@daringfireball Why does Roomba info about the users’ houses get sent to the cloud at all?!? Why do the devices need connection to Roomba servers to work?
@dansup A small feature I would like to see in Pixelfed is the ability to export an image that shows my recent photos with text above telling people they can see my photos on Pixelfed. For use in Facebook, Instagram, etc. like this:
@mattblaze Hashtags are like the little icons on restaurant menus that indicate (for example) that an item is vegetarian. They’re not required, but it makes it easier to scan for items you might want to eat. I.e. they enhance usability
@paco This reminds me of the story about an early version of MS Word. From https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/ “one programmer, who had to write the code to calculate the height of a line of text, simply wrote “return 12;” and waited for the bug report to come in about how his function is not always correct.”
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…