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Honestly, I don't think it's a problem with RSS as a format. It's a problem with clients.

Okay, I'll shill my feed reader since it's an example of one that lets you organize feeds and doesn't present a firehose: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...

It's only for Firefox though because I like my reader being integrated into my browser and Firefox was the only one that supported a sidebar at the time. Looks like Chrome supports sidebars to now. So mayhaps I'll update it.

Which is just awesome when your current phone is broken.

I posted about it and they suggested that I keep a backup phone available at all times, thanks folks.

This destroyed my phone, and their appeasement process was terrible too. There was no way for me to find out whether there was a supported repair shop nearby, the $50 cash was apparently through a very dodgy company, and then $100 google store credit didn't disclose that it's "upon review within three weeks" until after you irrevocably chose the option.

The whole thing is ridiculous and poorly handled. Sadly, if my phone had just cracked or failed to turn on, I'd probably have upgraded happily and moved on with my life. As it is, now I feel like something was taken from me. So it goes

The one thing that kills me is the number of "modern" blogs/sites that don't offer rss or atom is really frustrating. If I really like your site, please let me be an engaged reader and let me know when you have something valuable to say again!

I've even resorted to adding features in my personal feedreader to seek out common feed locations or APIs that common blogging tools leave on mostly unnoticed.

Another take I've had is that we were wrong in the past. Pedaling isn't the tricky part of riding a bike. Balancing is. Training wheels let you learn to pedal.

This is a ReactNative app that consumes XML and maps it to ReactNative components, so you're still using those pointlessly complicated technologies, but through a proxy application that abstracts some of the complexity away (https://github.com/instawork/hyperview?tab=readme-ov-file#hy...).

When you hit the boundaries of what Hyperview can do, you're going to need to dig into some of the details, but mayhaps you don't need those features. Either way, it's an interesting project, but like everything else it's going to have _some_ drawbacks

Thank you for the details!

You'd want to benchmark this yourself, and assume that the impact will probably decrease as browsers progress, but I believe that for very large trees (tables, etc) it can have a fair impact. That said, I'm guessing paints aren't what are usually slowing your page down.

A quick way to validate that is to open up the devtools and run a performance trace. Watch for paint events vs JS code execution and such.

Performance reviews can definitely be used for ill, at the same time I think it's valuable to have some mechanisms in place to make sure people are accountable. Generally if one person is slacking off, being sloppy, or just plain not doing the job it puts even more pressure on those who do which isn't fair and tends to burn out the people picking up the slack.

What systems do people see in practice that keep folks accountable? What works?

ElectricSQL and friends seem to be the best option so far, but they all come with a lot of caveats. It feels like local-first is near, and it's so tantalizing, but I haven't seen anything that feels like it's done enough to build on just yet.

Not if it was initial put together in 2016:

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A slightly different take.

If everything is either an obvious sketch, or pixel perfect you can get decent feedback, but a design that is just a little off in jarring ways will distract people from the functionality or design intention.

I don't know, it depends on whether I get to control the auto generated podcast or someone else.

If I get to control it and I can have it draw in enough interesting angles into something, I think it could be fun. I wouldn't replace one of my favorites, but I'd gladly use something that could generate creative new content.

Oh! That's really clever. The live queries make this a very compelling tool for some form of local first development.

Looks like you configure it with the connection string, so assuming you can just detect whether OPFS is available or swap based on the browser you should be fine.

Welcome to the future! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet

Maybe this is an excellent time for prompt injection :)

But is it a blog if it doesn't have an RSS feed?

…okay sure, technically yes, but not one I will be able to follow, or remember to read until it pops up in someone else's aggregator or links in the future.

This is the first time I had heard of hyperview, but it seems like an interesting approach for some mobile apps. I really appreciated the chapters on it, thank you!

You probably could, but you really want your database migrations to clear, repeatable, and dead simple.

I can also imagine edge cases like a migration dropping a column and another recreating it where it may be unclear what the state is, and honestly you don't want to be surprised when you migrate thousands of paying customers' data.

I never knew about this, thank you!

If you're curious about how the page was put together, or peeved it didn't load on your phone, check out this article describing how the author made it: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2024/04/08/case-study-84-24/

I knew I recognized it from somewhere, thank you!

This was exactly what LiquidPlanner did (probably does?). I can't speak for it today, but it was built as planning and scheduling first, task management second.

As a bonus we handled everything a ranges (that task? 1-4 days) so you'd get results like: this project is 90% likely to be done by a given date, 98% by this much later date you're going to hate.

I'm curious, what reporting is actually useful to your team.

I used to work on a project management tool, and everyone wanted "reporting", but when you got down to what they needed it was usually pretty minimal.

Probably prosemirror. I don't know that it's built in by default, but it's well within prosemirror's model, so it shouldn't require a large investment to use.

That said, prosemirror's got a pretty steep learning curve.

For a little more background, this article explains how to keep a record of which revisions shouldn't show up: https://tekin.co.uk/2020/09/ignore-linting-and-formatting-co...

Used well, I think it should help with this problem.

Isn't the only way to navigate it now by using the search bar to find the thing you're looking for?

I jest, but there was a time when I could find my settings in under a minute or two.

"We" contains more than just one perspective though.

As someone applying LLMs to a set of problems in a production application, I just want a tool that solves the problem. Today, that tool is an LLM, tomorrow it could be anything. If there are ~hacks~ elegant techniques that can get me the results I need faster, cheaper, or more accurately, I absolutely will use those until there's a better alternative.