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inickt | 5 years ago | on: Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) has been absolutely fantastic. I wanted to use my iPhone Xs when on calls and not have to fiddle with with plugging it in every time I needed a video, so I ended up using an old iPhone 6 and it still destroys every webcam. $40/year isn't the cheapest but it works so much better than EpocCam (which I had been using before).

inickt | 5 years ago | on: Halide Mark II

This was fixed in the 2.0.1 update. It came out pretty quick after the initial release, but looks like you hit the unlucky window of having 2.0? If you had Halide previously and download it again it will upgrade you for free.

inickt | 5 years ago | on: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

Oh man I’ve been looking for something to control volume like this forever. Doing audio over DisplayPort/HDMI locks me out of controlling volume (since it’s handled by the monitor) so I’m really hoping this helps with that.

inickt | 5 years ago | on: A year with Twitter Developer Labs: What we've learned and changed

Twitter has always gotten a bunch of crap for having a pretty hostile API (for example, token limits and API not being at feature parity with the main site with things like polls), but this seems to be concrete steps in the right direction. Jack has said this will get better, and I am hoping they actually follow through with the steps in this post.

I wonder if we will see a resurgence of 3rd party Twitter clients. I still use Tweetbot for the lack of ads and chronological sorting, but do miss things like polls and threads not working 100% of the time.

inickt | 6 years ago | on: I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS

It is possible, and I believe a few of the developers of checkra1n/some of the community has expressed interest in running Linux. Whether or not it happens who knows.

inickt | 6 years ago | on: GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

> Why is one of the largest core open source repositories centralized and private? Why are we so dependent on AWS, Google and others for large chunks of Internet services to be accessible?

Just speculating but I think distributed systems are just inherently more complex. Serving multiple mirrors is easy, hosting across a set of providers and keeping things in sync gets harder.

It's a problem, and besides building completely open source systems that are designed to have distributed instances, I think its a pretty hard thing to fix.

inickt | 6 years ago | on: There’s more than one way to write an IP address

You could just add a forward slash to the end of it instead of adding the protocol, i.e. 3232235521/

inickt | 6 years ago | on: Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

It doesn't yet, but good progress has been made recently on that front: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458