- The keyboard supports QMK, the customizable open source keyboard firmware
- I programmed my own layout using the Frogpad style layout others have mentioned. Its central feature is that it is what's known as a "chording keyboard" in which you hit multiple keys at the same time, like a piano chord, to trigger different letters.
- The reduced keys on the keyboard mean I can comfortably produce any character at normal speed with one hand without moving my wrist in a way that would cause RSI.
If you want more info or a copy of my QMK config let me know.
It's not a book, but the Python3 Deep Dive courses by Fred Baptiste on Udemy are very good at helping to understand the internals of python: https://www.udemy.com/user/fredbaptiste/ If the courses are pricey, remember that Udemy seems to have major sales every couple of weeks, so I'm sure they will come down in price again soon.
Can confirm pirateweather.net's forecast API working as a drop-in replacement for DarkSky's. I was able to fix a soon to be broken DarkSky bitbar script by just replacing the URLs/API keys to pirateweather's in under 5 minutes.
If you are using the current version of iOS, the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky).
If you are on an old version of iOS and mourn the loss of DarkSky app, I personally like MyRadar - it has some very nice features and I used in tandem with DarkSky in the past.
If you are after writing an iOS app, you already have an Apple developer account allowing for 500k calls/month.
If you are after writing an iOS app and want to use DarkSky rather than WeatherKit, Pirate Weather should also be a drop in replacement.
The new iOS Weather app certainly has lots of functionality, lots of data, but I mourn the clean, streamlined Dark Sky interface.
Plus the temperature map, unlike the radar map, no longer allows you to change to a future date/time to see how the temperature changes are going to progress across a larger region, which I always found interesting.
Having just downloaded and poked at it, it looks very nice and familiar for those who want a Dark Sky type interface. The "oh, that's a feature I'd like" comes at a bit of "that's behind an IAP", but I suspect I'll be adding it to my weather section.
I like Carrot also - it has a lot of options to play with if you subscribe for it - They run sales esp year end sales if you can wait 11 months. You can also change the weather sources or api like Foreca and DarkSky and apple weather as well so maybe this Pirate one will be in there as well. I did not like the free version - I LOVED dark sky it was point of contention with the wife as accuweather was more accurate for planning. Peace.
> the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky)
While I agree that functionally it offers a lot, the interface is around 1000 times worse than the Dark Sky app. For example, to see the “feels like” temperature over the next few hours in Dark Sky, it used to show up immediately on load for the current time, and with a single tap to see it over the next 24 hours. On the new Apple Weather app, you have to first tap on the current day, then tap on the drop down on the upper right, then tap on “Feels Like”, then tap on the graph itself and drag to the desired time.
It is absolutely incredible to me that something so simple went from taking one step to taking five steps. I don’t know how any user interface designer can justify it.
iOS Weather is pretty nice. But I can't quite love it, because it frequently tells my wife and I different values for current temperature, all while proclaiming to be giving data for the same small city. I can manually program the city in and get it to do the same thing. Hard to trust it.
Also, it's almost always wrong with rain predictions. But so was Dark Sky, so that's fair.
> If you are using the current version of iOS, the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky).
Tip for anyone coming from Dark Sky: Open Weather, scroll to the bottom, tap "Manage Notifications", and turn on "Next-Hour Precipitation" and "Severe Weather". For me at least, these weren't turned on by default.
Notifications - at the bottom of the screen "Manage Notifications". Enable "Next-Hour Precipitation". It is off by default since it leaks data back to Apple. https://imgur.com/CwlFnym
The precipitation graph you get when you expand the perception tile. You can then scroll through the days. Here's a screen shot from my phone for a couple days from now when I'm due to get some snow. https://imgur.com/FnWdQ4b
Probably yet another feature locked to the US. At this point it is ridiculous that iPhones outside the US don’t come with a 5% ‘reduced service’ discount.
I think they're asking about continuing to use the DarkSky app. In which case, no. The new Weather app in iOS 16 does add some DarkSky features, but I don't think it's as good.
As someone who's documented a lot of users flows by hand this would be a really handy service. However, it'd be great if there was more of a demo available without a sign up. At the moment it seems like there's just a couple of tiny screeenshots and a single GIF showing what your product actually looks like. How about a sample screencast or a sample PDF of a finished guide?
Ethical considerations aside, this article had a huge impact on me and played a big part in getting me to finally learn to code. _why's style made the idea of coding very approachable for someone who didn't have a math/science background
German society (compared to some others) seems to do much more enforcement of industry-wide and society-wide standardization (e.g. of measurement systems, part compatibility, common procedures, ...), with an expectation that everyone should “follow the rules”.
This has the advantage of increasing interoperability and compatibility and making many things more predictable and easier to assess/audit, at the expense of sometimes fixing poor choices and forcing them into contexts where they should be discarded.
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As one example, most of the design features of computer keyboards sold worldwide from the 1980s–1990s were forced to conform to a (not especially well considered, in my opinion) German standard, which was adopted by IBM and then copied by everyone else, and later became the basis of an ISO standard.
Beige or gray color with matte surface texture and dark labels (no colors allowed), cylindrical keytops with primary symbols in one corner to make room for standard German labels, low keyboard height (which did not fit many of the keyswitches from the 1970s), a shape precisely accommodating the standard German key layout, ...
At some point companies started ignoring this standard (e.g. producing black keyboards), and I don’t think there was ever enforcement. But we are still stuck with many of those design choices now, a dramatic difference from the extreme diversity of designs from the 1960s and 1970s.
Arguably many of the keyboards of the 1970s were better than almost anything produced at mass scale since.
It's basically procedural rigidity. Everything is formalized and has to work in a specific way. This may be an asset sometimes when reproducibility or accountability are key. But the crippling lack of flexibility is a serious downside many other times.
It also allows you to "split" your terminal into multiple tabs, panes and windows, which makes it easy to hop back and forth between sessions in multiple environments. As others have said though the killer feature really is that you can run it on a remote machine and attach and detach at will.
- A 25 key Macropad (really an external numpad) Something like this, for around $50 USD https://www.dhgate.com/product/25keys-macro-keyboard-kit-pro...
- The keyboard supports QMK, the customizable open source keyboard firmware
- I programmed my own layout using the Frogpad style layout others have mentioned. Its central feature is that it is what's known as a "chording keyboard" in which you hit multiple keys at the same time, like a piano chord, to trigger different letters.
- The reduced keys on the keyboard mean I can comfortably produce any character at normal speed with one hand without moving my wrist in a way that would cause RSI.
If you want more info or a copy of my QMK config let me know.