For one of our Samsung TVs, we were able to put the update on a thumb drive (we're old, we still have some around) and then use that to install the update on the TV.
It's kind of funny, we bought these TVs because they were "smart" (when they first came out) but they were so clunky and unreliable we disconnected them and used either PS or Apple TV for other things. Now we wouldn't connect our TVs to the internet for anything, and only use PS5s for specific things. We mostly just use our Apple TV.
A friend told me about the Dropbox setting last night, so I logged in and turned it off. This morning, I went to look for the setting to take a screenshot but it's gone. The setting just...isn't there anymore.
Made me feel like I was going a bit crazy TBQH. Surely I didn't misremember?
Annoyed because it was a convenient file storage solution and now they have proven themselves untrustworthy so I have to set up my own thing. My fault for trusting to begin with, I suppose.
This article aligns with a lot of my person experience. I'd add a few of my own observations on design systems:
1. The team making the design system needs to be really passionate about making a design system specifically
2. Everyone on the design system (DS) team needs to be pretty far in their careers, and have a few failed or quasi-successful attempts in their past experience.
3. Everyone's skills should overlap but each individual should bring their own depth/area of expertise.
4. I've never seen a "contributing back" model work, really. There can be some collaboration, or specific asks, but when you have a really cohesive DS team, they took the time to become that cohesive and it shows.
5. No matter how good the docs are, there will always be people who don't read the docs. I'm tempted to go as far as to say that I think there should be an onboarding course on how to use the design system that teams have to take before they can use it. (I legit don't know how else to reasonably solve this issue).
6. Make it compliant with accessibility requirements (at least bare minimum WCAG Success Criteria). I've seen that alone drive adoption for design systems.
I've been creating for web for 25+ years now, and I've only seen 1 or 2 successful design systems. It's so easy to get it completely wrong, or get off track.
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I know some folks who work on this content and TBH it’s the folks we’d want working on this content.
This is neat to read. The README for the Ember.js repo (github.com/emberjs/ember.js) was updated recently too, and I feel like there's a lot more specific clarity about what Ember really has to offer, especially for folks who might not have considered it an option yet.
- If someone gives you specs and you notice that something is off, what do you do?
- If you have to solve a problem you haven't solved before, how do you approach it?
- What's your take on accessibility on the web?
- What's your process like for deciding that you're at the point in your career where you can mentor others?
- What do you prefer to do when you see someone else getting nit-picked?
- You're just about to finish a feature and have a great idea for improving it. What do you do?
For all of these things, people will likely give different answers but those answers will tell me a lot about whether or not they would end up being really useful for the kinds of teams I build.
Ember used to require jQuery but recently moved to removing it by default; users can opt-in if they still need it. Once the project moves to a later version of Ember I suspect the jQuery bit will drop off. (Who knows, though...)
Going strong since 2011, although Ember is aimed a lot more toward quiet business productivity.
What some see as constraints, others see as consistency. It's more typically seen in "dashboard apps" but it's also great when you need to quickly spin up a new site and don't want to have to configure anything. I know movie studios in LA that use it for those kinds of promo websites, because of the fast turn around time.
Another thing that is cool about Ember is the community-driven process- if you have a good idea for Ember and the energy to make it happen, it typically will happen. Makes you feel like you can make a difference if that's your thing.
It's kind of funny, we bought these TVs because they were "smart" (when they first came out) but they were so clunky and unreliable we disconnected them and used either PS or Apple TV for other things. Now we wouldn't connect our TVs to the internet for anything, and only use PS5s for specific things. We mostly just use our Apple TV.