Viewing profile — mcrider

I’m speed-running a bunch of new hobbies to teach myself how to make a physical game (basically its a ping pong paddle that tracks how often you hit a ball — like a “keepy uppy” ga…

Same, I recently got into Arduino so i could build a toy idea I had for my kid (a sort of "keepy-uppy" paddle game). I've always avoided Arduino projects because I don't like to co…

There’s a good recent book series about this by Daniel Suarez called Delta V (in the first book they process regolith from an asteroid; in the second book its on the moon; presumab…

We use a Figma plugin called Tokens Studio, which stores its source of truth a (a big JSON file) in our github repo. Designers manage all of the token values there and push updates…

For us the killer feature is being able to build the UI once with design tokens and then transform it radically into different themes. In our case the themes serve different brands…

It definitely does but not completely. You are probably going to be totally smitten with your kid and spending time with them, even if its something "boring" is going to be really …

I think the one time I responded to a recruiter and went through the process was because they told me the company up front. Unless its an internal recruiter, I never get that info.…

I think its because the user is newly created (i.e., green username).

I haven't seen beer that low, but here in Ontario a number of breweries started offering beer around the 3% mark. I really can't handle anything much above 5, and these are good br…

Me too man -- It is isolating. My superiors are generally helpful but my reports (who were previously my peers that I got along with personally) expect a lot from me now and it's h…

My daughter had the same score and experience two months ago. Scariest moment of my life -- But all is well now thanks to some amazing, fast moving doctors.

Yes this is more interesting to me than AMP being demoted (I usually automatically ignore AMP anyway as they have that 'seems like an ad' feel that my subconscious automatically by…

Not really; If you have an in-demand skill set you get extra 'points' on the PR scoring chart, but you need to demonstrate many other things to reach the threshold required to get …

Could you elaborate on that last point or share a source? I don't doubt you but I don't understand the legal basis behind that move (but sounds interesting)!

Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cl…

Do you mean the weather in the northeast, or Philly in particular?

Huh, I'd be curious to see that source. I know he somewhat recanted the idea of a Dyson sphere , as it is completely impractical even with unimagined technology (re: tensile streng…

Me too -- This is a real quality of life improvement for developers that work with picky designers :)

Are oyster farms good business? I would think at the price you pay for them it would be a pretty sustainable venture. I just watched the episode of The Chef Show where they visit t…

I use the term DRM loosely (possibly incorrectly!). What I mean is that most font foundries make you include a CSS or JS file that only loads the requested fonts for a domain or do…

I've been doing this for years -- Its a PIA dealing with each font foundry's DRM system and getting it to work on my local dev environment. When I go live, I deal with it but its a…

OS level doesn't have enough metadata. I remember tirelessly starring and categorizing my music to make smart playlists -- AFAIK you can't do that in the OS without some weird file…

Odd side effect -- I've received three duplicate 'Github Explore' emails about every hour this morning.

And the screenshots (which are 3000px+) can't be zoomed in on or clicked? And you can't scroll the text unless you're directly on it? Weird implementation decisions for this site..…

SEEKING FREELANCER | Toronto (no remote) Looking for an intermediate-level for a three-month contract. Must be based in Toronto, Canada. See https://gist.github.com/typewriter-soft…