MattKimber

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by MattKimber 4y ago
The commercial versions of IDA still do COM and MZ executables as far as I'm aware, although it's been dropped from the free versions since 5. (Which is still available from ScummVM's reverse engineering page, but is only a d
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by MattKimber 4y ago
I'm getting the same sort of vibe from my corners of the Internet: people moving away from the big walled gardens and doing more distributed things like forums and running their own Mastodon instances. Some long-lived forums are underg
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by MattKimber 5y ago
I think there's a very specific form of overengineering afflicting products currently, which I'd classify as "endless revisiting". This is where companies build something which works well enough, but then get trapped in
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by MattKimber 5y ago
I think the problem is not necessarily things such as likes, upvotes, shares or other features but platforms which don't consider Goodhart's law when they introduce them. Large Reddits tend toward bland and repetitive cookie-cutte
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by MattKimber 5y ago
Javascript editors trying to reinvent desktop paradigms but without the 40-odd years of practice and having all the events arrive whenever they feel like is one of the most frequent irritations of web-based platforms for me, because you use
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by MattKimber 5y ago
I definitely think ageism is a real problem, and as someone who's happy to hire older developers it's a shock when they talk about their rejection rate compared to what the 20-somethings and 30-somethings face. But I can also see
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by MattKimber 5y ago
One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume "oh it's not working, I'll try again later". When they get an une
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by MattKimber 5y ago
At the start of this year I started an experiment; whenever an application distracted me more than once per day with a push notification or toast, it would have its permissions to send any notification of any type revoked. Even if it was a
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by MattKimber 5y ago
I have a mental image of people setting great store in which platform Douglas Adams has moved to lately, given his tendency to hop between media and delight in the new and interesting. I can certainly see him both being delighted by Twitter