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constantine

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0.5x Software Designer
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creative courage
wholehearted passion
the search for the new
the never seen before

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constantine, to random
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the new ipad pro ad — the most tasteless ad i’ve ever seen.

crushing in slomo beautiful instruments that help people create beautiful peaces of art.

is it supposed to be inspiring? and what does it tell us about companie’s perception about creative professions

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constantine,
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@yuliyan maybe. but my understanding is a little bit more simple and boring:

c-level management has no taste, there aren’t any founders out there, zero people with creative background, they have 100% corporate McKenzie type of thinking, so they can’t read the room

paul, to random
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Product request. iPad Pro 15” except it’s just a monitor for a Mac and 1/2 the price.

constantine,
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@paul it would be a great travel setup

ia, to random
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Since Wednesday, we've been welcoming applications for beta testers for our latest feature, Sharing for . While you wait for access, you can get a sneak peek of this feature on our Support Site.

https://ia.net/presenter/support/action/sharing

constantine,
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@ia does sharing work for a one time purchase?

constantine, to random
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  1. cruel

  2. stupid af, considering US unis graduate less engineers than china, russia or india. not combined — each. you undermine your own future grow

verge, to random
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The Arc browser arrives on Windows to take on Chrome and Edge https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24144183/arc-browser-windows-launch-features-availability

constantine,
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@chiefgyk3d

there is no market in desktop linux. blame canonical and redhat for their poor job despite having all the resources they need to make desktop linux mainstream

constantine,
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@chiefgyk3d

it’s a perfect argument. company should pay salaries. it’s called economy. desktop linux market is small, and more than this, linux users rarely pay for the software, and arc eventually will be paid software

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

constantine,
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@ddribeiro @BasicAppleGuy

maybe cause it had character.

now all software are made from prefabricated design system components so everything can be shipped fast and appropriately measured

Mastodon, to mastodon
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forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

constantine,
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@iju @renchap @Mastodon

> the board of directors start to influence the direction of the development

it’s the whole point why a board exists

nikitonsky, to random
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Maybe the appeal of TUI is that spacing is consistent, font size is all the same, so it looks nice almost by itself?

constantine,
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@nikitonsky

  1. yes

  2. chto eto za prilogenie

constantine, to random
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only people in the startup bubble think that "shipping fast, shipping often" is something your customer want or would appreciate.

in reality people want their apps work quietly and reliably in a predictable manner. like electricity or water pipe.

devs in 90s already knew that. VCs made them forget that.

klemensstrasser, to random
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What are you currently using for organising the next tasks you want to do for your apps?

I tried many, not super with any of them.

I need just multiple task lists, so that I can group my tasks by topic, and then a Kanban board to plan them out.

Currently doing this with Apple Reminders, with "Working" List that has multiple Columns (my Kanban board) and Smart lists based on tags (my grouped task lists.

And that is working quite well. But would be interested what you are using!

constantine,
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@anchorite @marcel @klemensstrasser

it's a bargain considering it’s one-time purchase

monokrom, to random
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One of Norway’s most talented young illustrators, Zarina Saidova – https://zarina.page/, is forced to leave the country after a long and devastating immigration process. She is a naturalized Norwegian citizen in every imaginable way, and will forever remain a “nordlending” through and through. We hope wherever she lands, the design community will continue to support her. (Photo: Espen Brække Grønberg)

Adding insult to injury, Norway have robbed her mother of her pension savings.

constantine,
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@monokrom utterly insane. this is “european values” for you

constantine,
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@monokrom i feel you. nationalism is a new secular religion, and unfortunately all european countries (not exclusively) forged their national myths based on it. this is the reason i stoped believing in european project, sadly (there are a lot of positive things in it, like workers rights etc)

adam, to random
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An update on Daypage. Apologies for the quiet audio, I have no idea what I'm doing.

https://youtu.be/KRigKwuCp6U?si=EVS7_7_HZyonPEK-

constantine,
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@adam

yeah, skeuomorphic aesthetics are gone for a reason. it doesn’t mean we're stuck with flat ui until we die, but rather that something more interesting will emerge.

i can’t help but think about lapka, which is 10 years old, but hey, the future is here, but it isn’t distributed evenly

https://vadikmarmeladovlab.com/

bowyer app

reichenstein, to random
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Microsoft! Who would have thought 40 years ago, that in 2023 it makes such headlines, still. https://www.ft.com/content/54e36c93-08e5-4a9e-bda6-af673c3e9bb5 Given that AI could help us think clearer, news around OpenAI do not seem very rational. That being said... MS is still spectacularly passionate about the game of Monopoly.

constantine,
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@reichenstein all big three ms/aapl/googl are good at it and basicly one conglomerate that doesn’t compete with themself, but cover three separate niches: saas for corps, b2c, saas for everyone else

kylebshr, to random
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I’ve only been dipping my toes into indie app dev while I still have a full time job, but man it is tough watching Apple feature the same few apps over and over and over again when I know there’s so many great smaller ones that could use the attention.

constantine,
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@kylebshr sure. Because they promote apps that can bring them more money in a form of fee. In fact if you have a promising app (in terms of prospect profitability) they will contact with you, invite to one of the offices and start consulting on monetization mechanics. They aren’t neutral actor but motivated business partner

GossiTheDog, to random
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    constantine,
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    @GossiTheDog

    Free market and corporate power when it’s beneficial for me. And a government intervention when it’s not.

    constantine,
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    @chort

    Not just in the UK, but also in Italy (where Georgia Meloni is as far-right as possible within the EU), Poland (with its strong xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and sexist stance, including an abortion ban), and the self-proclaimed center-right Baltic states, which in fact implement anti-immigration, white-supremacist, Islamophobic, and neoliberal policies. And I only named some political regimes in power. There are many who is currently in opposition

    constantine, to TeslaMotors
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    I have been a fan of 37signals and its founders since college. I thought they were some of the smartest people in the industry. Their “Getting Real” book still rocks. (And maybe you know Mastodon was written in RoR).

    Therefore, it’s especially sad to see how DHH and Jason Fried are simping for Elon Musk now. It’s devastatingly disappointing when your heroes growing up reveal themselves as jerk billionaire wannabes.

    (DHH’s summary of Musk’s biography has some reasonable and obvious points, but look at the first one. It’s just stupid).

    camerontw, to random
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    I find that these rules apply equally well when dating or parenting - really any kind of social interaction actually

    constantine,
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    @camerontw It’s a summary from the classic “The Elements of Style” writing guide

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

    brandonhorst, to random
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    My wife is starting a business and needed a website. We said we would take the easy path and just use Squarespace or Wix, but they are TERRIBLE. The editors were mind-numbingly slow, and getting things consistent seems almost impossible.

    So I just built it in a text editor myself. Don’t know if it saved time or not, but it definitely saved sanity.

    constantine,
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    @brandonhorst I ended up using basic html/css for the same reason. But if I need to make something extremely fast, I use readymag.com. Not so many people know about it, but it has the best design of all similar tools

    reichenstein, to random
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    I haven't been so impatient for a WWDC since the one with the iPad. What is Apple's response to the AI wave? Will they offer AI on device? Is that even possible? AI deeply integrated into the OS? Will it be an outlook, a simulation, a demo or something tangible for devs? I'm interested for our own products but also to see how they react tactically and strategically.

    constantine,
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    @reichenstein I hope they will ship the local run offline private analogue of chatgpt with extended API for it. It would be a game changer

    pirijan, to random
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    My first origami 'prototype'. Programming with nodes is weird but I see the appeal

    video/mp4

    constantine,
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    @pirijan I used it quite a bit but stopped a few years ago. While I like the approach itself (it feels like functional programming with full transparency of each stay during program execution), I found out I was making a work that, in many ways, paralleled the front-end dev jobs. The dealbreaker is that I cannot use the result of my work in actual code like I can with SwiftUI, for example. I believe it’s an excellent tool for designers in megacorps where the design and eng teams detached from each other, and the developing cycle counts in quarters and years. Like Airbnb spent the whole year just to ship the basic list filters

    constantine,
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    @pirijan yeah, it’s a cool tool anyway. for some reason, I liked the process itself working with nodes, it’s just a fun thing to do

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