Apparently it’s a feature available in Mac OS for many years but I’ve just now learning about it. All credit goes to Bozhidar Batsov @ https://metaredux.com/posts/2019/12/22/mdfind.html So, if you have hundreds of gigabytes of photos taken on various cameras and lenses, you definitely found yourself looking to filter your archive by certain combination of those.… Continue reading searching photos…
A UX pet peeve of mine is that fuzzy search is often not enabled in the search functions of various apps and websites. Most noticeable instance of this for me, my Android insists there’s no such app if I type ‘eppname’ even if there is a match ‘appname’ available. Having experimented a bit, I found… Continue reading On rarity of a fuzzy search →
dnf should really have a field that indicates the main language of the package. This would provide the mechanism to reduce the ungodly amount of packages called python-3-actually-identifiable-information-about-the-package. Also this would open a way to look for packages written in language user prefers (Rust, duh). I’m curious about the following scenario: having such field, when… Continue reading…
I’m finishing reading absolutely astonishing “Designing Calm Technology” by Amber Case and I’ve had a little epiphany, long time in the making. “The telephone was metabolized in a very gradual way, over the course of decades, and it helped that it began with public telephones in places like post offices and banks, to make the… Continue reading I don’t want my day to be disrupted. →
“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best… Continue reading Length of an array and the case of an empty attic. →
So I’ve returned from this hiking 3 day trip on the weekend and I’m sad to report that yours truly is an idiot. First, I’ve been wrong assuming hiking pants are just marketing. Hiking in very dense fog/basically inside a rain cloud in +2 Celsius got my jeans soaked. I suppose quality hiking/snowboarding pants would… Continue reading Hiking. Lessons learnt. →
This one is pretty obvious. If you are solving managerial problems by technical means, you will fail. 100% guarantee. No amount of 10x developers writing best code the universe has ever seen will fix your undefined product priorities. Seems obvious, but it happens so damn often. Why is the company developing product X? Because we… Continue reading … →
There are these “meta” things you realise after being bewildered about something over and over again. So here’s one of mine. We all make a mistake of thinking our goals come “bundled” with the ways of getting there. That it’s like a physical path to hike a mount to it’s top or some such. That… Continue reading Being there and getting there →
Today’s web has lost one of it’s most endearing qualities – sense of community. For quite a while having access to the internet was an exception, rather then a rule. So when you’d get help from someone or find a cool resource with helpful information you’d feel lucky to be there. Lucky to be part… Continue reading On appreciation of the web →
I’ve recently been helping a brother-in-law with his studies and came up with a comparison that may be useful for someone else out there. While the idea of the function was pretty clear to my student, the concept of function returning a value was not. I explained it this way. Imagine asking someone what time… Continue reading A metaphor for “return” in programming →