Aaron Parecki

jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Yeah, but then you tie yourself to one chair in that house. :-)

nah I just set up Sidecar to mirror the display to an iPad, then use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse!

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Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad

Watching adults argue over cell phones is like watching 5 year olds playing the one up game.

“I got you!”
“Nuh uh I’ve got a magic shield!”
“My laser goes through magic shields!”

Then a third kid.

“I don’t even want to play” (even though they keep taking about it)

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Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Apr 18
maybe I should just say screw it and get a $10,000 Mac Pro since I'm apparently never leaving this house again

and when I do get back on the road I can remote desktop into it from an iPad or something right? just means no offline development

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 1:34pm -07:00
maybe I should just say screw it and get a $10,000 Mac Pro since I'm apparently never leaving this house again

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Not Fake Adam Kalsey https://twitter.com/akalsey • Apr 18
Their regular laptops are getting so thin and light, they probably don’t see a large market size for an ultra book now.

But my favorite computer ever was my 11” Air.

Sometimes I use my iPad mini and keyboard for similar effect.

The 11" Air was also my favorite! Tho this 12" is actually smaller form factor but has a larger screen so it's nice. I just wish it was a liiiitle faster, even if it had to be a little thicker.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 1:13pm -07:00
alexlindsay https://twitter.com/alexlindsay

I think network crews are purposefully downgrading the “at home experience” because they are afraid we might get used it and like it more. I know how easy it would be to double the quality.

I vastly prefer the home coverage over the overproduced shiny versions we used to see.

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jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
I’m going to ask my colleagues. We do mostly golang, React & Ember. That fit your profile?

For me it's: PHP, nginx (custom-compiled), MySQL (MariaDB), Redis, Ruby (multiple versions), Node, in that order.

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Artur Paikin https://twitter.com/arturi • Apr 18
Trying Surface Go for this reason. Installed Ubuntu. It works, but not great. Windows 10 is good enough, if you can set your dev env there.

Interesting. I do have a Windows laptop that I use for photo and video editing already, I really don't think I can move my dev environment there though.

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Dr. Matt Lee 🏡 https://twitter.com/mattl • Apr 18
I’d be surprised if they didn’t have some popular things on day 1.

Problem is I need the unpopular things, mainly a web development stack

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Isaac Rabinovitch https://twitter.com/isaac32767 • Apr 18
I'm bemused by the thought that a 3yo computer is "starting to show its age." I have a 2009 Mac Pro, which I only began to consider dated when Apple replaced OpenGL with Metal, which my system doesn't support.

It's probably because it was not a high-end machine when I got it, plus getting it into this form factor means cutting a lot of corners on the architecture internally. When you have infinite space and no power limits you can definitely build a machine that'll last 7-10 years.

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jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Could you do what you need to on an iPad with a keyboard?

You might also consider going Linux. Most of the engineers I work with have done that

but also are there actually any small linux laptops? smaller than a 13" pro

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jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Could you do what you need to on an iPad with a keyboard?

You might also consider going Linux. Most of the engineers I work with have done that

oof. I guess since I've already moved my Photoshop and video editing workflow to a Windows laptop, all I really need out of this smaller one is a good web dev environment, so maybe? I'll miss iMessage and Fantastical though.

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Dr. Matt Lee 🏡 https://twitter.com/mattl • Apr 18
They will. ARM based Mac laptops will come in 12 and 14 inch models I’m sure.

Even if those come out later this year, I feel like it'll be at least a couple more years before the software support for things works well on ARM.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:18am -07:00
My 2017 12" MacBook is starting to show its age, but I hate that there is nothing to replace it right now. There's no reason to get a MacBook Air since it's the same form factor as the 13" Pro. But it seems unlikely they're going to release a small computer again at this point.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:13am -07:00 #apple #macbook
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Apr 18
Yeah I still don’t buy it’s a processor thing.

Ok you're right, at least on the TV 4K, because Plex can play VP9 videos on it. They must have bundled a software decoder into Plex to do that without hardware acceleration.

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📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Apr 18
Great article. Too bad it doesn’t say WHEN. Arghgh

It's Apple, nobody knows when 🤷‍♂️

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Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron • Apr 18
@aaronpk I'm not saying this is necessary to do here. There's a number of region-specific Mastodon servers for which this issue will never exist.

Yeah it is only relevant to the huge global instances, which look much more like a traditional web app than anything decentralized.

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Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron • Apr 18
So I'm just wondering... With static assets like images, adding an edge CDN is relatively simple. But with anything dynamic like API responses, not so much. There must be ways of dealing with that. Because, let's say my servers are in Germany, and you are in Australia. Any API response for you takes up to 800ms longer than for me.
#devops

The solution is not trivial. API servers distributed in multiple data centers, and eventually you'll end up needing databases in multiple regions too. That'll lead you down to the multi-primary database problem.

Ironically this is the thing ActivityPub promised to solve by having people use a large number of smaller servers where the replication of data is the ActivityPub protocol.

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Mihaela MJ https://twitter.com/civeljahim • Apr 18
AV1. Quting from iMore:
"AV1 is the next, next-generation video codec. It's open and royalty-free, like Google's VP series, and Google has bought-in to the extent they've shelved VP10 for AV1, which is about as bought in and bought in can be."
https://www.imore.com/why-you-still-cant-watch-4k-youtube-apple-devices

That's an excellent writeup, thanks!

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Mihaela MJ https://twitter.com/civeljahim

AV1. Quting from iMore:
"AV1 is the next, next-generation video codec. It's open and royalty-free, like Google's VP series, and Google has bought-in to the extent they've shelved VP10 for AV1, which is about as bought in and bought in can be."
https://www.imore.com/why-you-still-cant-watch-4k-youtube-apple-devices

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