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Perhaps the most important thing to know is whether the language I want to learn is supported. But even the FAQ doesn't list them all. Can I use this to learn Danish? Who knows! Looks like I'd have to sign up to find out :/

Pretty much all of it, really.

If you want their fancy windowing stuff, I think you also need to use their apps. Terminal, IDE, etc etc. Switching to a different terminal is friction, switching to a different IDE is a really big jump. My bet is most people aren't going to switch to a different IDE just to get different window management behaviours. And if the bundled IDE is brilliant, then you can't use that without this window management coming along for the ride too.

The differentiator for this project is the window management. Don't restrict that to just the re-implemented apps within the walled garden, and then you have the behaviour implemented in the right place.

I'm confused.

The homepage explicitly calls out that "Cate is not a window manager replacement" yet as far as I can tell pretty much all its features are window management. And the ones that aren't would be better off living in their own dedicated apps anyway (or aren't going to replace people's preferred editors or terminals).

The infinite canvas idea sounds cool, and I'm not aware of a window manager that lets you zoom and pan around a massive "desktop", but it really does sound like the cool bits would be better implemented as an actual window manager. Then we can keep using our favourite IDEs, terminals, editors, etc. etc which is where the actual friction for change sits, and have the cool infinite canvas/docking/arranging stuff on top.

There's a reason why I call BDD a Billion Dollar Disaster. I've not yet seen a Cucumber or equivalent suite not permanently broken on a mature codebase. Typically a dedicated testing team will fight tooth and nail that this is what the customer needs, even though nobody from the business side has ever looked or wants to look at the test definitions or even the output. Then of course it can't match changes to app behaviour and some poor sod has to go in periodically to fix it up after the fact.

BDD in whatever implemenation is a gigantic waste of everyone's time.

Is it me or does the browser feel like the wrong level for this sort of helper? MS have the right idea in doing it at the OS level, it's just their implementation sucks becuase of the non-trivial security implications.

But I think that's my major issue with the app as I understand it.

Starting by choosing which muscle to work is a really odd choice. If you're novice enough that you don't know which movements to choose then you're also likely to not know which are the most effective muscles to target for your goals.

Then the app gives you a bunch of exercises to target that one muscle, but doesn't tell you which other muscles the exercise also targets. Or any clues on suitable weights or rep ranges, never mind progression. It also seems it's suggesting doing all the suggested movements. I picked barbell and pecs and it gave me three exercises. Then, even more weirdly, I came in again to write this comment and selecting the same options it gave me a different set of three exercises. First time around it didn't even suggest barbell bench press - the most obvious and common exercises for that muscle and equipment. That's all really confusing and un-obvious.

Being able to pick a template programme and tweak from there seems a much friendlier way of getting started.

I've been using it as my daily dev machine for ~5 years now.

As per the article, the usability tradeoffs are considerable. But the separation of domains into separate VMs is really lovely. If nothing else, having a separate VM per client just feels "right". No intermingling of code and, even more importantly, secrets or credentials or even comms. Being able to use the same physical machine for personal stuff as well as work is also a bonus.

Reminds me of the good old days reading the Bile Blog. I suspect this one will go the same way once the consultancy takes off, which would be a shame.