I did the Hackintosh thing for a friend on one of those 10” HP mini-laptop 5 years ago. It was delightful when it worked, however every macOS update (or OS-X back then) was a toothache—usually culminating in 2-7 hrs of googling/re-configuring etc. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the machine wasn’t this person’s main machine, or if I had waited longer before updating (so known procedures to make things work were available and not still being understood and developed by the community).

Might be a very different experience on a desktop, but definitely read up on the update experience and time-cost if you go this route.

I'm curious about how long you were using Mac and how much of the ecosystem you were taking advantage of. Specifically were you using Apple messaging, photos, and / or email?

Also, did you take advantage of handoff or airdrop?

I imagine if you were strictly using cloud services, it was a relatively painless transition.

Great article @prostoalex--gets excellent 1/2 way in with the details I was looking for.

Esp. interested in more on this:

'A major concern was that Russian spies with physical proximity to sensitive U.S. buildings might be exfiltrating pilfered data that had “jumped the air gap,” i.e., that the Russians were collecting information from a breach of computers not connected to the Internet, said former officials.

One factor behind U.S. intelligence officials’ fears was simple: The CIA had already figured out how to perform similar operations themselves, according to a former senior CIA officer directly familiar with the matter. “We felt it was pretty revolutionary stuff at the time,” the former CIA officer said. “It allowed us to do some extraordinary things.”'

Seems like it should’ve been classified and not something they should’ve admitted in an interview

It seems that way though I'm unsure too--check this link: https://easylang.online/apps/easylang.html

Wondering how (if) your product differs significantly from docsend (docsend.com) and if you have plans to take this further?

So far it seems that people use it in a very different way from docsend. Usually people just put in a Google Form of survey and share the link.

For casual use cases, it's a lot faster to share than using docsend.

Agreed. Also thought the git did a good job of showcasing the plugin.

I was looking at the website and trying to connect the dots--the thing I'm wondering is how 2020 madness knows about a donation.

Is 2020 madness a wrapper to a candidate's ActBlue landing page / site, collecting form data for it's purposes and re-transmitting it to ActBlue or is there a tie to the receipt or some other mechanism?

Interesting gamification idea btw.

nvm--I signed up to see and was able to see that it's getting raised by 2020 madness' ActBlue (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2020madness), not a specific candidate and probably uses the refcode query of AB's db to make the connection.

Cool idea!

Exactly! The only downside is that ActBlue sometimes takes a little while to confirm the transaction. But usually only 2-3 minutes.

Checked out the preview on htmlstream and really enjoyed how complete this is and all the items you've included.

One thing I saw was during my mobile litmus test (Chrome developer tools set to iPhone 5SE), it didn't render using the full screen width, being offset left. Checking the element dimensions confused me because they matched those given for the device. Perhaps an issue in Chrome I'm using (76.0.3809)--when I inspect I see that the root element width of 320x568 matches that stated for the device. Looks fine on other device emulations with more than 400 pixels of width.

Hi, thank you for your feedback. Replied on the Github issues page for the solution.

Thanks @timqian--really like the look of this and the examples cracked me up--esp.: "Monthly income of an indie developer".

I'd 2nd the comments below on Safari & size--ultimately I'm excited about using this in some mobile projects we're planning.

I like this idea.

After reading the comments here and visiting your site, I decided to see if there was specialty information on developing software for silicon (i.e. FPGAs) as that is very different than software development at Facebook or Google--yet all might fall under the description Software Developer. I'm thinking some way to differentiate that so that people can figure out if they want to make horizontal moves or what a horizontal move might be like would be useful--especially when you get more reviews.

Another question I have is about the incentive for people to provide job descriptions--are you thinking karma or some other benefit?

This idea has a lot of really interesting crossover--for instance just confining it to the developer space, not only is it interesting to contrast being a developer at say NPM, Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Maxim, Xilinx and Qualcomm, but to also see those development environments and tools (i.e. Twitch style) is interesting. I know there was someone who was doing that and I followed it briefly a few years ago.

Lots of really good feedback here. Thank you.

In order to ensure quality and qualified job descriptions, i've had to hire the submissions. Unfortunately, philanthropic motivations have not as of yet been sufficient.

That being said, if you want to make a submission for silicon i'd love to see it.