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Same. I've got a couple of folders in my ~/Documents titled "Other".

Also, if you have projects with lots of parts, and you've got a 3D printer: have you discovered Gridfinity? (or others like Multibuild?) For the uninitiated, these are wall/drawer 42mm grids, in which you place bins that are multiples of 42. So you get perfectly-sized Tetris-like drawers and walls.


I deeply hate the people that use AI to poison the music, video or articles that I consume. However I really feel that it can possibly make software cheaper.

A couple of years ago, I worked for an agency as a dev. I had a chat with one of the sales people, and he said clients asked him why custom apps were so expensive, when the hardware had gotten relatively cheap. He had a much harder time selling mobile apps.

Possibly, this will bring a new era of decent macOS desktop and mobile apps, not another web app that I have to run in my browser and have no control over.


>Possibly, this will bring a new era of decent macOS desktop and mobile apps, not another web app that I have to run in my browser and have no control over.

There has been no shortage of mobile apps, Apple frequently boasts that there are over 2 million of them in the App Store.

I have little doubt there will be more, whether any of the extra will be decent remains to be seen.


ai is trained on the stuff already written. Software has been taking a nosedive for ages (ex, committing to shipping something in 6 months before one even figures out what to put in it). If anything shit will get worse due to the deskilling being caused by ai.

I kinda feel like we're at a point where it would be much more valuable to have higher quality software than more software.

This is just the outsourcing argument all over again. Maybe the degrees of difference matters this time?

What was the thinking of putting the close button on the right of the tab?


I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.


Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!


I'd like it but don't listen to me and please just stay in love with programming because this is such an awesome little project.


It would also be really nice if you could snip bits, pruning what is growing - with cuts causing something different to happen...


Don't you know that you can just drive a Ford C700 refrigerated van through it instead of mucking around with messy dangerous flamethrowers?


Do you hold up that code to the standards you teach? Genuine question.


So, for better or worse, it's an "IT for Professionals" class, and I'm not "teaching coding" per se.

It's more a big picture view of everything tech related that I see as important to be aware of, as well as filling in some blanks. Most of my students get "straight up programming" in other classes. So I actually have always done "here is Bash scripting and what it's good for." And I definitely teach "the controversy," e.g. This AINT what you want for big and professional, but also, knowledge of bash (and similar) is a very useful "swiss army knife."


Got it, so in your case, you create code that only needs to work and to meet your personal standards. Interesting.


Or you just code it yourself.


I decrease the spacing that macOS applies between menubar icons:

  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8


What's bizarre is that my previous TP-Link routers alawys had this ability, but when I upgraded two years ago, it was gone.


My current TP-Link router hides this behind the "Advanced" settings toggle.


I've got a TP-Link Archer C7, hardware version 5. No such toggle unfortunately, but thanks nevertheless. Perhaps I should try and flash it with OpenWRT.


I save to Instapaper instead of keeping the tab open.


What's interesting, is that this circumvents permanent DNS blocks that are maintained by the ISPs in my country (Netherlands). Probably not why you built it, but useful nevertheless :-)


That's absolutely a side effect indeed, though the level of interaction with the website is quite limited. But glad you find it useful!


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