sneakymichael

Except having a 16, 17, 17e, 18 Pro, Air, and Duo, …doesn’t feel particularly simple.

Who of the three do you feel speaks much faster naturally?

Ditto. I love his ideology, and have watched a few of his videos over the years, but his lengthy roundabout style of delivery doesn't keep me engaged.

Super glad he does what he does / is who he is though.

Woof, yes! Though I'm glad Heroku remains, and I ought to also be glad that it has been stable all these years, …it's clearly neglected.

The very first interaction I have with Heroku is a two-factor sign-in, and …it's this horrible page hosted on salesforce.com, which doesn't have retina graphics (i.e. is blurry on screens Apple have used for 15+ years), doesn't work properly with automatic one-time-code generators (because the login form is heroku.com, but the two-factor is salesforce.com), and …gah! What a mess. Thankfully you fall through into the pretty, well thought-out Heroku dashboard of yesteryear.

The WWDC keynote is a software, not hardware, announcement…?

Interesting take–– I feel the total opposite; I love the UI.

“Work has continued apace on my existing projects and client work of course.” (Emphasis mine)

Oof, hard disagree. I absolutely hated writing Objective-C for years– I felt like I had to write unnecessary 'glue' with header files, handling of 'nil' was always jarring, and square brackets at the start and end of every call felt horrendous, to me at least.

I relished the day Swift was announced, and have been using it ever since.

FYI: I just get redirected to an "Oops" (/not-found) page when I try to sign-up. Tried twice

The support chat transcript is so uncomfortable to read– the person on the other end 'at Three' (aka a contact centre on the other side of the world, contracted out at the lowest possible cost) might as well be a bot, but the chat reads as if the person at Tutanota genuinely thought that they were chatting to a logical coherent human.

Having used Three UK on and off for two decades, this support chat lines up exactly with how I remember– 'robot humans' that say any ol' tosh to finish the contact session.

Avoid Three.

FWIW: all UK consumer telecoms services seem to have horrendous contact experiences (Though Three, of the prominent handful of providers, tops the charts in my opinion), but I've used EE for the last few years, and it has been consistently solid and fast, and thus I thankfully haven't /needed/ to contact anybody there. I cannot say the same for Three.

Yeah, this stood out as odd to me also– "these are who you highlight?"

Their offering perfectly fit the bill for what we needed, but they turned us away; citing a requirement of transacting €5M per year, despite us needing a payment handler /for launch/.

Anecdotally: I've been looking to get answers from Stripe, about fees-related questions that either make my proposed use viable or unviable, and I've received nothing but copied & pasted email replies, a week+ later (or not at all), which essentially ignore what I've asked. Incredibly frustrating.

When I mention the experience to friends, they joke that I have Stockholm Syndrome; to want to continue pursuing them, despite their complete disregard.

Just some context: Spotify's official iOS library used to serve streaming [unencrypted, 'raw'] PCM data to the app for playback[1]

"The good old days"

[1] Trace of this, from 2013: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20614360/does-the-libspo...

"If you can't write it down you can't do it." - elaborate?

This doesn't work for me FYI; I get the same paywalled page. Fresh browsing session, logged in to Google account.

What is 'VMT'?

Can attest to being bitten by an unexpected tax bill, after a previous employer years before had the wrong tax info for me.

Delusions of grandeur

I find that a lot of sites seems to be designed on, and looked at internally on, large-screen desk setups (e.g. 27" iMac), so everything looks somewhat huge on smaller laptop-size screens (e.g. 13" MacBook).

Friends was also shot on film, and cropped to 4:3 for broadcast. Like Firefly, Friends also had unintentional things (crew, microphones, un-dressed sets, etc) appear in the edges in 16:9. While most were probably edited out before the uncropped 1080 re-release; some unintended things remain, which I personally really like seeing.

Additionally, like Firefly's pure VFX, some footage in Friends also appears in SD in the HD release (seemingly either because the original film stock was lost, or it wasn't originally shot on film), with the zoomed 4:3 SD vs 16:9 HD sometimes changing mid-scene, and …that too I find a humbling reminder of the quality of yesteryear.

Ease. If you're already logged into Google, it's essentially a one click process.

I once had an ‘Intempo Rebel’ radio[1], about a decade ago, which had the selling point that it would record songs, from radio, as MP3, without any ads or DJs. It actually worked, from what I remember. It was magic to me at the time, and …still is.

Edit: it appears that its original name was PopCatcher [2], by a company with the same name

[1] https://www.cnet.com/reviews/intempo-rebel-review/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCatcher

VSCode is the most sluggish app I use on my 2019 Mac, by far. I genuinely don't understand how people can say that it feels responsive and like-native, unless they have much more performant equipment than I.

I use it because it's packed with useful functionality, but …I resent using it– I think I'd adore it if it were native.

I remember reading from an authoritative source (Probably the Apple Support website, but I don’t remember alas) that this is done to retain functionality of wireless-based system services — which require Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled; like AirDrop, Handoff, Universal Clipboard, Instant Hotspot, etc.

(Not for nefarious/tracking reasons.)

Bear in mind that, at one time, iOS devices could be jailbroken [to run arbitrary code] by simply opening a specifically-created PDF; https://www.wired.com/2011/07/jailbreakme-3-0-unlock-your-ip...

Agreed – FYI: Tesla Model S (and likely X and 3) vehicles use a locked-down gateway (offering specific API actions, which result in CAN communication, etc) between their Ethernet network and CAN [1]

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Nie-Free-... (page 19), https://blog.lookout.com/hacking-a-tesla

It seemingly still does; I'm just getting started with Elasticsearch & your description aligns with what I've read in the introduction guide

Potentially in part because, until fairly recently (version 1.7 I believe), Django didn't have support for database schema migration built-in- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/