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I miss Boundary. Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible. Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed,…
What happened to SignalFX?
Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.
We're slowly getting closer, https://textile.photos/ our desktop app is in a readonly state in the github builds but the mobile app is coming along quickly. Follow here for progress updates, https://github.com/textileio/textile-go , it's where the desktop app is released.
Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!
I miss DabbleDB greatly. I once made a real meals-and-visits schedule signup sheet app for a sick relative (dozens of folks signing up for slots over days, etc.) in about 20 minutes, including learning a bunch about the tool. Ultimately it "just" made CRUD apps, but it made the process amazingly fast. The equivalent of updating a Django model and view was usually a click or two with no waiting, and the only typing wa…
The Zune (media players) and Windows Phone (upto 8, not even 8.1). The fluid interface with focus on readability and content. The photos app was amazing. Live tiles are amazing. The music player and it's live tile was amazing. The performance was the same whether on a low end budget phone or the top of the line model. So many good ui and ux decisions like the lack of hamburger menus and placement of all menu items al…
On a side note I do wish there were strong 3rd or 4th choices for a phone OS. A shame Blackberry is now just an Android flavor.
Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.
We're slowly getting closer, https://textile.photos/ our desktop app is in a readonly state in the github builds but the mobile app is coming along quickly. Follow here for progress updates, https://github.com/textileio/textile-go , it's where the desktop app is released.
Ecco Pro
Grooveshark had a better interface for managing "currently playing" than anything I've used before or since. Most apps don't even track what's currently playing in an intelligent fashion. Similarly, rockbox was really great mp3 player firmware, when I used to use one of those. It had a funny feature I've never seen elsewhere: multi-lingual article-ignoring sort. I had German band "Die Prinzen" on that mp3 player, and…
My wife still rues the loss of Grooveshark. She’s never recovered. I don’t blame her. All other streaming services suck horribly.