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There is absolutely no good reason to use this.

You and me both. It's not obvious up front that this is a GA competitor if you just click on the link and read the blog post. You do have to delve a bit deeper, unless you know who Plausible.io is.

It's magical.

And your spam folder is a result of those who have fought it.

The App Store in itself is by no means a killer app if all the apps available on the App Store are turds.

I'm not saying they are - I'm an iPad Pro owner and user and there's a few apps I use on a regular basis - Shapr 3D most recently but there are certainly no apps that mean I absolutely need an iPad Pro for as there are equivalent apps, usually better, on desktop or smartphone.

I'm not a gamer but have a few iPad games which are good but again, other platforms tend to have the same or similar games that are either better suited to that platform (console or PC) or are just better than the iPad equivalent.

What the iPad only, sadly, does better than smartphones and better than laptops, is YouTube. And that is possibly it, at the moment. I hope things improve because my iPad Pro cost me a lot of money.

At a stretch you can, although probably not as a primary/sole machine for web development. I bought an iPad Pro about a year ago with the intention of doing just that (and using it for other stuff).

Essentially you need to be able to work from a remote server to do anything that could be considered serious web development.

So prepare to spin yourself up an EC2 instance or a Digital Ocean droplet that you will be working from.

There are some good tools available now -

Working Copy (https://workingcopyapp.com/) is a very good Git client

Blink(https://blink.sh/) is the terminal app you'd need

And I've used a mixture of

Kodex(https://kodex.app/), Textastic(https://www.textasticapp.com/) and GoCoEdit(https://gocoedit.app/)

for my editor. None of these are as good as something like SublimeText or a proper IDE but they are good, basic text editors with FTP/SFTP/etc. integration, code highlighting/folding/auto indentation etc. GoCoEdit I found to be probably the better of those three but they all offer something the others don't.

There's a SQL Client you can use (if you're not that comfortable on the CLI with your chosen SQL server) called SQLPro which I believe is available for MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server or you can get one that covers all but it's not especially cheap - £55 a year or £150 one time payment.

I've downloaded and used Dash, which is a documentation app that gives you offline access to API documentation for all your favourite languages and tools.

So there are plenty of tools available - some of them integrate with each other more tightly but I've found you're still really limited in how much development you can do. There's nothing like Docker or Vagrant available, you couldn't run your favourite language locally in a terminal although I recall seeing a PHP parser and a Javascript environemtn available for iOS that gives you some ability to code locally. Nothing you could use for any serious work.

Until Apple gives us the ability to get to the guts of iOS and install our own tools, realistically you're always going to be limited to working off a remote server for any serious work. I think the tools that are currently available are great but are limited. You may find a workflow that gets around the limitations and if you do, please share!

Are you involved in sales?

Yet they do...

GIMP? Inkscape? Blender? Libre Office? Firefox?? Chrome??

I'm actually not sure what you're suggesting. There are no great open source projects outside those written for development? That's clearly false.

No, it's not a problem. I don't remember when I last "wasted time synchronising my encrypted database" because Bitwarden does it behind the scenes without my knowledge.

I'll give that a try!

The author described the modern web browsing experience to a tee. It's awful and one of the reasons my web browsing is limited to very few sites and I'm careful on what I click on.

The modern web browsing experience is clearly not what TBL had in mind when he started developing the web.

Newspaper sites seem to want you to do everything but actually read the story you've clicked on to read.

Take this for example: https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/coronavirus-doesnt...

Before we even get to the story, they're trying to draw you away to other content. Then we have a video and then we have a newsletter signup form. And an ad. Of course we have an advert. This is the modern web.

Following this, we have a few short paragraphs that are actually the story we came to read. A huge image, then more links to take you away from the story. Another handful of short paragraphs, another link to take you away from the story and this repeats until we get to the end of the story we came to read. Some comments follow the story (with a bunch of more links to take us away between the two, of course) and then what feels like an infinite scroll of sponsored links.

I think the Daily Mirror is possibly one of the worst (one of many reasons I don't ever visit this site except by mistake or in the case of this comment) but I'm finding more and more websites are almost impossible to read. Which is why I don't really spend much time on the web these days. I'd say the majority of my web browsing habits come via youtube these days.

HN is usually pretty reliable for decent content that is easy to consume, but beware if you click on a link found via Google or DDG (or other mainstream search engines)

Is it not expected that when you pay money for a service then the performance should be good? Good service should be the default. If the service is outstanding then that is when we should start giving a bonus.

US tipping etiquette has nothing to do with good service and all to do with propping up underpaid staff.

I feel like that is a pretty insignificant issue compared with 8-20 million tons of plastics ending up in the sea.

Is your current desktop at 133Mhz Pentium? It runs perfectly well on my 2015 Macbook Pro!

Try running Google Maps on your 133Mhz Pentium.

People use maps for daily activities all the time. Not to find where they're trying to get to, but for how to get somewhere more quickly - ie. public transport directions, or if it's quicker to walk than go by bus/train/tram.

Easily disabled if you find it annoying. And if you're self disciplined enough to not turn it off, surely you're self disciplined enough to curb your browsing habits?

"Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied"

Really? Designed? Come on.

I thought I was too.

It sounds to me like you're comment shaming!

Why do people use hand saws and chisels when powered table saws, compound saws and biscuit joiners are available to us?

As someone who shoots film, there are a number of reasons, one being the asthetic you get from film that you can't (even with x hours in Photoshop) get from digital. I shoot large format and there are no (within my budget, at the very least) 8" x 10" digital sensors.

Film also more or less forces you to make prints. I would hazard a guess that a small percentage of digital photos ever make it to print and half of a photograph for me is a tactile thing you can hold in your hands and give to someone else.

Lastly, it's the process. That's something I can't explain.

As someone who used to commute through London on the tube and knows the underground wifi very well, you take on board the limitations of the connection. And you know the connection is going to fluctuate so you're not going to be doing anything serious.

Broken images and incorrectly loaded CSS can also break pages and make them unusuable so where do we draw the line?

I do get your point but on the other hand many sites are using JS frameworks for good reason and 5kb is absolutely nothing to improve the user experience. You really can't complain about the size of a 5kb javascript file in this day and age otherwise let's just revert back to HTML 2 or 3 to cater for all edge cases.

Sorry but 5kb is absolutely nothing for today's Internet connections, public WiFi or overloaded cellular connection or something else, especially if it's provided by a cdn. Yes, it is absolutely no big deal to be loading 5kb. Come on, be serious.

I've been working as a web developer since 1994. I've done my time, now my evenings and weekends are for me.

.. Which you rarely see stuck in people's ears. You do see those little white airpods everywhere though. People have them stuck in their ears even when they're not playing any audio.

I've cried occasionally in recent years through laughter but never through sorrow. Mid 40s now but I have few recollections of crying through sorrow since I was a child - all brought on either by the breakup of a relationship or the death of a grandparent.

I suspect I'd probably keep my crying to myself if I had a reason to, which seems to go against the norm on the internet. On reddit in particular, people can't seemingly wait to announce their tears over one thing or another. It's like a competition as to who is the most emotional. Part of me thinks "Good on you, I wish I was that emotional", the other part of me thinks they're crying out for attention.

So you have never imposed your view, like or dislike of something - be it a TV program, a video game, a piece of music, a political party/piece of legislation?

I can't say I experience any preaching by vegetarians/vegans. Perhaps I see the odd advert on a website or TV, or occasional news articles but the vegan/vegetarian friends/associates I have, never have them preaching at me.

Where is everyone hanging out that vegans and vegetarians are constantly pestering them? And, if you're being honest to yourself, is it really an issue in your life?

Is there nothing you believe in that you believe so strongly about that you'd like it if everyone else has the same belief?

Nothing? Or as simple as "I loved watching X tv program, you should check it out too"? Surely there is something you promote in your life? If so, same thing. Why should you impose your tv watching habits on other people?

Prediction for 2030. There will be 2030 new javascript frameworks.