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Ouch. Why did I leave my petard there? I think there is some overlap and so you are probably correct to chasten me. The audience that I am discussing in that piece is a direct audi…

I, showing my age, joined Compuserve for the sole purpose of getting to download all of the Kai's Power Tools documents. Our local group of pixelweasels had a few of them but not a…

Joel is not wrong. Sometimes using a tool that Kai had input into was troubling at first. The KPT and MetaCreations tools were always about creating an intuitive way to create and …

Back then we would talk about UI when we meant UX. The KPT plugins had a very odd visual design but the way that you could iterate patterns and processes on an image was unheard of…

I would hope that in some point in the future people would stop caring about how much/far their posts were shared. The "social graph" is a polluted concept that ad-fetishists at Fa…

Very nice work. I wouldn't worry about the quality of the code. You get better by seeing other people's work and seeing alternative solutions to the problems you had. Also, as I me…

So I don't know what your intended audience was but there are elements of this that would be handy for people trying to trouble check PDFs for Print on Demand projects. I'm going t…

The devs haven't updated the app in quite some time and appear to be working on an AI based writing tool now. I'd look elsewhere for a Markdown editor.

The SarahR review from the bottom of the page was written by someone who seems to get around a lot https://tineye.com/search/e642d054c7b7f94841fdbdf9e4196f4275...

Helpful links. I will be doing the same this evening

I often am confused by people using it. Especially for groups that have long conversations, need good search or an ability to look through content based on threads.

Doesn't Amazon own Goodreads? I think its decline is an example of enshittification.

The recommendations from Goodreads are quite bad. This is for two reasons, I think. The categories that are used can sometimes be quite broad and so the programmatic recommendation…

My question as well. Discord is a chat system. It can't handle even small communities.

Well that is one way to harvest LinkedIn data. An AI twist on those Facebook quizzes.

Moving to Discord? Talk about cutting off your own nose to spite your face.

First DnD and now Fortnight

It isn't a new trend. It has just started to affect almost every app they make. Shortcuts isn't even beta quality on the Mac. Podcasts, as mentioned, is awful. Music is a PITA to u…

The Podcast app is particularly horrible. If it was the only podcast app available I would stop listening to them

In lieu of Red Hat and Meta saying why they cancelled, it would be pure speculation.

I just assume that they are all fake. Along with most of the products.

I didn't phrase that well. How much of the Python community is writing code that would be positively affected by the removal of the GIL? The entire debate seems to be for code that…

I am curious how much of the python community the GIL affects? And is Facebook's interest related to AI performance?

> Don't explain to me that I'm holding it wrong. Where are they doing that?

I suspect that this isn't a big issue for them considering how small the userbase is that will be going through the steps you did to sign using your own keys.