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lostfocus··on Using alternative browser engines in the European Union
It's honestly weird to me how much work they put into their hissy fits. It's not like their bottom line or their stock price would notice it when they would just open up their OS a bit more.
lostfocus··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
That's why there are efforts to get platform companies to allow putting PWAs into their app stores. I think on Android it's already possible with a thin wrapper and with regulatory pressure it might be necessary for other platforms to enable that as well.
lostfocus··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
They are the commercial ADSB provider
lostfocus··on How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry
It was Mary Schmich and later Baz Luhrmann turned it into a song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen
lostfocus··on Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)
I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)
lostfocus··on A successful Git branching model (2010)
I honestly don't understand the hate that Git Flow gets these days. We've been using it in our little client-services agency (projects of 2 to 8 developers with infrequent deployments) for the last couple of years and never had any problem with it. It's easy to explain and automate and mostly just works without getting in the way.
lostfocus··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
Sure: https://lostfocus.de
lostfocus··on Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?
It doesn't hit my inbox but my feedreader but I usually read https://www.garbageday.email/ first thing in my reading time
lostfocus··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
Yes. I even started to hear the noises.
lostfocus··on Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
Oh boy, do I have exciting news for you! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html
lostfocus··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
I'm happy with INWX
lostfocus··on Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs
Yes, absolutely this. Dark Sky was very generous with their historical data, none of the others is doing that.
lostfocus··on Open Airport Map
Yes. The restriction on the Location API are pretty strict.
lostfocus··on Open Airport Map
That's a browser's default behaviour when the location is requested without user interaction. In this case they request the location immediately when opening the page, they're supposed to add a "Use my location" button and in that case the browser would remember the decision for the current session.
lostfocus··on Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur
I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.
lostfocus··on Blogging is not dying anytime soon
It must be fascinating to find the people who are still watching the Tide Pod challenge today.
lostfocus··on Overture Maps Foundation
I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?
lostfocus··on Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media
Nerds
lostfocus··on Modern PHP features – PHP 8.0 and 8.1
Basically what everybody else said: tests and a static code analyzer.
lostfocus··on I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and once in a while I look at Twitter while in the bathroom.
lostfocus··on Passkeys
Yes, it is WebAuthn + iCloud storage of the client credentials.
lostfocus··on FlipCoords – lat, lng lng, lat
I use it quite often, especially to get the json strings. It's a small tool, nothing groundbreaking, but useful for a certain target group nonetheless.
lostfocus··on Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles
That's vector tiles, right? I'm still looking for an easy-ish way to render and host the old style of pixel tiles. Does anyone here have good pointers for that?
lostfocus··on FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19
I think in the past they sent out "free" receivers to areas with low coverage: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/making-the-flightradar24-... while the other tracking sites tend to be enthusiasts with their own hardware only.
lostfocus··on Apple Passkey
You might at least want to put a warning there for people who access the page with unsupported browsers? There's nothing on the left of "⬅ Go ahead... click it." for me.
lostfocus··on The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
I'm usually a big fan of Paul Ford's articles but this one seems a bit off.
lostfocus··on OwnTracks – keep track of your own location
It's a bit more in the user's hand. You could put a beacon in your garage and one in your kitchen and send different events with OwnTracks depending on which one is close. It's a bit more granular and hyperlocal than iOS' location API.
lostfocus··on The complicated futility of WordPress
I hate to tell you but its 2022.
lostfocus··on Protocols that have not changed in the last 30 years
The fact that this is on medium dot com is rather funny.
lostfocus··on PHP 8.1.0
> Server-side Rendering, which no other backend-only language could do

Isn't it the definition of a "backend-only language" that it renders server-side?

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