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The website was made using FrontPage 3. Ha, that brings back a lot of memories.

If it’s not sustainable for software makers, it’s not sustainable for users.

This sounds like a really good story. Is there a postmortem written up somewhere?

That's awesome. I'd like to follow up on your progress. Is there a Twitter account, mailing list, or wishlist I can follow/join?

For software authors. Otherwise how is it supposed to be sustainable for software users?

I'd totally pay for a Linux distro that resembles early Mac OS X's desgin.

Thanks! The RSS feed has been fixed.

I have been following the project for some years, and I wish the project success.

No headphone jack? Why?

> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy

Do not believe what they say, watch what they do.

Exactly this.

I'd go back to a modern Treo 650 any day.

AFAIK, iTerm2 is still the only terminal that support this tmux control mode.

Love the UI.

We still don't have a full and polished NeXTSTEP replicate after so many years. The closest thing is probably https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

Same!

Yes. I bought a M2 MBP because this is the only Macbook that I can find on the market which has the specs I wanted and does not have the notch.

I also hate the Touch Bar, which to me is useless and annoying, but at least it doesn't look awfully ugly, like the notch.

> Would anyone be willing to go to an older laptop without it?

Yes, I did.

> the only technology we should be using to create web UI is JavaScript

No.

Better toilets? Seriously? The toilets in the Shanghai Metro (or in China, in general) are among its worst features. Many are quite dirty and smelly, and most, if not all, lack soap and toilet paper.

Regarding infrastructure, yes it's new in Shanghai, but new != better. For example, the station floors may look shiny in Shanghai, but they become quite slippery on rainy days—a non-issue in Tokyo. Another example is that many trains in Japan have different air conditioning in different cars even within the same train, a subtle but welcome feature for those sensitive to temperatures—no such thing in Shanghai. Lastly, unlike Japan, metros in Shanghai/China still lack public timetables in 2023. A timetable can save you a lot of time by allowing you to plan your trip.

I agree that the integrated metro system in Shanghai is better for travelers.

Nah...Shanghai metro is no where near Tokyo in terms of pretty much every aspect. The only thing it is better is price (starting from 3 CNY, or about 60 JPY, whereas Tokyo metro starts from 180 JPY).

Exactly. I disabled notifications completely because of this which makes the feature useless to me. I kinda miss the good old Growl days.

Offtopic. I find it's amusing that we not only have "chatGPT" but now also "vectorDB". Apple's influence is really strong.

Tmux control mode is one of the keys reasons I can't leave Mac. I also feel it's unbelievable that iTerm 2 is still the only terminal that supports this feature.

For anyone who is asking why this feature is good: it's really not that easy to see the benefits from the documentation, blog or even videos, until you personally try it. At least that's the case for me.

I find it's amusing that people follow Apple's naming conventions (ChatGPT -> chatGPT), even when products makers don't.

This is really good! The voice sounds much like This American Life. Is it inspired by that?

It is a bit boring though. Maybe add some other voices or even discussions?

Was affected by the outage. Didn't know about it so I thought it was just another crash on Fly.io.

Tried to restart our app from the command line, only to be told they had disabled the API. And there is no restart feature on their dashboard. So all I could do was watching flyio logs telling me that our apps were down.

Sigh.

We moved from Heroku to Fly.io only this January, and are already considering moving away from it. The reliability is miserable at best. And so many basic features are missing. Yes it's much cheaper than Heroku, but we ended up paying much more time/resource/money dealing with its glitches. Defeats the purpose why we used a PaaS in the first place.

Just moved our app (tourcandy.com) from Heroku to fly.io. The experience was not great.

The product is far less mature than Heroku and the pricing is confusing. For example, it took us 3 days to figure out how to run Redis properly (their integrated UpStash Redis has quite a few bugs. We ended up going with self-host Redis on fly.io). Besides, we have no idea on how the pricing would work when fly.io shows our app as one app but there are actually 3 processes running (web, Sidekiq and Redis).

The good part is it's seems much cheaper. And because it has more edge nodes to choose from, it's also much faster in our case.

I had a small Ruby (Sinatra) website running on a Linux vm on a spare Android phone (Sony Xperia X Compact). Turns out the CPU is quite capable. It actually compiles Nginx faster than a low end Google Cloud vm.

It sounds nothing, but looking at Nginx logs scrolling on a tiny phone screen is so unbelievable.

This is hilarious! Thank you for making me laugh.

There is also NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

A modern replica of NeXTSTEP.