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I switched from brew to https://asdf-vm.com/ for this very reason. I don't understand how devs don't use a tool that makes multiple versions of everything possible.

Pretty much all of it, really. If you want their fancy windowing stuff, I think you also need to use their apps. Terminal, IDE, etc etc. Switching to a different terminal is fricti…

I'm confused. The homepage explicitly calls out that "Cate is not a window manager replacement" yet as far as I can tell pretty much all its features are window management. And the…

Pro jazz trombonist here. All there is to usefully say about piano roll notation, with or without colours has pretty much already been said. And if you want more (much more) detail…

Font size is one of my biggest bugbears with HN, as well as the terrible colour contrast on downvoted posts. I scratched my itch with a custom UserScript https://github.com/mgladdi…

There's a reason why I call BDD a Billion Dollar Disaster. I've not yet seen a Cucumber or equivalent suite not permanently broken on a mature codebase. Typically a dedicated testi…

Is it me or does the browser feel like the wrong level for this sort of helper? MS have the right idea in doing it at the OS level, it's just their implementation sucks becuase of …

But I think that's my major issue with the app as I understand it. Starting by choosing which muscle to work is a really odd choice. If you're novice enough that you don't know whi…

Interesting timing, Stronger By Science have just made their programme bundle free for every body: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/program-bundle/ Maybe making use of these could…

They resisted this change for years, but eventually gave in and fixed it. You no longer need to hand out your phone number. https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

I've been using it as my daily dev machine for ~5 years now. As per the article, the usability tradeoffs are considerable. But the separation of domains into separate VMs is really…

It's been scrubbed for years. The best I can find is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080906122656/http://www.bilebl...

Reminds me of the good old days reading the Bile Blog. I suspect this one will go the same way once the consultancy takes off, which would be a shame.

Mercedes World have a Formula 1 car exploded like this. It's fab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAWi1dh8Fs

A friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step form. …

No, it hasn't. Although GDS lost their teeth (and their technical way) some years ago, this rule is still a major win for end users. To be honest, I'm sick of seeing techies fob th…

What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers,…

I've also spent much longer than I'd like on this same problem. Having a lightweight-enough service to convert html->pdf on the fly, with good fidelity, and that can create an acce…

Amen. I'd only add that the sort of music they're aiming at is already pretty much at your end state. Muzak (and its slightly more advanced cousin Library Music) isn't about human …

Fab. Fascinating to see how clunky apple.com looks even relatively recently.

It's a really shitty, user-hostile way to run a website and is a beacon of the tech-bro "screw you, I'm fine" attitude that I utterly detest around tech. Fix your styles, make it a…

My experience of building accessible systems for low-literacy user groups is there's pretty much no such thing as dumbing down too much. But the one big lesson is user test, user t…

I think you misunderstand. I did challenge the flag in the correct place in Google's byzantine UIs. I just don't remember today exactly which UI that was. The flag was raised again…

It's beside the point, but is it just me that finds this reply really quite rude? You wouldn't jump in to someone's conversation with such a demand, especially in response to them …

This evidently doesn't work for all flags. Your own experience != all other peoples' experience. My domain ownership was already registered even before it was flagged. I _think_ it…