Long back Xiaomi Phones used to have soemthing like this. That one feature was how I migrated my in-laws to Smartphones from their Nokias.
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Here's how you set it up: Head into Settings, tap Accessibility, scroll down to the General section at the very bottom, and tap Assistive Access. Now, tap Set Up Assistive Access, then Continue. It will then ask you to select your preferred appearance: rows or a grid. I suggest choosing a grid. This is how you get those super-large tiles. Now the OS will ask you to select allowed apps—tap the green plus icon next to the apps you want to allow.
I’ve strange news from the business world. That ability to talk to strangers and be conversational with various topics is actually making him a rather successful boss/business-person. Remember, not just talking, but the far better one is the ability to listen, and take genuine curiosity in the other person’s stories.
I learned, and am still learning, to start with very subtle conversations in contextual proximity to the person without shocking/surprising them. And then, I mostly try to listen more and try to guide them to talk more. You will be surprised at how many a lot are eager to talk to someone, if they are being listented to.
The founders being the erstwhile Apple routers team, I believe they are playing the Apple game — sell good quality hardware; free the software that runs the hardware.
Quite a few during the early days. Recreating some fun ‘game’, popular during the Flash days. A work breaker/silencer, etc.
Then, I got bored because they seem to be bad beyond certain complexities. But around Christmas last year, things improved a lot, and I’m getting confident building real ones. In the mid of these, I also got an offer to work with the [pre]sales/GTM team of a large company. So, I have been building working prototypes of bits and pieces of boring enterprise business around the world and have been racking in, if not billions, but very close to it in sales pipeline in about two months. (I did that 1B token in a week thing.) I’m sure the business and sales team will be able to convert 20% to 30% of that in the coming months. I also pitch and presented my work directly to customers and they are coming for more. So, it has been fun.
Lastly, I really wanted to scratch an itch I had for a while—build a Static Site Builder. But I ended up buildig it to be a documentation tool for TypeScript and JavaScript. It can be used as an auto-detect and let it build alongside front-end projects, make it a hybrid so you can add human-written documentation too or just build a Jekyll-esque static site.
You can have haveibeenpwned.com check for the custom domain itself. For instance, I get notified if any email of our family domain get leaked (not just mine).
Well, Fatih Arslan uses quite a lot more premium of the premium tools. I once stumbled on his website, on the topic of Fountain Pens (I think). I subscribed to his feed since. Leica for photography, 3D prints pretty interesting items, etc. He spends time and definitely have a taste and can afford some premium product for “ordinary use.”
All of the brilliant video and voice over was expected, I love the final, “The Apple Logo," that is that taking care of the back of the fences. With AI-this-&-AI-that, the human intuition to think of the unnoticable subtle differentiation will be the thing that stands out of your cohort.
Once upon a time, whenever I interview developers, most of them proudly announced their expertise in jQuery. I have to bring them down to the basics and ask them about JavaScript. Almost all of them were lost. I asked them, if not for this, but to learn JavaScript and all the other framework will that; a framework on top of JavaScript which one can just use (perhaps take a week or so ro learn).
The same goes for CSS. Everyone bolded, and highlighted their experience with Bootstrap but missed the CSS. I did used Bootstrap, Foundation, Skeleton, Bourbon, and many others, especially when working with the team, so we all can speak the same language. This is true for Tailwind too. I remember when Tailwind was still in alpha and I realized that was the perfect tool to bring the team together and move fast. I was able to use it both as a utility and like most other people as the HTML polluter (but it worked).
If one is keen, it is always a good idea to learn the core - HTML, CSS, JavaScript; all the frameworks that wraps them should just be syntactic sugar. Bootstrap came and went, so will Tailwind.
PS. With AI/LLM Coding Assist, writing in plain CSS is becoming beautiful again. I can outline what I want, give it a checklist and make it do the strenuous part of writing them. I don’t even have to remember the cascades.
Something parallel, there is a Black Mirror episode 7.1 (Common People) where he pulls out his own teeth, tongue in a mousetrap, torture/harm his body, etc. to earn money on the Internet.
Edit/Add: I asked Claude to find that episode as I explained part of the storyline and is now asking me to seek help. Early Internet would now, definitely, be totally banned.
Edit2: Is this new, or am I stumbling on something new? I cannot reply to my replier below. I’m sure @stavros hasn’t blocked me. But, yes, we will always call him Roy. That is the only way we remember him.
Oh! Dear Lord. I still want to hear my Indian friends speak Indian to me during Support Calls. These days, I’m hearing American accents trying to calm me down over my complaints on that excess masala in the idli-dosa-pav-bhaji butteerr-chicken combo in the El Camino Eatery in the outskirts of Jhalandar.
Actually, I like quite a lot of the subtle jokes on HN. It is harder to notice, fewer to find, and I don’t get it many a times. But when I get it (or someone explains it to me, perhaps out of pity), I chuckle, laugh, and laugh again. And I remember those comments.
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