Useful commandline utilities for your Mac The post Useful commands for your Mac first appeared on @gurupanguji • Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul. | Continue reading
Thomas Steele explores if Comic Sans really is a bad font in his book. There is a wonderful blog post that gets you interested. The post Comic Sans – Is it really that bad? first appeared on @gurupanguji • Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul. | Continue reading
If you care about Mac window management, you’re likely to use one of these tools to make it happen. This is a great post comparing the three. Today, I learned that “snapping” windows to the left edge and right edge is now a default choice on the Mac. You just need to hover by tap … | Continue reading
I wonder what Tim Cook thinks of this Disney investment: Disney’s investment: Disney put $1.5 billion into Epic Games, showing they believe in Epic’s ideas. https://dataconomy.com/2024/02/08/disney-x-epic-games-did-disney-buy-fortnite/ See techmeme for more commentary. The post D … | Continue reading
We don’t often think about the infrastructure that’s built to ensure that people can go about living their lives as normally as possible. This was a reminder that there are people who manage reservoirs of water and that they care about the weather way more than I do. A strong El … | Continue reading
Google seems to be making a statement about its future. If we take it at face value, this is a big deal. Till date, Google’s not let any other name be a peer-brand in its family. You’ve always had Google Mail, Google Photos, Google Pay, Google Workspace and even Google Cloud. Not … | Continue reading
Apple Watch Edition was an attempt to create something exclusive again, this time for watch lovers. Apple ultimately missed the mark in its execution. They were held down by Watch Edition’s similarity to the far cheaper aluminum models and ironically by the cutting edge technolog … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson with an insight I agree with: iOS utility feels like it’s inversely correlated to screen size. The bigger a screen gets, the more frustrating iOS gets. https://pca.st/episode/fab1d675-ecab-410f-b06b-b6fb8c0e02b7?t=560 This is in today’s Dithering where Ben comes to t … | Continue reading
While this is part of his post talking about why NetNewsWire is not present for the Vision Pro yet… PS Why don’t I have a Vision Pro? I’m sure it’s an incredible technical achievement and an amazing experience — and pretty damn wonderful in just about every way — but it’s just no … | Continue reading
While I wrote about how I moved back to the Mac and feel this is the ground I feel most comfortable in, Ben Brooks wrote an opus about how the iPad is the perfect computing device for him. I wanted to pull some quotes that were resonant / dissonant. Ben loves the Stage Manager: W … | Continue reading
Errors of discomprehension suggest that products that rely on the repetitiveness / intelligence of an LLM are not the right approach. It has to rely on the capriciousness of the intelligence to be effective with current gen LLMs. The post Errors of discomprehension first appeared … | Continue reading
“NASA will work with our long-term partner, DARPA, to develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027. With the help of this new technology, astronauts could journey to and from deep space faster than ever – a major capability to prepare for … | Continue reading
Conclusion: As the foundational layer of language models is becoming increasingly difficult to improve with more data, the quality of the data that these models are trained on becomes a key differentiator. xAI’s Grok benefits from a vast dataset of diverse and up-to-date informat … | Continue reading
In my humble opinion, Figma kills with user interface design. Their dev mode is just 🤌 Post by @figma View on Threads The post Dev mode… first appeared on @gurupanguji • Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul. | Continue reading
I love the Mac and I’ve had an iPhone since the first one. I’ve enjoyed a Mac since I used a Mac to layout my first yearbook in 1998 using Adobe Pagemaker. I wanted the smartphone to become the next computing platform and I was thrilled when Apple decided to adopt sandboxing – as … | Continue reading
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Out of this will spring a cornucopia of component libraries, adapters, intermediary services, and consultancies that trade on the false promise of ‘one implementation, many stores, zero cost’. Some will get close, but will all fall foul of the lowest common denominator and not de … | Continue reading
With iOS 17.4, Apple is making a number of huge changes to the way its mobile operating system works in order to comply with new regulations in the EU. One of them is an important product shift: for the first time, Apple is going to allow alternative browser engines to run on iOS … | Continue reading
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-halts-boeing-max-production-expansion-improve-quality-control-also-lays-out-extensive Looks like airlines should be good to go after a rigorous inspection. And Boeing seems to be on FAA’s crosshairs. If we trust FAA has done its job with its fligh … | Continue reading
And if you find yourself with a big audience in your live chat, it can be hard to hold on to that audience and bring them back for the next one. This is why most large streamers use the messaging app Discord as a way to corral their audiences and notify them that a big […] The po … | Continue reading
Visa Cash App RB will reveal its new look for the 2024 season at a launch event in Las Vegas on Feb. 8 alongside drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, promising a “newly designed Visa and Cash App-inspired car livery”. https://theathletic.com/5223917/2024/01/24/alphatauri-na … | Continue reading