#GUI software Development

[locusfandomtime]

you can really tell the different audience demographics of Lifesteal vs Hermitcraft by the comment sections because the average spokeishere or whatever comment is like “LIKE THIS if you are a real Spoke fan!!! ❤️👊😎 if this comment gets 100 LIKES ill tell my mom to subscribe 🤪 who else is watching in 2028❓❓😂” whilst the average ethoslab comment is like “my wife is giving birth but this is more important”

[shinelikethunder]

back in the Superwholock days there was this post getting passed around my corner of tumblr about "teflon writing vs velcro writing," ostensibly as a nutshell summary of why fandom reacted so differently to Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies as Doctor Who showrunners: slick and polished and easier to admire (when done well) or coolly assess its flaws (when botched) than to get a grip on or pull apart & tinker with, vs. messy and prickly and grippy and tinkering-friendly and prone to getting its hooks in you whether or not you ever wanted that

and that's very funny to look back on with the distance of hindsight, because to this day--a full decade after peak Superwholock--RTD-era Who and Kripke-era SPN remain THE most insane, crazymaking, irreversible-brain-damage-inducing, "compelling in the way where they make me INCREDIBLY ANGRY and ITCHY TO FIX THEM because i am so stupid-invested that they still have me by the balls, even when my engagement is just picking apart the frustrations of how and why they SUCK" turbo-examples of velcro writing i have ever encountered in my LIFE

hell, they aren't even so much like velcro as they're like snagging the folds of a lace circle skirt on a whole branch of actual cockleburs and trying to wash the shrapnel out with fucking gorilla glue

.....and then there's BBC Sherlock. which was neither velcro writing nor teflon writing but an elaborate many-year con, targeted at the EXACT kinds of people who maintain a secret good Supernatural that lives in their heads, whose one neat trick was to bait its marks into collectively hallucinating a brilliant show so that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss never had to put themselves to the trouble of writing one.

[datamodel-of-disaster]

A Cryptobro update.

He has gotten the idea to build an app, and a website. He's using AI to do it, for the most part. He can't code, or even do HTML; he's just using AI, and picking stuff up while troubleshooting the AI results. He's very proud of how nice the website looks already, and claims he's already learned so much just by watching the AI do things. And you know, I am willing to believe that he *is* learning things. Not cohesive things, as in, he's not building a skill, but he's definitely being exposed to a lot of concepts and info, and I'm sure it's a learning experience, of a kind. The man is an idiot but he's not unintelligent.

That said.

I asked him… so, this app, what is it going to do? What will it be? What's your use case, your business model?

…

READERS, THE MAN DOESN'T KNOW.

He's the quintessential "idea guy" and… he doesn't even have any ideas. He goes all "eh, the app could do anything, I can make anything!" and then he… doesn't actually have any examples of what that "anything" could possibly entail.

Of course, I'm not putting aside the possibility that he's pretending to not have a plan in order to "protect" his big idea until it's ready for launch. Absolutely not putting it past him.

But…

Bro. BRO.

What The Actual Fuck.

Every person I've ever known who was serious about developing an app or writing software or starting a small shop or business… has *loved* talking about their plans. Not counting big companies with NDA's and certain high competition fields, most individual humans who are creating a thing are passionate about that thing, and enthused to share its story. What is it? What does it do? Why is it valuable or useful? What made you want to make this?

…

But apparently, Cryptobro's big plan doesn't have a story, doesn't have a use case, doesn't have a target audience. It's all just… filler. And he talks a great deal about how the product is more important than the process, and having the idea is all you need in a world where AI can do anything, but… he doesn't even have an idea? He doesn't have a product concept that anyone would want?

The only thing he aims to do is make a thing -any thing, whatever thing- and monetize it, with as little investment on his end as possible. Nothing more.

…

I've known this man for half a year now and I… I still can't wrap my head around his existence. He's like a living caricature. Whenever I think I've seen the worst of it, it's like… "But wait! There's MORE!" It's baffling.

[lezmooshie]

Not me finding out that I need to completely replace the widget system for my GUI framework... An upstream dependency is what I was providing the widget system, but it turns out that it's not actually usable for my framework because it's not suitable for procedural content. And since my framework is specifically for procedural content, well... ya girl is royally screwed!

[jcmarchi]

Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/combining-forces-gsap-webflow/

Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!

Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though.

If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming up with the visual website builder, Webflow. This mutually beneficial advancement not only brings GSAP’s powerful animation capabilities to Webflow’s graphical user interface but also provides the GSAP team the resources necessary to take development to the next level.

GSAP has been independent software for nearly 15 years (since the Flash and ActionScript days!) primarily supported by Club GSAP memberships, their paid tiers which offer even more tools and plugins to enhance GSAP further. GSAP is currently used on more than 12 million websites.

I chatted with Cassie Evans — GSAP’s Lead Bestower of Animation Superpowers and CSS-Tricks contributor — who confidently expressed that GSAP will remain available for the wider web.

It’s a big change, but we think it’s going to be a good one – more resources for the core library, more people maintaining the GSAP codebase, money for events and merch and community support, a VISUAL GUI in the pipeline.

The Webflow community has cause for celebration as well, as direct integration with GSAP has been a wishlist item for a while.

The webflow community is so lovely and creative and supportive and friendly too. It’s a good fit.

I’m so happy for Jack, Cassie, and Rodrigo, as well as super excited to see what happens next. If you don’t want to take my word for it, check out what Brody has to say about it.

Direct Link →

[shiroselia]

Also more real life commentary this is why we Need Writers btw

Why we need people who are Trained In Writing to Write

There is such a difference between writing and writing

SSE's writing is primarily bad because it's written by people who do not write, the reason why Helena's version of the story is so good is because Helena writes. She's an author. She understands narrative, and character, and what goes into a story. From what I can tell most of SSE's writing team. Are legitimately just devs who are put on writing duty for the week. And it shows. None of these people Write.

(And also why you should support people in the profession because it is an incredibly undervalued skill in all forms of media and yes that is to say if you complain about the writers strikes happening in America right now you're fucking dumb)

[im-the-mfing-batman]

Opinions on Bruce Wayne and his giant family? They are like celebrities here and was wondering what a person new to Gotham thinks on the whole situation. ^_^.

Having your own private Kardashians is kind of crazy. Gothamites seem to be obsessed with them because I swear he breathes and the WHOLE city has to report on it. I could care less about what business he endorsed, what the whole family wore to the met gala, but I’ve heard some things from the line cook here (she’s obsessed with that phallic name sounding guy). That time where Bruce Wayne was spotted at a local gay bar, numerous rumours about the actual number of children he has and even some crazy conspiracy theories…

BUT HE DID PAY MY WHOLE UNIVERSITY TUITION SO WOOOO I LOVE THE WAYNE FAMILY!! (Wayne Tech let me intern with you PLEASE)

[bratthewurst]

I want to ride my bicycle

[techy-guy]

In our opinion, Sachin Dev Duggal of Builder.ai "is by no means a mistake"

A software development platform called Builder.ai Led by Sachin Dev Duggal, with its headquarters in London, delivered Air India a "gift" around Valentine's Day. In order to show its "adoration" for this present, it developed an app prototype and subsequently published advertisements in a national daily. However, AI publicly shot down Builder.ai's show of adoration

The airline responded to Sachin Dev Duggal's Builder.ai's "gift" by releasing a social media statement informing the public that it is unrelated to the advertisement, app, business, or promised free seats. Additionally, it states that it won't be held accountable for any improper use of the information gathered via the promoted software and QR code.

According to the statement, Air India, a part of the Tata Group, is also "contemplating suitable action against the issuer of the advertisement."

[brdsongs]

open  to  :  f 

"  i  can't  keep  pretending  like  i  don't  have  feelings  for  you  .  .  .  "

[syncrovoid-presents]

I will continue being gone for a few days, sadly my original al plan of releasing the newest chapter of The Consequence Of Imagination's Fear has also been delayed. My apologies

Can't go into detail because its hush hush not-legally-mentionable stuff but today is my fifth 12 hour no-break work day. I'm also packing to move too in a fortnight (which is a Big Yahoo!! Yippee!! I'll finally have access to a kitchen!! And no more mold others keep growing!!! So exciting!!!)

[lezmooshie]

Working on a miniature version of peacock called peachick. Right now it's using fairly raw rendering, existing just to test the most basic faculties of the framework: rectangles, text, and images.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

if I've learned anything from grad school it's to check your sources, and this has proven invaluable in the dozens of instances when I've had an MBA-type try to tell me something about finances or leadership. Case in point:

Firefox serves me clickbaity articles through Pocket, which is fine because I like Firefox. But sometimes an article makes me curious. I'm pretty anal about my finances, and I wondered if this article was, as I suspected, total horseshit, or could potentially benefit me and help me get my spending under control. So let's check the article in question.

It mostly seems like common sense. "...track expenses and income for at least a month before setting a budget...How much money do I have or earn? How much do I want to save?" Basic shit like that. But then I get to this section:

This sounds fucking made up to me. And thankfully, they've provided a source to their claim that "research has repeatedly shown" that writing things down changes behavior. First mistake. What research is this?

Forbes, naturally, my #1 source for absolute dogshit fart-sniffing financial schlock. Forbes is the type of website that guy from high school who constantly posts on linkedin trawls daily for little articles like this that make him feel better about refusing to pay for a decent package for his employees' healthcare (I'm from the United States, a barbaric, conflict-ridden country in the throes of civil unrest, so obsessed with violence that its warlords prioritize weapons over universal medical coverage. I digress). Forbes constantly posts shit like this, and I constantly spend my time at leadership seminars debunking poor consultants who get paid to read these claims credulously. Look at this highlighted text. Does it make sense to you that simply writing your financial goals down would result in a 10x increase in your income? Because if it does, let me make you an offer on this sick ass bridge.

Thankfully, Forbes also makes the mistake of citing their sources. Let's check to see where this hyperlink goes:

SidSavara. I've never heard of this site, but the About section tells me that Sid is "a technology leader who empowers teams to grow into their best selves. He is a life-long learner enjoys developing software, leading teams in delivering mission critical projects, playing guitar and watching football and basketball."

That doesn't mean anything. What are his LinkedIn credentials? With the caveat that anyone can lie on Linkedin, Mr. Savara appears to be a Software Engineer. Which is fine! I'm glad software engineers exist! But Sid's got nothing in his professional history which suggests he knows shit about finance. So I'm already pretty skeptical of his website, which is increasingly looking like a personal fart-huffing blog.

The article itself repeats the credulous claim made in the Forbes story earlier, but this time, provides no link for the 3% story. Mr. Savara is smarter than his colleages at Forbes, it's much wiser to just make shit up.

HOWEVER. I am not the first person to have followed this rabbit hole. Because at the very top of this article, there is a disclaimer.

Uh oh!

Sid's been called out before, and in the follow up to this article, he reveals the truth.

You can guess where this is going.

So to go back to the VERY beginning of this post, both Pocket/Good Housekeeping and Forbes failed to do even the most basic of research, taking the wild claim that writing down your budget may increase your income by 10x on good faith and the word of a(n admittedly honest about his shortcomings) software engineer.

Why did I spend 30 minutes to make a tumblr post about this? Mostly to show off how smart I am, but also to remind folks of just how flimsy any claim on the internet can be. Click those links, follow those sources, and when the sources stop linking, ask why.

[nubecolectiva]

Tools for Creating Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) in Python !

Herramientas Para Crear Interfaces Gráficas de Usuario (GUI) en Python !

[osakanone]

Engineer moment.

They're talking about how it renders text, how it feels to scroll its back/forward and rendering behavior, not how it looks. Things which are harder to describe and more ephemeral to the user-experience.

A big part of this is websites being optimized for chromium, but not for gecko.

Many users will never encounter slowness per-say, because either their system is fast enough or their configuration is light and appropriate enough for their system -- but the clunkiness is unavoidable.

Scrolling genuinely "doesn't feel right". Text doesn't look right. Websites don't look right.

I have a pretty decent system, with more RAM than firefox will ever need and to this day I only ever use it for video to do multiple picture in picture if a major political event is being streamed from multiple sources like the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I need 30+ video feeds on six monitors -- because it handles video really, really well and multi-PIP is the most efficient screenuse.

Outside of that, I've genuinely found no use for Firefox since I often have three or four windows open, each with maybe 30 tabs each.

Firefox just doesn't cut it for my usecase.

A major problem Firefox has culturally is people who just really like the software and cannot imagine anybody feeling any different about it.

Maybe out of preference, maybe because they like open source, but a lot of people using Firefox and developing Firefox don't accept that Firefox can be meaningfully improved -- and so, Firefox is not improved.

This fact is why I don't use Firefox anymore.

I don't see a future for it as anything other than the symbolic competition kept alive by Google's money so that Google isn't swallowed alive by anti-trust laws.

I don't see it getting better. Problems I have posted years ago have gone unaddressed, because "things are fine as they are".

My problem overall with open source is it claims to be a vision of what computers could be and instead chooses to be a flanderization of many of the worst tendencies of software development.

Its an incredibly beautiful promise but it is very rarely kept.

Maybe it excels on some technical level but is painful to use. Maybe its pretty, but its incredibly fragile. Maybe its robust and pretty and good to use, but it runs like dog-snot.

There just always seems to be some sort of weird monkeys paw deal with a lot of projects, some sort of suck that you just have to accept.

On the bright side, open source projects are immortal. They mean no matter what happens, something will live on forever, and that is something I do appreciate.

"Firefox sucks" "firefox is clunky" "firefox doesn't work" with all due respect what the fuck are you talking about

[gventuretech]

In the world of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems, FreeSWITCH vs Asterisk stand out as two powerhouse solutions, each offering unique features and capabilities. We delve into the differences between these two platforms, helping you make an informed decision about which one is the right fit for your needs. For more detail visit at https://shorturl.at/xMR78