- Typically third party apps require admin passwords to update when in the applications folder which is a pain for non admin users.
- Sometimes it is nice to put apps in a users applications folder so other users do not have access (do not have other users games cluttering launchpad).
- Sometimes you just want to put your utilities in the utilities folder.
IMHO the best way to do this is to install apps in the Applications subfolder of your user directory. When you do this, Launchpad and everything else treats them as if they were installed in the /Applications folder, but it's still trivially easy to tell what you need to migrate to a new machine.
on Sequoia, it's already separated. Apps shipped as part of the OS live in /System/Applications, and stuff you install (however you do it) are in /Applications.
I think for the average user it's more of a remnant of NeXTStep. It is galling that Little Snitch doesn't let you use a supported feature; but I think Apple doesn't really care about ~/Applications any more, since they "solved" it w/ the Applications and System/Applications "split".
>> Grouped aliases/imports/requires are a mis-feature in my view. They save a few characters when typing but they complicate searching for module uses and refactoring.
> Totally agree with this. I prefer to not use aliases most of the time, or to explicitly list out each module path separately if they are too long to fit inline. All preferences though.
recode[0] has a formatter plugin that reformats grouped alias/import/requires
There’s an automation that’s triggered when you receive an email. Coupled with Mail’s “Send later” feature in iOS 16 and some parsing, you can send messages at any time you want.
I bought a burrito during lockdown in the UK, but it was such a miserable experience.
The menu wasn’t particularly intuitive, and took me a few minutes to pick out what I wanted — then I was greeted with a registration page. Email, password, phone, address, you name it, they wanted _everything_ — I only wanted to collect. They didn’t take mobile wallet payments either! Manual card entry!
I feel like the restaurant recognised they had a problem, but contracted out a solution to the lowest bidder that actively went out of their way to design the worst UX.
In the end I actually went ahead and built a platform that’s not user hostile.
Im going to rewrite the landing page and do another round of marketing soon. The page that I wrote in an afternoon is far too negative in hindsight. It needs a positive spin.
The web experience has been reduced to an indexer. Following the HN link, there's an option to open the app store, or navigate to the subreddit's index. Even choosing to navigate to the index and open a post directly displays the same prompt.
My expectations mirror your own, but a few of Jeff's thoughts imply that they won't take this path:
> App bars become UINavigationControllers. Standard controls just need light branded touches. Lists can align with modern UITableView and list-based collection view APIs. Menus are just UIMenus.
> And the best code is often no code :)
> The time we're saving not building custom code is now invested in the long [...]
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1845869748841832667