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The True Photographic History of "The Rule of Thirds" (and Golden Mean)

dsego — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:23:23 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/full-frame/the-true-photographic-history-of-the-rule-of-thirds-and-golden-mean-8e34956c6cd7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50446497

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New comment by dsego in "AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt"

dsego — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:39:33 +0000

Not to worry, Linus said that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. So it sorts itself out, because we all review the code we download, right?

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:09:52 +0000

My t480s is also very light as is the framework 13. I was actually surprised how heavy the m1 pro was when i got it, much heavier than the intel 13 before it, but more like the macbook from 2012.

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:45:03 +0000

I think there was a modifier key + click and drag to simulate a pinch, so at least some gestures can be simulated. But since one is developing for the mobile device, it makes sense to tether the device and send builds to test out on the target device itself.

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:39:03 +0000

I thought that they would basically replace macbooks with ipad pros. Sort of like microsoft surface, a tablet-laptop combo. Not sure what their plan is now.

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:36:24 +0000

Pretty useless, it's easy to simulate touches and gestures already.

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:34:21 +0000

How is it convenient? A pro workflow is not holding your arm with the finger up in the air trying to avoid accidental taps, when you can get a small 25 key akai midi controller for a 100 usd. And it's easy to carry around and comes with velocity-sensitive keys and pressure-sensitive pads.

New comment by dsego in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:26:28 +0000

Their marketing web page shows someone poking with their fingers at the virtual keyboard and it's so cringe. Who is going to use their laptop that way? For pro workflows? Pros have midi keyboards with pads and those are even not that expensive.

New comment by dsego in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

dsego — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:46:13 +0000

I agree, if it has too much friction it's more likely you will postpone it. Any option, either just a cloud backup tool or a spare HDD or SSD with CCC or TimeMachine is better than nothing. And you have to plan for the most likely case, e.g. spilling beer on the laptop vs the house burning down.

New comment by dsego in "New iMac with M6"

dsego — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:55:43 +0000

Why is antiquated?

New comment by dsego in "The Future of CSS"

dsego — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:14:32 +0000

I wanted subgrid a few years back. Imagine you need to show 3-4 pricing cards next to each other. It can't be a table, the cards have padding, an outline, shadow, etc. Inside they have rows of features. But some of the items aren't just a single line of text, they wrap around, and you need to have the heights of those inner rows align between the cards. It's not possible without a subgrid or some custom JS code.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework"

dsego — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:34:10 +0000

Looks very nice, should add it to the list of classless CSS themes here. https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

New comment by dsego in "The Future of CSS"

dsego — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:57:42 +0000

Give it a more charitable reading. But I think there is truth to it, CSS was never that great with just describing what you want, it was always more like arcane spells and tricks you learn to achieve a specific goal. Historically just trying to center something or achieve equal spacing would send you down a deep rabbit hole of quirks, browser support, layout modes and so on.

New comment by dsego in "The Future of CSS"

dsego — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:53:50 +0000

Like Rust, CSS is a great language if you never ever have to actually look at it.

New comment by dsego in "The Future of CSS"

dsego — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:42:22 +0000

It failed because it married selectors to the content, so the CSS rules inevitably follow the document structure. You can avoid it by either using utility css, avoiding descendant selectors or using some methodology like BEM and use only classes to style elements. There are two types of separation here, same document that can be styled differently with a different stylesheet (think zen garden), but the other one is reusing the same look&feel across different web pages. These two goals are not always compatible. The other thing to consider is that maybe HTML itself is the presentation layer, data usually lives in a database or different file formats, JSON, CSV, excel spreadsheets. A lot of the aspects of laying out the content is trapped in how you structure the HTML, and no amount of CSS can change how the document is organized.

New comment by dsego in "My old job feels distant now"

dsego — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:05:15 +0000

I don't know, sometimes I feel like I've been misled, I come back to the code that was generated, I find so many bad choices, claude never subtracts, it keeps piling on new code. Some minor things get declared as unbreakable rules, regardless of context. It memorizes the tiniest exception as some big decision and all new code follows those new rules it made up. Good luck cleaning up all the nonsense to all who just vibe coded their apps. It has to be steered constantly, if you care about understanding the code that is. The LLM will happily use gibberish variable names, long functions that mix responsibilities, inconsistent code style and so on. Give it a prompt to review the code over and over again, ten times in a row, it will always find something, that one race condition that wasn't handled, or it will warn about something that is clearly not important, but it won't realize that it showed rendering code into the core logic component. It can fix it once it's pointed out, it's good for refactoring and doing sweeping changes across the codebase, but it's better to be on top of things, because it can lose its way behind your back.

New comment by dsego in "Things to know when you get cancer"

dsego — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:03:26 +0000

I'm very critical of myself and my family, she was the head of the house so to speak, and she was the one making decisions. She didn't want to see the doctor so in those few weeks we gave in, I think she was afraid of everything that followed, the prognosis wasn't good. Nothing in the slightest prepared us for this outcome, it was a total blind spot. It was very much in the wrong moment, many different life changing things all at once.

New comment by dsego in "Things to know when you get cancer"

dsego — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:01:57 +0000

We were blindsided, her cancer was completely removed, but even though they suspected a metastatic cancer, histopathology determined grade 4 glial tumor, idh-1 negative, p16, GFAP positive, Ki-67 20-30%. She then developed oral thrush and had a cough, she was also feeling tired and sleepy, and had swollen ankles. Looking back, these were fairly obvious signs. But the surgeons never warned us about any of it, we attributed the swelling to dexametasone, coughing to her smoking habits, her frequent allergies and sinus problems. She was waiting for the molecular analysis of her tumor before starting treatment. Her state would at times improve completely, and her primary care physician dismissed her after seeing her throat, and the blood work was only done a few days later. By then her CRP was already through the roof. Only then was she admitted to the pulmonology department, and she never recovered, went into septic shock and died a week later. I would say that the first symptoms started maybe a few days before going to the doctor, and I suspect had we gone to the main ER in the next biggest city (where she did the operation), she would've gotten a throat swab and blood drawn at least. It's so sad, because it took only a week or two from diagnosis to her tumor being removed completely by skilled surgeons and she never got a chance to fight it. Croatian healthcare is also such that it's better to drive to the big city emergency hospital directly than to rely on your doctor or small local emergency, usually they are understaffed and just plain uninterested.

New comment by dsego in "Things to know when you get cancer"

dsego — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:09:30 +0000

My mom removed her breast cancer in 2006. It never came back, no metastasis. She did however get a new separate grade 4 glial cancer this year and died within a month of the operation due to undiagnosed sepsis. She was immunocompromised and the medication she was on was hiding the signs of pneumonia. After they completely removed the brain tumor, she looked strong with only minor motor impairment, but she probably picked up the bacteria in hospital.

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dsego — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:45:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macosicongallery.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067696

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