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ricksnykeon Ask HN: Do we still need native apps?

If you ask me it should be the other way around, do we need web apps at all?

1. Most web "apps" actually only work on Chrome, so there's that. So much for the open, standardized web.

2. Most web apps track the heck out of everything you do.

3. Most web apps are sluggish and use more resources than they should.

4. Most web apps are like Juicero, expensive solutions to non existent problems.

ricksnykeon Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost

IANAL but the appeal isn't going to fly. In the states this guy would probably be homeless by now tho :o

ricksnykeon Ask HN: FOSS projects with bad UX?

One word, Blender.

ricksnykeon Two Years of Functional Programming in JavaScript: Lessons Learned

Functional in JavaScript never made sense to me, we don't have immutability in the language. While V8 has made optimisations for short lived objects this doesn't hold true across the board so perf can be quite terrible with "pure" style FP.

Theoretically "pure" code is beautiful, in practice it tends to perform badly especially in languages that don't have value types and copy mechanisms.

ricksnykeon The NES Homebrew Scene

Fascinating that these scenes are still thriving, just recently saw "8-Bit Guy"'s postmortem video on writing and shipping a game for C64.