Posts by mathew@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AO03XzLSqvkKXu4u3c by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-09-27T17:50:57Z
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With Figma being acquired by Adobe, it's a good time to look at Penpot, an open source alternative.And now Penpot have received some funding to continue development:https://www.decibel.vc/test-blog/penpot-a-new-era-of-design-freedom(Since it's a Libre version of Figma, I guess we're lucky they didn't call it Ligma.)
(DIR) Post #AO0EkgFKGxs2ZVSfk8 by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-09-20T16:14:34Z
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Turns out Apple completely redesigned the iPhone 14 to be far more repairable:https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown
(DIR) Post #AO44Ve5zT0IkTHgdma by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-09-29T17:20:31Z
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Make your own vinyl records:https://teenage.engineering/products/po-80(Mostly for @ajroach42)
(DIR) Post #AOEzZRZjugEXCCkMRE by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-05T00:13:22Z
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@xerz If you routinely need per-project versions of your programming language, that's a warning sign right there. Ditto requiring that humans edit YAML.The sense I'm getting is that Haskell is the Python of functional programming, only less usable.
(DIR) Post #AOGjCf9R4dmjXl4CzQ by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-05T20:16:16Z
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@xerz 2haskells1ghcup
(DIR) Post #AP1s00R88hA9RfkMds by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-28T13:27:32Z
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Adobe software starts removing colors from your files and replacing them with black, unless you agree to pay $21 a month to Pantone to license those colors. https://twitter.com/funwithstuff/status/1585850262656143360
(DIR) Post #AP1s015th7lxU6ovBY by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-28T14:34:37Z
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https://ownersmag.com/adobe-drops-pantone/
(DIR) Post #AP1s58rMFZ5n16Snfk by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-28T13:45:56Z
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Looks like mastodon.social image upload is broken, probably because of added load from all the new users joining. #twitter
(DIR) Post #AP1s59glASD1aWVqnA by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-28T14:35:07Z
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It finally finished after about 10 minutes. 56KB file.
(DIR) Post #AP8pSlkTqcpQ4MMI2C by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-10-31T22:59:48Z
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Actual prompt from the installer for a piece of commercial software I used today:Enter yes for the below displayed prompt if you want to start the daemon with out any errors...#WhyDoWeEvenHaveThatLever
(DIR) Post #APEFuCQ2Min7CeKudE by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-03T13:26:26Z
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A Brief History of Twitter:https://thenib.com/a-brief-history-of-twitter/#cartoon
(DIR) Post #APUu5AmELCw0yGTtdQ by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-11T14:54:49Z
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@robpike Seeing a real one was a shock, models look much better -- they don't look like they're built out of thin sheet metal, aluminium foil and duct tape. I mean, in retrospect I understand why it was so fragile, but...
(DIR) Post #APVCP1XICs6HHG6r0y by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-11T18:19:22Z
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@robpike I've been tempted by these:https://www.etsy.com/listing/1050892792/silica-gel-pillow-comfortable-pillow
(DIR) Post #APhuu2p4CTVU7oXonY by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-17T21:31:10Z
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@marcan I'm reminded of a joke:It's 1941, and two elderly Jewish men are standing in line at the railway station, waiting to be loaded onto the train. One turns to the other and says:"Do you know which death camp they're sending us to? Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka?"The other turns to him and says "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm not interested in politics."
(DIR) Post #APkCQdZ3DZpYsg6Gw4 by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-19T00:01:09Z
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@bortzmeyer Cloudflare, ugh.
(DIR) Post #APlWflMkgcPhf7nUpc by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-19T15:15:46Z
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I still post on Twitter.Every now and again I search for people mentioning Mastodon. The ones who seem to be asking honest questions, I try to answer them clearly and concisely. The ones repeating misinformation or misconceptions, I try to state the facts neutrally and in a friendly way.Of course, many people just want an excuse to stay on Twitter, so there's a lot of "Multiple servers! No full text search! Unspecified things are confusing! Don't like hashtags! DMs aren't private!"
(DIR) Post #APrdBrh2QYKo9LZ8DY by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-22T13:44:57Z
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People complain about the iOS keyboard correcting the F word to “duck”, but I just tried to type DuckDuckGo after a large latte and it came out as DickSuckGo with no corrections offered.
(DIR) Post #APwAMYYfz78T6pCS5A by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T21:55:41Z
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@bugaevc The first language where I’ve found cross-compilation painless enough to consider using for my own projects, is Go.I’ve tried building C programs for my Synology NAS and it was a horrible experience, even though both systems were x86. My Go programs, I just set a couple of environment variables, compile normally, and rsync the binary across.I hope more languages will follow Go’s lead and have painless cross compile.
(DIR) Post #APzuvi6Hg6RyCjV4TI by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-26T13:59:14Z
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@robpike If you’re a rank beginner I’d suggest starting out with iMovie. It can do everything I’ve wanted to do for home movies, including separating audio and video transitions. Once you’ve edited a couple of movies with it, you’ll be in a better position to tackle Final Cut Pro without flailing around.
(DIR) Post #AQ2St4gf1w2492Ljzk by mathew@mastodon.social
2022-11-27T19:23:59Z
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Supermarket conversation with my wife:"We've gotta get these.""Why?""Because they're updog.""I don't get it.""They're made from updog!""What is updog?"So, $4.78 well spent.