RAruler

@raruler
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I solve problems. Not problems like 'what is beauty?' Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems.
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Hardware I didn't know existed -- Ancot SCSI portable analyzer, 1992. "Open the case, provide power and it's ready to use!"

Did not know things like this existed, but it look really cool: SCSI-1 and 2, narrow and wide SCSI, SE and differential.

Neat!

Woot has another Keychron sale going. Q1 in white is always a good choice. For something a bit different the Q10 is really nice as well, fun layout that's pretty easy to get used to and at > 5 lbs can double as home office defense.
https://computers.woot.com/plus/keychron-mechanical-keyboards-8
Keychron Mechanical Keyboards

New customers save an extra $10 with code KEYCHRONTEN

Computers.Woot

Hrmmm... Need to update my Sublime Merge license but I'm not sure if I want to get the bundle with Sublime Text

I've been trying out Fleet, from Jetbrains and it's kinda neat

Anyone got any new text editors for macOS (not IDEs) they like?

There are features of IDEs that I so take for granted, I wonder if it's fair to assume the same exists for text editors?

e.g. Can vim highlight that you're using a class that you haven't imported, in Python?

I'm reading the architectural patterns book that inspired the Gang of Four's Patterns book, and it has some fascinating ideas on how things should be organized.

A unified world government with representatives for each region of 10-15 million people. People shouldn't live more than 10 minutes from farm land, so each city is "fingers” of 1-mile wide small farms and 1-mile wide urban sections, intermeshed.

I was expecting more like “how to best implement a Foyer”.

Today in public awareness campaigns that look like shitposts: Just flip 'em!™
I just stumbled across this hack for adding comments in JSON and there is no greater testament to human ingenuity and endurance in the face of adversity.
Bought some Ubiquiti gear, and having a zero configuration VPN that works on macOS/iOS is so nice.
Human Interface Guidelines for Games on Apple Platforms - https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-games. This is an awesome new starting point for our recommended best-practices in user-experience. Don't miss the associated talk, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10085/
Designing for games | Apple Developer Documentation

When people play your game on an Apple device, they dive into the world you designed while relying on the platform features they love.

Apple Developer Documentation