But that's just social media in general. Doesn't mean it can't be valuable.
> Twitter didn't really grow from being a solution to anything - it grew from being unique at the dawn of social media. So it is kind of its own thing.
This doesn't mean that something better can't be made. Lots of people clearly don't want to support X anymore, whether for political reasons or for UX reasons. I don't see why "a better Twitter" is somehow not possible because it wouldn't "solve a problem". Why can't the "problem" be that X sucks ass but there isn't a good alternative?
The question you are missing is why an alternative is needed in the first place? Fine, X sucks. Many of us can agree on that. But what problem is it solving that would force a a replacement to be created if it simply did not exist?
I'm not saying it has no value, nor denying that people find uses for it. I'm saying that without an external problem being solved, building a competitor doesn't answer the original question of... why does this need to exist at all?
Works better how? Mastodon is really frustrating for non-tech people to use. I personally have found it difficult to use, but to be fair, I haven't spent a lot of time with it.
Most instances run no ads, for one. I dislike advertisement so it's really nice, at least in my opinion. Most of the tech-oriented people I follow are there, the major publications have a pretty good presence, and there's pretty much zero inter-instance hostility. You can just follow people from anywhere and enjoy one nice aggregated timeline. Twitter's algo is a sloppy mess in comparison, at least to me.
I'm no expert but this seems like a pretty good crash course to me. One thing I still tend to use a lot when fiddling with cron jobs is crontab guru [1], which is very helpful for figuring out scheduling.
Another great resource, especially when you have a lot of cron jobs, is https://cronheatmap.com which shows an hour-by-minute grid of one day, and how hot each of those minutes is for your given cron schedules.
This article has virtually nothing to do with implicit vs explicit code. The examples are just poorly written and poorly documented code. And even the "improvements" aren't that great. Why does `grantAccess` return permissions the user role already has?
Wonderful. Differential equations were my favorite subject in school. Unfortunately the chaos theory class was only offered every other spring and I missed out on it.
As a heads up: the "Preset" button label seems to be a typo -- it appears to "Reset" the animation.
A way to copy the parameters would be nice (even just allowing text highlight).
Cheers.
PS -- I stumbled across a very nice Thomas solution {b: 0.2, x_0 = 1.1, y_0 = 1.1, z_0 = -0.01}
I'd love a last step in the test where you're presented with the gradient, but before showing the distribution and the user's score. Allow the user to select where they consider their threshold, then display the final results.
A sorting interface would be another neat step! And yeah, I think most would gravitate toward the middle. Seeing how "far off" you are would be fun :)
Ooh maybe have the user slide a gradient left and right inside a window, aligning the center of the window with where they think the line is between blue and green (i.e., instruct the user to fill the window with equal amounts of green and blue).
It tells me to rotate my device, implying it should work on my phone, but I can't figure out how to move the colors. Holding and sliding doesn't work. Tapping doesn't seem to do anything.
Brilliant bit of design. Even before the symbols were explained, you could immediately tell what they meant just looking at the b-roll at the beginning of the video -- that, to me, is a testament to just how well these crossing aids were thought out.
As an aside, I love that they call them "refuge islands" (a place to take refuge from the danger and chaos of motorized traffic), in contrast to what I hear in the US: "medians".
I wonder what we'd see if you could only check boxes that are adjacent to already checked boxes (you'd obviously need to seed the array with some "anchors"). How long would it take for people to clear it?
