Andrew Madsen

@armadsen
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Mac & iOS developer, teacher, electrical engineer.
@danielpunkass For the first couple years I had an app for sale, I had a Mail.app rule that would play a cash register noise anytime a sale came through. I lived in a small apartment and would hear it anytime I was home. Always gave me a little burst of joy, and even moreso when they came in while I was actively working on the app.

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?

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?

@film_girl That was interesting!

What's My JND? 0.0046
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AcofJP__7d1w

What's My JND?

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

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

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

#Nazis

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.
@beejjorgensen Commander Keen was the first video game I can remember getting excited about, and was a huge part of my childhood.

@mortenbekditlevsen Thanks. That's the AutoPlay button, which is off already 😞

(It's in the queue sidebar. I'm talking about Mac Music.app here.)

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.