Twitter's missing manual

Post by digi_owl » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 7:49 AM UTC

chambo622 wrote: post #67

digi_owl wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, its messy because cloudcookoolander ui designers. Notice how if you click a tweet in the timeline, you do not get a overlay to show the conversation. Nope, it push away the tweets below to make room. Then when you click anywhere else on the site the conversation collapse back, shifting the position of surrounding tweets once more. Similarly, the only way to see a image full size is to basically drag and drop it…

When was the last time you used Twitter? The first concern you mentioned is something they fixed a few weeks back. I'm still trying to understand the rest.

Post by waterhouse » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 8:17 AM UTC

edgarvaldes wrote: post #17

cornellwright wrote: post #9

> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time. I wonder how many people reading this just opened Notepad to try this.

It's a nice and simple way to log your activities. I use it all the time. I would use Notepadd++ if it had this as a native feature, without the need of mapping a shortcut.

  alias log='(date; cat) >>'

  ~> log file.txt
  Some log lines.
  Followed by a control-D.
  ^D
  ~> log file.txt
  And some more.
  ^D
  ~> cat file.txt 
  Sat Feb 27 00:16:49 PST 2016
  Some log lines.
  Followed by a control-D.
  Sat Feb 27 00:17:04 PST 2016
  And some more.

  function log
    set --local the_log $HOME/incomplete-logs/$argv[1]-(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S")
    date >> $the_log
    rlwrap cat >> $the_log
    and cat $the_log >> $argv[1]
    and mv $the_log (dirname $the_log)/../completed-logs/
  end

Post by ant6n » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

srathi wrote: post #69

ant6n wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just thinking of commenting about the lack of collapsing threads on HN as well. Nice to see I'm not the only one who's missing it here. (Especially if the most upvoted comment is not interesting to me, but resulted in a lot of conversation)

I use this [1], but if you click on a link and hit the back button, all the threads will expand back. [1] https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider