Rob Mason

Your typical designer/network engineer. Working on · Ex-Facebook, Pinterest, Dropbox, WhatsApp.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@Alovchin91 @awakecoding Fingers crossed for you. These packaged explorer shell extensions make FIFinderSync development look like a dream. Which is saying something.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@awakecoding @Alovchin91 I learned the hard way that Explorer's icon cache can become stale. I was stuck for hours on the "sheet of paper" icon too.

Running "ie4uinit.exe -show" before installing the package helped reset the cache, and have explorer pull a new icon.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@vkrajacic @matthewjustice This is bananas, but can't argue with the outcome!

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

London in 2023 is like Manhattan but good.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@RobertJBye Window on the left is probably a quarter of the size of the one on the right too...

Full screen Spotify on a 14" MacBook Pro only shows me about 6 tracks. Sad.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@jorilallo @carlrice @WhatsApp Yeah--and the backwards compat for Android UI in Compose is solid. Miles better than SwiftUI, anyway.

I'm so, so, so impressed with Compose. Once it filters through the ecosystem more I think we'll see a lot more product/design focused people building for Android.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@joshpuckett @esthercrawford Good memories!

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@benbarry @ludwig @justinjaywang @gorociao Really sad to see this. Feels totally inappropriate that a company that's on the forefront of innovation is branding themselves in such a backwards-looking, uninspiring way :(

[Dev @DevMoore]

Literal quote from Teenage Engineering’s CEO and their philosophy:

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@rsms @CharlesPattson I've yet to find a more pleasant monospace font for programming :)

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@davidkjelkerud Sorry to hear it, but already excited for whatever you do next :)

[Sainsbury Archive @sainsburyarch]

Our pick for #Advent day 18 is this Brussels Sprouts packaging from 1968

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@pie6k B2 has been working well for me, I can definitely recommend.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@rsms A modern forum perhaps? I haven't looked into the landscape lately, but I've stumbled onto Discourse and Flarum as two "modern" options.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@ChristianSelig Could you get a splitter and use multiple bulbs? Thats what I do when thr bulbs aren't directly visible, e.g. https://t.co/mjlxc9Wnah

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@pie6k @RudyRRain They zip a folder (same as MS Office). Unsure if they're doing anything fancy to efficiently repack though.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@pie6k @RudyRRain Perhaps not always deal breakers, but I’ve seen apps that used packages usually move away from them (e.g. iWork).

It’s frustrating because they are so convenient otherwise.

[Rob Mason @iamcalledrob]

@pie6k @RudyRRain Since they’re still really folders, they do “folder” things.
e.g. when copied onto non-HFS/APFS drives they become a folder again, when copied into Dropbox they don’t sync atomically, and they can’t be picked by normal “file” pickers