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Agreeing on the debugging concerns. Adding another layer of abstraction on top of everything else isn't going to help anyone. Creating an abstraction that fits so well that you don't have to worry about the layer underneath is extremely hard. That might not show during initial development, but will come up in the maintenance phase for sure.

A bit unsure where the observation of more offline capabilities comes from. I have the impression that things are moving in the opposite direction: Everything needs to be online.

I suspect the intruders would use the code to find vulnerabilities in other companies. Which they can use for easy ransomware access or straight up stealing customer data. Or both. Much less trouble than analysing and running someone else’s software.

In Germany it is. Everyone I know has one.

Don't tempt me!

Got the same issue. Found those static site generators somewhat unwieldy to handle, especially for non-tech people. I worked on two different approaches:

* A desktop app for creating static blogs, local preview, generates assets, optional deploy directly to Vercel. [1]

* A cron job which reads the paragraphs of a Notion page. Currently only generates an Atom/RSS feed from each paragraph. Inspired by [2], currently no source available.

[1] https://www.project-daily.com

[2] https://brandur.org/atoms

Sweet! I have no interest in Kubernetes, but this lead me to give Crystal a try. Feels solid so far, nice standard lib for the usual things (json, http etc.). Compiler warnings helped find errors quickly. The language documentation reads very easily. And best of all: standalone executables.

What’s „native“ here? iOS and Android? Desktop?

NetNewsWire on iOS

From what I experienced not a lot of code changes ownership over a period of years. Not saying code always stays at its place. But disagreeing that ownership „usually“ changes with code updates to the code. I do get on board that change in ownership is often a reflection organisational change. Change to often and things fall through the cracks.

Bus and ferry in Hamburg

Awesome! Did something similar using GTFS data. Used an e-ink display though: https://github.com/Scarysize/transit-pi

Is it me or are most of the docs only available in Chinese?

Took me two years to learn that I can hit the volume down button to trigger the camera…

Oh, right, there was the WoW launcher before battle.net. I think I have another game in mind which used this, but I can’t really remember. Would love to get more insights on the economics of this (p2p vs. cdn).

The gaming industry has been using peer to peer downloads for a long time AFAIK. Unsure if they still do, pretty sure the Battle.net client did it.

You're right, my statement came from a lot of frustration. I still think it's a hit for the Scala ecosystem.

Totally agree. Akka was a huge selling point for Scala. It's a huge loss for the ecosystem. Akka isn't "just" a library, it's a programming model. A lot of software is built around that model and it's going to be a painful effort to get rid of it. It made itself irreplaceable and now they're pulling the plug.

The (current) results sadden me:

1.26 mio. votes; Option 1 (41%), Option 2 (21%), Option 3 (34%), Option 4 (4%).

I enjoyed reading your blog post. It was very well written. Most of your points resonate with me.

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Awesome map, and awesome use of mapbox.

I haven't followed their progress and was really surprised to see globe view, 3D terrain and custom projections landing in v2.

Count-min sketch comes to mind [1]. It's a probabilistic data structure similar to the bloom filter. Learnt about it in this system design video "Top K Problem" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count–min_sketch

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-XDoPjoHw

Add to that all timestamps being US/Pacific for an outage in Europe...

> We took a chance that Slate would support more browsers and its API would remain stable (despite the maintainers strongly suggesting that both might not happen!). Unfortunately, our gamble didn't pay off, and the maintainers introduced significant breaking changes to the API and document model…

You have been warned…

Really enjoying this thread, lots of great projects.

I've been working on "Daily" [1], a desktop app for creating blogs and websites. Everything's stored in a single file, local preview, output static files or upload to Vercel. It's nearly at a point, where it's finished. Of course I've lots of ideas for features. and monetisation. But I don't like the marketing part, except talking about it here and there. And that's fine.

[1] https://www.project-daily.com

There would still be a lot of moving parts on the table. What to do with all these HTML files? How do I link them together? How do I get those files to a hosting provider? Where do I handle global styling? For the content creating itself a WYSIWYG editor would be fine, but there's more to the process. I'm also guilty of the builder mentality. It's just a fun project to work on and it benefits at least on other person :)

That's what I experienced building a static site generator for my dad. You would just dump markdown into a dropbox folder. A cron job would poll from dropbox and generate the website. But even markdown is too daunting for a non-techie. Non-technical users are probably not used to write "code"/"mark-up" and have a good grasp at what's coming out on the other side. The visual aspect, a sort of preview, is missing. There are a lot of options to preview markdown. That's just another hurdle, another tool they might have to learn. It's all just so loosely integrated, even I have a hard time putting it together. Might be fun for us to fiddle around, but it isn't if you just want to put your content out there. I've started to work on an alternative: Desktop app, with a block based editor (text, images, headings nothing more). Shows a local preview of your site. Outputs static assets and/or uploads directly to Vercel for hosting. Few knobs to fiddle around.

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I’m just running a single contact form on my blog. Messages aren’t displayed on articles. Users don’t even have to include their email if they don’t want to. The comment is stored in a file on disk by a very simple fastCGI script. The rest of the blog is static [1]

[1] https://franz.hamburg/writing/boring-website.html

I don't know whether the order of Netflix categories is something I wanted to change. Of course they optimise for people's attention (time spent in the app). And they use what works for most users. And it's nothing new, supermarkets have been doing this for ever.