RyLuke

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by RyLuke 2y ago
I see a lot of folks here asking about what happened to the original Yahoo Pipes. We had the same question, so we went and talked with a lot of the original team and wrote up the story[0]. We also made a fun mini-site that contains a lot of
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by RyLuke 3y ago
(Hi, Retool employee here who worked on this piece.) This is the second installment[1] in what we hope will be a regular series telling the stories of novel programming environments that had a lot of influence on developers. Creating these
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by RyLuke 3y ago
I wrote a long form history of Visual Basic[0] awhile back that covers the origin of the product and how it ended up being married to BASIC at Microsoft. tl;dr: VB started out as a project called "Tripod" (later "Ruby"),
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by RyLuke 3y ago
I actually wrote a long article on this [1]—and had a chance to interview some of the team that built the original version of VB that was sold to Microsoft. (Alan Cooper and Michael Geary; Michael actually frequents HN pretty regularly!) My
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by RyLuke 3y ago
https://statecharts.dev/ is a good place to start for an overview of how the statechart formalization works. If you want to go straight to the source, David Harel's "Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Sys
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by RyLuke 3y ago
One of the developers here. Sketch.systems is about 5 years old and we haven't actively worked on since its release––but it's still used fairly regularly by folks and does the job it set out to do! If anything ever seems broken, r
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by RyLuke 4y ago
Hey Stephen, I wrote the original article. Had no idea that MS actually tried to port the Ruby forms engine to the CLR—what a fun twist. Did it end up being too difficult technically, or were there other factors that killed it?
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by RyLuke 4y ago
Thanks, Michael! Finding your comments on HN about the design details of the original "Ruby" version of VB and VBX was part of my inspiration for writing this article in the first place. Your recollection of "firing an event&
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Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia(retool.com)
250 points by RyLuke 6y ago|96 comments
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by RyLuke 8y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing (design-oriented IDEs targeting runtimes/frameworks), there are a few other similar tools: + Rightware Kanzi ( https://www.rightware.com/kanzi ) + DiSTI GL Studio ( https:&
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by RyLuke 9y ago
The demos and engine are free to use and modify for non-commercial use right now. The repo is here: https://github.com/lynaghk/subform-layout The happy path issue is definitely one of the big pain points in the "d
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by RyLuke 9y ago
Thanks, Nick. You're not the first person to mention this, we'll take a crack at reworking it. ;)
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Hey, UI/UX designers. Stop pushing pixels(medium.com)
1 points by RyLuke 10y ago|0 comments
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Google I/O 2016(events.google.com)
6 points by RyLuke 11y ago|1 comments
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by RyLuke 13y ago
Thanks, gus. We're working on some fixes for IE as we speak.
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by RyLuke 13y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953345 for a discussion of a well-done performant mobile web app.
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by RyLuke 13y ago
The official Apple take on use of their products in custom photography and video for promotional purposes is covered on page 12 of the App Store Marketing Guidelines: "Custom still photography and video of Apple products are allowed only wi
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by RyLuke 13y ago
Gruber's comment here is a bit ingenuous: "Don Chadwick is the designer behind both the Aeron and the Chadwick. The Chadwick is the one he put his name on." The Aeron was a collaboration between Bill Stumpf and Chadwick. They'd worked toget
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t get newspapers(medium.com)
1 points by RyLuke 14y ago|1 comments
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by RyLuke 14y ago
This reminds me of a passage from Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving the Rainbow." "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could h
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Can we please move past Apple's silly faux-real UIs?(fastcodesign.com)
16 points by RyLuke 14y ago|2 comments
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by RyLuke 14y ago
"Clothing is the outward expression of a man’s state of mind. It is his attire that tells the world what he thinks of himself." -Pearl Binder "Dressing conscientiously is exalting in the act of being alive." -Gay Talese It doesn't much matt
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by RyLuke 15y ago
The OP is rehashing the concepts around pervasive or ubiquitous computing: the notion that computing will expand out to meet us in tangible products, as opposed to being solely accessed on dedicated computing devices. There's been much more
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by RyLuke 15y ago
This is a really beautiful piece of writing; it’s quite a gift that Mona Simpson would deign to share such a personal eulogy with the world. The Jobs family certainly didn’t owe any of us insight into his final time on earth. From all popul