Thank you for mentioning Department Q and Mindhunter — these were amazing. Netflix has a lot of content some of it is actually really good.

Mindhunter was cancelled for being too expensive.

There must be more to that story. Netflix, HBO, BBC and a bunch of others keep pumping out these kinds of crime dramas exactly because they are quite conservative bets. They are extremely cheap to produce, a handful of mid-range actors on very mundane locations. They can stay as a miniseries or expand later on as wanted. And if the writing is good some of them become incredibly popular and profitable.

I mean, the last Stranger Things series, of all things, is the single most expensive production in history. More expensive than Marvel films, than both Avatars, than all of Games of Thrones, than Rings of Power per episode… It’s mad, for a quaint small-scale mild-horror story set in the 80s.

There is no way Mindhunter was simply too expensive.

Fincher shoots for very long, does a lot of takes, lights everything like a film. Likely spends a lot of time in the editing room either himself directly or tinkering with the directors that direct the other episodes.

Notice how Mindhunter didn’t “look” like other Netflix shows. The reason for that is they lit it like a movie. And that takes time and money.

I work in the industry. The reason Netflix shows look a certain way is because they are not given the time to do it differently and are shooting almost documentary style or at least much much faster than a regular “prestige” show. Now a good director DP duo can still make this look good, even though it’s hard to do 20 set ups (low budget speed) instead of 5-10 a day (high budget). But that velocity means you shoot at twice the speed. Which is huge considering film costs are people costs. Production is often the expensive segment of a show like Mindhunter.

Fincher likely wouldn’t have agreed to drop episode count or shoot them faster, so they didn’t continue.

“Hitting the hardware directly was against the rules. But by the time Sony saw the results they needed a Mario killer. It was too late for them to complain.”

Great read!

Fixed it for me, much better than having the top navigation element unstyled as a list. In any case, the CSS is pretty much innocuous, feels almost like reader mode (which is my go to). Thanks!

Great story! Here’s what I gathered: The founders are in their 80s and may be completely retired. It’s unclear what their perspective is on open source or whether they have considered selling the app to someone (if that someone even exists) who would ensure the same level of dedication that they provided. The code might be legacy, difficult to maintain without a significant rewrite, so the costs of updating the app could be prohibitively expensive.

Now I am curious about what language it is written in, as well as the architecture and other details.

I completely gave up on APP; previous generation had crackling issues that (eventually) led to a recall. I’ve settled on Sony, which offers great sound quality and effective noise cancellation.

I was thinking the same thing; also being more explicit would have prevented the bug described in the first place

Love philosophy and the story bringing it back. I really liked the originals, but today I don’t find the design appealing - I’m sure some of you do ofc.

I'm not sure if the best example, but what I can think of atm — Looking at what Teenage Engineering is doing (copy Dieter Rams), I find their products fun and they feel premium. I think a design refresh for pebble could make a big difference.

Probably hard to think about re-design at this stage, and I do hope it keeps gaining momentum and support to grow.

Not perhaps exactly what you're looking for, but Nothing's smartwatches might scratch that itch. They've got honestly gigantic bezels, but they do a very commendable job on making it seem done purposefully done.

I would in general agree with you. Although I do feel TE have some design flaws regarding structural quality that Braun didn't have and watches would struggle with having.

> Probably hard to think about re-design at this stage

They did redesign the Pebble Time 2, so that may be more to your liking. Sadly as one who still loves the original design, it lost its appeal to me, but perhaps my loss could be your gain on this one.

I agree, design sensibilities have changed. Like you I would love something a bit more utilitarian and clean. It would be a nice contrast to everything else out there.

Teenage Engineering design is fundamentally fauxstalgic.

Arduino is an open-source platform — both its hardware and software are open to everyone, right?

The first Arduino I built cost me just $5. I assembled all the parts on a breadboard, and it worked perfectly with the Arduino IDE, just like the ESP32 does nowadays.

Is Qualcomm basically paying for the brand? I didn’t even realize Arduino was a brand at first.

A great example of what FOSS can achieve. Not only Blender is remarkable, but the amazing community truly reflects software for good, and we owe it all to Ton.