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Yeah, me too. Was confused why they needed to have an IP at the beginning, coming from AWS, since they have internal networking now. The public IP doesn't serve any purpose for me, and would perhaps also improve security.

I guess they're betting on it being bought by Alphabet.

Having turned 30 and watched a lot of movies, I have a similar feeling. I still pay for Netflix (even if I only use it a couple times a month) and look forward to movies, like the upcoming Dune, and occasionally rewatch some of my favorites, like Blade Runner, but these days I'm much more into YouTube. There's so much good content out there, and a lot of time it's interesting, and I'll learn something useful.

As the author says, TV shows have really gained foothold, but I don't have time to watch several hours of content only to find out whether I might enjoy it. It's too big a time commitment for me.

I'm not sure price is the parameter to compete on for email services, at least for me. Email is extremely important to most businesses, and if I'm already paying for a domain, and running a business, even the $70 for a Workspace solution is a drop in the bucket. What I need, however, is deliverability, strong privacy and security, good spam filtering, and support when I need it.

I'd encourage you to try doubling or tripling the price so you can afford to hire more people and grow the business :) I suspect the rate of signups will stay the same.

The thing is, computers with SSDs feel about as fast as computers were with HDDs 12 years ago. Some apps still take 10 seconds or more to load on brand new hardware in 2021. There shouldn't be any random wait times in daily usage.

Sure, things have gotten more advanced, but it feels like the speed improvements of hardware are being used for bloat, rather than making computers even faster.

It seems computer performance stabilizes at a level that's acceptable to most people, I guess because beyond that there's no incentive to spend resources improving something that's acceptable.

I've always found password manager browser extensions to be finicky and brittle. They never really seem to work all that good, and as the author writes, the security is bad. I much prefer just copying the credentials from another application.

Glad to hear it. One of the goals was to make it as easy as possible to get started with.

I'm not sure about that, I can't remember having experienced it. I also think it's dependent on the region.

• https://webhook.site - for testing webhooks, evolved into a SaaS for building workflows from http requests and emails

• https://instadj.com - simple app for making youtube playlists, wanted a simple app for playing music at parties (example: https://instadj.com/wam)

Both are open source.

As businesses start to realize microservices aren't really worth it due to the complexity and cost it entails, they will start reverting back to hosting monoliths on VMs or services like Heroku/Netlify/Laravel Forge/Beanstalk, and they'll find out they can save a lot of money on compute and man hours by doing this.

For more simple workflows, e.g. a single API endpoint, there's serverless and other SaaS services out there which will let you build off from that, and lets you save a huge amount of time and money compared to building it traditionally with a Web framework.

Now that we've had a few years of experience with how people are actually using the platform , I could see a simplified version of Kubernetes taking hold for businesses still running complex sets of services, something that's easy to install, actually comes with batteries included and is secure by default.

I don’t think Apple will grant them the entitlement now that they have made a public blog post complaining about it. They don’t like that at all.

Whenever this argument arises, I can't help but just think, why can't we have both?

Thanks for the correction!

Perhaps other laptop manufacturers would be intersted in knowing how Apple's future machines are built, to give them a competitive edge. I could imagine accessory and case manufacturers would be keen to know about the form factor of future MacBooks. There's also a large ecosystem of Apple news sites that would probably pay for the scoop.

>What if I want to see the images in an email newsletter, but don't want to be tracked?

That would be nice, but as I already wrote, it's not possible. The only way to have images (or any form of remote resource) in emails, and at the same time avoid tracking, is attaching them.

Like most of the problems EU has tried (and failed) to solve with legislation, like cookie laws, this is an issue that is already entirely solved by the client. If you don't like having external images in your emails, most clients these days support turning it off.

Whether it's a header image or a "spy pixel", both of these things can be used to track you. Therefore the solution is to disable it entirely if you do not like being tracked.

Seems so. You can hide both sidebars in the main window by resizing them smaller, hiding icons in the toolbar is also possible.

It's outraging because it should be a single click, and there should be no need to go through this ordeal.

Incidentally, NYT can make it easy. I'm in Europe and canceled my NYT subscription last week – it was really easy, just a click on my NYT account page.

I've been happy with my Economist subscription.

Looks like awesome technology, looks like it's easy to build simple CRUD apps without the need for the overhead of webapps

I really like the authors philosophy. Too many developers use a bunch of tools, and you get the impression that it's just for the sake of tooling, or because that's how you're expected to do things. You can keep scaling a single server and deploying via simple git hooks for years until you need a more fancy setup.

Especially for side projects, you want to use the minimum amount of tooling that gets out of your way so you can focus on building a great product. To me, a weekend spent doing auxiliary or unessential stuff like configuring Kubernetes or whatever feels really fatiguing and demotivating when you don't have a lot of time to work on the project otherwise.

Interesting that you seem to have the complete opposite experience of me. By the way, on my Discovery tab, I can scroll down a bit and click on Pizza to get a list of places that deliver pizza.

Here in Denmark, Wolt started taking off recently, and these days you see Wolt couriers delivering food constantly. Over the last 10 years, I've several hundred orders on Just-Eat, but due to the improved UX of the Wolt app, I've now switched to it completely.

One of the first things I do when launching htop on a new box is to disable threads. The current way of showing threads by default is untenable because some programs launch hundreds of threads, making it hard to get an overview of a system unless you make the terminal size very large.

I appreciate the author wanting users to discover a program running amok and producing a bunch of threads (anecdote: I've never seen it happen), but there's a bunch of ways to solve it from a UX perspective:

* make threads collapsed by default

* add a column showing the number of threads a process has

* add the threads toggle to the bottom bar for easy discovery

* add a prefix to all threads, e.g. [THREAD]

All of these are a lot more obvious than the color green.

The authors story of having users ask him why processes are green is simply an indication that the user interface is hard to understand.

I just wish they would make an Apple Silicon version of the 12" MacBook.

Which monitors are you using?

Yes, Apple's current lineup is a little confusing. The 13" Pro and 13" Air are so similar, and almost the same weight.

I still use a 12" MacBook, and it's just amazingly small and light. If Apple makes a 12" MacBook with a M1, it would be awesome. A dream machine for me.

Does anyone know why it's not available yet? I'm in Denmark, and while Siri on Watch and iPhone speak Danish, apparently if I buy a HomePod, it'll only work in English.

I'm happy with TextMate. Has a lot more features than Notepad++, too.

Judging from the comments here, they really should've added the word "optional" in the title.