>Adafruit acted a bit shady here

what is new here?

i wrote the article, just go ahead and call me shady and leave out other people at the company. limor will be back online next week after recovering (just had a kid) and you can call her shady too.

But you did not sign the article? I don't understand this.

IMO it would have just been easier to simply sign it. (With signing I mean mentioning who specifically wrote a blog entry; and also ideally the time as well.)

? All the adafruit blog posts have author and date listed.

i am here now, phillip torrone, and i am holding my 7 day old doing speech to text :)

on linkedin, i think it just says "adafruit" i will learn more and see if i can go in and add it post-post..

how is that shady for ya.

those were previous blocks and a couple of banned people assumed it was that, it was not, and since then we mute and document blocks with our social team. regardless, a block from what, 4 years ago, hurt someone that bad, twitter really did hurt people.

Yeah, too many people conflate intelligence with notionism

And that is a big problem. Other than making me excessingly mad, it is genuinely a problem that people who should work on overcoming social issues instead get their fix from fictional interaction

the epiphany moment was when the dev team stopped listening to the neckbeards that wanted things different for the sake of them being different, and started listening to professionals that wanted more sane workflows. There must be a reason if all industry does things simillar ways, other than inertia.

Guess what, user adoption increased dramatically, because it became pleasant (or tolerable) to use by people that used literally any other program.

V8 included in the core many things that were plugins before, and replaced the old utilities that the neckbeards in the forum were crying to keep, or else! (or else more adoption.)

V9 had even more many improvements, but also many regressions, over V8. V10 might be the release that truly consolidates the core of the suite and then they can start really focus on high speed designs.

I've navigated many programs over my career, and unless a future employer mandates me to use Altium, or purely technical reasons (8+ layer, high speed designs) requires me to use Cadence, only kicad for me.

Incidentally, it feels like this past two years freeCAD GIMP and Inkscape have started moving away from listening to noisy members of the community, to useful members of the community. I'm seeing a slow but steady progress that will eventually accelerate and make both toold true alternatives, as it happened with KiCAD (though it will really be tough for GIMP, even if it's perfectly usable for many, many tasks, any graphic designer will kick and scream if they're not given the adobe suite, pity.)

Myself, i do very little basic graphics like replicate buttons and such things to not bother my colleague, or apply correction to my photos, i proudly do that in GIMP and inkscape.

"Complaining neckbeards" are a part of the problem, but the bigger issue is often developer-users that has oversight (or preference due to "control") with shitty UI-decisions that have little interest or agency in fixing them. The non-movment complainers are more of an alibi for those developers with little UI improvement interests.

GIMP is just bad sadly even when it comes to basics, it has nothing to do with wanting Adobe products but more about GIMP just being a "coders-tool".

Every time in the last decade I checked, i still had to input a resolution when creating a new image layer.. that's a fundamental operation that hasn't been that clumsy in Photoshop since the 90s (Photoshop has "infinite" layers, they can be larger than the image, yes it's "bloated" but that's what you want as an artist 90% of the time.. not an annoying border).

> The non-movment complainers are more of an alibi for those developers with little UI improvement interests.

True, but i also remember vehement discussions on everybody else in the world that wanted the scroll / zoom to work as in every other software in the world, and a few vocal users that would spam every thread and discussion insisting that we (the rest of the world) should have been using other software instead.

You know, the usual hostile attitude open source communities are famous for. I guess that for GIMP the moment that will change everything is when they will add a proper circle tool /s

GIMP and Inkscape are already moving in the right direction with the new UIs, fingers crossed

I think it's that phrase, "leading by example".

Blender went from a shitshow way worse than GIMP to almost killing the competition. Those working on GIMP took notice (and perhaps those that had felt sidelined before dared speak up).

The headlights are most definetly not too bright.

Instead, they are too high, because the idiots with new cars rely on the automatic beam positioning which is always too slow.

Or they are fitting led bulbs in an halogen fixture and never bother to make the adjustments

No, they are too bright. So bright that they dazzle at any height.

Yes.

The two applications i miss on my linux boxes are notepad++ (though Kate is a good substitute) and GitExtensions

Out of curiosity, what does notepad++ have that kate of other texteditors does not?

Looking at the features there does not seem to be anything special, but a lot of people seem to love it so there is clearly something special about it.

For me it's the TextFX menu and the MIME Tools plug in. They offer very easy access to lots of handy features like changing case (upper, lower, proper, sentence, invert), remove/swap/replace quotes ('/"), removing trailing spaces, non-printable characters, and blank lines (or just extra blank lines), base64/URL/HTML/ROT13/UU encoding/decoding, all kinds of decimal/hex/binary/octal/text conversions, add/remove escapes, etc.

Having so much there in just a couple clicks is very nice!

Notepad++ works pretty well with Wine, too.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext for a reimplementation

Not when google lobbies your government and banks to require "play integrity" in order to use government apps and bank apps

Not device integrity (locked bootloader, signed image, which can be done with alternative OS) but "play integrity" so approved by google. In other words, you can't run android without Google's services, google's builtin ads.

And the alternative is iOS.

Yeah, i don't really miss frutiger aero, but they lost me when they made the dock flat.

I keep fighting with devs that want to use web-everything.

Luckily for me, i have the ultimate power so i can just say "Firefox doesn't support that. I don't use chrome. period."

But lately i had to start saying Safari doesn't support that so we would lose all iphones, or we can start investigate after we have a working solution. God damn react.

Out of curiosity, what are you proposing instead? I'm currently working in a small company (less than 4 full time employees). And while we can never support native apps for all the platforms I have been wondering what we would use instead of a web app?

The advantage of the web app is that it just works, without installation, so there's no friction there. I'd very much prefer a native app, but the overhead is quite high, no?

Depends on the app and how it's built. There are ways to architect native mobile apps that give a lot of flexibility, and there are even ways to build both the native and web apps that help with information architecture and UX consistency but you have to design them with that in mind.

It’s such a mess isn’t it.