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Lots of desktop integration features! Custom chat notification bubbles, screenshot taking, file downloads and uploads, resizable font, various keyboard shortcuts, menu bar icon, an…

Enchat, my take on a Mac app for Facebook Messenger: https://www.mornings.com/enchat/

Using Elixir here for a couple of months, for an app backend, and even for shell script type of projects. Great language, no surprises, and very responsive community -- really, my …

In fact, this even can even sync new/modified/deleted files, similar to rsync. Very handy for deploying static assets or backups, for example. aws s3 sync --delete [--acl public-re…

Independent verification. For example, this could have helped in [1][2][3] where toxic food products were very mislabeled. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scand…

I'm assuming the big name products here have carefully measured, A/B tested, etc. every screen and they are at their best (other than Apple Music, which is a whole other creature).…

You're on point, these help mechanisms should be rare and few, or they would be a nuisance as well. The problem with forced screen of tooltips in the very beginning is that you hav…

Not a fan of screen overlay tooltips as in [1]. My first instinct as a user is to get them out of my way, and I do that every time, feeling guilty. And adding a "next" button and g…

A similar concept is found in Chinese writing. Numbers are written using relatively few strokes, making it easy to change a "one" into a "two." 1: 一 2: 二 3: 三 4: 四 5: 五 6: 六 7: 七 8…

There is a setting to opt out of the beta track. Check out System Preferences > App Store.

I'm really glad to have recently picked up Elixir. For anyone just starting, a few tips from someone similarly new: a. After launching the "iex" shell, press Tab. You'll get the li…

Or for those who prefer automating, add this to ~/.bash_profile: alias nuke="rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/"

Another vote for Elixir. Well-documented with a growing community, and the code is very readable.

Formerly using Python, motivated to migrate to a modern stack, and so recently attempted to write a simple web back-end for my apps in Go and then in Elixir. Same logic, same unit …