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The app is… fine I guess. I would have preferred a web view because this is just the web app with less features. Unlike the browser, this native app isn’t easily extended / customized.

If native app means I get an uglier ui with less features that I can’t easily hack on, why would I ever want that?

I will never understand the glorification of native apps.

This is the best feature imo. Never again will my time be drained by someone else’s failure to type their spaghetti.

Download a free version of Chromophone or Logic Pro and play with physical modeling synths yourself for endless fun!

Hah, it’s always been “The Featured Article” in my head… TIL!

As a relatively new developer of ~4 years considering transitioning from freelance to the work-force, this is disconcerting and demotivating.

Makes me wonder whether I should try to pivot, or just weather the storm.

Python will have to pry the Typescript types from my cold dead hands before I choose it on purpose. If anything is going to replace Typescripts web dominance, it will need to offer an advantage.. not a regression. Python would be such a harsh downgrade in so many ways.

Oh wow. Does the gleam LSP still work alongside typescripts in VSCode when editing Gleam scripts in Vue files?

If so… I’d love a Svelte version of this.

Nothing dependent on an honor system lasts long (in the US at least). Some bonehead always ruins the nice thing! Life with the inevitable bad actor is worse for everyone… but we manage.

I came here to scream Raycast… but this is a great breakdown. Raycast replaces _so many_ apps (and even web browser functionality) for me, and I’m not even on the Pro tier.

To your list, I would add app shortcuts / key commands / quick links / snippets / code image generators (optically from selection) to name a few.

human illustrator != machine owned by a Moloch powered mega tech corp

This page is so messed up on mobile. Your charts need a max width set, overflow-x should be hidden, and your code blocks are getting clipped in a gnarly way.

It’s so sad too because it adds so much unnecessary suck to the project.

+1 to Sveltekit. It’s a secret weapon for solo devs. I like to pair it with Pocketbase, Supabase, or Cloudflare KV.

I agree. It is a Nothing burger to me, and it seems like the cancel culture mob mentality is latching onto this. It seems to be leaking onto HN which is rare for me to experience as someone not on traditional social media.

I see this as art, and I find it hard to believe that everyone complaining about this have ever complained about an explosion in an action movie destroying set props.

It’s the same old shitty engine that needs to be sent to the recycle bin if they hope to have any chance of making a modern AAA game that doesn’t feel like it’s stuck in 2015.

Yes, the bad thing is the popular thing in this space. That is indeed its primary (arguably negative) positive quality.

When I saw they committed to using SVG as their renderer out of some philosophical principle around purity and “using the platform”, I knew the performance potential was doomed from the start. It’s was far too easy to grind penpot to a halt last I tried it.

Why don’t you use a different browser to work with Figma files if yours can’t run it properly?

And builder doesn’t force you to use the steaming pile of comically bad abstractions that is React!

https://www.builder.io/m/svelte

I just tested this and scrolled for a couple minutes straight — not one short was anything remotely substantive or interesting to me. An endless fountain of brain rot and offensively low quality content. Lots of it ai generated audio (wouldn’t be surprised if the content was too).

Is there something I’m doing wrong? Because mine is still very very bad. It seems to ignore my actual channel subscriptions and usual viewing habits entirely.

Custom properties are great until you need to access them from JavaScript and realize it’s impossible and are sent back to the drawing board.

After building countless design systems with CSS/SCSS/Tailwind/Svelte/SASS/PostCSS/etc, I’m convinced that CSS as a separated language in separate files needs to die.

I’m building an experimental design system in pure Typescript and I feel like I’m finally able to free my UI from the Stone Age.

I’m sure I’ll be back to the drawing board again soon enough.

In my circles, this is the go-to for release automation / changelogs: https://github.com/changesets/changesets

Mullvad VPN iOS app successfully blocks the ads on that page (they appear as empty white space).

Fig was one of the first dev tools that I have been so happy to be able to use every day and would gladly pay for. I’m very sad about this.

I just use npx vite-node or bun to run TS directly

MBP device pixel ratio is 2 after all!

Some all-you-can-eat sushi spots in Toronto have these too!

I wonder how much hidden telemetry is in Brave browser, if any. Has anyone with wireshark chops looked into it?

The code quality of GSAP is pretty terrible too. The codebase is prehistoric in terms of best practices, it doesn’t tree-shake well, their package exports are mis-configured, their type definitions are bad or missing, their api’s are wildly bloated making it easy to get lost or write inefficient code, licenses are convoluted, and the performance isn’t great compared to just using CSS, SMIL, or the Web Animation API.

I’ve built some cool stuff with it, but GSAP is hardly superior. Just use the platform, or use a modern alternative to GSAP like https://motion.dev

Hand authoring complex SMIL animations really sucks. The declarative nature introduces obnoxious limitations, and none of the browsers interpret it identically. I’ve spent hours writing it just to find out it only works in chrome, then spend a few more hours hunting down and finding work arounds for all of the bugs in each browser’s rendering engine.