dsyme

Quick notes on a rant

Some examples related to my tweet rant https://twitter.com/dsymetweets/status/1294276915260522496

1. Implicitly discarding information is so 20th Century

In project programming this hit me this week with a bug:

sleepyfox

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

1. Humans naturally resist change
2. Your change is for the better
3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

dominictarr

Hey everyone - this is not just a one off thing, there are likely to be many other modules in your dependency trees that are now a burden to their authors. I didn't create this code for altruistic motivations, I created it for fun. I was learning, and learning is fun. I gave it away because it was easy to do so, and because sharing helps learning too. I think most of the small modules on npm were created for reasons like this. However, that was a long time ago. I've since moved on from this module and moved on from that thing too and in the process of moving on from that as well. I've written way better modules than this, the internet just hasn't fully caught up.

@broros

otherwise why would he hand over a popular package to a stranger?

If it's not fun anymore, you get literally nothing from maintaining a popular package.

One time, I was working as a dishwasher in a restu

sebadoom

/* To run:
 *   mkfifo fifo
 *   node console-state.js | tee fifo
 * Wait 2 seconds, then look for state.json in the same directory.
 */

const fs = require('fs');

const state = [];

balupton

Convert XPS to PDF on macOS

# IF you are on alpine, install the dependencies
apk add curl git bash

# IF you are on ubuntu, install the dependencies
apt update
apt install curl git bash

chrisvfritz

<!--
In Vue, we use v-model for all form bindings, while
Knockout maintains separate binding types, such as
textInput, checked, and options. In some cases,
such as for an input of type "range", Knockout
simply doesn't have an equivalent two-way binding
helper and the more verbose value and valueUpdate
must be used.
-->
<div id="app">

GAME_MASTER_v0_1.protobuf

Result: 1
Items {
  TemplateId: "BADGE_BATTLE_ATTACK_WON"
  Badge {
    BadgeType: BADGE_BATTLE_ATTACK_WON
    BadgeRanks: 4
    Targets: "\nd\350\007"
  }
}
Items {

jay3sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# When you are working on your macbook sitting in cafe and you have to go pee, 
# you need some way to guard you machine. 
#
# Start this script, remove any earphones, and go do the job.
# The assumption is the thief will close the lid of the laptop before taking it away.
# This script detects the closing of the lid and plays some loud audio that will
# likely distract the thief and/or grab attention of nearby people, making the

graymouser

/* 
After purchasing a humble book bundle, go to your download page for that bundle. 
Open a console window for the page and paste in the below javascript
*/ 
$('a').each(function(i){
   if ($.trim($(this).text()) == 'MOBI') {
      $('body').append('<iframe id="dl_iframe_'+i+'" style="display:none;">');
      document.getElementById('dl_iframe_'+i).src = $(this).data('web');
   }
});

celoyd

Himawari-8 animation tutorial

Here’s how to make animations like this one. It requires intermediate Unix command-line knowledge, to install some tools and to debug if they don’t work. You’ll need these utilities:

• curl (or you can translate to wget)
• convert and montage, part of ImageMagick
• ffmpeg, plus whatever codecs
• parallel, for iteration that’s nicer than shell for loops or xargs
• run everything in zsh for leading 0s in numerical ranges to work