mattegan

Aerospace looks neat - might have to give it a try.

However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.

If I could instantaneously switch between virtual desktops I'd be so happy. I've wanted this for years.

Came here hoping someone would mention those absolutely cursed cameras - the ones with the pre-canned video of a guy in a back office "monitoring" the feeds?

Gets to me the worst when I'm on my 3rd Home Depot trip of the day BEEP looking through a box of pipe fittings that is filled with everything _except_ the fitting matching the label on the box BEEP okay.. the Home Depot website says it's in stock at the one 20 minutes up the store BEEP but, that's what it said about BEEP the stock at this store so.. but hmm BEEP maybe I could combine these two other fittings and save a BEEP ... trip to the other store, okay I'll look here for... BEEP hmm, the two fittings I would need to combine also aren't in the right BEEP box, but... it looks like maybe there's some that someone put back into a BEEP different box? Oh, wait BEEP _none_ of these fittings are in their correct box? What!? BEEP

Sorry I've just never had anybody to talk with this about. I hate those things with a passion. Let me know if you'd like to start a support group.

Has nobody learned anything from the Humane saga? I don't get it - if you have something so revolutionary and so great, just release it and let it speak for itself!

While this all is super cool, and I don't want to downplay TFAs efforts - I'm kind of at my wit's end here. You've gotten me at a bad time.

I use a computer every day to do electrical (and sometimes, poorly) mechanical CAD. Getting frustrated with/at software is a daily occurrence, but CAD software is some of the worst.

Egg on my face, maybe, but for MCAD I use Fusion360. It's constantly bugging out - and I'm not even talking about the actual modeling workflow or tools! I'll get windows disappearing and floating above other windows. It won't work if you don't install updates within a few days of their release. If I go offline it pops banners in my face. Sometimes, duplicate copies of itself open up, presumably because the updater put a new binary somewhere on my machine that spotlight indexed while I had the previous version running... Sometimes you can't delete files in the cloud because they're referenced by... other deleted files?? A few weeks ago I installed an update like a good boy, and it literally broke the functionality of _being able to click on things_ in the model tree.

On the ECAD side, I use KiCAD for most personal/professional projects these days - very, very few complaints there, actually. However, a new client is using Altium, so here we go... My primary machine is a M3 Max MBP, and I know it's running through the ARM translation layer inside Parallels, but Altium was completely unusable! Opening the component library or moving the explorer window took multiple seconds.

I dusted off an X1 Carbon, which admittedly is 6-ish years old, but it was even worse there! You must understand, for schematic editing, this software's primary use is to drag rectangles around and connect them with lines. How difficult can this be? I had to get a new Windows machine just to be able to navigate around Altium without constant stuttering. Honestly, even on this new machine it's still slower than I'd like. This software is upwards of $5k a year for a single seat license! [1]

I grew up using Macromedia Studio 8, which I installed from a box of CDs, watching my father use his Pentium 4 machine to make complex block diagrams in Visio 2002. In the mid 2000s he was laying out PCBs in PADS without any issues on a laptop! Now a single tab of Lucidchart takes more memory than my old PC could even address, I can't resize the godforsaken library viewer window in Altium on a machine with 16 cores, and if I want to change the settings on my mouse I have to sit through Logitech asking me if I want to log in and join the mouse community to share usage tips? What the hell is going on!?

So, forgive me, and not to go full Casey Muratori, but when I see companies like AdamCAD trying to push this new paradigm, I just can't handle it. Can we please, please, please, just go back to making decent software that enables me to do my work without constant hassle? I don't give a single damn about the AI features if I can't count on the software opening and being usable day in and day out. I lose actual time each and every week to dealing with software issues and I'm so so over it.

[1] $5k for a single site license, of which to attain, you'll have to sit in a sales meeting for a half hour, during which the sales rep tells you that - technically the EULA establishes a 0.5 mile radius for your "single site" but - don't worry - using it at home 3.5 miles away is totally okay, he's not going to make you buy two $5k licenses - thank god!

Concepts is nice. Subscription model IIRC but I’ve been happy with it. Nice options for different papers, can cut and paste/transform objects. Has multiple layers.

> ...his speech, which was attended by the CEOs of dozens of the world's largest automakers...

I don't recall Biden reading off a price sheet for a single corporation. Seems a bit different than what happened yesterday the White House.

It pains me deeply that they used Autodesk Fusion in one of the app screenshots. It is by far the worst piece of software I use on Mac OS.

Wish the nano-texture display was available when I upgraded last year. The last MacBook I personally bought was in 2012 when the first retina MBP had just released. I opted for the "thick" 15" high-res matte option. Those were the days...

Your app is stunning! Love the real-time map!

I'm working on some hardware in this space (I've been up to my eyeballs in GTFS lately) and I can tell just how much went into parsing and presenting the transit data.

If you're willing, I would love to chat about some of the UX decisions you made - specifically in summarizing and grouping the trips available at each stop, and your backend!

Great writeup! You show things are difficult to debug even when you have a board where all of your signals of interest are easily accessible.

It's a bad week when you have a bug that only is reproducible on form-factor hardware. Imagine something like a tiny earbud where the only pin accessible while the device is assembled is a single UART (bidirectional) pin? Ouch. Then, if you can manage to disassemble the earbud - the PCBs are usually so small most signals never appear on the outer layers - so you can't probe them even if you want to! Oh, and the issue is only appearing on one out of every few thousand earbuds? Better not break your failing unit while taking it apart! Good luck!

Just watched the Kickstarter video too -- looks like a great product y'all! Best of luck :)

Wow! Thanks for this!

This is the second time that the EMF file format has come in handy for me. In college I used to export my Matlab plots as EMF so they'd import into my Word documents all crisp - it was the only format which enabled that (please don't tell the LaTeX folks I did my lab reports in Word).

I cannot stand the lack of SVG support in Google slides. When I worked on the hardware team there I hated that I had to import my polished vector block diagrams into slides as PNGs.

There was a 10+ year old bug thread with 100s of +1s for SVG support in Docs. IIRC the reasoning behind the delay was security concerns - seemed like a bit of a cop out, but what do I know?

Sweet! Would love to host this myself and get rid of my Strava subscription.

I wrote a Python script that iterates through all of my activities there and downloads the `.gpx` for each - I could share the code if interested! Not sure how you'd integrate it into your app - maybe a "import from Strava" page could handle the Strava API auth?

I also love this idea of self-hosting some web apps (especially if they're containerized). I setup a `util.` subdomain and have started putting a few things there at different root directories. It's fun!