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itsgabriel··on I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
I generally agree. If you're not doing it for money you don't technically need most of these things. But if you see open source as more than “here's the code” some of them matter. Support will find you, via GitHub issues, emails, or DMs. Analytics is really important because it shows whether the software works for people besides you. Without money you usually do not have playtesters or a UX designer, so you get fewer useful bug reports. Frustrated users rarely take the time to write a detailed issue.
itsgabriel··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Did you know about this workaround? Afaik it's still active https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-u...
itsgabriel··on VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
There is a list of software with support here https://clapdb.tech/
itsgabriel··on The GitHub website is slow on Safari
as god indented, you mean?
itsgabriel··on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python
Have you looked at something like Latex or Typst? They come with their own layout engine, so potentially less tedious work like specifying exact positions.
itsgabriel··on Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
Both Immich and PhotoPrism do have this feature: https://immich.app/docs/administration/system-settings#dupli... https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/library/duplicates/
itsgabriel··on Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket
You may also enjoy Surface Stable Dithering: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs
itsgabriel··on IMG_0416
It's not a failure, it's big techs greatest feature. Try to imagine the likes of Windows, Office, Apple, AWS, Social Media etc. without lock-in, network effect or all the other names for missing interoperability.
itsgabriel··on Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764825
itsgabriel··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
How would profitability fail the company? Too expensive products won't be bought means no profit, but if you can get away with the price, you're not failing, are you?
itsgabriel··on Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files
You might have switched up your threads, SO's decline is over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376770
itsgabriel··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
I don't think this analogy works, the space laser is instant and does not spread to non-targets. Smoking does reduce the average life span, but not to zero. In the remaining time, healthcare costs are increased on top of anything expensive they'd develop naturally. Smoking also causes serious diseases in non-smokers and kills 1.3 million non-smokers per year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
itsgabriel··on VanillaJSX.com
I don't quite get how this reactivity is only possible with a VDom, for example Svelte https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/updating-arrays-and-object... also allows you to update the UI on changes to the array.
itsgabriel··on Why we picked AGPL
Contributions to a fork could be done under just the AGPL, without any CLAs (also to the original repo, but those won't be accepted). Then the entire fork is effectively AGPL only. I don't think any original CLAs would apply to the fork, unless the fork owner is the same legal entity/successor as defined in there. Same goes for the original authors, they'd need CLAs from all fork contributors.
itsgabriel··on Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
Funnily enough the docs are wrong, the GitHub CLI allows changing a forks visibility https://stackoverflow.com/a/78094654/12846952