Mastodawn

Andrew Madsen Mar 13

Thom, exceedingly pure Mar 12

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

Andrew Madsen Mar 10

Christina Warren Mar 10

Hi. Please play this amazing JND color game my friend Keith made and see how good you/your displays are at differentiating between similar colors. https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=filmgirl

What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Andrew Madsen Mar 10

sasha solomon Mar 8

daylight will never truly be saved until we rid the world of morning people

Andrew Madsen Jan 16

The Whore of Blahbylon Jan 16

A Young Man's Guide to Shaking Hands with Nazis.

#Nazis

Andrew Madsen Jan 13

I was doing some organizing and found my first gen iPod shuffle in a box. I charged it up, and am listening to it. The music on it is no newer than 2008, which is probably when I stopped using it. It's fun to go back in time to what I was listening to then.

Andrew Madsen Dec 17

How do I get Music.app to stop filling up my queue with random songs when I start playing a single song with an empty queue? I have AutoPlay turned off.

What an annoying anti-feature.

Andrew Madsen Dec 11

Asked a StackOverflow question for the first time in quite a while, and quickly got a perfect answer from the same guy that answered a similar question I asked 5 years ago!

https://stackoverflow.com/q/79843349/344733

(In case anyone's wondering, LLMs were absolutely zero help. I tried.)

CMReadySampleBuffer.copyPCMData() fails with -12731 (kCMSampleBufferError_RequiredParameterMissing) error

I'm trying to figure out how to use the new outputProvider API on AVAssetReader. Specifically, I want to open a media file (video or audio), extract its audio, and write it back out as PCM. I have ...

Stack Overflow

Andrew Madsen Nov 24

I just ran across https://macrowave.co. I don't really have a use for it, but it sure is beautiful. I love seeing a wonderfully done UI with light effects, custom controls, and analogs for physical UI in a current Mac/iOS app.

Macrowave - Radio Broadcaster

Turn Your Mac Into a Private Radio Station

Macrowave

Andrew Madsen Oct 30

Simon Wolf Oct 28

What sort of applications are people writing where AI is saving them hours and hours of hand-writing boilerplate code? This is a genuine question because, apart from in perhaps the very early stages of a new application, I very rarely find myself doing this.

I’m starting to file it away with people who think that the speed they can type at is their biggest development bottleneck. Or am I just ponderously slow and I think about my code too much so that typing is the least of my worries?

Andrew Madsen Oct 21

Denis - The COVID info guy -Oct 20

Scientists have been studying remote work for 4 years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”

"The four-year lens shows a real shift: flexible schedules raise well-being, protect focus, and support steady results. People sleep longer, commute less, eat better, and give more time to family. Because managers reward outcomes, trust grows and meetings get sharper. That is how remote work changes daily life without lowering standards."

Source: https://archive.li/URhbv