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petecoop··on Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web
I believe it still uses EAS for certificates by default. You can use "prebuild" to get the ios / android directories. Alternatively start a React Native app and install their modules separately. These options still work well but require a lot more setup.
petecoop··on Show HN: AI Playground by Vercel Labs
What's the data policy on this? Are you keeping copies of the prompts and responses?
petecoop··on VSCode remote code execution advisory
Also see Fleet (https://fleetdm.com/) for an open source self-hosted solution. I'm currently using this at a small company to query / enforce policies across a bunch of Windows laptops.
petecoop··on AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years
Also they link to a business address service, which isn't a business. Actual cost of just owning a business in the UK is £13/year
petecoop··on World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon
There's a lot of benchmarks coming up on r/macgaming. CS:GO doesn't currently launch at all
petecoop··on Spamtoberfest
Thanks for commenting here, I use HA and I will contribute :)
petecoop··on Deno 1.0
Great :)
petecoop··on Tiny Acquires Meteor
Very much agree with you on this. I picked up a live Meteor app that felt very much like it had been built as a prototype that had been built upon into a production app. It was a mess, it had clearly evolved over time and over multiple Meteor releases, there was no obvious structure at all - just felt like a bunch of files that were all loaded into some soup that became the app.

I don't think Meteor ever had decent docs on going from the prototype stage to a fully fledged application and how you'd evolve the structure over the time.

I could name a lot of problems I've had with Meteor, and I definitely agree with having a proper evaluation of tech before using it - knowing the limits of the stack you choose and if it's going to lock you in in the long term.

It's felt like a framework that hasn't been given time needed recently to keep it up to date, improving docs etc as MDG have shifted their focus on Apollo.

petecoop··on My PHP Development Setup
Hiring/skillset of the existing team, existing legacy codebases that need to be worked on, simplicity... things aren't as black and white of you must use this technology over another, there are a lot of reasons involved
petecoop··on My PHP Development Setup
Hey, I didn't write the article but work with John... we deploy through a CI/CD pipeline using Concourse CI. Which builds the docker containers and eventually deploys them onto a Rancher cluster
petecoop··on Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
I'd guess you'd then also want to return a timestamp in the response and then fail if the timestamp is older than x minutes too
petecoop··on Cortana is really bad
I get different results on this too but to the same effect. At least macOS still gives you all options underneath whereas Windows 10 will just not show you anything sometimes
petecoop··on Go at Digital Ocean
This looks great, I've worked with teams that have their code on GitHub and don't want to move but would benefit from using GitLab for CI/CD.
petecoop··on $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
It depends on how many containers you want to run, if you have a lot of low memory requirement containers then it'd be significantly more expensive on Hyper.sh
petecoop··on Tips and tricks in using Webpack
Have you tried using watchify [1] to speed up your builds in development? I've also been using browserify-hmr [2] which is working nicely for hot module replacement and found it easier to setup than Webpack's hmr.

I think one of Webpack's benefits is that this stuff is all bundled with it, so everyone's using it but with browserify you need to go out and find these solutions yourself

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/watchify

[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/browserify-hmr

petecoop··on RethinkDB 2.1.5 performance and scalability
I'm using thinky too, I think it works fairly well but is a bit more lightweight to e.g. mongoose for MongoDB.

I'm not using any real-time features yet which makes me a bit sad, but have been using it before real-time was their focus.

I'm the maintainer of the yeoman express generator, glad you like it!

petecoop··on Skype Down
I also introduced Slack to the team, and now we're not going back!
petecoop··on Flight, an event-driven web framework from Twitter
This has been around since the start of 2013, I think Twitter are actually moving away from it. Reddit discussion from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/39qu3p/flightjs...
petecoop··on Font Awesome 4.1 released
This is why I usually use http://fontello.com/ to just take the ones out I want, it's pretty nice
petecoop··on Instant Edit - Type anything
use of contenteditable is worth its own project and newsworthy?