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apike

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I run Steamclock, where we make nice apps in Vancouver, host Fun Fact and It Shipped That Way, write about software and other tricky things, and am working on what’s next.

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sdw, to random
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oh lord to be that one OpenAI engineer that’s out there who’s about to come out of the Peruvian jungle after a weeklong ayahuasca retreat only to log on to all this

apike,
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@sdw Back when I was in university I came in to work for my first day since I’d been on vacation, and found the door locked. And the lights off. After a minute the CTO came out and said, “Oh. Right." and went to fetch the paperwork that said “This office is now closed, goodbye”

collin, to random
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Do you have a blog? Tell me about it and I'll boost it. I'm looking for more good feeds to follow.

apike,
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@collin I write once a month about making software, running teams, and sometimes breakfast cereal 😅 https://allenpike.com/

apike, to random
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Is there really no way to set a timer on your iPhone and have its progress appear on your Apple Watch face? A few weeks in, I'm now used to most of the watch's other deficiencies, but this one is baffling to me.

apike,
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@shepgo Currently I have a shortcut on my phone I find way faster for setting timers than the Timer complication. Maybe I need to try harder to tolerate Siri, or find a way on the watch to easily trigger that Timer shortcut (without using up the space that's meant to show the timer progress) 🤔

rands, to random
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Delighted to announce The Software Developer’s Career handbook is now available. https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-software-developers-career-handbook/

apike,
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@rands Glad to see that you get input on the covers. I know a lot of authors don’t get a say (though maybe that’s more of a fiction thing.)

imyke, to random
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Inventory management should just not exist in video games. Nobody wants to do it, all it does is add frustration and overhead.

Let me pick up whatever I want and just give me sorting options!

apike,
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@imyke I tend to agree, but I think it tends to persist because of playtesting problems, such as:

  1. A massive inventory of things is unwieldy for players to browse and reason about, which leads to just using the 5 items they recall = less fun
  2. Looting everything means fewer decisions, less curiosity about items = less fun
  3. Unlimited inventory incentivizes looting every object that isn't nailed down, which is funny at first but stops being fun, yet many players will keep doing it = less fun
apike,
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@imyke Yeah, it's not a great solution. Since not-fun side efffecs happen when players pick up too much stuff, an interesting design might be to make picking things up more "expensive" at the time of pickup, rather than at inventory-max time.

Like maybe you can pick up fungible stuff like gold and ingredients for free, but picking interesting things up becomes somehow more difficult as you fill your backpack. Then players still think before picking up trash, but inventory can be soft-uncapped.

apike, to random
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It is advisable to use hearing protection when operating power tools, mowing the lawn, or daring to put vegetables in a child's lunchbox

apike, to random
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Clever: while switching the iPhone 15 Pro's outer band from steel to titanium made the phone about 10% lighter, the difference in feel is more dramatic than that because the new phone's weight is now distributed closer to the center of the object. https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/iphone-15-pro-facts-and-estimates/

apike, to random
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Heavier vehicles are more dangerous to other road users, wear on public roads, and create more tire pollution. Countries should follow Norway's lead and tax new vehicle sales by the kg. Use the proceeds to fund EV rebates, clean energy, public transit, whatever.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/dont-supersize-me-the-case-for-small-electric-cars-instead-of-big-suvs/

apike, to random
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Now that https://www.itshipped.fm has some momentum and an audience, I’ve started reaching further out to find guests. What leaders in tech, design, or product should I have on the show?

apike,
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@janl @theophani These are fantastic suggestions Jan, thanks! 💯

apike, to random
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Just in case anybody has the illusion that my writing process is calm and orderly

cabel, to random
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i hope they consider adding more features to zoom. there aren't enough in there now

apike,
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@cabel They should get the Dropbox people to help with that

apike, to random
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Last week, Valve completely overhauled Steam's UI for the first time in 13 years. While this update changes and modernizes much of Steam's menus and navigation, please rest assured: it still offers, for every game, to create a start menu shortcut on your Mac.

jamesthomson, to random
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Slack is going for a more minimal design right now.

apike,
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@jamesthomson It's called Electron Minimalism™

gruber, to random
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I spent about 30 minutes using/touring Vision Pro yesterday. Ask me anything.

apike,
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@gruber Headsets historically have had poor effective resolution when used for text, compared to a desktop display. Word is that Vision Pro’s clarity is much better, but the text size was quite large in the keynote videos.

Did you get a sense of how competitive it is compared to, say, 2 Studio Displays on a Mac, in terms of screen real estate for text?

apike, to random
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Adding support for these exciting new technologies is Xcode 15. As you would expect from the version number, Xcode 15 adds support for Swift, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS versions 6, 17, 14, 10, and 17 respectively

apike, to random
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While it’s easy to dismiss the Vision Pro's lenticular front display as creepy, I think this sequence makes a good case for it becoming normal over time – as normal as a Zoom call at least.

It's weird 80s sci-fi shit, and I love that they're trying it.

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rands, to random
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Succession. My guess. I’m guessing Kendall will make his move, and it appears he will win, but then another sib or external entity screws Kendall out of the win. Kendall does something horrible to Kendall. Show ends with no clear line of succession. No happy ending, no hope.

apike,
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@rands Yes, to the Kendall part, but I think it does end with a succession. It’s in the name of the show. I like Frank as one who gets installed as CEO at the last minute, but I feel like even “Greg as Madsen pawn” seems more plausible to me thank Kendall not somehow fucking it

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Every news app should have Artifact’s “Mark as Clickbait” feature.

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