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The Complexity Fetish: Why Are We Overengineering the Simple?

medium.com
2 points·by gelstudios·l’année dernière·2 comments

Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?

blog.hyperknot.com
56 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·48 comments

The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device

vfxblog.com
65 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·4 comments

Ghosts in the ROM (2012)

nycresistor.com
155 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·23 comments

Giving everybody the same length of cable to equalize latency in HFT

strategy.rest
3 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

PCEImage – ASCII encoded pixel art format and editor

memalign.github.io
1 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

fornaxis.org
62 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·5 comments

A tool to capture 2G/3G/4G (some 5G) radio frames with Qualcomm based devices

github.com
2 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

posts.decontextualize.com
2 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

The Sound of Sorting – "Audibilization" and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms

panthema.net
1 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

Commit/Bullshit Ratio

spakhm.com
2 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·1 comments

The eXtreme Go Horse (XGH) Agile Development Methodology

medium.com
2 points·by gelstudios·il y a 2 ans·0 comments

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gelstudios
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
sigh palm, we all miss you.

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

https://cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.308-spr05/files/palmdoc...
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
From the various links in the comments, the telescope uses special filters in front of the lenses to capture the faint glow in specific wavelengths emitted by the circumgalactic medium (a new word for me!) aka "gas" around galaxies.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Curious, what does someone gain with MacTCP? I'm not familiar with the space, but a casual glance (not an assessment!) suggests that OpenTransport was standard-ish from system 7.6 onwards.

Does it boil down to compatibility with older hardware?
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I've been playing with this for a few hours and had similar questions about scrubbing custom tokens or headers from the submitted data.

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.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I would love to see that, especially if the project builds cleanly on all those platforms.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
https://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.html

> 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.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I'm trying to avoid sounding overly nostalgic about Palm OS but it really was a nice personal computer.

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"
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Come to think of it, I wonder if this is why (or a factor in why) Apple serial numbers don't have any vowels in them.

I think only consonants and digits are used in device serial numbers.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Not meant as a nitpick but lots of links to docs are "dead" or redirect to that placeholder. quick example: on your home page both compliance links go nowhere.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Have you ever had an SMS get chunked into two?

A segment is the character (really byte) limit for a single message.
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Interesting, how are you handling A2P?

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
gelstudios
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Assuming some values of "modern device" :)

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

Luckily you can run it in the simulator without one!