I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.
Readit Newscreinhardt commented on Pebble Production: February Update repebble.com/blog/februar... · Posted by u/smig0
creinhardt commented on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/mooreds
> I think, is if there was some "inverse syndication"
Or just a clearinghouse model. I buy a "news pass" loaded with some amount of credits. When I go to a site I can choose to use these credits to read full articles. Perhaps just having the pass gives me a longer preview than non pass holders.
> grip on the music industry
It's the other way around unfortunately.
Isn’t this basically Apple News? It would be great if you could select your local news source, and it funneled part of your subscription their way.
creinhardt commented on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/mooreds
I was pondering this earlier today while manually prepending archive.is to a pay walled link on my Android phone for the umpteenth time today.
The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so much better than this.
The odds of me paying for a subscription for some tiny local newspaper on the other side of the country are literally nil, but I'd be far more willing toss you a penny or two to read the content of a single article.
Having worked in this space from the publisher side for a bit, I can tell you that many paywall vendors tried the micro transaction approach, and the friction level was just too high for it to ever catch on at the scale needed to sustain a business. Definitely too much for a local newspaper or tv station site, the juice was never worth the squeeze.
That's a wide range, isn't it?
Yeah, you could also say "Most men die between 30 and 90".
One of the two entities completely controls the plugin ecosystem and wielded that control against the other entity (the largest WordPress host except, possibly, Automattic itself) to block them and all of their customers out of the ecosystem over this dispute.
That's why this matters to average developers. WordPress is the plugin ecosystem, and messing around with it does as much damage to the WordPress ecosystem as left pad did to npm—it's not unrecoverable, but it's a major setback that could quickly become unrecoverable.
Is WPEngine actually the biggest Wordpress host? I'd have bet that GoDaddy had more, or maybe even BlueHost/HostGator/EIG.
creinhardt commented on WP Engine is not WordPress wordpress.org/news/2024/0... · Posted by u/pentagrama
A more accurate and even more confusing statement would be “Wordpress is not Wordpress” which is a reality that I’ve had to explain to clients (in a former life) countless times.
“But when I go to Wordpress.com…”
SORRY, forget everything you saw there, that’s not Wordpress. Same logo? Yes. Branding? Yes. Company? Yes. But it’s not Wordpress.
This one setting that WP Engine disables is a shame, but it’s nothing compared to the confusion that Automattic has brought upon themselves
I maintain that the Wordpress.com confusion has done more harm than good for Wordpress as a platform over the years. I really wish Automattic had chosen any other branding.
creinhardt commented on 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous abortretry.fail/p/so-powe... · Posted by u/BirAdam
I remember getting my first Voodoo card. After playing games, I couldn't stand software rendering anymore. Purchased a Voodoo 2 when they came out. Reminds me of Unreal, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Thief, Mechwarrior 2 - so many fun older games! My next card was a nvidia tnt2. I've owned nvidia cards ever since.
Dang, hadn't thought about Shogo since playing a demo a loooong time ago. Thanks for triggering a good memory!
creinhardt commented on Netlify CMS to Become Decap CMS netlify.com/blog/netlify-... · Posted by u/mfsch
I’ve always liked the idea of Netlify CMS, to have some (statically deployed) JS that talks directly to GitHub/GitLab and provides a clean interface to edit the content that’s stored in Markdown files. There are many sites that don’t need much CMS functionality but for which you’d still like to provide a way for someone non-technical to update some content. Being able to do that while keeping all code and data in a single repository is pretty neat.
However, I’ve been hesitant to use Netlify CMS in any project because it appeared to be mostly abandoned for a long time now [1]. It remains to be seen whether “PM” will be able to revive the project as they are planning to [2]. An earlier fork [3] seems more promising to me at the moment.
[1]: https://answers.netlify.com/t/is-this-project-dead/70988 [2]: https://techhub.p-m.si/insights/introducing-decap-cms/ [3]: https://www.staticcms.org/
I'm glad it's not completely dead too! It'll be interesting to see if Static JS CMS continues to gain steam, or if folks continue with Decap.
I've always found the rush to the headless CMS to be a bit baffling, and strongly developer focused while forgetting most users. How are folks actually writing the content, are they just writing markdown by hand? I understand decoupling management of content from presentation, but the lack of options for editing was always confusing to me. Glad that now we'll have at least two good fully open source options.
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https://repebble.com/watch says the Pebble Time 2 has
> Heart rate, step and sleep tracking
Isn't that what you want?
I guess the one other feature I like of the Apple Watch is the rings/daily fitness goals functionality. I'll have to look into the Pebble more to see if that's possible. I also like the background monitoring features the Watch has (hypertension, etc.), but I'm assuming that's a little too much for the Pebble.