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I see a lot of folks here asking about what happened to the original Yahoo Pipes. We had the same question, so we went and talked with a lot of the original team and wrote up the s…

(Hi, Retool employee here who worked on this piece.) This is the second installment[1] in what we hope will be a regular series telling the stories of novel programming environment…

I wrote a long form history of Visual Basic[0] awhile back that covers the origin of the product and how it ended up being married to BASIC at Microsoft. tl;dr: VB started out as a…

I actually wrote a long article on this [1]—and had a chance to interview some of the team that built the original version of VB that was sold to Microsoft. (Alan Cooper and Michae…

https://statecharts.dev/ is a good place to start for an overview of how the statechart formalization works. If you want to go straight to the source, David Harel's "Statecharts: A…

One of the developers here. Sketch.systems is about 5 years old and we haven't actively worked on since its release––but it's still used fairly regularly by folks and does the job …

Hey Stephen, I wrote the original article. Had no idea that MS actually tried to port the Ruby forms engine to the CLR—what a fun twist. Did it end up being too difficult technical…

Thanks, Michael! Finding your comments on HN about the design details of the original "Ruby" version of VB and VBX was part of my inspiration for writing this article in the first …

If you're interested in this sort of thing (design-oriented IDEs targeting runtimes/frameworks), there are a few other similar tools: + Rightware Kanzi ( https://www.rightware.com/…

The demos and engine are free to use and modify for non-commercial use right now. The repo is here: https://github.com/lynaghk/subform-layout The happy path issue is definitely one…

Thanks, Nick. You're not the first person to mention this, we'll take a crack at reworking it. ;)

Thanks, gus. We're working on some fixes for IE as we speak.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953345 for a discussion of a well-done performant mobile web app.

The official Apple take on use of their products in custom photography and video for promotional purposes is covered on page 12 of the App Store Marketing Guidelines: "Custom still…

Gruber's comment here is a bit ingenuous: "Don Chadwick is the designer behind both the Aeron and the Chadwick. The Chadwick is the one he put his name on." The Aeron was a collabo…

This reminds me of a passage from Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving the Rainbow." "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they …

"Clothing is the outward expression of a man’s state of mind. It is his attire that tells the world what he thinks of himself." -Pearl Binder "Dressing conscientiously is exalting …

The OP is rehashing the concepts around pervasive or ubiquitous computing: the notion that computing will expand out to meet us in tangible products, as opposed to being solely acc…