FiniteLooper

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I'm very interested in DarkTable, but I have years on photography in Adobe Lightroom. I'm growing tired of LightRoom, but I feel like I'm now locked into that ecosystem. Is there some kind of migration to move my LightRoom edits out of there and into something like DarkTable?

FiniteLooper

2 anni fadiscuss

The ONLY Apple AI feature that was even remotely interesting to me was the photo clean up. Works pretty good for removing objects from a photo, which would be hard to do on a phone otherwise without opening in another app or messing with it on a desktop application

FiniteLooper

2 anni fadiscuss

I've still got a 55" Sony HDTV from around 2008. Zero network or smart features at all. Just a way to display images from another box. It's been so good and still is. I kind of of want to upgrade to something larger and in 4K, but every time I see an article like this I remember what is actually available in the market I feel like I'd rather just save my money and keep what I have that works how I like it

FiniteLooper

2 anni fadiscuss

Ah yes, remember Silverlight?

FiniteLooper

3 anni fadiscuss

Also possibly finding similar colors that could be combined in rules instead of repeated separately.

`.a{color: #FFFFFF;} .b{color:FFFFFE;}` ==> `.a,.b{color:#FFF;}`

FiniteLooper

3 anni fadiscuss

coo coo ca choo

FiniteLooper

3 anni fadiscuss

I want to show you how ridiculous some of your questions are. Looks at the reactions I am getting for it on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@FiniteLooper/111337064492245231

What in the world are you trying to learn from applicants with these questions? How can a hiring manager look at a screenshot of someone's computer and make a decision to proceed or not?

FiniteLooper

3 anni fadiscuss

I love this, but could you imagine if this were something done today? In the current political climate and news cycles it would be "look at how the stupid {{political_party}} is wasting your tax dollars!" or probably every worse/dumber things than that.

FiniteLooper

3 anni fadiscuss

Oh man I am trying to apply but the application has so many odd questions I have never seen on any job application before:

- "What are the most important things that shaped your personality and world-view?"

- "What are your prospects, dreams, or expectations, career-wise?"

- "Upload a screenshot of your desktop"

- "Explain the organization of your desktop"

The questions related to needing a photo of my desktop are for sure going into my collection of strange job application & recruiter interactions: https://github.com/finitelooper/recruiting-hell

FiniteLooper

4 anni fadiscuss

Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Way back in middle school a friend and I started a web page business... In which we made a webpage for exactly one local company.

I assume Dreamweaver still exists as an Adobe product now? I haven't thought about it in years.

FiniteLooper

4 anni fadiscuss

I was also once dissed by Steve Jobs at a keynote!

Back when widgets first came out for OS X I was in college and was beginning to learn programming. I was sill very bad, but these widgets interested me because they were essentially just little HTML/CSS/JS webpages. I looked around and saw there was no widget for CNN news.

CNN had RSS feeds of their news, I found some other widget that displayed an RSS feed and basically just plugged this new data source in and it worked! Next I just restyled it to look like it the CNN website which at the time was light blue and pretty ugly, but I made this widget to match.

I released it, and it got some downloads! Months later at the WWDC keynote, I was watching live and I saw Steve sit down at the demo computer and show off some widgets on the big screen. The CNN widget I made was there on screen at the keynote! I didn't believe it at first, I was in shock. Next though, when he showed my widget his only comment was that "it's not as nice looking as [some other news widget] but it gets the job done."

Ouch! Not only was Steve Jobs personally aware of a piece of software I (kind of) wrote but he demoed it at WWDC! But he also said it looked pretty bad... And he was right, it did.

Shortly after this I restyled the widget to look nice on its own, regardless of what the CNN website actually looked like. While this stung, it was a good design lesson to learn. Thanks Steve!

FiniteLooper

7 anni fadiscuss

Literally just finished a huge re-write of an angular 4 app to latest Angualr 7 today, to revise the UI and improve everything. As I was about to merge it in I see this... time to upgrade!

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