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While I can understand that desire, there's no law of nature that says we have to act in a profit-maximizing manner. A SaaS service could have a different goal: running a sustainable business that benefits as many people as possible.

So they could choose to charge a deliberately low amount such that more people can afford to or are willing to pay for it, while also charging a high enough amount that the business is financially sustainable.

See https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/decimation.html

A lot of the motivation for building it came from my own desire to use it, so I've tried to make it as user-friendly as possible. For example, there are no attempts to add friction to the process of stopping donations to a charity. I can do it in seconds.

I've let development stagnate because I started a new job last year, but it requires very little maintenance to keep going, and I plan on getting back into it soon to build out new features.

I appreciate this line:

> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

But I still want a physical assurance that the camera can't see anything. I don't want to have to count on myself noticing the light.

Some Lenovo ThinkPads have built-in shutters, and I wish Apple would do the same for MacBooks. In my ideal laptop, it would also physically disable the microphone.

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[1]: https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/

I serve developer-focused ads with CodeFund (and Carbon as a backup when CodeFund doesn't have an ad available). I get about $45 in revenue per month. Hosting costs are $0 because it's just a static site served from Netlify, so the only cost is the domain.

I never intended to make any money off of it, and I care much more that it's hopefully a helpful resource for some people. But it is nice to get a little bit of passive income.

They are definitely tradeoffs. At least for my personal website, the size disadvantage of GIFs still outweighs them, in my opinion. I think bandwidth usage and battery drainage are also worth thinking about on behalf of the user.

I added the "for me" to try to convey that it's a personal choice. I don't care what pronunciation others use.

In this case, it doesn't bother me if someone chooses to discount what I wrote just because of that statement. That's on them.

I know it doesn't add much to the post. I just really liked the video of him accepting the Webby award. It was nice to see the person behind the technology, and I like letting creators decide things like pronunciation and casing. For example, I always make sure I spell "GitHub" instead of "Github" for no reason other than that's how they spell it themselves.

One specific reason I want to go with Hammerspoon in the long run for key remapping is that I plan to do more complicated things, like setting up key layers. And even if that's possible with Karabiner, I'd rather maintain the complexity with Lua code rather than Karabiner's JSON configuration, which is complicated enough that someone created a separate tool[1] just to generate the configuration.

I should note that one of the maintainers of Hammerspoon specifically recommended[2] using Karabiner instead of Hammerspoon for key remapping because Karabiner was built to do that. Hammerspoon has a much higher level view of key events, from what I understand. I don't plan to do any remapping with modifier keys though. I plan to only use the letter keys for everything. Something like: press and hold ;, then press and hold v, and then tap a. And that will re-arrange my current windows into my preferred arrangement. Stuff like that. Based on my initial experience, I should be able to do everything with just Hammerspoon.

[1]: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

[2]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/1025#issue...

I find it very easy to use since my pinky finger sits on the ; key by default.

1. Use shift when pasting something to simulate typing in the text instead, getting around websites that block pasting.

2. Use ";" as a hyper key. By holding it down and pressing another key, I can switch between specific programs without cycling. I can also use hjkl as arrow keys.

3. Automatically switch audio input and output devices according to my specified priority order. Because macOS would frequently get it wrong, including treating my monitor as a speaker for some reason (it doesn't have built-in speakers).

4. Make control act as escape when tapped. I use this in conjunction with remapping caps lock to control in macOS system preferences. I previously used Karabiner Elements for making caps lock work as escape when tapped and control when held, but I was able to uninstall Karabiner because Hammerspoon was sufficient.

5. Disable the insert key because I've never wanted its functionality, but I would sometimes hit it accidentally.

[1]: https://github.com/dguo/dotfiles/blob/master/programs/hammer...

[2]: https://www.hammerspoon.org/

I think I'm going to hold out for the Inkplate 10 (9.7" screen), which he mentioned when someone asked about upcoming plans.

But type safety is a spectrum anyway. One could say that not having dependent types is like having a swimming pool without a lifeguard.

Should every swimming pool in the world have a lifeguard? Probably not.

I second the sentiment though. I wouldn't choose to use plain JavaScript over TypeScript for any significant project.

You might ask why I wouldn't just use a more fully typed language like Java. My main response is that I love having the flexibility to choose how strict the types should be. Sometimes, typing something out fully is not worth the trouble. Having escape hatches lets me make that choice. While I enjoy using types to turn runtime bugs into compile time errors as much as possible, it's not the right thing to do 100% of the time.

I'm still working on developing a habit of writing regularly. I love it when I find a personal blog post that perfectly solves a problem that I have (especially when that blog post is essentially the only resource for a very specific problem) or explains a concept better than anything else. So I'm trying to do the same for others for things that I know about.

More people should share what they know.

I'd love to be able to opt in to having to provide a photo id at a physical location in order to complete the SIM swap.

Or maybe the carrier can try to call or text the number for some sort of confirmation process. In our case, we never even got a warning that the swap was going to occur. We found out after my relative's email account was compromised.

This issue alone is enough to make me want to switch carriers, but AFAIK, all of them do not provide robust protection measures for this issue. I've considered Google Fi, but it might have poor coverage where some of my relatives are.

But sure, at that point, it probably makes sense for Apple to just buy the company to make sure that the data supply chain is within their control.

I am just a little bitter to lose the service personally.

I generally don't mind "our incredible journey" posts that much, but I wonder how much mental gymnastics you need to justify that statement when you're shutting down platforms.

Congrats to the Dark Sky team though. I've enjoyed using it. Time to look for a replacement as I only use the Android app and website. At this point, I'm tempted to see what I can build for myself with government provided APIs: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api