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Niki Tonsky

My dream is for computers to be able to solve simple problems for themselves, instead of forcing me to do their job

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iliazeus

@nikitonsky what if the version you specified was a typo though? My dream is for computers to not download huge SDK packages when not explicitly asked to do it :)

Dimitri

@nikitonsky
>Oracle Java
💀

Their licensing model is crazy. You pay for each company employee if you use Oracle Java.

Niki Tonsky

macOS beach ball cursor in real life

Niki Tonsky

I love that people were like ‘wahh, I never use all that power in my iPad Pro for anything!' so Apple designers + engineers went 'sick, that means we can render high-poly 3d tools with this new Apple Pencil Pro to cast dynamic shadows at 120fps’

Luke Dorny

@sdw freakin’ amazing. Must’ve been a passion project for an employee. Making it better for customers!

Kyle Aster

@sdw I love this, but also gotta admit this is extremely low poly in modern computing. Queue Biggie’s Things Done Changed.

Niki Tonsky

Don’t smoke more than 6 cigarettes (a day?)

Niki Tonsky

People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts

these people were very disappointed

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Dan Wright

@foone these people made a follow-up trip to Home Depot

charles

@foone I've been increasingly disappointed with Amazon's search, selection, shipping, and prices. If anyone has recommendations for other ways to get basic things delivered I'd love to know about it. I live a ways from town and prefer not to drive.

Niki Tonsky

Vegans: don’t eat meat, eat more plants.
Plants:

Niki Tonsky

I think there’s a wildlife photographer somewhere in me, trying to get out

Niki Tonsky

Don’t talk to us until we had our first commit of the day

Aron Griffis

@nikitonsky Every day: Feed cat, make coffee, join forces at the keyboard.

Niki Tonsky

Look kitty this is how you use recursion instead of loops

Niki Tonsky

Maybe this is how we can win! We shall all go and build ad free aggregators like @nikitonsky did for german cinemas. Websites, that are only designed to make all data accessible to users as quickly and easily as possible.

"I don’t want to make a product out of it. We have enough products already. It’s time someone took a user’s side"

tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

Niki Tonsky

Neil Gaiman wrote: "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game."

I'm not Gaiman, and probably neither are you (unless you are, in which case hi, Neil.)

But this is true for me and true for most of us.

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kikebenlloch

@fatsam I've done that for people who have absolutely no clue 😅 I wish some did that for us 😆

Moss (the τεχie)

@fatsam
Sure. Intellectual property is an illusion.

Niki Tonsky

New blogpost: Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem

tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

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Hans

@nikitonsky it is currently missing the city of Tübingen. When manually loading it via the URL, none of the movie theaters there show up, just surrounding ones.

alifeee

@nikitonsky this is cool!

I think @nonnullish might like it as they've been doing similar things recently(?)

Florian Schulze

@nikitonsky where do you get the data from? I’m missing smaller cities like Fulda which has a cinemaxx or similar (not sure which chain) and even smaller cities with independent cinemas

Niki Tonsky

Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you

Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch

That’s not progress

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Tom Walker

@nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind

Ivan Reese

@nikitonsky One of my all-time favs from the late Aqua era is this enormous toggle.

Niki Tonsky

What if blueprints but for spreadsheets? Exists?

Last time I needed a spreadsheet it was very hard to get any derived data, even a simple map/filter, outside of trivialities like “sum this column”

Niki Tonsky

Content: fits on one screen
Twitter: let’s make you click 10 times to see it and after each click you wait three seconds

Modern engagement-driven services are crazy

#Twitter

𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗

@grumpy_website That can't be right. No one in their right mind would do something like that. It's inhumane.

Niki Tonsky

atof/strtof should really be locale-independent, and versions that ARE locale-dependent should accept it explicitly

Niki Tonsky

Expectation: AI helps solving the tasks
Reality: AI creates tasks

[DATA EXPUNGED]
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