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constantine

@constantine@sfba.social

0.5x Software Designer
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creative courage
wholehearted passion
the search for the new
the never seen before

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BasicAppleGuy, to random
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You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

constantine,
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@ddribeiro @BasicAppleGuy

maybe cause it had character.

now all software are made from prefabricated design system components so everything can be shipped fast and appropriately measured

adam, to random
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An update on Daypage. Apologies for the quiet audio, I have no idea what I'm doing.

https://youtu.be/KRigKwuCp6U?si=EVS7_7_HZyonPEK-

constantine,
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@adam

yeah, skeuomorphic aesthetics are gone for a reason. it doesn’t mean we're stuck with flat ui until we die, but rather that something more interesting will emerge.

i can’t help but think about lapka, which is 10 years old, but hey, the future is here, but it isn’t distributed evenly

https://vadikmarmeladovlab.com/

bowyer app

reichenstein, to random
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Microsoft! Who would have thought 40 years ago, that in 2023 it makes such headlines, still. https://www.ft.com/content/54e36c93-08e5-4a9e-bda6-af673c3e9bb5 Given that AI could help us think clearer, news around OpenAI do not seem very rational. That being said... MS is still spectacularly passionate about the game of Monopoly.

constantine,
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@reichenstein all big three ms/aapl/googl are good at it and basicly one conglomerate that doesn’t compete with themself, but cover three separate niches: saas for corps, b2c, saas for everyone else

kylebshr, to random
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I’ve only been dipping my toes into indie app dev while I still have a full time job, but man it is tough watching Apple feature the same few apps over and over and over again when I know there’s so many great smaller ones that could use the attention.

constantine,
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@kylebshr sure. Because they promote apps that can bring them more money in a form of fee. In fact if you have a promising app (in terms of prospect profitability) they will contact with you, invite to one of the offices and start consulting on monetization mechanics. They aren’t neutral actor but motivated business partner

GossiTheDog, to random
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    constantine,
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    @GossiTheDog

    Free market and corporate power when it’s beneficial for me. And a government intervention when it’s not.

    constantine,
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    @chort

    Not just in the UK, but also in Italy (where Georgia Meloni is as far-right as possible within the EU), Poland (with its strong xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and sexist stance, including an abortion ban), and the self-proclaimed center-right Baltic states, which in fact implement anti-immigration, white-supremacist, Islamophobic, and neoliberal policies. And I only named some political regimes in power. There are many who is currently in opposition

    constantine, to TeslaMotors
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    I have been a fan of 37signals and its founders since college. I thought they were some of the smartest people in the industry. Their “Getting Real” book still rocks. (And maybe you know Mastodon was written in RoR).

    Therefore, it’s especially sad to see how DHH and Jason Fried are simping for Elon Musk now. It’s devastatingly disappointing when your heroes growing up reveal themselves as jerk billionaire wannabes.

    (DHH’s summary of Musk’s biography has some reasonable and obvious points, but look at the first one. It’s just stupid).

    camerontw, to random
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    I find that these rules apply equally well when dating or parenting - really any kind of social interaction actually

    constantine,
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    @camerontw It’s a summary from the classic “The Elements of Style” writing guide

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

    brandonhorst, to random
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    My wife is starting a business and needed a website. We said we would take the easy path and just use Squarespace or Wix, but they are TERRIBLE. The editors were mind-numbingly slow, and getting things consistent seems almost impossible.

    So I just built it in a text editor myself. Don’t know if it saved time or not, but it definitely saved sanity.

    constantine,
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    @brandonhorst I ended up using basic html/css for the same reason. But if I need to make something extremely fast, I use readymag.com. Not so many people know about it, but it has the best design of all similar tools

    reichenstein, to random
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    I haven't been so impatient for a WWDC since the one with the iPad. What is Apple's response to the AI wave? Will they offer AI on device? Is that even possible? AI deeply integrated into the OS? Will it be an outlook, a simulation, a demo or something tangible for devs? I'm interested for our own products but also to see how they react tactically and strategically.

    constantine,
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    @reichenstein I hope they will ship the local run offline private analogue of chatgpt with extended API for it. It would be a game changer

    pirijan, to random
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    My first origami 'prototype'. Programming with nodes is weird but I see the appeal

    video/mp4

    constantine,
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    @pirijan I used it quite a bit but stopped a few years ago. While I like the approach itself (it feels like functional programming with full transparency of each stay during program execution), I found out I was making a work that, in many ways, paralleled the front-end dev jobs. The dealbreaker is that I cannot use the result of my work in actual code like I can with SwiftUI, for example. I believe it’s an excellent tool for designers in megacorps where the design and eng teams detached from each other, and the developing cycle counts in quarters and years. Like Airbnb spent the whole year just to ship the basic list filters

    constantine,
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    @pirijan yeah, it’s a cool tool anyway. for some reason, I liked the process itself working with nodes, it’s just a fun thing to do

    pirijan, to random
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    📰 A new blog post, For Those Who Dream of Being Understood https://pketh.org/dream-of-being-understood.html

    constantine,
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    @pirijan This is my dream: to leave the corporate job and create software that I would want to use myself. By the way, your example is truly inspiring

    maschinenraum, to random German

    What I don't like about is their intransparency. Are there any ideas to distribute reasoning behind blocks as well, @oliphant ? Not trying to argue that instances blocked are blocked without reason, but even on tier 0, I spot some where I wouldn't know immediately why.

    constantine,
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    @ocdtrekkie

    So it’s absolutely on the will of the instance admin. They can do whatever they want in a most shady opaque way without any accountability. At this point, it is even worse than corporate censorship. At least they have some processes and committees

    dustin, to random

    Remembering those moments of boredom where you’d just stare at the fabric of the couch or chair you were on and look over all the detailing.

    One of many little types of moments I find I’ve replaced with phone time. I will get this back this year. I miss it dearly.

    Have been feeling very disconnected from the world/reality. Haven’t been looking at it very closely expect through screens.

    Genuinely considering trying a year without an iPhone. Green chat bubbles is a worthwhile trade imho. 😅

    constantine,
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    @dustin oh, we must do something with it, now it’s iphone, then it will be ar glasses, we need to figure out how to put tech products in place and not be their serfs, but how?

    reichenstein, to random
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    When you search for "iA Writer" on the iOS ApStore you get:

    1. An app that spends Millions of ad money everywhere. They're a bit desperate now because ChatGPT made them irrelevant. Likely they booked "AI Writer", not "iA Writer", but I wouldn't be surprised.

    2. An uncomfortably similar, but differently named app, that booked our app name and similar app names as a keyword.

    This happened in spite of us paying Apple the ransom ad money on top of the revenue share to avoid this. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    constantine,
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    @reichenstein

    I still can’t understand why they act so shortsightedly. Sure, they’re increasing their revenue now, but in the long run, they push more and more developers & customers to the web. And sooner or later (rather sooner) web stack will be good enough to compete with the native mobile apps. It's just so unfortunate. It's like they do everything that people move away from the native apps

    constantine, to random
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    @ivory for Mac is so good. Especially comparing with the desktop Twitter app. If not Tapbot’s work, I wouldn’t use Fediverse at all

    samhenrigold, to random
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    any of yall on are.na?

    constantine,
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    @samhenrigold

    https://www.are.na/constantine-sad-25x1000

    linuskuner, to random German

    8 years after version 2, we're releasing the first standalone Push. Look at this beauty! 😍

    https://ableton.com/en/push/

    Happy launch day to everyone involved!❤️

    constantine,
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    @linuskuner so cool! btw, will push 2 get major updates?

    constantine,
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    @linuskuner thank you 🙏

    atomicpoet, to random

    Not enough good things can be said about blocking. It’s a critical feature of any social network.

    More people should block, and blocking makes social media better.

    If I know that talking to someone will just make me upset, and that a discussion will just be a huge time suck that goes nowhere, I just block that person.

    It’s not because I think they’re terrible humans beings. It’s that I don’t want a terrible thing to be said.

    In this way, blocking makes social media less toxic.

    constantine, (edited )
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    @segv11 @dans_root @atomicpoet

    > Server bans are evil

    Defediration / server ban is the worst part of Fediverse that chilled my enthusiasm about it.

    In theory, a server ban helps fight organized harassment campaigns and spam bots. In reality, in the already formed Fediverse culture, it’s a speech policing tool that maintains conformity around the mainstream agenda of Western countries.

    Hence I don’t believe Fediverse can foster something new and innovative – such things often seem controversial at first.

    It’s so wired, BTW. So many people moved here from Musk and discovered that this place is ruled by 1000 small Musks.

    And no, the ability to change the instance is not freedom. It’s a far-right libertarian POV and a completely naive idea. Very few people do that.

    constantine,
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    @notroot @segv11

    I’m 100% for banning people you don’t want to interact with. I wouldn’t say I like the idea that some unelected person I don’t know and don’t want to know – the server’s admin – decides it for me. Why in the world some random person chose whom I can talk to. Because they are paying for hosting? I would pay for the service. I like to pay for the service.

    And if we’re talking about minority protection. Oh, it’s extremely paternalistic. Only people in the West could come up with such an idea. Why can’t I and others decide for ourselves. We are adults. We make our own decisions throughout life.

    Even self-hosting can’t resolve the problem cause I can be defedirated from the other side.

    All these issues are imprinted into the ActivePub protocol. Its authors are geeks who made a technical solution, without any social considerations. Apparently, you should have started from social aspects first. But now it’s a history

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