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itsbitson TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce

Weird how US laws are made. App was banned in some non-cyber laws countries like India, still Tiktok unable to challenge them. But US here is getting rebuted.

itsbitson iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

Apple is fine with this but have a problem with hey.com's own charging structure!!!

itsbitson VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing

You don't need to remove branding to disable tracking for corporates like Amazon. For example, They might have some firewall in the network which blocks tracking API.

itsbitson A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

Just wanted to know why protests are still continuing? Aren't Police involved with the incident are charged?

itsbitson Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

I worked on schooling project for Algebraic effects using Eff. I would surely recommend it if you want to know more on it.

https://www.eff-lang.org/try/

itsbitson For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

I keep on thinking on how can we do it even with Super powers..

itsbitson Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript

When I mention url like that in import, will bundlers like Webpack automatically downloads the js modules?

itsbitson Alternatives to JSX

lit-html surely does a good job..

- ES6 string literals

- partial template rendering

are few cool features with it.

itsbitson Announcing unlimited free private repos

I don't understand. I can see it was published 2 days ago but author says it he mistakenly published 1 day before announcement. So Announcement should have happened if it's for real?..Is this for real ?

itsbitson The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

I think they did try by providing @facebook.com to all users but via FB platform only. They should have gone for a new UI rather placing in FB itself although I can understand why.

itsbitson HTML 5.2 Recommendation

thght noreferrer value was already a standard.

itsbitson Explaining React's license

I am no pro in understanding these licensing issue. Can someone help me how this affects if i) ReactJS is used in a company/organisation for their proprietor software? ii) ReactJS is used in a company/organisation for their distributed licensing software? iii) ReactJS is used in a company/organisation for a software which is opensourced?

itsbitson Jest 19: Immersive Watch Mode and Test Platform Improvements

Great. Would really help for bigger projects.

itsbitson Jest 19: Immersive Watch Mode and Test Platform Improvements

Jest is so good. No additional plugins for anything you want to do.

Only part I want from jest is own .rc file.

itsbitson Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022

considering it is thousands of light years off us, it's probably like before humans exists..

itsbitson Things I learnt making a fast website

my observation is Amazon hardly cares about web page performance..

itsbitson Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2

I hardly seen any OS changes breaking the browser APIs. Infact I don't even remember any such kind of situations.

itsbitson Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2

well..if you add up development of a native app for all OS, web can be easier.

itsbitson Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2

>Committing to a web app (for a user), and monetizing it (for the software author), is much harder -- especially on mobile.

Partially agree. Monetizing it is surely a big concern. But creating a web app is far easier than native. Big concern for me is the updates in OS which forces us doing changes and unnecessary wastage of time. Docs are also not proper. But unless you use frameworks like angular, web hardly needs those changes. Now a days I am able to do proper native kind of animations with help of CSS3.

itsbitson UX Myths (2014)

not on google native app. it's available in web app.

itsbitson India's Billion Digital Identities

Looks like you have been to aadhaar or any government related recently. They have made it easy and even their websites are quite faster.

itsbitson Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

Surely reliability will be improved with lockfile concept but why do we need another package manager with this. Can't we suggest same to npm team?

itsbitson Show HN: ZPDer – informs you when an NPM package you use is upgraded

is it only when a package is have wild cards like *, ^ in versions or all the time?

itsbitson JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra

Good to know Edge team is more focussed and working on different issues of IE. But Chrome is way to ahead when it comes to be developer friendly or performance or features. I am not sure I will be move away from Chrome anytime soon. Chrome extensions are way ahead. Browser sync is satisfactory in Chrome. IE needs to catch up on this as well.

itsbitson Swift Programming Language Evolution

Agreed. I am yet to formally make my app available but had tough times mainly while doing Ajax calls, typecasting the JSON i got. Infact took time to understand some concepts like ARC, Optional Chaining when you are from JS background.

itsbitson Swift Programming Language Evolution

Am I the only one as a JS dev, who find it hard with types & casting in Swift?

itsbitson Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet

it is expected as they are moving from LESS to SASS.

itsbitson Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game

Dropbox will be in business by acquisition. How about Microsoft acquiring dropbox? Their onedrive is not as good as dropbox and will surely help in their cause.

itsbitson Netflix is on Fire

I am sure most people will be more busier than you think to watch every thing in a month..