mdhughes

@mdhughes@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Best" Mac browser: Your view⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Safari’s fast, less crashy, highest privacy protections, and uses less memory per tab; I often have hundreds of tabs so that’s important. It also has the best inspector, much better than Firebug. Add in StopTheMadness and an adblocker (currently using Ghostery), and it’s pretty great.

  Degoogled Chromium is useful for sites that don’t work in Safari, or as a sandbox I don’t mind crashing in development.

  I’ve given up on Firefox, it’s too fat and bloated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To buy no longer means anything :(⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I play a lot of MineTest, using the Asuna “game” (big modpack) and a huge custom set of mods, and have a game that’s like MineCraft but utterly different. Others play the MineClone2 game, and it’s fine, like MC 1.12 + some stuff. Repixture is an adorable mini-minecraft-like. There’s a lot of people who use it more as creative, and many servers with various games.

  It’s definitely a little harder to set up the specific thing you want, but it’s incredible how much variety there is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very interested in the “floating giant 4K screens” part, especially paired with a tiny MacBook Air, and some other uses seem fun. Real uses of AR passthru can be amazing, tagging everything around you with information. At $3500, it’s half the price of a single XDR display.

  But I’m waiting for gen 2 or later, there’s no way the current weight & battery life are usable for my needs. It’s a dev kit right now, and while I’m an iOS dev sometimes, it’s too small a market to be profitable for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most important goal in designing software is understandability⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clearly secondary to correctness: A program that is well-written but doesn’t work right is worthless. Many hairy balls of mud have shipped to great acclaim.

  Human readability & comprehension is nice for maintenance, but you don’t get to maintain something that never worked right to begin with.

  … Of course, Windows is existence proof that you can be successful with neither.