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samldevon Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Your math adds up to 525,600,000 iOS devices per year. That can't possibly be right

samldevon A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

Go Heels!

samldevon Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing

I switched from Svelte/SvelteKit to Svelte/Laravel and my productivity went through the roof. Same would apply with Rails or probably other batteries included backends. SvelteKit gives you SSR but that’s it. Laravel/Rails/etc gives you database, queues, real time support, authentication, authorization, the list goes on.

I plan to make my next YouTube video making my case for why Laravel is better with Svelte than SvelteKit is https://youtube.com/@samldev

samldevon Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

In this scenario you’d also have to pay for bandwidth since that’s the variable cost here. The more views you get, the more you pay. And obviously you wouldn’t get any money from YouTube for views since they aren’t making money from your videos.

Genuinely curious, would you still go for it?

samldevon Reduct: Transcript-Based Video Editing

Cool idea!

It’s strange to list “Up to 10 customers, free” as “free” when it’s one of the features of a paid tier. It’s not free it’s part of what you’re paying for.

samldevon Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?

I was a college swimmer, qualified for Olympic Trials in 2012 and 2016. There are absolutely slow and fast pools. It basically comes down to two things:

1. The depth - which is only 7ft in Paris, unusually shallow for a competition pool.

2. The sides. Does the water spill over the sides into the gutters, or smash into a wall and bounce back, creating more chop.

A trained eye can see all the swimmers in Paris struggling in their last 10-20 meters (heck, an untrained eye can spot some of these). Bummer that it makes the meet feel slow but at least it generally affects all the swimmers equally

samldevon Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right

FWIW I use 3 and 4 on iOS all the time for fixing typos etc

samldevon Latency numbers every programmer should know

I’m on iOS and can’t see the bottom of any of the bars. They’re hidden behind the Safari controls at the bottom of the screen.

samldevon Home Assistant 2023.11

Shameless plug of my Go library for writing Home Assistant automations - for any HA users out there that want to be able to just write code instead of fussing with UI (built-in automations, Node Red, etc)

https://github.com/saml-dev/gome-assistant

samldevon Imba – A friendly full-stack language

Thanks for sharing, this is cool to see. Do you use electron to wrap an Imba app for desktop?

samldevon Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

Do you actually run a backend for the syncing? I imagine you’d have to find a way to monetize with enough users if so.

samldevon Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

Is there no way to delete transactions?

samldevon Cooking Air Quality

Matthias Wandel made a great video showing how it's better to place the fan a meter or two away from the window to get more air flow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw

samldevon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://saml.dev

So far I’ve only got a few posts related to local-first home automation, which for me is Home Assistant and my open source library gome-assistant for writing automations in Go.

I plan to add some write ups for my woodworking projects as well when I get around to it. It exists for me to share things with friends/family and any others that are interested, and I don’t intend to force myself to write on any particular cadence.

samldevon Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language

Umami looks great, I just sent it to my wife who just uses Apple notes for recipes right now. I’m curious, how can you offer it for free while having server side processing / syncing etc?

samldevon I wrote my own smart home software

Shameless plug, I wrote a Golang library for writing Home Assistant automations called gome-assistant [0]. The API looks sorta similar to this C# one, I only briefly glanced at netdaemon though.

[0]: https://github.com/saml-dev/gome-assistant

samldevon Motion Canvas – Visualize Complex Ideas Programmatically

This is one of those tools that’s so clever that I wish I had a use case for it. It looks really well done, and the creators YouTube Chanel is filled with high quality videos that were made using it. Really cool.

samldevon Show HN: Unclutter — A new approach to reader mode

You may want to check your site on mobile Safari. I’m on an iPhone and every time one of your scroll animations plays it zooms the screen out. Really jarring, enough to make me click off.