I'm Andrew, an HCI-focused software engineer looking for my next full-time role. I spent a lot of time recently working independently on a web OS project called "LisaGUI" (https://lisagui.com) that recreates the Apple Lisa's UI from scratch in JS.
Ideally, I'd like a role that will let me combine programming with my deep background in art and design.
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Remote: Yes; also open to in-person or hybrid roles.
Willing to relocate: Yes.
Technologies: JS, HTML/CSS, C++, Java, Python. Rust-curious.
Résumé/CV: https://yaros.ae/resume
Email: andrew@yaros.ae
The fact they were able to turn around their hardware division after all that is the only thing which gives me hope they might be capable of doing an about-face on software.
'Don't get me wrong, I do like trillion dollar tech companies to be transparent, but this right here is certainly not what I meant when I said: "Apple needs to be more transparent".'
lol
Apple is burning their remaining goodwill among longtime customers, myself included. It's sad to see. Next WWDC, they need to be incredibly transparent about how they plan to fix these issues and get their house in order. If they aren't capable of accepting feedback after this public excoriation, I don't have high hopes for their future.
With this iOS 26 update, they set dynamite to my bridge.
I’m switching to android because why not? I mean, I have to install Google maps anyway because Apple Maps is horrible. But the UI on 26 is way worse than a pixel experience in my opinion. Plus, I could just do so much more with the pixel phone but then again I’m sort of a power user.
I was working on Apple since 1996 and started off as a computer support person. Now it pains me to help people with their computers because everything is siloed and proprietary and just makes no sense.
And I mean, I’m also annoyed that their voice to text is just horrible. I can’t even tell you how many mistakes I’ve had to correct in this comment alone.
The great thing about Android is that you don't have to use Google's awful software. Google Maps is not good, I avoid it whenever at all possible, the same goes for basically all other Google software.
The one reason to use Android is so that you can actually switch out the awful stuff that ships with your device. Leaving Apple to join the "Google Ecosystem" seems absolutely insane. Google is so terrible at software, so terrible at UI and so terrible at having products.
I get that visual design is a complete preference, but the great thing about Android, to me at least, is that you can get away from Google totally goofy design and make your own choices.
>Plus, I could just do so much more with the pixel phone but then again I’m sort of a power user.
Google is starting to make that less and less feasible though, with it's start in restricting app installations.
osmAnd allows you to use a number of different sources, though their business listings are inferior (in Los Angeles/San Diego) no matter what source you use (admittedly this might be partly due to new businesses opening, I've never tried searching for a long-established business as I already know where to find these). Recommend installing from fdroid, the play store version is limited (may not make a difference to you)
There's a number of other map apps around as well (Mapfactor, MapQuest, maps.me), including some for specific purposes (transit, Waze, Polaris, backcountry, sygic)
Right? All these "features", but they don't get the very basic stuff right a lot of times. User input is very very important for the user.
On iPhone swipe keyboard something that feels like a random generator replaces not only the word you swipe, but the word before, and in 2/3rds of cases with random nonsense pairs.
And you can't turn it off without turning off the similar word proposals you definitely want.
It's a strange design decision and I think the implementation is not up to the task.
I'm not staying cause I like it, but because I dislike the other options more.
There's tons of posts on reddit documenting the fact that everyone is making mistakes constantly with their keyboards for a few years, especially the.constant.dots.everyone.makes - they worked ok before, it's honestly almost comical how bad it is now.
They listened when people said they wanted transparency. That's why we got Liquid Glass. It seems the actual context of the word got lost somewhere along the way.
Built in the style of Apple's early website. Sites like these were much more valuable back in the day before larger software archive sites became more prevalent.
Oh! didn't know that bear blog could set up custom CSS but I was wondering about that actually as well!
Looks like your guy over here is gonna build a bear blog with the monospace web theme[1] now
I have several accounts on mataroa and one of my posts on it somehow even got indexed which I needed to pull as it was relevant in some discord discussion and I just searched it on duckduckgo and I was so proud of it lol.
I might try bear blog as well! I also really like the upvote feature at the bottom, that plus HN could be some great way to have both comments and a basic feedback without let's say setting up a blog myself although that could be a good learning experience as well but let's just say not right now :)
"Needless to say, they’d still want you to take the responsibility. If bugs or tickets get raised on the shipped code, it’s you who gets fired, not the copilot or chatgpt - though the larger narrative or news headlines next day would still be, 'AI is eating jobs'!"
I'm also reminded of that legendary old IBM quote from 1979:
"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
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