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Definitely a fun read, I almost spit out my coffee after reading about Gen Z thinking nirvana is a clothing brand.

But I don’t follow with the whole premise. The mobility hypothesis is interesting, that people no longer see rich people as something attainable. But becoming famous through influencing or something on that vain. But famous people have been sellouts for far longer than i can remember. Kate bush did some weird promotion for a Dutch theme park called de Efteling and we have been messing with millennials for the past 20 years that nirvana is headlining the biggest Dutch music festival every year. “Ooh yeah i love that song”. And as far as I know Paris Hilton played half of the world into thinking that she was dumb as a rock.

Think that brands have given up on old school advertising. Just god lazy to give people a big bag of money for exposure. For how long will that work until people get bored of that? Yes, a music artist aligning themselves with Pantone as a color once is novel. But how many times does that really stay interesting? Just lazy advertising what only work for a couple of years until the larger crowed stops caring about the next branded Oreo deal.

This is a great way to sour many customers for all products automatic owns. I don’t buy the “it must be a bug story.” They just flipped the switch and only deal with the squeaky wheels for people that complain.

Did I expect free updates and features forever. No, Only the bare minimum to keep it running.

Hell, if it was owned by a small company or an individual I wouldn’t mind donating to keep it maintained once in a while. I don’t feel the need for a subscription for a podcast app. The fanciest feature I’ve used in the past 10 years is the sleep after 15 min options.

Saddest is that they are advertising their own apps. Good to know which one to avoid.

At this point i don’t trust large programs anymore. Someone recommended to use Lens to manage a k8 cluster. That application was a 600mb install file and if I’m not mistaken double that after installing on a Mac. Desktop software has become so crazy. Meanwhile the blender download is 300mb. It is not that I’m looking for over optimized software. But a 2gb k8 console doesn’t spark trust in the developers to begin with.

This resonates with me, I’ve never considered knowledge as something you can live.

But comparing it with photography, it influences how you experience the world. Sometimes it makes you feel like an outsider documenting instead of being in the moment.

I always cringe a bit when people take endless videos of fireworks or concerts. There is a fine line between wanting te remember a feeling or moment and just brainlessly recording.

I’m wouldn’t be surprised if this second brain movement is similarly lacking its connection with “reality” and when lacking clear intention.

I disagree, Think this developer is the has the most overrated worldbuilding out there. People are just willing meaning on whatever they make. Just a cheap trick where gamers, starving for actually decent storytelling in gaming are walking straight into scrapes to fill a void.

I would grade something as portal 2, or dwarf fortress as literary vehicle vastly superior

What would you use instead?

I tried it a couple of times, but the showstopper for me was the hosting model was the show stopper. I think the premise of the language and platform has so many amazing aspects that are very exciting to me. But it also i had a hard time imagining pitching this together with unison cloud to my team. All the components together at this moment in time. A very big investment into an ecosystem.

Hope some smart developers would take the learning and try to integrate it with existing languages like clojure.

Still going to follow what unison is doing because it is so exciting

As a hobby comic creator I think the “paper” medium itself still has unexplored narrative devices. Think it might be fun to experiment with it a bit in vr, but I wonder if games are not more suitable then comics. Seems like you are trying to put a book inside a film, like the first scene in StarWars.

It’s not only push notifications, it’s the combination of everything communication channel combined. I recently unsubscribed to a services that kept spamming me their “lifetime subscription” product, while I already was on their yearly premium plan. Over the course of 2 weeks, I received 4 push notifications, 4 emails and 2 times when I opened the app it had a full screen ad. I’ll never use this product again. Ironically, this app focuses on sleep quality, focus and meditation.

4 years ago I was using a Fitbit, and for some reason they thought push notifications was a great channel to promote a new watch product. It blew my mind that someone at Fitbit thought that was a great idea.

Anyone considering using push notifications for marketing purposes, I’m sure you’ll make a couple of sales short term, but for me, you damage your brand

Super exciting, procreate is such an awesome program. Bold move of making it portrait. I bought my iPad a long time ago for procreate, best purchase I’ve done. It reawakened illustration for me. Curious what we can make with this. Although I can’t find the minimum requirements anywhere yet.

Think people didn’t get the link turd to polished turd in this blogpost. Is what you get when you ask a beginner artist without any guidance to create something, and instead of making something that has the right competition, perspective, proportions, colors and values etc, they tend to over render the image. Making it look “pretty”, the issue that it tries to compensate shitty foundations with glitters and sparkles, widgets, shadows and highlights.

Ultimately it often doesn’t have the right impact.

Ai art falls in the same category for me. Polished turds, bad writers, bad ideas, bad concepts, boring subjects.

I’m hoping it mostly inspires a generation to make cool shit and enjoy it. If you take a skilled artist to use ai art, the results are good, if you take beginners and give it tools you get polished ai art turds. Things that looks cool but ultimately missing the foundation to make it work.

At the same time, perhaps it doesn’t matter, and people want to have polished turds regardless.

Compare this to a game like unpacking, carefully crafted rooms and smart storytelling. Or vampire survivor, addictive gameplay loop with assets that almost seem like they come straight out of some gamemaker pack. In the end, it’s all about intend, and no amount of polish is going to fix

I do think these structures are beautiful. They seem organic and mechanical at the same time. It looks like something that has been constructed to withstand nature in an incredibly contrasted way. It conjures the same amazement I have with large planes taking off, it looks like it shouldn’t work, but it does. I can understand why people don’t find it interesting, but I for one am mesmerized by it.

This is the first video I’ve seen by him. I’m by no means a fan of clean code. But I think he’s making a fool of himself here. Picking out 1 code example from the book doesn’t proof that much on its own. This stuff is so language, os, hardware and compiler specific anyway.

The iPhone comparisons are extremely cringe. Real application do so much more then this contrived example. Something that feels fast isn’t the same thing as something is fast.

Would I advise beginner programmer’s to read this book? Sure, let them think about ways to structure code.

If he just had concluded with, that it is important to optimize for the right thing that would be fine. But he seems more interested in picking a fight with clean code.

And yes performance is a lost art in programming