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supertron

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About supertron

UK-based technologist/developer/designer.

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More about me:

https://supertron.dev/about

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Always happy to hear from people - feel free to get in touch:

https://supertron.dev/contact

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #40062681

    Wow this is almost a list of everything on my machine. Great list. I second these recommendations!! Special mentions for: Alfred, Bartender, Daisy Disk and ColorSlurp

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    Comment #40062635

    This might sound hyperbolic but as a .NET developer JetBrains Rider is a real joy to use IMHO. I think being paired with an M1 Mac is probably part of what makes the experience gre…

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    Comment #39937335

    What's insane to me is that Kagi is so good for the relatively little funding they have. Maybe when they have the subscriber numbers of Netflix they can reduce their monthly fee (n…

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    Comment #39653547

    > Dark mode support Hell yeah! I'm a long time user of Monodraw (thanks for the awesome work!) and this would be an instant upgrade for me :)

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    Comment #39653433

    Monodraw is great. I occasionally use it to document system architecture in code comments and project READMEs etc. [0] Also handy as a quick way to document CSS styles to help visu…

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    Comment #39178616

    > How to drill holes in your keys > Drilling holes in your keys is easy. > 1. Find a partner whose father is a retired precision engineer who owns a pillar drill. > 2. Ask him to d…

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    Comment #39128657

    This is such a superb article. I'd forgotten about a lot of this. I used to be a grandmaster of creating any layout imaginable with tables and 1x1 pixel Gifs... So. Many. Tables...…

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    Comment #39128618

    I've had a great experience so far with UpCloud. Almost a comparable suite of products to DO and their support team is very responsive. European based too which helps for some proj…

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    Comment #39056760

    > the suffix ‘tron’ became associated with technological supremacy I couldn't agree more.

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    Comment #38970085

    > I highly recommend reading Private Eye's special report Agreed. For those more audio inclined, I linked to these in another comment but I originally discovered their reporting on…

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    Comment #38970002

    I recommend The Guardian's podcast episodes covering this: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/jan/08/revisited... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audio/2024/jan/08/rev…

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    Comment #38890929

    The P2P sync sounds cool. > Ever so often I think about trying again, I think if you enjoy the process and the result is useful to you, then it's definitely worth trying again! I d…

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    Comment #38890890

    Evernote originally inspired me (back in the day) as to the value of having some sort of personal knowledge management tool. More recently Obsidian inspired me in terms of showing …

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    Comment #38890812

    > But when you write your own software, you have a map of everything in your head, and you don't have to guess what exactly a button does, how it does it or where you need to go to…

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    Comment #38878424

    I enjoyed the "Colophon" page almost as much as the article https://www.robinsloan.com/colophon/ I love the built-in style guide. I'm totally stealing some ideas from that...

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    Comment #38878387

    > There's a beauty to engineering something having yourself as the target user, and no one else. 100%, I'm following a similar approach to you with yet another notes app solely for…

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    Comment #38860405

    Link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/porsche-design-system/porsche-design-syst... (It's a bit hidden when viewing this page on mobile)

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    Comment #38624276

    > and later polished You weren't kidding. Your apps are stunning!

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    Comment #38371911

    Thank you, we appreciate what you all do.

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    Comment #38231300

    That's very kind of you to say, I appreciate that. It's relatively new and still quite a bit unfinished (in my eyes...) Having spent the last decade or so buried deep in quite a bi…

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    Comment #38230116

    This is a great point actually. It's amazing how far you can get in a .NET project these days without a single third-party (Nuget) dependency. Compared to my projects that (begrudg…

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    Comment #38230068

    > My first experience developing for .NET on a non-Windows OS had me running Visual Studio & SQL Server Management Studio in a Parallels virtual machine (VM) running on a Macbook A…

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    Comment #38229369

    You're right, Mono was pretty good even in the very early days. I had a small C# Mono app deployed on macOS in a similar time period (possibly close to 10 years ago now) and I was …