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Unless I’m mistaken, Developer Edition is just Firefox with experimental features enabled and permanently-enabled telemetry.

I’m not sure what in my brain says “Telemetry? Absolutely not”, but that’s how it is for me (and why I don’t use the Developer Edition).

I just want to give a quick shout out to the Apollo Reddit reader on iOS for two specific features:

1. You can disable infinite scroll. When I’ve been scrolling Reddit for 20 or so posts, it’s a sobering reminder that I’ve gained nothing of value on Page 1, and Page 2 likely won’t be any better.

2. You can disable r/all. If it’s there, odds are I will look at it. Without it, I don’t feel tempted to wander outside of my curated feed of programming languages and such.

Two really excellent features to combat the addictive noise I have trouble filtering.

I first had the pleasure of using Teams in 2016 or 2017, I forget exactly when, and at the time they didn’t have accessibility features. None. You couldn’t even increase the text size in the app. It was nigh unusable then. I left for a different job and within a year, Teams again reared its ugly head. I’ve thankfully moved on from that job too.

Whatever cost savings Teams affords, the difference is more than lost in confusion, miscommunication, and frustration across the workplace.

May I never have to use it again.

Interestingly, my team now uses Discord for communication and we really love it.

Man, how cool is this. I don't think people really understand just yet what fly.io is doing with Phoenix/Elixir and how it is changing deployment and scaling for multi-region, real-time apps. At this point, I'm just trying to figure out something worth building to take advantage of this technology!

A couple links have been mentioned already, but I'll add two more that got me really excited about Phoenix + Fly:

1. Chris McCord talking about joining Fly.io and all the cool stuff they're working on: https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/62

2. Kurt Mackey talking about Fly.io before Chris joined the company: https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/56

And in case anyone is interested, this is the Phoenix Framework homepage: https://www.phoenixframework.org/

What a time to be a software engineer, Phoenix + Elixir + Liveview + Tailwind + Fly.io is just so, so exciting.

Being blunt, if you're new to Beam, I'd probably choose Elixir and Phoenix. But Elixir isn't for everyone, and if you prefer Erlang's syntax or are interested in contributing to some of the projects written specifically in Erlang, then that's what you should pick.

Both are great, but I think Elixir is more beginner-friendly. Through the course of learning one though, you'll inevitably see some of the other, which is pretty cool. :)

This is purely conjecture on my part, but a beginner-friendly web framework was a barrier for adoption for Erlang, and I'm really excited to see Nova continue to grow.

If the moving background of the Nova website is so distracting that you can't bare to explore the rest of the framework, here are some other links to explore:

- HexDocs: https://hexdocs.pm/nova/quick-start.html

- Github: https://github.com/novaframework/nova

- Erlang Forums: https://erlangforums.com/c/erlang-frameworks/nova-forum/65

- Erlang Slack: https://erlef.org/slack-invite/erlanger

Long story short, get involved with Erlang (and Elixir)! They're both awesome, can't recommend them enough.

They never suggested otherwise. They simply shared their current setup.

I use Dracula for pretty much everything. Code editors, terminals, browsers, Slack, and even CSS skins for Tailwind, Wordpress, and more, if I'm installing an application, there's a pretty good chance there's already a theme for it.

But there's an interesting side effect of having a theme repository with over 200 applications: app discovery! Whether it's learning about interesting projects (BetterDiscord, MatterMost, Obsidian) or blasts from the past (I hadn't thought about BBEdit in a long time! And does anyone remember Brackets?), it's kind of a cool spot to find and remember things.

Good work and thank you to everyone who has worked on these themes, I use them every day for a lot of apps :)

So what happens if they lose the auction?

Elixir's LiveView is similar in my eyes, and more "client-side" tools like Surface (akin to Storybook) are making their way into the Elixir ecosystem.

That's what I thought too. The title of this article is as much clickbait as Wales' emails.

Tailwind is free and open source. If it really shakes your confidence with the entire system, you could certainly consider opening a discussion or PR. I've been using Tailwind in production and I never even really thought about it. It just seems out of place that of all the incredible work Tailwind is doing, this potentially minor issue is enough to say "well then nevermind".

It's pretty much the default database in the Elixir/Phoenix world and I really don't see any reason for my to change.

Another lifetime YNABer here. Great tip.

A few thoughts here:

1. LiveBook is awesome and just continues to get better.

2. The Elixir core team is pumping out some fascinating stuff, taking inspiration from other languages and ecosystems and improving upon the products.

3. The author of this post is Mark Ericksen, co-host of the Thinking Elixir podcast, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for an Elixir podcast! It's my favorite.

4. This is a really cool article, I hadn't thought of using LiveBook as an actual BI tool but I might actually try it out. I've thought about using it as documentation, and in tandem with something like this might get me over the hump.

Maybe I'm not the common use case, but when you say "because [Sublime] is that fast", what do you mean? Creating a new file in VSCode, for example, couldn't be any faster. Is it the case that you close VSCode often? Is it booting the application that is slow? This isn't criticism by the way, I'm genuinely curious since I hear this a lot.

I've been working outside quite a bit recently, and light themes are a lot easier to see with the brightness and glare. I don't mind when I "forget" to switch back to dark themes when I come inside.

I need a good Dracula Light theme.

Which users? What a sweeping generalization. Your disdain for some mythical group of people is very odd.

Besides, does blocking ads and trackers not at least partially alleviate the issue? Works well for me and, in combination with a reader view, is a significantly better experience than AMP. I'd argue that those "hackers" you very much hate are the exact ones fighting against corporate bloat on the web.

Oh, awesome, thanks for responding. Excited to give SvelteKit a try!

Out of curiosity, how does SvelteKit differ from Sapper? I haven't been involved with Svelte for some time.

Looks cool by the way, I think Svelte is a really great product.

Or Sean Walker (of the Los Angeles Kings) from this season. It's the worst puck-to-face shot I've seen.

Warning, graphic and not for the faint of heart: https://mobile.twitter.com/AugieLens/status/1355249355507163...

To be honest, the less the referees are involved, the better.

There's a much simpler answer: increase the size of the net. Hockey sticks are pretty incredible these days, and the torque generated from flexing the stick is pretty unbelievable. Playing in net in hockey is mostly about setting up at the right angles and blocking the highest percentage of the net that you can, combined with athleticism and instinct.

But a bigger goal would lead to more goals, if that's the end goal for the NHL.

I agree, I'd love for this to not happen in the future. Let's provide extensive family planning education, those are excellent ideas.

Let's also help those that have been left behind though. We have the ability to help everyone.

There is certainly shared responsibility from the student(s), and from the parents, but this also highlights a systemic breakdown in so many areas. A person should not need three jobs to support their family. Schools should have the necessary resources to help failing students. I could go on, but this whole thing just stinks.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that owning these books should be made illegal though. I am most certainly against that. But if eBay doesn't want their marketplace to be associated with transactions of content they deem inappropriate to their brand, I don't see any reason to force them to do so.

If your argument is that eBay and Amazon are so critical to the fabric of the internet that special rules must apply to them, I wholeheartedly disagree.

Should HN censor or moderate posts and comments?

You can literally buy these books on Amazon right now.

https://www.amazon.com/If-Ran-Zoo-Classic-Seuss/dp/039480081...

This questionable book that Dr. Seuss Enterprises no longer wishes to publish can be at your front door tomorrow. Enjoy.

How is eBay removing certain books from its marketplace banning an idea?

So is it also censorship that certain posts are flagged and moderated on HN? It's a hard-line stance, anything goes?

Dr. Seuss Enterprises stopped printing these books because they decided the books were insensitive and offensive. Should we force them to print more of these books?

I still don't see how stopping the sale of an item on a private company's platform equates to denying freedom of speech. If we were talking about a government banning the sale of a specific book, author, or topic, then I absolutely agree. If we are talking about that same government banning specific books from schools, then I absolutely agree. But I don't agree that eBay's move here is denying freedom of speech. They're just deciding what they do and don't want on their platform.