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alexcroox··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
I've been thinking the same about the future of frameworks. Many of the complexities in today's frameworks exist for "developer experience", given that's less and less relevant by the month, it will be interesting to see the tech stacks chosen going forward.
alexcroox··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative
alexcroox··on Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
Login submission hangs forever, guessing too much traffic
alexcroox··on Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies
It shows I've visited twice already, from different countries, IPs and browsers. I don't think this works. This open source one does work between incognito and normal session: https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/
alexcroox··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
It's been 15 minutes of it going up and down, still nothing on their status page...
alexcroox··on We Paid Users $300K to Upload Their Camera Rolls, Homework, and Dashcam Footage
Paid in their own crypto… https://x.com/useKled/status/1932778949051838827
alexcroox··on Cloudflare was down
Unrelated, they have a few services that rely on GCP which is down. Still, I imagine the people working on the maintenance for Tokyo turned white during that job worried it was caused by them...
alexcroox··on GCP Outage
2 hour outage at this point
alexcroox··on GCP Outage
Almost an hour to update the page...
alexcroox··on GCP Outage
CF too: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
alexcroox··on GCP Outage
Cloudflare KV is also having an outage. I wonder who is reliant on who here.
alexcroox··on Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
With my 49" I use OBS + Mouse follow script + OBS preview window on laptop screen and share my entire laptop screen. That way I know the window size is suitable for others viewing from their laptops and the preview follows my mouse and you can tweak zoom levels and mouse boundaries on the fly. Also the OBS preview window opens on launch, without opening the main OBS window. So you never have to see/interact with the main OBS window/application again so it really feels standalone which is great.

https://github.com/BlankSourceCode/obs-zoom-to-mouse

alexcroox··on VueJS turns 10 years old
What I love about Vue/Nuxt devs are not only the powerful tooling they create, but the way they build it so any framework can utilise it. Biggest examples are Vite, Unjs, Nitro. Plus I love the way they think about providing so much flexibility with deployments. Want to deploy your SSR Nuxt app to Cloudflare workers? It’s a 1 line config change in the Nitro config
alexcroox··on A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works
Experienced that this week! Upgraded to node 20 and typescript and his p-limit lib was the source of a lot of pain. No matter how much I changed the tsconfig I just couldn’t get it to work with the subpath imports his lib used. Ended up downgrading the lib to previous major and moving on.
alexcroox··on SMS traffic pumping fraud
We all here live in a tech bubble. None of my friends and family have a 2FA app, or know what one is. They understand SMS, and it's better than no 2FA at all.
alexcroox··on Cloudflare KV Is Down (edit: it's back up)
Back online now. Site was down for 11 minutes
alexcroox··on Cloudflare KV Is Down (edit: it's back up)
Workers too. Getting "Worker threw exception" on my production root domain entry and when trying to edit in their web ui I get an internal error
alexcroox··on So this guy is now S3. All of S3
Unless it's been recently updated their help article only lists TXT record for verification https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial
alexcroox··on Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
This is a no code solution
alexcroox··on Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
This is a no code solution
alexcroox··on FCC Broadband Map
The clustering here is really misleading at the higher zoom levels. Shows 100% coverage when you hover on a large area, then you zoom in and find 50% of that same area has zero coverage.
alexcroox··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
BE - Lambda function URLs, Node, Fastify, Knex with Objection.js, RDS Proxy Postgres

FE - Vue2, Nuxt, Tailwind

Native - Capacitor 100% code sharing with web FE. Fastlane to automate build/signing/submissions

Cloudflare workers acting as a proxy for both FE cache and BE API rate limiting/maintenance mode read from KV store.

I made a crude diagram: https://t20654125.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20654125/133842...

alexcroox··on The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
This is huge for me. I went down the path of trying to build an entire API on CF Workers and the biggest stumbling block was no easy access to external relational databases due to a lack of v8 compatible connectors. This was before the D1 announcement of course.
alexcroox··on Jasonette – Native App over HTTP
Interesting their last blog post was the month before Apple clamped down on this type of app, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31502241
alexcroox··on Jasonette – Native App over HTTP
I was convinced Apple review guidelines state the core functionality of the app must be in the bundle that is reviewed and they would reject it if it's loaded mostly over http. Can see where they are coming from given they could review the app as a calculator app that then turns into a porn app post review.

Did the author just get lucky with the review process?

This is the guideline I'm referring to: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09062019b

alexcroox··on Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits
I clicked off assuming you couldn't filter by country or salary which are the 2 things I care about to avoid wasting time.
alexcroox··on Insect Hotel
We have these all over the UK, can't say I've ever spotted anything crawling in or around them though.
alexcroox··on Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
This comes days after he nukes the faker.js library https://github.com/Marak/faker.js
alexcroox··on Show HN: AWS Enhancement Suite
Chrome extensions don't mirror GitHub source, they can upload whatever they want in the zip file.
alexcroox··on Node.js Support in Cloudflare Workers
It's interesting as they are pollyfilling Node APIs so they can stick with the much more performant V8 engine for edge based workers
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