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donohoe
32,640karma·3,769submissions·August 19, 2009
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I build web things for fun and sometimes I post on the social platforms
Web: https://donohoe.dev
Bluesky: @donohoe.dev
I build, or rebuild, big parts of media companies. Previously at Hearst, The New Yorker, Quartz, and NYT
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I doubt it. Would that not interfere with the scan? I’ve really no idea on the merits of this.
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Amazing. Unless you’re in a wheelchair or can’t stand.
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I would broadly agree with this (based on years of dealing directly with user-facing UX and setup steps). Small hurdles, even easy ones, create larger barriers to adoption then you’d think.
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User behavior shifts over time. When I was at The New Yorker you’d see that a tiny but meaningful % of users used share tools. Even with that decline the % in this story is ‘good’ especially if you as…
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I used to love Roku. I even went through their early developer stuff to play with custom channels. It was clear many years ago that their shift form platform to ad provider was underway. Why can'…
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Beyond what is captured in the headline, there is no substance to this post
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Still a work in progress but I’m making my own subway web app. A by-product of this is this realtime subway map of NYC https://donohoe.dev/subway/map/ …
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That was true 29, 40, 80 years ago
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At the NYT? I don’t doubt AI is used in figuring out headlines but ultimately a human makes the decision.
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I would not follow this advice. The most trouble I’ve had with RSS was usually from not having it. I also have never used CDATA at a word level - just wrap the full text block in it.
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Discussion from 4 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309
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They’ll probably sell more units of this than Tesla ever will with the Cybertruck
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I’ve been lucky enough to avoid it. I’ve banned it at work as it is not the correct as preach for any of our work.
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If you are referring to Renee Nicole Good, then the video evidence contradicts that entirely. I am not going to discuss that further, I am just pointing out that your assertion is not a known fact and…