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CommonGuyon The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

Reminds me of sprinkling DoEvents all over my VBA code to keep it "snappy" when I started to get into programming

CommonGuyon Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Acid (oxalic acid, formic acid) treatments can be used multiple times in a row, but are harder on the bees

CommonGuyon Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Yes, they remove the mites if they detect them. Asian honey bee colonies usually do not collapse from varroa mites.

But since European honey bees produce much more honey, the are the prefered species and used worldwide

CommonGuyon Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

I have bees myself. Beekeepers and scientists all over the world are trying to breed better bees with improved VSH. While it may work in a laboratory, it does not seem to work consistently in practice. You cannot just buy a "VSH colony/queen" and no longer treat Varroa mites. Even with careful breeding, the VSH behavior often vanishes (or is greatly reduced) after 1-2 generations.

Of course having only colonies with a strong VSH would be the end goal so we no longer need to treat our bees. But until then, better treatments are needed.

CommonGuyon OAuth for all

Cloudflare really likes to publish new projects, but improving them in the future is not really their style. Some examples:

- They launched Cloudflare Web Analytics in 2020, but it still does not support basic things such as UTM parameters or custom events

- With wrangler (their CLI), you still cannot undeploy a Cloudflare Page

CommonGuyon The new HTTP QUERY method explained

GraphQL implementations could switch to this

CommonGuyon The new HTTP QUERY method explained

Proxies are allowed to drop bodies of HTTP GET requests.

RFC 9110 states:

> [..] content received in a GET request has no generally defined semantics, cannot alter the meaning or target of the request [..]

> A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request [..]

CommonGuyon Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

He was arrested in New York, so he was in the US

CommonGuyon Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.

Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.

CommonGuyon Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

Insufficient mock data in the staging environment? Like no BYOIP prefixes at all? Since even one prefix should have shown that it would be deleted by that subtask...

From all the recent outages, it sounds like Cloudflare is barely tested at all. Maybe they have lots of unit tests etc, but they do not seem to test their whole system... I get that their whole setup is vast, but even testing that subtask manually would have surfaced the bug

CommonGuyon The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

I recently tried out https://daisyui.com/ (CSS only components, depends on tailwind) and so far I really like it.

It also highlights how far browser have come with new features such as dialogs, which I always implemented with (a lot of) JavaScript in the past

CommonGuyon We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

StackOverflow always wanted less low-quality questions, which is now the case. Whether they still receive some high-quality ones...

But I'm sure the website still receives a lot of views, as it still is highly ranked in Google.

CommonGuyon Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)

Yes the start menu is now very slow with the web stuff enabled.

If you disable it, it becomes snappy again. Pretty crazy to me that Microsoft allows the default option to be that slow

CommonGuyon What the hell have you built

Or do not use caching at all until you need it

CommonGuyon Recommend Postman Alternative

Creator of Kreya here, thanks for mentioning us! If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them

CommonGuyon Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads

Switzerland has this and for basically every other job as well. Apprenticeships are very common here, I did mine as a "programmer"

CommonGuyon Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.

Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions

[1] https://kreya.app

CommonGuyon Using Deno as my game engine

This shouldn't be a problem with Windows 11 anymore? AFAIK, the "evergreen" version of WebView2 is installed by default.

CommonGuyon Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles

Developing GUI applications for Linux is also a huge pain. Developers not familiar with Linux need to learn so many things...

What is X11, Wayland, GNOME, KDE, d-bus, application ids, portals, etc.

Then once you have a working application, users request having it distributed as .tar.gz, snap, flatpak, you name it. Then dependencies are missing on some Linux distribution or there are random bugs with Nvidia graphics cards.

Compare that to developing for Windows, where most things "just work"

CommonGuyon Different Clocks

The train station in St. Gallen (Switzerland) has one too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Binary_clock_Swiss_rail...

CommonGuyon Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

We are working on snapshot testing for Kreya, expected to come in August. You might want to check it out :)

CommonGuyon Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs

this will make scripting with C# so much easier

CommonGuyon Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

The UI inside the webview is written in Angular, everything else in C#.

More on the stack and our initial issues can be read here: https://kreya.app/blog/how-we-built-kreya/#cross-platform-gu... (from 2021)

CommonGuyon Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

We are using system webviews for https://kreya.app (not Tauri, but a custom implementation) and the platform differences are seldom a problem...

Polyfills fix most of the things and we are running automated end to end test on Linux, which catches most of the issues.

IMO the most difficult thing is figuring out how far the users are behind with their webview version, mostly on Linux and macOS. Windows has done thinga right with their WebView2 implementation

CommonGuyon Why is printer ink so expensive?

I bought an Epson EcoTank five years ago and am very happy with it. The ink is dirt cheap.

The only downside is that you have to print something every 2-3 months, otherwise the quality degrades noticeably for the next few printouts. But after that it has always returned to normal quality for me.

CommonGuyon gRPC: The Bad Parts

One can use Kreya for a GUI version

CommonGuyon Flathub: Pros and cons of direct uploads

Thanks for the info, that's probably the way to go for now

CommonGuyon Flathub: Pros and cons of direct uploads

Putting a closed-source application on Flathub is such a pain. Users of our app even request Flatpak support aggressively [0]. Yet uploading pre-built binaries, which is common for most package managers, isn't supported out of the box by Flathub. A direct upload option would simplify so many things...

[0] https://github.com/riok/Kreya/issues/64#issuecomment-1837278...

CommonGuyon HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."

I have an EcoTank and print infrequently, clogging has never been an issue. I once didn't print in half a year and it didn't clog.

Printing quality goes down after not printing for a long time, but the automated "cleaning" (or whatever it's called) program solves that in a minute

CommonGuyon 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps

It shows the speed limit for me (I'm Swiss). Not sure if only on selected streets or everywhere.