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toddmorey

6,510karma·1,091submissions·November 25, 2009
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Building for the web for 20+ years. Currently with amazing folks at OnMachina.
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I know we all have to make our ends meet, but it's sad when a site like phys.org has such trash ads and newsletter popups.
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I would call this article a bit of snake oil. It’s basically an ad. And you are right—it’s amazing how well the “you are an expert in…” has worked when added to a prompt.
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I would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?
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Help: I can wrap my head around WebGPU for in browser & on device 3D, video, and ML like face or hand tracking, etc. I struggle to imagine the use cases where WebGPU runs on the edge / server…
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Interestingly the entire NextStep UI was built on a graphics format called Display Postscript when Apple acquired it as the foundation of OS X https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disp…
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It's telling to me that there's not even a sentence in this announcement post on user privacy. It seems like as both consumers and providers of these services, we're once again: build i…
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They do marketing like a 3-person startup that found a saas starter template, connected Stripe with shoestrings, and hasn't looked back. In order to start using the API, I actually had to cancel …
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Been involved with a lot of Contentful projects large and small that only existed to publish content to web properties. I guess it kills that use case.
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You're right. I've noticed this pattern, too.
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I think this kills the CMS market—-companies like Contentful & Sanity that charge $400/mo+ just for a team to be able to edit their own website. There’s been a lot of money made (and web st…
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This is good guidance except they get the date format wrong. (Teasing. I’ve always thought the US MM/DD/YYYY format makes absolutely no sense. Why don’t the units go small, bigger, biggest? …
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You can choose on a component basis what you render server-side. This project is a marketing site, for which client-side rendering never made sense.
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This is great! Impressed by your work to make arriving in Berlin easier, especially for foreigners.
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He hand drilled each and every hole for the perforated step plates. Just in awe of both the skill and the patience. He also seems to be working with several tools he made himself.
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I'm really curious about the reason why they did it though? Is it a significantly cheaper chipset or something? Apple, in general, has favored high throughput I/O in their devices (scsi, fir…
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Let's hope more companies to run out of ideas and put the focus on environmental impact.
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Not surprised to see them do commerce, but the scale of this is surprising. It’s an ambitious entry: Includes pick & pack fulfillment, even.
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This is a really good point. And I think the specific lists of interests will basically be used as a fingerprint.
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“But as of now, no final replacement has been announced, and the vast majority of LEGO parts remain fossil-fuel-based” I think their initial goal was sustainable Legos by 2030. I applaud their decisio…
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Supported on macOS, Linux, and WSL
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Question: the post says Cola only concerns itself with making conflict-free edits to unknown datatypes (just streams of characters & their locations). Couldn’t formatting be represented in the tex…
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“It was first launched as a sort of promotion for Apple's QuickTime architecture” I remember seeing it have high quality video that started almost instantly. That just wasn’t a thing at the time.…
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And even ChatGPT admits the flag is inaccurate in the response.
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That’s exactly what this approach (sever components) is for
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I really hope the FTC does act on this. In the meantime, I use privacy.com to create virtual cards for each service I sign up. Canceling is then as easy as turning the card off. Ryan Hamilton has some…
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At that point, wouldn't a standing seam metal roof be the best investment? The cost is about 3x, but beats an annual roof replacement.
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I think web tech (even as resource hungry as it tends to be) is the right abstraction until your product & team is big enough to properly staff and develop for each platform. Looking at you, Slack…
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This is really well put!
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Because the truth is, each deal is custom packaged and priced for each enterprise. It's all negotiated pricing. Call it "value pricing" or whatever you want, prices are set at the toler…
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This is the frame of the car. Don’t accept a new car with cracks in the frame. Ever.
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