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fdeth··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
So, let’s do Visual Basic again, but this time with LLMs and web stuff.
fdeth··on Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents
Yes, but PITR is not surgical, you can’t easily undo just the faulty transactions.
fdeth··on Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
Kudos on not going with a Garmin for the software and glass cockpit. Super ballsy.
fdeth··on Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
Another Icon A5 then, but non-amphibious and FBW?
fdeth··on Accidental database programming
Sounds pretty cool on paper.
fdeth··on Accidental database programming
> writing all the data mutation logic within a reducer that can be easily shared on both the client and the server

This part… makes me feel odd. Is it actually realistic? Reducers for everything, keeping WASM and backend code in sync. Sounds like a lot of work and cognitive overhead.

fdeth··on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
The level of lack of nuance (given how high profile the fund is) is eye popping.
fdeth··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
Left menu navigation, finally! I’m canceling my Retool subscription immediately.
fdeth··on Ask HN: Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?
I wouldn’t think about a transfer to Silicon Valley as an upgrade, actually. (I’m a Senior PM based in Berlin.)
fdeth··on Holla - An open source Campfire
Oh, and I have to add that I'm a 'product guy'. I do see that the tech behind it is both cutting edge and solid but I tend to drift towards the market fit thoughts whenever I see new apps.
fdeth··on Holla - An open source Campfire
Also, good to see TaskForce ppl trying completely new things. :-)
fdeth··on Holla - An open source Campfire
Good start but it's a bit single rainbow right now.

It will take a looong time to become as useful as Campfire because all of the hooks/apps for it that already exist. Opensource is nice but Holla needs some kind of passion-creating feature/vision that would attract a decent community of contributors.

fdeth··on Sparrow - The New Mail for Mac
A very good start! My thoughts:

* menubar icon needs to go, not useful

* needs a performance upgrade, scrolling is un-smooth, switching accounts takes too long

* as a long time Mail.app user I miss save and send buttons being on top

* I can haz plaintext composing?

* it started crashing on me after I've added a second account

fdeth··on So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
Screwing over entrepreneurs on the seed stage is just evil. Gordon-Gekko-evil.
fdeth··on Ask HN: looking for a tech cofounder, already have 13k users after 2 months
A bit offtopic, but I'd like to chime in anyway.

Any startup should be afraid of the big guys, especially Google. But that's not a solid reason to quit when you have good traction.

BTW, good to see other people trying new approaches to task management. (I'm one of the guys making http://task.ly)

fdeth··on Business Models For the New Web (Really long but insightful)
Nice, I went to the same (very small but kinda 1337) college as this guy and very surprised by such an un-boring topic for a thesis.
fdeth··on Using SVN makes your site extremely vulnerable
Sorry for the machine translation but an English text is not up just yet.