aniforprez (u/aniforprez)

aniforprez commented on Django 6 docs.djangoproject.com/en... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp

wg0 · 23 days ago

Can someone remind me how we ended up in the SPA era and why exactly? Was it about not seeing the loading spinner? Or there were more reasons to it?

aniforprez · 23 days ago

Aside from the usual separation of tech stacks for different teams, the big thing for me is lack of any sort of type hinting or safety in templates at least in the big frameworks such as Django, Rails etc. I would much rather work with a separate build process that utilizes typescript than deal with the errors that come out of incorrectly reading formless data and making typos within templates.

aniforprez commented on Apple's Problem with Bodies drobinin.com/posts/apples... · Posted by u/valzevul

hapless · a month ago

It is a tracker of sexual activity.

It has no other purpose.

It ain't livejournal, my man

aniforprez · a month ago

I don't know what this comment means. I know this. Are you ok?

aniforprez commented on Apple's Problem with Bodies drobinin.com/posts/apples... · Posted by u/valzevul

hapless · a month ago

It is an explicit sex tracker that does not restrict usage by children

You can imagine why Apple takes a dim view

aniforprez · a month ago

Are you saying it is "explicit" in that it is explicitly stating itself as such or that it contains explicit content? Because the former is honest and the latter seems to be untrue. Also you are replying to every comment here calling the author of the article a "disgusting pervert" and accusing them of a lot of things and I'm not sure it's adding anything to the conversation. It's a harmless journalling app

aniforprez commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

lalitmaganti · a month ago

> Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month

Unless these numbers are just lies, I'm not sure how this is "pushing their AI into everything they can". Especially on iOS where every user is someone who went to App Store and downloaded it. Admittedly on Android, Gemini is preinstalled these days but it's still a choice that users are making to go there rather than being an existing product they happen to user otherwise.

Now OTOH "AI overviews now have two billion users" can definitely be criticised in the way you suggest.

aniforprez · a month ago

I don't know for sure but they have to be counting users like me whose phone has had Gemini force installed on an update and I've only opened the app by accident while trying to figure out how to invoke the old actually useful Assistant app

aniforprez commented on Free software scares normal people danieldelaney.net/normal/... · Posted by u/cryptophreak

eviks · 2 months ago

the "modal disruption" is misguided - he cites as the challenge a very poor implementation in a MS app where the modes were barely visible!!! That's not a proof that modes are bad, just a statement that invisible information makes it hard for the users to adapt! Brushes (another mode he cites as great) are great precisly because their state is immediately visible in your focus area - your primary pointer changes

Now he got rid of the modes by adding handles and border actions - so 1) wasted some space that could be used for information 2) required more precision from the users because now to do the action you must target a tiny handle/border area 3) same, but for other actions as now you have to avoid those extra areas to do other tasks.

While this might be fine for casual users as it's more visible, the proper way out is, of course,... MODES and better ones! Let the default be some more casual mode with your handles, but then let users who want more ergonomics use a keybind to allow moving the audio segment by pressing anywhere in that segment, not just in the tiny handle at the top. And then you could also add all those handles to visually indicate that now segments are movable or turn your pointer into a holding hand etc.

Same thing in the example - instead of creating a whole new separate app with a button you could have a "1-button magicbrake" mode in handbrake

aniforprez · 2 months ago

Having actually used Audacity, the modes were horrid and not at all intuitive to use and everything demonstrated in the video only looked like vast improvements (aside from the logo). I am failing to see how adding handles wastes space that could be used for any extra information especially when the tradeoff is an incredible degree of customisation for my UI. In terms of precision, they're working on accessibility issues but I'm not sure how this change is any special than any other UI.

aniforprez commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dsnr · 2 months ago

This. I was researching uv to replace my pipenv+pyenv setup, but after reading up a bit I decided to just give up. Pipenv is just straightforward and “just works”. Aside from being slow, not much is wrong with it. I’m not in the mood to start configuring uv, a tool that should take me 2 minutes and a “uv —-help” to learn.

aniforprez · 2 months ago

> Pipenv is just straightforward and “just works”

I have worked on numerous projects that started with pipenv and it has never "just works" ever. Either there's some trivial dependency conflict that it can't resolve or it's slow as molasses or something or the other. pipenv has been horrible to use. I started switching projects to pip-tools and now I recommend using uv

aniforprez commented on React vs. Backbone in 2025 backbonenotbad.hyperclay.... · Posted by u/mjsu

ricardobeat · 2 months ago

What you see as a nightmare is really straight-forward code from another perspective. It just looks very unfamiliar. Yes, it feels raw, it is verbose, it's imperative and not declarative, but the entire app lifecycle is there to see.

You can easily tell what every function is doing, including the library ones, and magical behaviour is kept to a minimum. It could be easily maintained 20 years from now, as you have a very thin layer over DOM manipulation and Backbone itself can be grasped and maintained by a single human.

One could argue that React leads to better development velocity, but from experience I can say that reality is not that simple. The initial speed boost quickly fades, instead a huge amount of time starts being allotted to maintenance, updates, workarounds, architecture and tooling as complexity compounds.

aniforprez · 2 months ago

I do not want to work with all the untyped strings and random class selectors. I'd say the code is easy enough to read but nigh on unmaintainable.

aniforprez commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

badc0ffee · 2 months ago

The alarm and the calendar can both alert you on a specific date and time. But like a bedside alarm clock, the iOS alarm is limited to a time in the next 24 hours.

On Android, why would you not use the calendar when you want to be alerted days from now?

aniforprez · 2 months ago

Because on my Android phone, the alarm accepts a date and rings only on that date

aniforprez commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

itopaloglu83 · 2 months ago

26 series operating systems are all just dumpster fires that are lit up for attention.

Since there are a lot of die hard Apple fans and engineers on hacker news this is going to get downvoted to hell, but I’m going to say it again.

It looks like Apple doesn’t care about user experience anymore, and the 26 series updates all look like they’ve been developed by amateurs online, not tested at all, and Apple engineers just took long vacations while they’re on the clock. It’s a complete and utter disaster of an operating system.

aniforprez · 2 months ago

Got a ton of pushback for talking about how buggy the OS has been. "it doesn't happen to me" all right bully for you now I have to helplessly send a bug report and live with a machine that just crashes and restarts if I dare to open the lid seconds after I closed it

aniforprez commented on Fastmail desktop app fastmail.com/blog/desktop... · Posted by u/soheilpro

bromuro · 2 months ago

I cannot stand Obsidian because I dislike its UX so much - if it were a native app i’d use it.

aniforprez · 2 months ago

There is no connection between whether an app is native or electron based and its UX so not sure why you'd bring this up. There's enough and more native apps with horrible UX and plenty of electron apps with excellent UX.