Will they fix the Chrome extension for this price increase or do I have to wait ~1 hour for it to sync or restart the browser? Check the rating of the extension compared to all others. It is shit, it has been shit for 1+ year.
My Siri just forgets to confirm the timer. So I go to find my phone swearing at it just to figure out it did set a timer, but for the wrong time. It simply didn't tell me.
One thing that blew my mind in a negative way, was pasting a phonenumber into the caller and not being able to edit it. If you paste a number and want for example to add the country code you simply cannot. You can only remove numbers.
If you want to edit it, you have to open the notes app, paste it, edit it and paste it back into the caller.
Prettier which is a Ecmasceipt formatter. It basically doesn't have settings as a feature. You can change some things like eol and if you want to use tabs or spaces. Everything else is more or less as it comes, and they want it to be that way to stop discussions in the teams using it and to not allow feature creep.
I call Pettier a compromise tool, noone is happy noone is too mad when you force it on checkin etc
Prettier also came to mind, and I'm usually pretty happy with the "it's formatted this way, deal with it" approach - but I also would like the tool to behave predictably with updates. Prettier had some changes in 2.5 related to multi-line-classes (namely, forbidding them), which in turn made it unusable for projects with tailwind usage, as it now forces extremely long lines in some cases. (Especially for elements that have styling based on multiple breakpoints and a darkmode variant, you're hitting >120 chars easily).
I know that you can go for descriptive classnames and "@apply", but I was still miffed about a change like this in an already existing tool, with a lot of community pushback and no compromise in sight.
So for prettier, it wasn't just "format your code our way or else" - which is a good approach for a formatter, see also gofmt - it was "your current set up doesn't work anymore, tough luck".
This hasn't been my experience. I've been able to throw together a .prettierrc.js file that gets me everything I want to tweak from the default (line length, quote types, etc.).
Out of curiosity, what did you find to be something unchangeable?
It is a shame Microsoft had basically abandoned OneNote
The android app still can't change fonts after 5 years of development. It is pure insanity how little MS cares about their best product
They made it brilliant at the start and since then stated they won't update it anymore.
I seriously wish you couldn't change fonts in it. OneNote itself defaults to 11pt Calibri, but the web clipper outputs 12pt Verdana because fuck you. And if you change the font to Verdana, page title font changes from 20pt Calibri Light (IIRC) to like Verdana 20pt which is comically heavy.
Plaintext based notes apps are a blessing in that regard: Since they only store the text, your pages actually look nice and consistent. I have a ton of web clippings in OneNote which are ugly as hell because of font inconsistencies.
I understand that viewpoint and I can see the value in it.
The point I was making is that they done no meaningful improvements on Android since five years. If onenote supports rich text the mobile app should do the same.
I enjoy the rich text since I'm not very organised with my notes, I don't have the patience or discipline to neatly write my thoughts down, I mostly copy paste things and write it in one big OneNote document. I have like 90 different random notes in my 2020 forward dumping note.
I those cases highlighting important info is nice, so I don't have to visually remember where the important things are.
I noticed if I don't allow the chaos I just don't write notes so I prefer this way. I started using todo tasks for things I need to do soon, so babysteps to becoming a compete human ;)
I don't understand why a device can't just be for consumption of media. Why is everyone trying to force this to become a computer with an annoyingly complicated navigation UX and the rest of the ceaveats when using a complete OS.
If I ever have to worry about CPU usage or driver issues on my iPad I will be the one leaving. I bought an iPad NOT to work on it. It is my vacation device so work can never call me and ask me to do something quickly
I owned a Surface Go for two days before getting an iPad Mini.
What made me return it was the file save dialog. I bought a device to read and doodle on, two things I used to do on paper. I browse through my sketches by turning pages, and finish the activity by closing the (note)book. Procreate and Google Play Books work similarly.
After a whole day of installing updates and removing bloatware, the Surface wanted me to name and organise my drawings on a filesystem before I could do something else.
My goal was to draw and read, not to use a computer. The Surface wanted me to think about files and updates and the device’s state. My iPad Mini is a book with benefits, paper with tricks.
Yeah, I'm curious too. If you use a desktop Windows app you will of course run into that kind of thing but there is apps like Sketchable available that are like what's on the iPad. Even on the iPad you can run into file save dialogs, from what I remember Clip Studio Paint on the iPad is for better or worse Clip Studio Paint on the iPad file save dialogs and all.
Because Apple doesn't allow macs to take that form factor.
There is a gap between iPads' convenience and macs' capabilities, we've all been pondering about when and how this gap will be filled, and it doesn't feel like it will ever happen.
Basically what is Apple's equivalent of a Surface Pro ? Until that question has an answer, some will be ranting about iPad OS being too restrictive and others lament the mac not getting touch support.
12.9" pro's the best comic book reading device on the market, by a mile, AFAIK. Comfortable to hold, can display two-page spreads at very nearly full life-size.
It's great for PDFs and sheet music for similar reasons.
Gotta admit, though, if they made a 12.9" non-pro at least $200 cheaper than the 12.9" Pro, I'd have that instead. I don't need the horsepower.
If it is only "very nearly", wouldn't something larger like an s8 ultra be better? Also "by a mile" is a stretch. It might be better but all $1000+ tablets are reasonably close enough to be happy with any of them.
I've used a lot of Android tablets, low end to high, and developed software for them. They're awful. Crashy, glitchy, bad battery life. I don't think we'll see a true iPad competitor until/unless a new OS enters the market—Android's had a long time to get its shit together, and evidently just can't. Wish someone would give it a shot, because I'd love to see that market better-served.
5 years ago I would have mostly agreed with your statements about android tablets, but since then Samsung has created a family of very acceptable tablets imho.
Maybe I'll try one from their newer line at some point. I haven't had a big pile of Android test devices around me on the daily in about 4 years (the consistent "Android's finally good now!" cry with each Android release and major-vendor product launch, followed by that never turning out to be true, for the entire decade I was doing mobile dev before that, is why I'd assumed nothing would have changed by now) so it checks out if they have in-fact finally made a good one (the older Samsung tablets were... not good) I might have missed it.
Last time I was guided by "no really this higher-tier Android thing is finally good, actually" advice was about a year ago, with the Nvidia Shield, though, so I'm... hesitant.
If I see one in a store, I may poke at it, read some reviews, see how their app store's looking these days for categories I care about. Could use a second largish tablet for the kids—or maybe a new one for me, and they can have the big iPad full-time. Having just one decent vendor in the mobile market blows (fucking Apple still won't add multiple profiles/icloud-logins to iPadOS, so annoying) so I'd be thrilled to discover that's changed.
4:3 does happen, just coincidentally, to damn-near match the aspect ratio of a 2-page spread on a comic, too (~1.3 width/height on an open comic book, 1.333... for 4:3, 1.6 for 16:10) which means a larger screen in a wider ratio might not actually be any benefit (or not enough to justify the extra weight/unweildiness, perhaps) for that particular narrow use case.
Which, it's a very niche and specific thing, but still, if we're talking "what's the very best device for that exact thing, disregarding all other concerns", having a 4:3 screen ratio's an advantage over all the other common ones.
I telli code has a new way where you can click a API or Nuget and it brings examples of code using that API FROM Github.
Super useful since you can see different ways people use them, for example how people would use an API synchronous or asynchronous.
The bad thing is, it brings all code regardless of license
So it will happily bring you GPLv3 code as an example. Not a good idea to study code like that if you work on closed source.
Also it doesn't seem to ask for permission to use the examples.
Aren't you the coolest kid in the playground, or the guy on the sideline cheering on the coolest guy. Actually just staring in hoping someone would notice you. Yeah I think is it he last one.
