iamcalledrob

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by iamcalledrob 4d ago
> I bet people generated solutions end up significantly different from AI generated solutions. People learn more about the problem as they work it through and they don’t always end up with the thing they were imagining when they started.
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by iamcalledrob 4d ago
Personally, I think a lot of the enjoyment comes from learning to overcome challenges. Jumping in to an unfamiliar problem space, sucking at it, then grinding until it all clicks. Generative AI takes away the grind, which takes away the lea
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by iamcalledrob 6d ago
> Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill. Truer words have never been spoken.
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by iamcalledrob 10d ago
It's funny, as a 20+ year macOS user, I've really struggled with file managers that are not Finder. I don't think it's that Finder is brilliant -- it just encourages a unique set of power user workflows that aren'
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by iamcalledrob 23d ago
WhatsApp is still based on XMPP unless things have changed a lot recently.
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by iamcalledrob 24d ago
I think this is very true. I've seen it. It's the same in the design field too. And it's because the tech industry has matured. Best practices are clearer, and there is proportionally less work happening "at the forefron
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by iamcalledrob 29d ago
Requiring Apple's own apps to use the same permission prompts as 3rd party apps does something very important: it incentivises Apple to improve the permissions experience for all developers. Currently, the permissions APIs and user exp
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by iamcalledrob 1mo ago
A good step. Apple's own apps are still blessed with permissions that other apps have to ask for. This needs to be addressed too.
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by iamcalledrob 1mo ago
I think you'd struggle to keep LLM bots off the network unfortunately. If it had any real value, anyway. Small, truly private communities could be an interesting thing though.
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by iamcalledrob 1mo ago
Counterargument: many good ideas are written off as bad ideas because they are hamstrung by shoddy implementation. The implementation is just as important as the idea. In the real queue, details matter. I think Facebook in particular ofte
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by iamcalledrob 2mo ago
Look at that subpixel antialiased text in 3.7. So, so far ahead of it's time.
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by iamcalledrob 2mo ago
I've always been curious whether choices in Mac OS X might have been (unintentionally) influenced by RISC OS. I believe there were a disproportionate number of Brits on the HI team at Apple. The stand-outs to me are the use of blue fol
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by iamcalledrob 2mo ago
KMP is brilliant and arguably the best way to write a cross platform app that has Android as a target. But what you can do with it on non-JVM platforms is a bit lacking. There are few libraries and the stdlib is rather minimal. If you'
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by iamcalledrob 2mo ago
I've built and shipped some native-UI cross-platform apps to millions of devices, powered by a Go shared library. It works. It's fantastic to use the same language on client and server, and the end-to-end testing story is really s
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by iamcalledrob 3mo ago
The root cause of this stuff, from experience, is that animations are hard to retro-fit after the fact. It's a lack of planning. The UI code needs to be structured with animation in mind, with hooks in the right places. And to do that,
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
Another issue: Paper was tied to your Dropbox account. From Dropbox's perspective, this sounds great. Accounts become more useful and valuable. The addressable market of a Dropbox account grows! Plus, everyone has a Dropbox account alr
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
I would also bet that 90% of Swift training data is UI code. And UI code quality tends to be technically pretty crummy/low-discipline. Your UI code doesn't need much consideration around data races, for example.
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
The micro-interactions and hotkeys in GIMP are just so poor though. For example, basic stuff like zoom in and zoom out are bound differently to literally any other app on any platform . This catches me out every single time I try to use it
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
...although the logic in the article is slightly odd: 1. Discover complex native text rendering is hard 2. Render text in a low-level way, complain about having to (re)implement native interactions 3. Try WebKit and it works great!
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
Fun fact: This is how Apple used to do it too. Old versions of macOS / AppKit used to use WebKit to render rich text inside their native NSTextFields. Turns out text is hard :) And besides, the native WebView is super fast and lightwei
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
It baffles me a bit that people are working so hard to replace themselves with AI. It's such a high bar for the AI to hit, and takes the creativity away from the human. I have a pet theory that perhaps the optimal way to use AI will be
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
Nitpick, but it bothers me: The human factors of their demo video don't stack up. Horizontal dragging with a mouse is actually really hard. Nobody's going to use it like that. Your arm can easily move your hand and cursor up/
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
Using the "system WebView" is not a positive on Linux. For some reason that always means WebKitGTK, which is crummy. Someone, anyone, please get CEF working with GTK4.
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
It was really interesting, like a third way of doing things that wasn't "windows" and wasn't "mac". The OS being on ROM made booting insanely fast. Like 2-3 seconds from cold start to the desktop. Programs were
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
I would argue that WhatsApp's e2ee user experience is pretty decent, and didn't get worse when they introduced encryption. But then again, their technical model has always been "fat client, dumb server" from the start.
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
4K is perfect because you can scale it to 200% and still have a lot of screen real-estate. Personally, I'm highly allergic to fractional scaling. It's 200% or I'm not buying it!
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by iamcalledrob 4mo ago
Very happy to see a 4K display. Framework take note!
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by iamcalledrob 5mo ago
In UK highway terminology, you're "driving" in the bike lane if your vehicle enters it.
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by iamcalledrob 5mo ago
I'll be watching this project. Looking forward to a Golang declarative framework. My advice to the author: invest in rich multi-window support early on. It's easy not to, but you always need it in the end, and it's painful to
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by iamcalledrob 5mo ago
I'd imagine it depends what kind of emissions you're measuring? Are we talking air quality or climate change? Two stroke engines are pretty terrible in terms of unburned hydrocarbons and are disgusting for local air quality, which

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