mcritz

I don’t want to just “me, too”, but I’ve literally had a career pivot to a role at Amazon Devices because I was able to bootstrap enough knowledge about building devices from Adafruit’s ecosystem and hardware.

Adafruit works tirelessly to build trust with the community. So, if they’re fighting something I just assume they’re doing it for our benefit.

Why stop at the Fed? Reduce executive salaries for all banks. For executives at all corporations.

Trickle down compensation, already.

Why does their website have a photo of the iOS App Library feature?

Any plans to standardize agencies tech stacks? Is that even a good idea?

It’s a no-win situation for Americans who are forced to pay $10,000,000,000 annually to fund an agency to spy on us and find “terrorists” or $160,000,000,000 annually for wars if they don’t find actual terrorists.

Neither of those expenses has its desired outcomes, nor are they mutually exclusive.

> We all mess up, but only the best ones will deal with it professionally and learn from it.

This. I don't regret my life's many failures. I regret the times I've flamed out, blamed others, or ran away.

Doing things means making mistakes. You can spot a professional by how they deal with mistakes.

I’m not clever enough for Coffeescript.

I wish the examples were written in such a way that if I showed it to coworkers half of them wouldn’t roll their eyes.

Typography is pretty awful on Android in general. Both Roboto and Droid Sans are nightmare Frankenfonts.

Font rendering on Android is bulky, blocky, and fails to consider how humans read letterforms. So, even if a designer can convince the team to license a better font, it’ll end up a smeared mess on users’ screens.

The API calls to layout type on Android suck. (iOS sucks slightly less depending on how willing your UI engineer is willing to devote to this most basic foundation of design.)

“U MAD, BRO?”

Yeah. I get paid to be a picky snob about what the user sees and how they feel about the product. It pisses me off to look at Android because its not disappointing, the way Win8 is, but actively anti-design. Why pay to license good fonts? Why make a system for rendering type nicely? Because this stuff is basic user experience. It's like going into a hotel and discovering that the paint is yellowing. That hotel is more likely to have dirty towels, no hot water, smelly sheets, and bed bugs.

Good catch. I wonder why they chose that approach. They’re smart people and I’m sure there’s a good reason.

"Patent law is a game of kings."