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psygn89 commented on Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files boingboing.net/2026/01/05... · Posted by u/mikecarlton

jwnin · a month ago

I use OneDrive at work for all of my documents and have never encountered the horror stories I frequently read. I read these stories often enough where I believe there genuinely is a problem. But I do wonder why there is a difference for some and not others. Perhaps I've conditioned myself to live with its faults?

I will say that the Microsoft Office OneDrive save experience is completely subpar. It behaves completely separate & unlike Windows Explorer and is just unpleasant to work with.

psygn89 · a month ago

I didn't have a problem until I migrated to another Mac. Then I started having duplicate files. I think I fixed it by logging out of everything and deleting the duplicates but it was a couple hours wasted. Didn't have this problem with Dropbox in my career.

psygn89 commented on Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants josezarazua.com/im-a-form... · Posted by u/kevin061

stavros · 2 months ago

For anyone who missed the (poorly-explained) trick, the website uses a CSS trick to insert an equals sign, thus showing different code if read or if copied/pasted. That's how the author knows whether you solved it in your head or pasted it somewhere.

psygn89 · 2 months ago

Thanks, I was wondering how in the hell that many would get the answer wrong and what is this hidden equal sign he was talking about.

Maybe the question could be flipped on its head to filter further with "50% of applicants get this question wrong -- why?" to where someone more inquisitive like you might inspect it, but that's probably more of a frontend question.

psygn89 commented on An SVG is all you need jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/sadiq

sturbes · 2 months ago

I just went down the same rabbit hole, it is totally fun! https://turbek.com/Designing-Interactive-SVGs-with-AI/

TLDR:

- SVG image files: powerful like HTML

- Supported widely in browsers

- Designer tools make SVGs

- SVGs are written in a language

- LLMs are great at manipulating language

- Designers can collaborate interaction into life

psygn89 · 2 months ago

I don't think LLM's are that great at manipulating SVG unless you mean like small edits like rotation and font size. Cool article though, I'll have to think how I can leverage it.

psygn89 commented on Deprecate like you mean it entropicthoughts.com/depr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

HarHarVeryFunny · 2 months ago

Having a deprecated API just randomly return failures is an awful idea!

Better to give an actual timeline (future version & date) for when deprecated functionality / functions will be removed, and in the meantime, if the language supports it, mark those functions as deprecated (e.g. C++ [[deprecated]] attribute) so that developers see compilation warnings if they failed to read the release notes.

psygn89 · 2 months ago

Yep. I'll admit I've acted faster to hard set dates than some "in the future" message. I've also seen some tools become really noisy about deprecation spanning many lines AND repeating. Please don't log the same message over and over for each instance. Color or add emoji if you must to grab attention, but once is enough. It's annoying when you can't do anything about it at that time and have to sift through this extra noise when hunting down another issue in the CI log. Add a link that goes over it in more detail and how to migrate for that specific deprecation.

psygn89 commented on Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta cnbc.com/2025/12/03/liqui... · Posted by u/Noaidi

psygn89 · 2 months ago

Hopefully the end of liquid [gl]ass.

psygn89 commented on New layouts with CSS Subgrid joshwcomeau.com/css/subgr... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau

taftster · 3 months ago

So is Grid supposed to be what we should use to replace the html <table> element? That I still use to this day for layouts because CSS still sucks to me?

psygn89 · 3 months ago

Use <table> for tabular data, but for layout you should use grid. Grid doesn't have it's own element like table does, so you have to use css to apply that display to a div.

CSS takes a bit of time to understand. It's cascading nature and how certain properties behave differently based on the html structure or display type or direction makes it tricky. I don't blame you sticking with tables for layouts for yourself - making layouts with floats was a pain. Bootstrap hid a lot of the layout pain. But today we have flex and grid to help us realize our layouts.

psygn89 commented on New layouts with CSS Subgrid joshwcomeau.com/css/subgr... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau

SquareWheel · 3 months ago

They're complimentary. As a general (though not exclusive) rule, consider flex for one-dimensional layouts, and grids for two-dimensional layouts.

psygn89 · 3 months ago

Yeah, to expand on that... Flex is, well, flexible, whereas Grid is more rigid like a table. The rigidity of Grid allows you to span rows and columns (2D) just like you can with table cells (colspan/rowspan). Grid is usually used at a macro level for its more deterministic layout (no unintuitive flex quirks), while flex is usually used to lay things out at a component level where you don't care that the next row of items isn't perfectly aligned with the ones above (you will often see it hold some buttons or badges, or vertically align text to an icon), and Grid setting the layout of the app and container components (modals, cards, etc).

psygn89 commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

sd9 · 3 months ago

It's crazy how good these models are at text now. Remember when text was literally impossible? Now the models can diagetically render any text. It's so good now that it seems like a weird blip that it _wasn't_ possible before.

Not to mention all the other stuff.

psygn89 · 3 months ago

I agree, it's improving by leaps. I'm still patiently awaiting for my niche use of creating new icons though, one that can match the existing curvature, weight, spacing, and balance. It seems AI is struggling in the overlap of visuals <-> code, or perhaps there's less business incentive to train on that front. I know the pelican on bicycle svg is getting better, but still really rough looking and hard to modify with prompt versus just spending some time upfront to do it yourself in an editor.