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njr, 15 days ago

@sellathechemist Indeed. Not to mention Acorn, creator of The BBC Micro and the company that begat ARM.

So many people I know if and around tech in Britain got their start on the BBC Micro. It was an amazing machine.

(Image from Wikipedia, Stuart Brady, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BBC_Micro_Front_Restored.jpg)

njr, 1 month ago

@fromjason That’s funny. Twice in the last month I’ve thought about writing blog posts about how @gruber has changed.

He seems to have moved towards a lot of Ben Thompson’s positions since starting Dithering. He seems to me to be much less hostile to Facebook, radically less concerned about surveillance tech, and somewhat more defensive of Apple when it’s being unreasonable than I think he was before.

njr, 1 month ago

@gruber Sure. And there’s nothing wrong with change, obviously. Also, maybe it’s not because of Ben. But Ben’s the most pro-Facebook person I ever read, and I think your position on Facebook/Meta/tracking has changed fairly dramatically over the time Dithering has been going.

njr, 1 month ago

@gruber @fromjason I think you addressing @fromjason here (I didn’t actually comment on the case). But I will now.

I think it’s good that employees don’t leave their principles at the door when they go to work. I suspect these people expected to be be dismissed, and I think Google was within their rights to dismiss them. But maybe this had an effect on Google’s leadership, and it would have been possible for that leadership to reconsider. 1/

njr, 1 month ago

@gruber @fromjason Bertrand Russell famously demanded to be arrested when he engaged in civil disobedience because he accepted that he was breaking (civil) law and accepted/wanted the consequences.

I have mixed feelings about the Google protesters’ position (probably broadly sympathetic, but not fully) but I agree with @fromjason that dismissing them as “goofs” suggests contempt. 2/

njr, 1 month ago

@gruber @fromjason Question back to you: do you think they’re “goofs” because they disagree with Google’s cloud contract with Israel or because of the means they chose to protest it?

njr, 2 months ago

@gedeonm I did it. It was super-annoying.

njr, 3 months ago

@jamesthomson You are truly looking through the wrong end of the telescope, my friend.

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory Of course. I just started from an empty canvas and did Add Photo to Sketch from the ellipsis icon and picked the image from photos. (I usually then fill it in on the next layer so I can erase without rubbing out the grid.)

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory In case it makes a difference, this is on an iPad Pro 12.9” running 16.7.

If you have any trouble reproducing, I can record a screen capture. And I can try it on a regular iPad if you want.

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory My iPad is basically always in Portrait mode. I take the screenshot on portrait, create the new canvas in portrait, and add the photo in portrait mode. There’s no rotation at any time. And the canvas covers the whole screen. If I rotate to landscape, it shows a portrait canvas with the sides in grey.

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory and it’s the same on a 10.5” iPad Pro running 17.1.1

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory will do

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory Here you go. It has sound, where I tell you what I’m doing, in case it’s unclear.

video/mp4

njr, 6 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory @whattherestimefor Excellent! Thanks.

In fact, it fails in Landscape too, at least for portrait screenshots. I haven’t tried with a landscape one.

njr, 5 months ago

@gedeonm @Iconfactory @whattherestimefor Very happy to see today’s update. Thanks! First very quick test looks good!

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk hooks

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk 2. We use version control for many different reasons. I suppose the most common are

• to allow us to recover from mistakes
• as backup
• to facilitate collaboration (multiple people working on the same code)
• to isolate experiments and allow independent development of different features
• literally to record and make concrete different versions of the software
• to record the history of how software evolves and is developed (inc. for education)
  and more.

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk If the historical record aspect is important, it seems natural to want it to be accurate.

Of course, people can choose how often they commit, and I think your viewpoint (and that of many others) is that there are conceptually different kinds of commit—kind of checkpoints (perhaps “just” for backup, swapping machines, recovery etc.) and real commits where you finish something. But there’s not so much difference in my mind.

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk 3. For me, at least, I remember specific changes and when I need to go back and fix something, it’s much harder for me to do so if that change has been … well, altered in some way. It’s harder for me to find, and harder for me to get my head back to where it was. So this part of my dislike of rewriting history is practical, not philosophical.

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk I don’t think I’ve ever used “wip” or “fix” as commit messages, but I do use “.” fairly frequently and used “..” the other day (when I needed another one after “.” And didn’t want to repeat myself :->).

But those are almost always commits that are fixing a stupid mistake…forgetting to add a file, leaving a debug message in, breaking a test in some trivial way. Almost always, the previous non-“.” commit messages remains valid when I do this.

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk I do sometimes amend commits, but usually only to improve the commit message.

njr, 6 months ago

@b0rk The only time I ever really use rebase is when I’m developing teaching material. Sometimes I want to show a repository in a very specific sequence of states, and in those cases I’m completely fine with rebasing to create the right history because I’m not smart enough to create all the right intermediate states linearly. But that feels like a very different use of git/version control to me from the usual one.