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Vivaldi Mail checks a couple boxes, like offline access & support for almost every service provider. But no completely unique or new features. It’s interesting that they have RSS integrated as well as a Calendar but I’m not seeing what’s particularly better.

This is how some commentary on anything new starts, shallow opinionated "bullshit" to use the author's language. Time will tell if the audience trends to be rich people, even when the presumably non-Pro version launches. But I think there might be use cases the author isn't aware of, like people with disabilities who might flock to a device that let's them experience computing in a different way. The fact that you can insert prescription lenses, detect nearby objects & people, and possibly improve your vision is compelling to some people who might think of this in a different way. There might be other use cases that help people, like maybe a doctor in one country getting realtime feedback in an operating room from a doctor who remotely can advise during an operation by seeing what local doctor sees (hopefully that's under dire circumstances).

But Vision Pro probably won't give you an open mind or a good imagination.

I don't think this is a devtools* replacement or a significant enough "game changer", this is just a different way to interact with CSS. Devtools reveals both the HTML & CSS (as well as the cascading rules that comprise what I'm seeing). Devtools let's me introspect & debug why what I'm seeing as it's happening with CSS in conjunction with HTML & possible HTML changes caused by JavaScript events or pointer-events, for example. I like that this tool could make looking at the parsed & rendered code in a browser window easy to "see" & maybe copy. But for a small part of what devtools does this really is expensive. More expensive than most other apps I use. More expensive than GPT+ plus. More than the cost of hosting my site on DigitalOcean or AWS.

If this were a truly must have app & I could get past the price, I'd enjoy it with the concern that most features could be incorporated into devtools directly, by browser makers or by other extensions that expand what devtools can do, although many features of this tool already can be achieved. In fact, I think that's the real missing feature in this service: it could be an web extension for augmenting CSS work devtools.

Lastly, what if the price started at $15/month and for every 250,000 (maybe less, maybe more) new users everyone's price was dropped by a $0.50/month but could never drop below $3/month. By the time the price hits $5/month there are at least 5 million subscribers ... (with no annual plans & no life time bananas plan) that seems pretty good.

* devtools is pretty awesome & pretty consistent in every browser.

(Oh, and I'm super cheap, too.)

That’s awesome though I haven’t received confirmation.

To me, it still seems less advantageous to try something that seemed as stable as Neeva with a 1 year subscription, month to month is okay. That’s what I’ll likely do for a Kagi subscription…

“We’ve discovered”??

I’ve discovered saving by using the annual plan was a mistake. I’ll avoid that mistake if I try Kagi or something else.

But really miss Neeva’s integrations that were cancelled recently. Having the ability to search my GitHub repos & the internet simultaneously was pretty cool. Add to that Notion, and other services. It was great for the the 4 months it was around but with 8 months left, I feel ripped off but it doesn’t seem worth getting too worked up over.

Just can’t let that happen again.

"Was this text generated by ChatGPT?" seems like a relevant question ...

-- For each of the students.

-- For someone in the Computer Science department.

-- A different prompt tool (like Bard even)

I hope this terrible form of evaluation & judgement doesn't affect our legal system.

I’m not switching but this is a good demo approach. And if it gets better over time might seem ironic to early iPhone owners who were told that web apps would suffice… you can accomplish a lot with SPA / PWA.

It also makes me wonder if an Android “container” could run as an app on an iPhone. Maybe sideloading leads to that?

This is the first step… any thoughts on step 2? How many steps until advance notice for API changes?

Does anyone know if iCloud (photos) storage is AWS S3? Curious if using both iCloud & Amazon Photos is a decent redundant backup plan in addition to a local copy. Or if I have iCloud & Prime, why not? (I also use Backblaze.)

Well said … “ads keep the content free” so says the anti-ad-blocking modal on that site.

More fodder for the “dumb” devices market. Hold onto your offline car & toaster. Seriously, this is both astonishing and revolting for most people, but maybe we all need to learn how to keep our dumb stuff working instead of throwing it away.

Fastmail's masked email, in addition to iCloud's hide my email, are great alternatives to massaging your address with a . or a + ... Both of those require payment. I'm really really happy with Fastmail (and use iCloud too), but wonder what the allure of Gmail still is (other than cost)?

RSS is awesome. And great to see new innovation like this. The notion of RSS Brain best features seem to depend on having already discovered feeds. Feedly, for example, has a discovery experience to find new feeds which is helpful. If I already had a bunch of feeds RSS Brain might be right… but I think I’d still miss an easy way to not just find related articles in similar feeds I already subscribe to. The magic of some competing products is finding whole sources or feeds related to topics I’m already interested in.

For all the comments about Safari versus Chrome, I would love to see Safari take the lead in documentation although MDN does a great job. I mainly want to see that so we can extend the comparisons to web.dev and sites that probably wouldn’t require consent acknowledgment.

That makes sense, to an extent. But tossing it in a drawer, from others’ posts, seems extreme. Calling, texting and many other functions may work well for a while. Bank apps may not get updated leaving web access as an alternative though maybe convenient.

If it still starts up what prevents its use as a mobile phone?

If it’s dead and you’re looking to replace the iPhone mini 12 or 13 (refurbished or new 13) are great options.

I agree with others regarding the consistency across all streaming services as pretty disparate hard to use user experiences.

That said building for web, iOS, Android, consoles, PCs, macOS and so on means trying to be consistent for your service. Which then leads to issues & challenges, and less consistency with respect to competitors.

I’d be curious to know how often people tend to favor whichever service they used first, and how often people grow tired of services they really like for content but hate for subjectively bad user experience.

The demographics should not matter, period. The idea that few people use the app or that direct communication is the standard at a wealth management bank like this doesn’t mean lack of preparedness is okay. In other words what omissions or lapses should a millionaire be okay with.

I’m not in the market for this type of bank, but software update reliability is important… As important as things like 2FA maybe not? But this seems like a non-trivial mistake.

So seriously, I agree that this seems like a bug. But it also seems easier in some cases it might benefit others. So similar to Show HN or Ask HN … Bug HN as a prefix for post titles like this?

I really think however small there is value, and it’s still fair to reply “file a bug report.”

There are a significant number of references to a BCG report from June 2022. The article doesn’t link to that report directly. I don’t doubt that the report exists… but linking to it wouldn’t hurt. It might be this one: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/electric-cars-finding-...

The "?" icon in the upper open a small modal that says:

"This Is A Thing

This is an exploration of the idea that we can't control everything in our lives, but that we do have some agency in how we feel. This was inspired by writings from Seneca, Epictetus, and other Stoic thinkers. I hope you enjoy it!

If you have suggestions or notice any bugs, please feel free to contact the developer."

Just a thought ... move the "Click anywhere to begin" to initial text from above. Including that explanation upfront might make clicking to begin a little more comfortable.

Check out http://pinboard.in/resources/ ... and that's not purely a recommendation to look at pinboard; scroll to the bottom of Resources & there's a list of alternatives. Many of which are mentioned here. Pretty bold, in my opinion, to list those and offer pinboard at $22/year (which actually seems like a good price). For the record, I'm using Instapaper and Safari's built-in (synced) bookmarks. So apparently, I'm not spiritually aligned.

To me, Search is the number 1 need. And would be cool if an extension that added a button to bookmark pages visited could also introspect every page I visit to look through old bookmarks & show a count in a separate button to view similar related pages I've already visited.

So I just went to Ford.com and like almost all manufacturer’s sites, I can’t build & price without entering a zip code and immediately after doing so base prices jump for fees including delivery without any options selected. No pricing for me to go to the car is available and prices seem to increase no matter what zip code I enter. The base price seems off no matter how you want to buy. So then if I inquire about a vehicle on lot at local dealers prices are all over the place.

But if I look at a 1 year old used vehicle, prices seem to normalize and become much more consistent. Using Carvana & CarMax, the price of a Bronco Sport seems to be free and clear of arbitrary markup.

So what is the allure of new? And of buying used from a dealership? They both seem like really bad choices. But maybe there’s some real benefit to new I’m missing? I’m seriously in the market & see a video like this and feel that it reinforces my opinion that I’m better off with a used vehicle for the sake of depreciation I’m avoiding and the nightmare of doing business with price gougers.

Yes! One nice aspect of version controlled notes: change management "trail". Meaning that I don't have to note what specific changes occurred to a requirement in a project but can just change the requirement. If I need to research why something took longer than expected one of the first ways to research that is via file history from git or from Gitlab / Github's History user experiences.

Totally agree, and to date my workaround is that my default view for the repo is the initial README.md in edit mode ... I drop stuff that's top of mind or urgent and then afterwards (or later) move to a different file if needed.

So for both use cases (Gitlab & Github) their web IDEs are leveraging Git (from the web GUI). So the cool aspect of all of this is that I could clone the repo locally and maybe even re-purpose for a Hugo site. But the core benefit of version control is there.

This part is really misleading: "AMP is a new markdown language which can be compared to HTML." AMP according to amp.dev: "AMP is a web component framework to easily create user-first experiences for the web." ... which is also misleading. To say "easily" is presumptuous or optimistic. You can do a lot with AMP but to have AMP pages that validate & adhere to rules around CSS inlining and file size limits, for example, isn't trivial. I think that's really why developers aren't fans. Pragmatically can you know the effort is worth it? For any significantly large news or media site AMP is a big investment & I think that's why product owners and stakeholders waffle over whether or not to provide AMP experiences. And then finally, what if it actually works? Then the focus becomes for how long? Can't know that either ...

I think it’s good to be aware of their software advances, but most of the hardware reveals really demonstrated the amount of time needed to copy competitors’ designs (with a few exceptions).

Are there example apps on Google Play or iOS App Store to try? I think evaluating a UI Kit like this would benefit from being able to see a full fledged app.

I have a Twitter account I don’t use much, not sure how this might affect that. I do think the internet is missing a pure communication channel like the emergency broadcast system. If Musk can create a true open or transparent platform could he potentially make it a non-profit? People might balk at the idea he’d spend so much to take it private but that would be iconic. Who’s done something to alter the internet as we know it like this if he goes down the public service non-profit route? If he goes the other direction, I’d love to see how he could make it profitable; but does he have to???