Ken Kocienda's book Creative Selection mentions Eazel several times. Ken worked there with Don Melton, who founded the Safari web browser for Apple. After Eazel failed, Apple organized a job fair for Eazel employees.
I also prototyped a macOS app to get a federated feed for multiple Telegram channels: https://github.com/agentcooper/aqueduct. Still wish someone would do it properly.
Hey! Thanks a lot for Telik. I installed it a year ago to keep a local list of the channels I follow since I didn’t want to self-host a full server-based YouTube solution or download all the videos. Sadly, some channels have been closed by their authors, but I was able to identify which ones because the initial list I imported into Telik was still querying them. Great project!
I wonder if you can get better performance than the built-in browser engine for certain complex layouts by first calculating the layout using Clay and then absolutely positioning the elements with HTML/CSS.
There was some news feed web app that used <canvas /> for better scrolling performance.
if you can guarantee that layouts don't change during interactions, i guess it _might_ save some time for the browser (and thus battery, for low power devices).
If layouts change during interaction (e.g., orientation swap), then you will have a roundtrip to the server to recalculate. I assume this would cost more time than letting the browser css engine do their thing.
I wonder if this would be more efficient than the browser's impl. But i guess if clay does less complex layouts (but which is still sufficient for applications) than css, it might be faster than the browser's own.
Somewhat related: Steve Job's 1983 talk at Aspen design conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Q7gXwavUU) where he argues that all good designers are now busy with automobiles and buildings and no one is looking at personal computers.
> The Dutch DPA started the investigation on Uber after more than 170 French drivers complained to the French human rights interest group the Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), which subsequently submitted a complaint to the French DPA.
I wonder on what the initial suspicion from the drivers was based.
Many years ago I was involved with a US organization, and then happily forgot about it. Almost 15 years later they started spamming me with emails coming from their head office in Washington.
I asked them to stop. They didn't. I threatened legal action under GDPR and requested deletion, also under GDPR. They said they complied. A year later they started spamming me again. From the same address.
That's how I knew that they never deleted my info and kept it in the US.
Even worse when you move between countries and suddenly "Uber Country X" uses your account of "Country Y" to spam notify you about promotions in X. It's weird in a bad way
I've visited us not long ago and took a uber (i had uber on my phone since 2019, when i used it before). They started aggressively spamming notifications to my phone and uber eats this and uber that. in the end, i was still going to use the service that was the cheapest
I was tired of YouTube website UI, so I created a simple macOS app to track YouTube channels and playlists. It is called Telik and available both as open source and for a small fee in Mac App Store.
