carl_sandland

It's nice having access to specialty magazines like Edge, APC, PLAY etc and the newspaper coverage is nice (The Australian, WSJ). The various 'feed' topics work reasonably well. There are some problems:

1. The (MacOS) reader app is not great when it comes to text readability, it's still awkward zooming around (some mags are just PDFs). I always feel a bit claustrophobic when using it.

2. It would be nice to be able to rotate the view 90 degrees to show more of a page at once (see above).

3. It would be nice to lose the damn adds (I'm paying after all): it's usually horrible AI image crap.

I'm always on the fence though, the 'free' version isn't THAT bad and $20/month is on the high side.

Some complexity is inherent to the problem, but most seems to be incidentally introduced by the realities of deployment (non-functional), configuration (functional) and chaos monkeys (users). There is a particular 'breed' of incidental complexity I see with space cadets and front end developers for sure. Complexity is complex lol.

Why can't we use some sort of metadata tagging system instead? Isn't this what the person is indirectly trying to do: declare some simple tags, such as "US politics", but indirectly via a bunch of garbage fed into an auto-tagger?

I keep safari "unblocked" just for this kind of scenario, as sometimes the blocking breaks stuff I want to see that doesn't work otherwise. It's becoming rarer for sure over time. Didn't mean to impinge on safari, it's a great browser that I use for work.

thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question: why do we put up with this as readers?

a bit of velcro on the battery attached to the rear of the strap? that should balance it out a bit.

I don't think the problems are intentional, rather they are the unforeseen outcomes of rapid technological and societal evolution, of man leaving faith behind and discovering themselves insufficient. This only seems to be accelerating.

partly ;) I do seriously wonder if our brains are just overloaded, the rest was various conspiracies I come across (what gave it away, the communists?)

The answer you're looking for is that woke culture arrived. Your God is not dead, you've just abandoned him (again). Social media is obviously a catalyst for patterns of communicated harm that have always been around. The communists have been unraveling the nucleus of family and faith, to be replaced with isolated rage and hate, with government to provide 'proxy support', whereas once was family. We've been divided into us vs them teams on issues that used to bring harmony and coherence.

Damn, maybe there is just too many people now? and we're all connected all the time. The brain can only handle so much (much less than I think we admit).

what about AWX then? it moved from shipping as a simple docker compose to a kubernetes operator! I'd much rather it didn't.

Can great, quality software come out of a group of 'mediocre' people? I think you'll find that you do indeed need a strong(er) process and set of rules to follow, that's fine but not always applicable.

I think you need to tailor each group and their process carefully, depending on available talent pools and the complexity of the work being attempted, and sometimes you will need active management of requirements to achieve better outcomes. If your process grows faster than the core coding team does, you probably do have a negative process jerk happening you need to disrupt.

Maybe you'll get better results by not calling people 'mediocre' to start with, as if that's anything but a hateful subjective label.

I wonder if there is potential to combine generative AI with low code approaches, where the non-coder would work with the AI on a higher order description of the problem (data, states, events) and the AI could generate the MVP code. It kind of seems that is the relationship we human coders have at the moment with non-coders. Maybe all those UML diagrams can finally be used as inputs.

Great book and great memories, now get off my lawn.

I'd love a book in similar spirit, targeting say OSx/Metal, that started from first principles and built a 3d (flight|space) sim, in a fun language (simple C++). And yeah that means a blank screen, then some lines, then a triangle... etc. I'd take a series of followup books adding more to engine, perhaps targeting different styles of games and their engine tradeoffs.

I guess it would be hard to decide between software/hardware rendering, as software would just teach so much.