For transferring files (photos or others) from iOS, I have been using Landrop for a while and never had any issues so far, it’s also way faster than using a cable.
Another site, which includes a smaller but more professionally curated set of recordings, is Lit2Go (https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/). My children and I for example have greatly enjoyed Lorraine Montgomery’s recording of “Curly and Floppy Twistytail”, a series of delightful nonsense stories performed with gusto. (https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/183/curly-and-floppy-twistytail-t...) They’re not all aimed at children either, high quality recordings of Dracula, David Copperfield, etc
Alba, Little Kitty Big City, Lil Gator Game, Haven Park, Time on Frog Island, Little Wings Deliveries , The Kind Chamomile, Smushi Come Home, Petit Island, Luna's Fishing Garden, ...
Please add YouTube to the list. I'm watching my kids' brains slowly melt as they go from YouTube short to YouTube short like little crack addicts trying to get their next fix. Throw in a bunch of AI generated bottom of the barrel swill and I'm on the verge of blocking YouTube entirely yet again. I blocked YouTube for years because of all the garbage child targeted auto generated videos that were flooding the platform. It's very frustrating because there is a lot of good content that I would like them to continue to have easy access to, but the cost of entry is way too high.
I apologize this is not directly related to OP, but if you, like myself, get mad at all the "Suggested" posts LinkedIn is pushing on you, you can use the following ublock filter to get rid of these posts:
We're working on an "IDE for notes/tasks" [1] in the space of Notion and so on where you can easily self-host the sync backend with a single binary.
The idea is that you can choose between cloud or self-host (and "eject" at any time to switch between the two if you ever change your mind). We hope that might be a good balance between some companies or individuals wanting to self-host but still making it accessible when you don't know how any of that works, which indeed can get complicated fast.
After crowd-pooling the discernible lyrics, and a brief exchange with Ian Camfield himself (who had since relocated to the US), the search petered out.
Then one day, the artist themself just randomly uploaded the song.
Apparently they made a single debut, and then the lead singer went off to become a dentist.
It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.
I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.
Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.
Amazing to read about the Recurse Center [1]. It seems to be some kind of artist-in-residence, but for programmers.
I've spent some time in residencies as an artist, and it's amazing how much it helped me to open up new perspectives. It'd be nice if there were more of these opportunities to do nonsensical (i.e., non-commercial and non-competitive) things in science. I'm sure it's beneficial to society or at least for the lucky individuals who get accepted there.
Piggybacking to ask: I'd love to pay like a $100 to a person with disabilities to use my website for a couple of hours and shit on the experience. Has anyone ever done this? Is there a service you've used and have been happy with?
My exerience with automated tools has been less than stellar. Oh, an image has an alt tag? Congrats, it's accessible, even if that alt tag literally just says "alt tag". I also don't think "simply turn on accessibility features yourself" is a proper solution. It feels like there's a massive difference between me using such tools for the the purpose of testing one website and someone actually relying on such tools.
No HN discussion of voluntary finger amputation would be complete without mentioning that it was central to a superb science fiction short story: Richard McKenna’s "Mine Own Ways", which appeared in the 1961 "Year's Best SF" as well as in anthologies published after the author's 1964 death. To oversimplify, an interstellar anthropologist on a primitive planet discovers that the amputation ritual is crucial for the evolution of the hominids he is studying into full-fledged humanoids-- by needing to get his own finger chopped off.
If anyone finds themself thinking about this particular gruesome subject for any longer than the time it takes to scroll these comments, then McKenna's story is worth a read. The Internet Archive has a crummy OCR version.
Try Dan Vanderkam's "Effective Typescript: 62 Specific Ways to Improve YourTypeScript" (O'Reilly). I'm no TS guru, but IMHO it's pretty well-grounded in first principles.
If you're interested in this, there's a good chance you would enjoy the TidalCycles language for generating music. It's been a mind-expanding experience for me, particularly w/r/t polyrhythms.
There used to be something called the eternal jukebox I think. But you could give it a song and it would endlessly loop the audio like you have here. But it would also switch it up and change the parts it looped. And it would have a nice visualisation showing how the parts of the song connect and the different paths it takes.
I think it was https://eternalbox.dev/ since that's all I can find on Google. But that site is down.
The Image/img fiasco really pulled the covers off for vercel for me. I have migrated all my work off of the platform.
NextJS’ lint strategically dissuades you from using the img tag in favor of the NextJS Image component. If you make the mistake of heeding this advice and migrating to it, you can’t use static site generation—which means you are stuck using their hosting.
Here’s one of the most PR-shameful threads I’ve ever read in OSS:
I swear I used to be able to do this in Adobe Acrobat without a paid subscription. Now I can't. And I don't mean editing, I mean merely filling them out, too.
You know those PDFs you get everywhere, including government agencies, that are fillable? No chance anymore unless you're paying Adobe.
Google Drive won't do it, Acrobat demands tribute, Evince won't do it. (Evince is my preferred PDF app on Windows 10, primarily because it's so lightweight and mostly-compatible.)
I suppose, if I am facing the need to fill another PDF soon, I could download Firefox and see how that goes. I don't really need/use Firefox day to day anyway. I try to keep my installed app base small.
And in Europe, middle managers will earn 80-90k while senior engineers will earn 70-80k (excepting a few BigTech or Fintech companies.
As an American who much prefers life in the Netherlands to life in the US, I must admit the growing frustration at the pay difference... it's almost enough to make me go back home.
If the European companies don't wake up to this, they will gradually see a brain drain (especially if the US reverses its anti-immigration attitude).
As for TFA topic, to me most jobs are roughly the same. Only when I work for myself or directly with a small client (where I have total control over the technical decisions) is it close to "fun". Otherwise, it's usually 50% useful energy expenditure, and 50% wasted energy trying to improve systems where middle management is too content with status quo regardless of the potential profit gains from improved operations (and fewer engineers working smarter).
So honestly, unless you have your own company and (near)total control, you might as well be working for the highest bidder - excepting in industries you may have moral or ethical disagreements with.
does the macOS and iOS backup. Click buy and pretty much done. Also have my parents data backed up with family sharing, I don’t have to be family IT support!
If you have other devices… Tim Cook recommends replacing those with Apple devices /sarcasm
Only requirement not met is not having a plan that supports more than 2T.
Yes, Apple owns my life. But happy about it for now, good value.
Why didn't you stay with pcloud, again? You mentioned encryption was uncomfortable, but in the end you selected nextcloud which doesn't have reliable encryption.
> if anything happened to my trusty server, all my files would potentially be gone
This is what a good backup solution is for.
While Hetzner's product and other hosted NextCloud instances come with some protection baked in I would still strongly suggest an off-service backup rather than keeping all your eggs in one basket.
(I'm assuming here that NextCloud is being used as the primary storage, rather than a backup location for other storage, if everything else is elsewhere already then the need for an extra full backup solution is reduced)
