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Re: ...and I still think Mootools is better than jQuery

ben delaney — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:30:45 -0000

I love that you wrote this. I always wondered if I was the only one feel that upheaval when we had MooTools ripped from our hands by jQuery... (MooTools was the BetaMax to jQuery's VHS. Actually Better, but ultimately neglected)... before the Backbone fiasco and the general migration of JavaScript into the world of Node.js and GitHub and dependency hell. We used to write our own code! MOST of it! It was glorious and honestly, for me, a lot more fun. I look back at some of my code when I was at the height of my MooTools powers and it's incredibly elegant compared to a modern React project. It's just clean.

Anyway, again, thanks. Fun to hear someone else's perspective. To your questions... at this point, I'd say follow the biggest herd. The big players are the ones setting most of the rules anymore. Facebook and Apple and Google and Microsoft... I guess it's always sort of been that way, these are just the main ones we have now. ...I wonder if/when new companies of this scale will emerge next... I guess maybe OpenAi and their ilk are probably next... Maybe only AI will write JavaScript in the future! Maybe we were the last generation of real coders! 😳😜

Re: Bother - Keeping track of your work - Marcus Olovsson

ben delaney — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:06:36 -0000

That’s hilarious! Yes. Such a weirdly small world these days. ;)

Re: Bother - Keeping track of your work - Marcus Olovsson

ben delaney — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:20:11 -0000

Hello! Just discovered Bother today and already really enjoy it! Much easier to record time (your brain obviously works like mine does in this area) ;) One thing I was curious about was whether or not you had any plans for an API. It would be really handy to be able to incorporate my status messages into a service like Slack. If Bother could send out a simple post request whenever a status was recorded, people would probably enjoy rigging all kinds of services up to it. (Might even help you find people who would have normally not been interested.) Thanks again for a handy app.

Re: Hog Bay Software: Needs tagline

ben delaney — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:50:46 -0000

"In Celebration of Text"

Re: I don’t use a laptop in meetings but what about iPad

ben delaney — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:36:15 -0000

I have the same resistance to using a laptop in meetings that you do. It just feels a little disrespectful somehow to be clicking away behind a big screen. I think for me the iPad will be spectacular for this purpose IF — and it may be a big 'if' — I can type fast enough on it to not constantly feel like I'm lost. If the keyboard is usable enough to type well, then I can't wait to use one in meetings or any number of other non-laptop situations.

Re: http://blog.hogbaysoftware.com/post/378209250

ben delaney — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:55:57 -0000

Just thought I'd let you know... I just posted a comment in the Hog Bay Software Google group. I ran into some major problems after running this this morning. Duplicates and deleted files.

Re: O' Bedlam!!! - Even in death, Ed McMahon plays second banana.

ben delaney — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:24 -0000

I know this is slightly unrelated and bad timing... but speaking of trending topics... I just happened to click on the "popular" link in my Tumblr dashboard... and lo and behold... who did I find there?... Mr. Noble himself, top of the list. Kudos man!
http://www.tumblr.com/popul...

Re: Jermbob - Remember these guys? Excerpt from Preachers Kid,...

ben delaney — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:25:28 -0000

Remember?! Dude! That is one of my favorite albums to this day! I'll never forget seeing them live in a tiny old church in Hillyard. One of the best concerts I've ever seen.

Re: Internet, meet Christopher! Hi there! I’m... | Tumblr Staff

ben delaney — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:46:00 -0000

Big congrats!!

Re: If the revolution happens...

ben delaney — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:07:00 -0000

oops. Didn't mean to hit enter at that moment. I guess that's my answer. Sorry. ;-)

Re: A Hard Lesson

ben delaney — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:58:54 -0000

Bummer man. I wouldn't give up on it *entirely* -- is it totally un-sellable? The odds that their production will be a success are exceedingly slim (as is the case with all ultra-small-budget indie films) If your adaptation is flat-out better, you never know... you still might be able to option it or at the very least get some good interest in yourself as a writer.

Anyway, good-on-ya for finishing it. I still really want to read it. Send it over!

Re: MODEL FAIL

ben delaney — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:33:29 -0000

haha! BOTH!

(just giving ya a hard time...)

Re: MODEL FAIL

ben delaney — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:04:53 -0000

primadona.

;-)

Re: Perfect Wings

ben delaney — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:52:22 -0000

I'll happily be a tester. :-)

Re: manalive - A new Virb, A new start. Tomorrow, Virb 2...

ben delaney — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:27:35 -0000

I agree. I'm *hoping*( that it will live up to all the hype. But not really counting on it.

Re: O' Bedlam!!! - Well this is fucked. If you’re using Firefox, you...

ben delaney — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:09:38 -0000

HA! YESS!! Good man. Everyone should just use Safari.

Re: O' Bedlam!!! - Well this is fucked. If you’re using Firefox, you...

ben delaney — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:54:08 -0000

Hey man. It's the ICC color profiles. Safari supports 'em, Firefox doesn't. Sucks. You should probably prep your images with some proofing in Photoshop and always UNcheck the options to save ICC profile with your images when you save. Here's more info: http://www.gballard.net/psd...

Hope that helps.

And yes, Safari is superior!! ;-)

Re: Introducing: Tumblr v5 | Tumblr Staff

ben delaney — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:31:39 -0000

Fantastic! Great job. Love it all. Looking forward to whatever is still coming!

Re: Roar - Notifications (1-0)

ben delaney — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:21:15 -0000

This is nice. I noticed you have a "centered position" listed as a planned feature... any word on when we might expect that.

Thanks again for all the awesome tools.

Re: Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... | Tumblr Staff

ben delaney — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:11:09 -0000

Love it. Very nice job of keeping some consistency while doing some major refining.

The only thing I'm still hoping for is some ability to either "fold/hide" or "remove" certain posts from my Dashboard. I find that the more people I follow, the harder it is to weed through it all. If there were some way to (even temporarily) REMOVE another person's post(s) from MY Dashboard, that would be extremely helpful.

But overall, I'm very excited about the new style, and looking forward to the new features. Great job!

Re: John Henry Died. That's what happened.

ben delaney — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:42 -0000

Hey Lou,

We haven't officially "met", but we're Flickr "contacts" and I follow you here on the 'ol Tumblr.

It was my buddy, Evan (http://evandenlinger.tumblr...), who reblogged your convo earlier. I'll send him a link here, I'm sure he'd be curious to join in.

Personally, I really like the points you made. And although I'm a digital guy, I share your perspective on most of it. Here's my take: I LOVE film. Love it. I shoot with my Holga as often as I can, and I adore polaroid (although I don't have one myself). And yet, I shoot with a digital camera about 98% of the time for my own photos.

I have huge respect for people who only shoot film. You're absolutely right: it usually IS harder. It DOES require a certain level of skill to get it "right." As we both know, digital is typically flat, boring, and relatively lifeless on its own. Film is lush in comparison. Which is why I believe that because film has so much character "built-in," it can sometimes be easier to get an evocative photo with film than it is with digital. It's "easier" because the film itself makes up for an hour of digital post-production.

Take this photo of yours for example: http://flickr.com/photos/lo... (which is one of my favorites) It's a gorgeous gorgeous shot. And I would wager that if it were framed exactly the same way, with exactly the same exposure and exactly the same shutter speed -- on a digital camera -- it wouldn't have HALF the character that yours does. So in this instance, I think *your* job may have actually been easier. Combined with your great compositional skill and timing, the *film* is what gave it that awesome character and nuance.

I don't mean to take anything away from your image. I guess my point there is that making a great photograph is hard either way. It takes a lot more than more people realize and yet (I believe) it's possible to achieve nearly as much character and nuance with digital as is possible with film. It's just not "built-in" the same way, and it takes quite a bit of skill and work in post-production to get there.

My other point (sorry to be long-winded), is that I absolutely, unequivocally, 100% agree with you that the real difference, perhaps the most important difference, between digital and film is the whole concept of "limitations." Here, I couldn't agree with you more. It's just too damn easy to take 400 shots of pure digital pablum. Whereas with film, you actually have to THINK! Nobody thinks anymore, they just pull the trigger like digital robots who believe that if they shoot as many shots as possible, they're bound to land on at least one "keeper." I hate this. It DOES take all the skill out of it. For the past 9 months I've been working on a project for a family friend, where I'm digitally archiving (scanning) tens of thousands of old family photos so that they can share them with family, friends, etc. Nearly ALL of the old snapshots -- many of them made on Polaroid, the rest made with 35mm film -- are interesting. Their photo albums are FILLED with interesting, thoughtful, beautiful images. And yet when we worked our way up to the last few years, where all the photos were produced digitally, I can't tell you how disappointed I was. Literally thousands of garbage shots. Gigabytes of utter waste. 400 stupid boring images of a given event, when 2 or 3 would have captured it perfectly.

It was through this process that I gained an entirely new appreciation for the limitations of film. It makes you think. It makes you patient. It makes you careful and thoughtful and smarter. Digital, when it's unchecked and unrestrained, makes for dumb, lazy photographers who don't even know how to arrive at a great image.

Personally, I'm committed to taking what I learned using film (limitation, patience, forethought, planning, care...), and apply it to my digital work. It will never have the "built-in" character of film, but I can get close in post, and it's vastly less expensive and much more practical most of the time (for me).

Still love film though. It really is more fun.

Sorry for the long comment. :-)

Ben
http://bendelaney.tumblr.com

Re: More URL niceness We've added an advanced option... | Tumblr Staff

ben delaney — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:50:51 -0000

GREAT new addition. Love seeing the new features.
+1 for the simplified (Vimeo-like) post URL's.