1. The (MacOS) reader app is not great when it comes to text readability, it's still awkward zooming around (some mags are just PDFs). I always feel a bit claustrophobic when using it.

2. It would be nice to be able to rotate the view 90 degrees to show more of a page at once (see above).

3. It would be nice to lose the damn adds (I'm paying after all): it's usually horrible AI image crap.

I'm always on the fence though, the 'free' version isn't THAT bad and $20/month is on the high side.

Damn, maybe there is just too many people now? and we're all connected all the time. The brain can only handle so much (much less than I think we admit).

I think you need to tailor each group and their process carefully, depending on available talent pools and the complexity of the work being attempted, and sometimes you will need active management of requirements to achieve better outcomes. If your process grows faster than the core coding team does, you probably do have a negative process jerk happening you need to disrupt.

Maybe you'll get better results by not calling people 'mediocre' to start with, as if that's anything but a hateful subjective label.

I'd love a book in similar spirit, targeting say OSx/Metal, that started from first principles and built a 3d (flight|space) sim, in a fun language (simple C++). And yeah that means a blank screen, then some lines, then a triangle... etc. I'd take a series of followup books adding more to engine, perhaps targeting different styles of games and their engine tradeoffs.

I guess it would be hard to decide between software/hardware rendering, as software would just teach so much.

I will grant you the cognitive dissonance though of Apple of all companies making the ultimate bachelor toy.

Do you really need to hug your kids or throw things at the dog whilst in the middle of a code flow or devops nightmare (or whatever focused work is your poison) ? Until some chick turns up and suddenly falls in love with me, maybe I can use that cash on this thing lol.

This does seem to be targeted at people being remote/isolated/alone; they probably could have saved some time and not bothered with those eyes and the virtual avatar stuff.

Our cathedrals are surely [L,U]inux and the C programming language, HTML has done pretty well too.

1. code the MVP the customer accepts (customer is happy) 2. go ahead and create all the debt tickets (makes you feel professional) 3. every xmas just delete all non-high tickets older than 12 months.

If the code is shit enough, it will die a natural death (most of today's wiring type code has very short TTL anyways) Similar to "if a tree falls in the forest...", "If a customer doesn't notice...". We do so many 'invisible', 'hard' things in our line of work, it's almost an impossibly thankless road to build quality into our systems.