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Every line you delete is a line you no longer need to maintain. We aggressively prune old code in our apps and it has definitely helped with maintainability. For a mobile app it’s also code you don’t ship so that’s a nice bonus which I guess is not much of an argument on a backend codebase

Wrote up a high level overview on what you would need to build an open source Foursquare clone on the AT Protocol today. Based on what i've learned experimenting with Anchor.

I’m experimenting with adding location data to Bluesky posts. Think Swarm/Foursquare check-ins but federated. This is a roundup on the current state of things.

Just released this fastlane plugin to translate your iOS apps. It uses the DeepL api to translate all the languages you have in your Localizable.xcstrings file. I use it to translate my own apps and feel like more iOS devs could use this to have a bigger reach for their apps.

Claude Opus 4 is releasing today it seems. Time story was published by accident and retracted again.

Top notch developer experience; it just works. But when i was building a semi large web app with it a few years back I got quite bored with the amount of cookie cutter code I needed to write. Perhaps the amount of rails type frameworks has progressed enough for that to have become a non issue though.

As a react native developer I can confirm SwiftUI is more fun. Mostly because of the relative simplicity. You just need Xcode or these days an iPad with Playgrounds on it and you can build stuff.

I’m intrigued with Funny. What makes these frameworks funny?

The documentation only has a screenshot of the brands supported. Would be nice to just be able to lookup my car brand and make support in the docs instead of having to make an Auth flow first...

Huh... Safari on iOS crashes on that page

Did that not turn out to be uikit port to macos?

https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/porting-ios-apps-macos.htm...

* differentiate between backlog and ready for development: (bi)weekly triage * bugs first, then code reviews, then features * order features by priority; PM? Triage as well? * work ready for development list top to bottom

Looks like the tags and keyvals could cover some of that. Maybe a bit hard to express priority (or change it).

Would be neat if changes in the dashboard would update the todos in your code (bit scary though)

The resale value for a Mac after 4 years can easily be 50% of the original price. With this issue; not so much.

fixed budgets. works fairly well for most european countries like e.g. germany; https://theconversation.com/how-germany-managed-to-abolish-u...

Postico is great but it does seem to hang/crash with big operations quite often. From my quick tests it does not seem like TablePlus has similar issues which is fantastic.

We had been collecting these internally for a while now. We're working on a product in this space currently so this seemed like a good time to start sharing some of this stuff with the outside world.

We intend to keep curating on high quality full handbooks only but perhaps it's worth thinking about other sub sites or a blog at well at some point.

Glad you like it!

If your interested in how different companies deal with 'sharing' their culture you might enjoy https://handbook.work We have built this recently to start collecting company handbooks, and culture guides like this, as inspiration for writing your own. Or just for the curious.

Ugh typos, but you got my point :) Are you planning to move beyond programming too (duolingo for learning -anything-) or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

Just finished the swift course and it leaves me wanting more. I mostly like that I can do a few excercises while waiting for the train to arrive and then just pick it up the next day for a few minutes. Feels a bit like duolingo for learning. Unnoticed some humanities subjects in the store screenshots? Would be cool to do the same treatment for history or more high level concepts in programming like algorithms. Kudos so far!

That would not hold up in court. At least not in European court. Consumer law trumps EULAS and its illegal to put arbitration terms in consumer contracts.

I think 2 is a common misconception. People who might not have much money to spend on luxury services as described in the article will most likely still pay for something that truly solves a problem. Actually solving a problem will always be worth more than scratching an itch. Taking the 'underserved' seriously as potential customers is worth a strategy meeting at a lot of startups I'd say.

Florin - https://florinapp.com | Product Developer | Full-time | Amsterdam, NL | ONSITE

Our team is shipping an app that takes the pain out of payments. It’s called Florin and helps students share, split or pay bills based on someone's phone number. We believe there’ll soon be a time where money transfers itself. Help our team build that world of smart money and less hassle. If you see this too, we should talk.

You would be responsible for building all our client applications for mobile and web. That means mostly working with Florin co-founder Bas. The job is for someone who’s into more than purely coding.

We’ll ask you to come up with creative solutions for both hard programming, animation as well as UX problems. You love working with Javascript, but also know how to deal with its shortcomings. You’ll occasionally need to dive into Objective-C or Java code to deal with native bridges for React Native.

Stack: Javascript, React.js & React-native, Node, Redis

==Team==

Founders: Bas de Vries and Andre Woons. Started programming and founded their first startup in their teens

Designers: Coen van Hasselt, https://dribbble.com/Florinapp

Engineers: You'll be the first engineering employee beyond the founding team

Backed: Florin is one of the startups in the Backspace startup studio program

==Interview==

Skype call with me (Tijs from Backspace) and Andre (Florin CTO) [1 hr] >> In-person [1 hr] >> Second Interview and (paid) coding excercise >> Go or No Go

==Apply==

Full job description and application form here: https://florin.homerun.co/product-developer/en

– Tijs Teulings, Technologist at Backspace startup Studio, https://backspace.studio

I'm using https://soverin.net for €29/year (€39 if you don't have your own domain) to limit my google dependence. Added benefit that they are based in EU. Disclaimer: our company works with them so I'm definitely biased.

Hmm, your right. Sorry about the mis information. I was confusing it with the knowledge worker status but that would only work if a company hires you and sponsors your application. So nothing to do with DAFT. Even as 'zzp' you still get a lot of tax benefits though. Especially the first few years. But if that does indeed invalidate your claim for the 30% ruling your method seems like the way to go.

Yes. All you need is a business registration and a bank account with €5k in it. Both easy to setup in a week or two. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

For me it was in french while i live in the Netherlands (where we speak dutch). Somebody needs to get a fancier IP db maybe.

It's €42k/year for workers under 30 and €51k/year if over 30. Which to be honest for a skilled developer is not out of the ordinary in NL (which is the point of those minimums).

When i was just starting out (back in 1996) i simply built a website for myself, then one for a friend, then one for the company where i was working as a janitor to get some extra income to pay for my studies. Mostly for free, the company one in exchange for computer parts since they could then just write it off as tax deductible office equipment :) Basically you build up your portfolio on the low end until you find an entry level position somewhere or find that your good at selling yourself so you can start freelancing and then you roll from there.