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ATP: how kids become programmers

Ilya Birman — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 01:03:54 +0500

John Siracusa in the 446th episode of ATP talks about how kids become programmers and how it didn’t work with his kids, starting at 40:36:

Accidental Tech Podcast 446: Dead From Fraud

With my kids, I had no success getting them to want to learn to program at any age. I didn’t really push it that hard, but I was putting it in front of them, see if they are into it, see if it would grab them. And it never got hooked. And we all — all three of us — know what it means to get hooked on programming. It’s one of those things that just happens, right? You can see when programming gets its claws into somebody. And you know, it’s not subtle. You’ll find yourself just sucked in and just constantly working on this program — we all experienced it. That’s how we became who we are. But when that doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.

Marco Arment on UI stability

Ilya Birman — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:33:53 +0500

Ilya Birman:

In ATP Episode 439 Marco Arment had a good speech on UI stability, I even took time to write it down. It starts at 35:07:

UIs so often lack stability. It is such a critical quality. You want the UI to be stable.

Not every surface should be “live”... If you try to select some text on a website with a mouse on a desktop, you don’t want every single thing that you can click on or accidentally brush against with your finger on a phone to be something that is live, that does something. You want stability, you want things to feel solid, and predictable, and forgiving. And not being so susceptible to things like accidental input or imprecision in input... People are doing things unintentionally.

You also don’t want the UI to be moving around when people are trying to use it. And I feel like a lot of the current Mac design language these days, where everything is being hidden behind hover states and then things animate somewhere out of the way and change where they are... this is all violations of UI stability. It makes everything a hot zone or a live zone. And things are jumping around, and it’s disorienting, and it’s inefficient, and it’s unintuitive as well, and undiscoverable and all sorts of other problems.

Anything you can do to make a UI more stable in a sense that things don’t move around too much, there aren’t too many different modes where things come in and out or slide around, or pop in, or pop out, that makes it easier and better and more calm to use for more people. And it’s a better design.

On easy money

Daniel Sokolovskiy — Mon, 28 May 2018 15:49:30 +0500

Daniel Sokolovskiy:

Jiz Lee

I’m going to put here some quotes, and try to guess what I’m talking about:

“There are performers, there are lighting people, there’s a PA, there’s a manager, there are all of those people and that’s the production day. And then there’s post and editing. Even beyond just the set, the industry is so much more of a business than people realise. Like every company has a sales team and an accounting department. [...] There are so many people behind the scenes.

Just like any other job, there are some days that are like the most fantastic days ever and it’s ‘I like my job!’ and there are some days where it’s like you’re working. Not everyone in the industry makes a lot of money, but it costs a lot of money up front for sure. I put more hours into being a star then I think the average person puts into their nine-to-five job.

People might know me for being up from the camera but I do marketing and I set at a desk most of my day. If you do it as a career, you end up wearing so many hats: some performers learn how to do makeup, some learn how to edit [...] Creating your own content, creating your own mini-vids or clips for sale, learning how to edit and upload. All of these things are the learning curve that you have to have in order to be a... I don’t even say successful, that steady working performer.”

All of these things are learning curve that you have to have in order to be a... I don’t even say successful, that steady working performer.

That’s must’ve been about the music industry for sure, right? Well, you’re wrong: these are the quotes of the porn stars interview for Iris.

It’s amazing how similar the expectations of newcomers to the porn business and the music industry: both seem to think that being a performer is easy money and pure pleasure.

Many think that once you’ve learned how to mix two tracks, you’re a DJ. Or just make some music and the gigs will come along, automatically. Or act in porn and just get some free sex and fun (and even get paid for that). Sounds easy!

Well, in reality, there’s a ton of hard work behind the scenes and not every performance gives you satisfaction. I think everyone who wants to make a ~~porn~~ music career should know about it.

John Siracusa on the new MacBook

Ilya Birman — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:39:25 +0500

Ilya Birman:

In ATP episode 108, John Siracusa is on fire regarding the new MacBook’s layered battery.

Listen from 47:30 to 48:35:

You know what else would give you more room for battery, Phil?

You know what else would give you more room for battery, Phil? Stop tapering the damn thing! It’s barely tapered as it is, you’re just torturing yourself. It’s barely a wedge, all you are doing is making your own life worse. If you made this thing the same thickness from front to back, think of how much more battery... it’s not like an insignificant amount of battery. The batteries inside of this are so slim and so skinny and so tiny, that not tapering it could give you like 30-40% more battery!

Button text in Mountain Lion

Ilya Birman — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:09:30 +0500

Ilya Birman:

John Siracusa in the review:

Creating a new document and then immediately closing without saving now shows a dialog box whose far-left button is labeled “Delete” rather than the milder “Don’t Save”. The same button in the dialog that appears after selecting the “Duplicate…” command and then immediately closing the duplicate window is now labeled “Delete Copy” instead of “Don’t Save”.

Nice touch.