@bobmagicii FireWire support on non-Apple stuff was always a pain, though doable. And worth doing in the film industry if you weren’t a Mac shop. But most small films shops were Mac shops back in my day in the industry so…

@ramsey As HD data got bigger and 4K started making it’s debut, eSATA started being a thing for a while. The last few projects I did were on eSATA external hard drives. Unfortunately I got out of the film industry before Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt blows it all away. I’ve done _some_ small personal video editing on Thunderbolt drives, it’s great.

I also understand USB 4 may resolves some of the long-standing issues with editing films on USB external drives, but I wouldn’t know 🙃

@ramsey Nope. USB 2.0 was great in certain ways, but for those of us needing to edit films on big external hard drives (and other things, but that was the use-case in the industry I was in), USB 2.0 just didn’t cut it. USB 2.0 had a slightly higher theoretical speed but in practice it was much slower and couldn’t handle the demands of constant high data rate transfer. FireWire’s streaming architecture faired much better (and then, of course, FireWire 800 speeds blew USB away again).

FireWire heavily influenced the development of the Thunderbolt spec and made SO much possible that USB just couldn’t do at the time. Rest in peace, FireWire.

Talk about the end of an era. I’m sad about this even though I haven’t used FireWire in several years. I have all the Thunderbolt to FireWire adapters and MANY FireWire hard drives in my office closet.

I edited MANY films, documentaries, promos, short-form content, long-form content, you name it, on FireWire hard drives on various Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, PowerMacs, and Powerbooks.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/22/macos-26-tahoe-beta-drops-firewire-support

Steve Jobs philosophy: don’t skate to where the puck is, skate to where it will be.

Cook’s philosophy: HOLD THE PUCK HERE AT ALL COSTS DO NOT ADAPT TO THE MARKET OR WHAT PEOPLE WANT STRANGLE THE MARKET

This is a good time to remind everyone that I always thought Tim Cook was the wrong choice for CEO and Schiller was the obvious successor to Steve.

Cook being the wrong choice has become more and more obvious over time.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_apple_app_store_ruling

`tar` and Symlinks. Or: How to fix a failing Docker build that relies on extracting tar contents into a directory that exists as a symlink

https://www.tjdraper.com/blog/tar-and-symlinks

@contortion And if you don't use Carbon, it can be even better 😉

I've worked with dates and times in several programming languages, and I have to say that the best is easily PHP (since the big refactor in, what was it, 5.6?).

The worst is easily Javascript.

#PHP #Javascript #Typescript #Node

@atpfm @marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa

2. John, the reboots are a pale shadow of ST, all flash, no substance. PALE SHADOW! 🤪 Into Darkness is ABYSMAL! Beyond is easily the best of the three 🤦‍♂️

🖖🏻

@atpfm @marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa Re: ATP Movie Club. I think I was (as usual) frustrated with each of you at some point, but I can’t decide if it’s surprising or unsurprising that I was most frustrated with John.

Many things I could say, but I’ll just do two.

1. Casey is correct: VI is generally considered the second best ST movie. II is indeed generally considered the best (both written and directed by Nick Meyer).

I wrote a thing: Deploy Early, Deploy Often

https://www.tjdraper.com/blog/deploy-early-deploy-often/

#PHP #Javascript #React #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

Seriously, I can’t help but notice all the people who constantly reflexively swipe apps out of the app switcher. And, like, so what use do you get out of the switcher if there’s never anything in it? And it actually does make your battery life worse. 🙃

Stop swiping your apps out of the app switcher. (This applies to Android too. When I lived on Android for a few years, I also didn’t swipe apps out of the app switcher and I lived happily ever after using things they way they’re designed to be used) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGg-wO-baig

Readable > Clever, yes.

But the definition of Readable vs Clever is a sliding scale with the skillset and experience of the developer. No one repeating that line ever seems to remember that part. What is completely readable and obvious to me may be incomprehensibly clever to you, and vice versa.

#PHP #Programming

@ramsey

It did this all the time for me, which is why I stopped using it.
https://eworld.social/@ismh86/113199524389453489

@ismh86 it did this all the time for me, which is why I stopped using it.

@luketlancaster @ramsey I use the GUI quite a bit to pull up container logs. I find it far easier to navigate than Docker Desktop. And, as you say, far more performant.