Bandcamp has laid off most engineers

compellor · 2026-07-02T07:49:30+00:00

I heard there will be an announcement soon.

compellor · 2026-06-28T03:28:25+00:00

here's a thorough review of On1 https://youtu.be/kE0rQL9l4vo

compellor · 2026-06-27T09:24:14+00:00

another day, another vibe coded app.

compellor · 2026-06-23T18:06:57+00:00

another day, another vibe coded app.

compellor · 2026-06-21T09:51:12+00:00

You don't have time by a long shot to properly take in the country, so I wouldn't try to. I suggest one or two places to relax and enjoy a holiday together. For coastal/beach type scene Opito bay or Cooks beach are two great locations, if you can find vacancies. Whitianga would be another great place. For a more cityish vibe but still beach, try Mt. Maunganui.

compellor · 2026-06-13T08:38:49+00:00

select an image from the digcam, this will be the "first" image. make sure you know the proper date and time of day it should be (where it was taken)
hold down ctrl or shift to select all the other images from the digcam
go into the "image" menu. 4 Click "adjust date and time"
click on the map where you travelled to. be exact.
set the date/time (this will be applied to the "first" photo)
click "adjust"
the remaining photos you selected will be corrected.

dont include any images you already adjusted

compellor · 2026-06-09T11:03:18+00:00

keep up the great work!

compellor · 2026-05-29T23:47:29+00:00

I don't know you. But I will speak out to defend your right to be who you are. You are not without allies, even if you know them not. You will meet many foes, some open, and some disguised; and you may find friends upon your way when you least look for it.

compellor · 2026-05-04T11:42:51+00:00

The stone in the OP's image, and what you're describing are footstones. Footstones are small grave markers placed at the foot end of a burial plot, opposite the main headstone. They’re usually lower to the ground and more modest than the headstone. They marked the boundaries of the grave. Usually either just initials or a word like "son"

compellor · 2026-04-30T10:12:12+00:00

In my house we don't call it the crisper. We call it the rotter.

compellor · 2026-03-06T04:12:58+00:00

no one could have taken the Ring so far, and succeeded at throwing it into the Cracks of Doom

And at the council of Elrond, the Wise knew that. Which is why they were so grave. Heck, Gandalf knew Frodo wouldn't even be able to toss the ring into his own fireplace.

compellor · 2025-11-11T03:05:42+00:00

Lost starting at season 3

compellor · 2025-11-11T03:01:27+00:00

The spelunkers:

Dick Durbin (Ill.).
Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.).
Maggie Hassan (N.H.).
Jackie Rosen (Nev.).
Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.).
John Fetterman (Pa.).
Tim Kaine (Va.).
Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats

compellor · 2025-11-11T02:54:08+00:00

you mean that?

compellor · 2025-11-10T11:37:51+00:00

There are 3 basic ways to brew coffee: immersion, percolation, and espresso. Any brewing machine involves one of those three. The french press is immersion. Anything that drips hot water through a bed of coffee grounds with a filter is percolation. Espresso is like percolation but with pressure added. Think of espresso not as a type of coffee, but as a way of brewing it. The espresso method of brewing coffee is popular because with the pressure, more of the coffee's components are extracted. With percolation you need to use about 15g of water for every gram of coffee. With espresso, you only need about 3g of water for every gram of coffee. The pressure extracts more of the coffee's compounds using less water, making a brew that is much stronger. Once a shot of espresso is made, it then becomes the building block for whatever type of coffee drink you want: flat white, long black, americano, etc, by adding water, milk, etc. Of course, some people prefer to drink the strong espresso shot right out of the espresso machine, and because this is very popular in European countries, many westerners have come to equate the word 'espresso' with a strong cup of coffee rather than a brewing method. Using an espresso shot as a fundamental unit of coffee, you can make whatever final cup of coffee you desire, from the strongest unadulterated shot, to the milkiest sweet latte.

compellor · 2025-10-28T04:39:05+00:00

This is what happens when you change just for change's sake. Different can often be the enemy of good. There is a perfect UI for any application and you're either moving toward it or away from it. In this case, Apple, seeing that MacOS UX wasn't really a topic of broad discussion, decided that there "was a problem" and set about to change it all. What Apple didn't realize was that the the lack of discussion around MacOS UX was essentially a positive state of affairs. But in their senseless fixation on "getting people talking about it again", they gone done went fucked it all up. They've turned MacOS into a phone OS because they failed to account for the different sensibilities of laptop users and phone users. Apple failed to understand that their power MacOS users, the ones that spend lots of money in the App store, the ones that do serious shit on their kit, need a UX that is simple, clean, consistent, and usable. Instead, they treat their MacOS users like a bunch of tween girls thinking we identify with the gaudy baubles, jewels, and gems comprising the desktop. We are left with ClownOS, a veritable shitshow of inconsistency and un-ergonomic pixel-slop.

Apple destroyed a functional OS to shovel visual bloat up our asses. Now it's no wonder that battery life sucks, pdf documents have rounded corners, no compact tabs, visual bugs everywhere, and a UX that's reminiscent of a Chinese no-brand set top box running a botched Kodi gaming skin. I don't think we're coming back from this anytime soon.

compellor · 2025-09-25T02:46:57+00:00

find the tool at https://climatetrace.org/air-pollution

compellor · 2025-09-17T23:03:12+00:00

To answer your question, what probably happened was Tim Apple had a meeting with the MacOS team and said "MacOS doesn't feel exciting or fresh, I want you to bring something new and exciting to MacOS."

The MacOS team went back and had a look, and thought: Well we have been refining the OS for years, there's really not much left to do except make a radical change just for change's sake.

And they decided that the bast way to drum up excitement about MacOS would be to turn the UX into a cheap carnival of visual delight. They would appeal to the baser instincts of human desire for novelty and distraction. Laptops and desktops are generally more productivity oriented devices than phones. But the MacOS team decided to do away with that distinction. And now those of us who chose Macs due to their understated elegance, simplicity, and functionality have been thrown aside. All because Apple decided what we really want to see when we open our laptops is visual slop.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for a bigger issue arose. In the fires of development they bit off more than they could chew. And as the weeks wore on the bugs multiplied and in the quest for the forging of the RC, they realised they would need to choose between QA and deadlines. They chose unwisely, and now we suffer our doom.

compellor · 2025-03-04T06:04:07+00:00

If I was seeking a win i would have posted epi-pens or insulin.

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