I've been working part-time for two years, works great for me! It's not easy to negotiate—and not with every company—but feasible.

Just discovered https://posseparty.com/ to ease your cross-posting.

You can: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/make-scroll-bars-always-vis...

This makes them always visble. But you still need eagle eyes and motor skills of a high end athlete to actually click on the darn thing. Fitts law? Actual usability?

I've ditched RSS feeds more than 10 years ago but I'm increasingly wanting to go back to them. Thank you for sharing this blog post, it'll help to get me started.

The best thing about modern RSS is that you can retire entire accounts.

I don't have YouTube or Twitter accounts, I use RSS to subscribe to channels/users/tags.

This is the key imho, adapting stuff to yourself / your needs, when and where the GloboHomoCorp allows you to.

E.g. I don't use Twitter directly due to toxicity and overwhelmingness of the central feed (thank you Nikita), and due to, for me, the biggest issue - how shit it is for reading / following individual user feeds - when you find someone who's really interesting, and you don't want to miss posts.

So I use nitter and bookmark each person's profile I find interesting and I have that in a separate folder. Then at my pace, daily or weekly I read through people's posts and can really keep up like God intended me to.

At first it was less engaging than just having Twitter (as it's less adictive), and I've paced from deleting / using actual Twitter back and forth, but due to recent changes and events I've actually come to a place where through my bookmarks I discover new profiles / people / interests / niches at an organic pace that I can only compare to how I've used to use RSS or web in the older times. It's quite cool.

I prefer FreeTube for YouTube since it maintains the good parts of YouTube's interface while giving you something to point a backup program at. At least, when it works. There's currently a major blocking bug the devs are aware of.

Shhh - they'll hear you!

Surely it will be deleted as soon as some manager remembers it exists.

The day YouTube removes RSS feeds is the day I stop watching entirely.

I didn't know who he is and still found this blog post really interesting because the real topic is about marketing your app when you're a software developer.

it read to me more as a marketing piece itself than as a piece about marketing.

Then it's the worst marketing piece because there's not an even single link to the app.

You might not appreciate the topic, but this is definitely not an ad, just honest learning and sharing about a difficult part of the entrepreneur job.

Unfortunately it's not possible to add custom query parameters

I definitely recommend you to read A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Broton. It's very interesting and you learn a lot about our world and its history.

I've never seen this topic so well explained, thank you for sharing!

From just scanning through the article quickly, I don't see there the mantissa similarly easily explained, but there is a very intuitive way to think of it. Because the mantissa (like everything else) is encoded in binary, the first explicit (because there's implicit 1. at the beginning) digit of it means either 0/2 or 1/2 (just like in decimal the first digit after the dot means either 0/10 or 1/10 or 2/10...), the next digit is (0/2² = 0/4) or 1/4, third digit is 0/8 or 1/8 etc. You can visualize this by starting at the beginning of the "window", and then you divide the window into 2 halves: now the first digit of the mantissa tells you if you stay at the beginning of the first half, or move to the beginning of the 2nd half. Now whatever half you picked, you divide it into 2 halves again, and use the next bit of mantissa to tell you if you should advance to the next half. So you just keep subdividing, and so the more bits in the mantissa you have, the more you can subdivide the window, and if the exponent (after applying bias) is equal exactly the number of explicit bits in the mantissa, the smallest subdivision cell has length equal exactly 1. Incrementing exponent by 1 will now double the window size, and without additional subdivision each cell has length equal exactly 2 meaning each next float number now increments by 2.

(keep in mind there is a subnormal range where there's implicit 0. at the beginning of the mantissa instead)

To reiterate, increasing the exponent by 1 doubles the window size, so the exponent describes how many times the window size was doubled while the number of bits of mantissa describes how many times you can do the reverse and "half" it, hence the exponent to mantissa bits relation.

I've been searching for dumb phones these last weeks to avoid using my phone too much. But it comes with issues:

- my bank requires a smartphone

- whatsapp desktop requires a smartphone too

This smartphone could be an alternative: no videos, you can still use third party applications, perfect for reading.

Thank you for sharing!

Have you tried turning off all notifications on your existing phone?

From the original article: "I feel like the vibration on the phone is a tad aggressive. Not every vibration is, though—Facebook Messenger notifications feel like the right level. ".

It looks like the article author makes the same mistake. Changed the device but kept the notifications on.

Notifications aren't the culprit, they're already really limited on my phone.

I also appreciate the fact that I could use a simpler phone that really fits the original need: staying in contact, instead of doom-scrolling.

No one thing is the culprit, but notifications are one of the biggest. Surely Android has similar capabilities, but on iPhone "Reduce Notifications" (uses AI to silence unimportant/time-insensitive notifications) and Focus Modes in general are a great way to manage distraction.

No, the idea is to turn them all off and make phone checking a conscious act instead of notification induced.

Whoever needs you now can call on voice.

What makes that difficult is when you have a legitimate case for time-sensitive notifications and the app owner mixes in marketing spam with no way to disable them. It's either accept marketing spam OR lose a valuable notification. Looking at you, LG.

I leave notifications on because o only use them for things I need to be notified about. Largely, medical stuff.

Right. I also need 1Password, full access to docs and notes while traveling, and the list starts to go on.

Ultimately, technologists with cash to burn buying limited devices doesn’t actually address the big problem. What we really want is for mainstream devices to be less frenetic.

  > whatsapp desktop requires a smartphone too

Just so you know, I don't use WhatsApp and find that today, everyone knows Telegram and many already have it installed. Moving to Telegram is completely feasible.

The Telegram desktop app does not require an active smartphone.

not in Europe - everybody uses WA here, work group chats, friends, parents, etc. My dad sometimes uses iMessage because he can’t see the difference between the icons but apart from that you’d get strange looks if you mentioned Telegram/Signal etc

Depends on where in Europe :)

Some parts use Telegram by and large.

I totally agree with you, but asking my friends to move to Telegram isn't easy. And multiplying the channels is a complex thing. Nowadays I have iMessage, Messenger, WhatsApp—I deliberately omit Slack and Discord—and sometimes I wonder "where is the discussion with friend X?"

The WhatsApp thing can be worked around now. If you have one compliant device logged into WhatsApp as the main device, you can access that account and messages from any other device, including smartphones. I have a WhatsApp device that just stays at home.

But you need two devices, and this seems overkill. Without this limitation you could have only one phone.

On Whatsapp web you can now log in with your phone number via a 2fac text, no camera required.

That's good to know, but you still need a smartphone to handle the connection. Having a dumb phone wouldn't work, if I properly understand how this works.

You are allowed to have more than one phone.

You're right, but I don't appreciate to be enforced to.

Who is forcing you to do anything? You can do what you please.

If I want a dumb phone for my daily needs, I have to keep a smartphone at home to stay in contact with my friends that are using Whatsapp. I don't really feel free here.

Since Whatsapp isn't a public utility, the people who designed it are free to make it for a certain type of device, with a so-called smart screen. That you feel oppressed because they didn't cater to your very specific need to have it work on a button phone is pretty weird. "feeling free" isn't about having any random whimsy catered to. It requires realistic adjustment to the world of others and their efforts.

Reminds me of Desktop Destroyer! https://www.gamenora.com/game/desktop-destroyer/

Yes, I remember using it, call for my dad while I was hiding in my room, he could see that I broke my monitor. :D

I thought of this the instant I saw the OP, I remember being in school and causing chaos with this, great memories.

Wow I just had a faint memory of this the other week! In particular, one of the stamps is a rabbit that I had the faintest memory of. Just did some digging and turns out it was from here: http://www.gemtree.com/

There's a Mac version too! https://simonbs.gumroad.com/l/smashsmash

I remember that. Someone hid the exe deep in my highschool's shared drive and renamed it "anti_stress.exe".

Oh wow that brings back memories. I remember playing with this back in my middle school days