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dkryptr commented on What UI density means and how to design for it matthewstrom.com/writing/... · Posted by u/delaugust

pants2 · 2 years ago

This explains exactly why physical restaurant menus are so much better vs mobile site menus. If I'm viewing the menu of a restaurant on my phone, I always look in Google Maps for someone who took a picture of the menu, because it's a dense UI. Every "mobile friendly" menu site is able to show maybe 5 items on the page at once, so it takes many pages of scrolling to see everything.

dkryptr · 2 years ago

Even if you have the full menu on your phone, you still have to zoom into the menu to read it and pan the view. I don't see how that's any different from scrolling through a categorized menu in a website on your phone.

dkryptr commented on Greg Brockman quits OpenAI twitter.com/gdb/status/17... · Posted by u/nickrubin

Sebb767 · 2 years ago

It's usual in chats, not for formal writing like officially announcing your resignation. At least that's my impression.

dkryptr · 2 years ago

To be fair, that's not a very formal resignation. He just... quit.

dkryptr commented on Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async rocket.rs/v0.5/news/2023-... · Posted by u/sbenitez

ufmace · 2 years ago

Very cool to see this finally go out, and especially the new Foundation. I have to wonder though if it's too late though. I gave up waiting for a new Rocket release years ago and have been doing what Rust web work I've been doing on Axum instead - the integration with Tower is very nice.

dkryptr · 2 years ago

Agreed. When I first considered porting small APIs over to Rust, Rocket appeared to be the most popular besides Actix. Axum hadn't even came out (it came out a month later and we ended up using it even though it was in its infancy). It's pretty unfortunate because Rocket could be amazing but the lack of updates killed it. See you guys in 5 years when v0.6 comes out.

dkryptr commented on Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async rocket.rs/v0.5/news/2023-... · Posted by u/sbenitez

dkryptr · 2 years ago

I feel kind of bad saying this, but too little too late in my opinion.

dkryptr commented on Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool taiga.io/... · Posted by u/gjvc

quesera · 3 years ago

My team tested Taiga on a small project. It did not work for us, with a half dozen users of mixed sophistication. Those of us who know our way around these kinds of tools could make it work, but also felt the problems that newer users could not resolve.

- The "Save" icon is tiny and hard to find in some layouts (right hand gutter, near the top and far away from your linear text entry flow). It's a floppy disk! Navigating away does not warn you that you have unsaved edits.

- Issues can be converted to Stories after review. Great. But there is no indication that the Issue has been converted, and reporters can continue to edit Issues, and the changes are not synced to the new Story item. This was very confusing for some people, and created way more friction than could be reasoned away.

- Information density was OK with a small quantity of items/comments/etc, but too sparse for a confident view with large quantities.

We moved this project over to test GitHub Projects, which is an improvement but also lacking in some important (different) areas.

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All of these tools have always sucked on some or several dimensions. It's probably impossible to not suck.

JIRA can be made to work, though I will never do so again.

Pivotal Tracker is solid but overwhelming for reporters/casual users, and requires custom code to integrate with GitHub (but API is decent).

Sometimes I miss Trac and Redmine, if only because anything that bothered me enough could be fixed in our self-hosted instance.

dkryptr · 3 years ago

https://linear.app is nice. I haven't used it with a large group but for some personal projects and it works nicely.

dkryptr commented on Tailwind CSS v3.2 – Introducing Container Queries, Multiple Configs and More tailwindcss.com/blog/tail... · Posted by u/joshmanders

collyw · 3 years ago

I haven't used Tailwind, but from what I have seen it looks just like the old school way of writing inline CSS. But then it extracts it to a css file, no? Except that I read that it's great for writing, but a nightmare for reading. So just the same as inline CSS.

Would be interested to hear some opinions from people who have used it.

dkryptr · 3 years ago

> Except that I read that it's great for writing, but a nightmare for reading.

This is true at first. I can see it being pretty daunting to come into an existing project and trying to understand the styling of components. Starting from scratch and easing it into an existing project is much easier imo. That's what I did for a personal website. Now that I understand it and have converted the entire website to Tailwind, I don't want to switch to anything else going forward.

Here's a Prettier plugin that sort the classes to keep everything consistent across components: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss

Tailwind combined with classnames (https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames) makes it really easy to have conditional styling based on component state.

dkryptr commented on Next steps for Rust in the kernel lwn.net/SubscriberLink/90... · Posted by u/TheGuyWhoCodes

keehun · 3 years ago

Does anyone have good resources to learning rust? I have a fairly good working knowledge of C, C++, and Swift.

I understand there's the Rust Book, Rustlings, and Rust By Example at https://www.rust-lang.org/learn. Are there other good resources? Does anyone have a strong suggestion on which of those official resources I should start with?

dkryptr · 3 years ago

I started with the book to learn the fundamentals. I didn't get very far before I decided to rewrite an existing API I had in Python into Rust.

It definitely took some time and learning but now I have 6 Rust API microservices, a few scheduled/queue-reading services, and a shared library for common models/utils/providers.

dkryptr commented on Using Windows after 15 years on Linux duncanlock.net/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/dflock

kissgyorgy · 4 years ago

If you are coming from a Linux background, you should use WSL 2 instead of PowerShell. Using the Windows SSH client? Hell no! I install everything (even Docker) inside WSL, the only thing I have outside is VS Code, but all the extensions are also installed inside WSL, and I only have WSL window open all the time, keeping all my files inside the WSL filesystem. Much more convenient and less learning of Windows things.

dkryptr · 4 years ago

This is the way. (my setup is 1:1 it sounds like)

dkryptr commented on The Uselessness of Phenylephrine science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/hprotagonist

floren · 4 years ago

The "PE" stands for "placebo, essentially"

dkryptr · 4 years ago

That's essentially the selling point behind Zicam and other homeopathic drugs.

dkryptr commented on Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server cprimozic.net/blog/my-sel... · Posted by u/mattrighetti

2bluesc · 4 years ago

Traefik Proxy[0] was a game changer for my self-hosted setup of Docker containers.

Traefik can read labels applied to Docker containers (easily done with docker-compose) and setup the proxy for you as containers come and go. Even maintains the Lets Encrypt certificates seamlessly.

[0] https://traefik.io/traefik/

dkryptr · 4 years ago

Traefik is great, but their documentation is awful IMO. I moved to Caddy which I prefer currently.