (#43455796)
Pretty cool. What level of detail did your implementation spec go into? That’s the bit I’m not sure I got right yet…
Re: on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:05PM (#37691602)
A rocket builder explains why they stopped building the satellite doors on their new rocket. Building satellite doors is the number one mistake I see early stage software startups making.
Re:Apple's Vision for Spatial Computing on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:13AM (#36390696)
I had a shot at pulling out the core ideas in the Apple Vision Pro that I think will go on to define the spatial computing paradigm:

1. Your eyes can still be seen 2. You point with your eyes and gesture indirectly 3. The real space looks real 4. You remain grounded

I think Apple have been quite contrarian here. Interested to hear other people's opinions on what they think the core ideas are.

Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:25PM (#25908305)
If you drag a Voice Memo to the finder you can find it under Get Info > More Info. This is handy because it syncs the memos from the iPhone back to the Mac for direct comparison. You can also see the it being negotiated in the debug console for both Mac and iPhone or in the Bluetooth Explorer audio graph for the Mac.
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:00PM (#25907166)
I'm curious as to why the same BT profile achieved 8kHz to my Big Sur Mac with a Bluetooth 4.0 chipset, 16 kHz to a Big Sur MacBook with a Bluetooth 4.2 chipset and 24 kHz to the iPhone 11 Pro with a 5.0 chipset (and the other custom Apple chips of course). Any ideas?
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:57PM (#25907124)
In case anyone cares, the Jabra Evolve2 85s arrived today. They definitely sound worse for music listening but I'll keep them because the USB Bluetooth dongle fixes the 8kHz problem, they work wired over USB and they cut out the event noise in the house. YMMV.
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:17PM (#25906631)
Yes the microphone was better. My Bluetooth 4.0 adapter still resulted in an 8kHz duplex connection to them though
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:14PM (#25906582)
I've restarted the ghost server on my $5 a month Droplet :joy: I guess this article was more popular than I expected. Sorry about that.
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:04PM (#25906464)
Haha - yes. Yes it does.
Re:Airpods Max Sucked for Me on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:12PM (#25905783)
I admit that my requirements are not the standard ones, I just thought this might be useful info for other people who, like me, thought they'd be perfect for working from home
Re:After ten years in development, I'm building Ruffly for better proj... on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:00PM (#25334012)
Hi everyone! I'm building Ruffly after experiencing project failures due to bad planning for over a decade. Two out of three software projects fail. They are either late, over budget, or deliver the wrong thing.

Ruffly uses past performance data and allows you to scenario plan the project scope so that you can deliver projects on time. Take a look, and if you have any questions or suggestions, I am here for a discussion. Thanks!