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yrezgui

70 karma · joined May 26, 2013

I'm a Software Engineer, based in London. I talk English, French and Arabic. Check my website: https://yrezgui.com
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yrezgui··on Ask HN: What personal finance tools do you use?
I've been using LunchMoney for more than six months now and couldn't be happier: https://lunchmoney.app

It's a simple yet powerful budgeting tool. YNAB always look overcomplicated and unfriendly to me

yrezgui··on Ask HN: Is Micro-PaaS Dead?
Serverless took over that niche. First with AWS Lambda & Google Cloud functions and nowadays solutions, like Google Cloud Run, do the same thing as Dokku & co without having to care about the ops part. They still make sense for the ones who use cloud providers with less offerings like Digital Ocean and don't want to deal with Kubernetes
yrezgui··on Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?
I got relatives who use 1password (https://1password.com) and are happy with. Dashlane (https://www.dashlane.com) would be the other one I have in mind.
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Good Postgres Native Clients?
Postico (https://eggerapps.at/postico) and TablePlus (https://tableplus.io) are the best ones.
yrezgui··on MLab is being acquired by MongoDB
Compose is hosting other types of databases now. I think the move for Mongo is to be THE platform for Mongo developers
yrezgui··on VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews
1996 you're wrong on "West hates Huawei so much". American might not have a great opinion of the brand but VLC is French project and I can tell you Huawei is popular in France. USA doesn't represent the whole West, just part of it.
yrezgui··on Ask HN: I am looking for sw to increase the user engagement of a saas app
Check out https://canny.io
yrezgui··on Why do websites use src=data:image/png;base64
For some websites, the cost of making a new HTTP request to get the image is higher than inlining it in the page in terms of performance
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Using React with Golang? and does it make sense?
For the first option, you just consider your API endpoint as an RPC made in Golang and consume the content in NodeJS/Express.

For the second option, you're right.

For the third one, to make it simple, it's a V8 engine inside Golang. It's not another process or server.

yrezgui··on Ask HN: Using React with Golang? and does it make sense?
You have different options:

The first one is to use NodeJS as your front end server and Golang for your API.

The second one is to use NodeJS with React as an internal micro service to returns the HTML content back to the Golang front end server.

The last one is to use a JavaScript interpreter within Golang. Some developers are doing the same in Java. Check this project for this option: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto

Now the question is which one is good. As always it depends on what you're looking for. I would say the NodeJS micro service renderer would be my favorite as it keeps all the complex logic in Golang.

yrezgui··on Ask HN: FaaS – Serverless Infrastructure Implementations of Cloud Providers
Have a look at IBM solution. It's named OpenWhisk and it's open source: https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk. Otherwise, you may look at Funktion which is using Docker: https://github.com/fabric8io/funktion
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Do you think a CLI-based SaaS would be useful?
String usage by DevOps who prefer the terminal for advanced usage or in an automated flow within a CI. Zeit.co is a great example but still early trend. Might be tough to convince your users to have this interface only.
yrezgui··on 19 KeyBase Invites remaining
Me too please, rezgui.y {at} gmail [.] com
yrezgui··on Why isn't ssdb more popular?
After reading the website and looking at the current production users, it seems the project has been created by a chinese team. Some (not the majority) commits were written in mandarin. It doesn't help to bring foreign developers to contribute. Also, they might not be in touch with the influential blogs or developers on social networks to talk about their project. Many nice front end projects made by Chinese developers have the same problem.
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Why did famous.js fail?
They're easier to read and code. Check out XAML for C#, it's dead simple. But one of their main problem is they advertised for too long (I remember waiting for ages) and we didn't get the 60 fps. It wasn't as fast as announced and painful to integrate.
yrezgui··on Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React
You'll have to use ReactJS as it's needed to have the control over the DOM.
yrezgui··on Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
Hi Philip, can you drop me a mail at yrezgui [at] uk.ibm.com, I would be happy to have a chat with you :)
yrezgui··on Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
Hi Teh, I'm a IBM Watson Developer Evangelist. The pricing is available here when you click on Standard plan: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Have you developed with Squarespace?
If you play with their JSON Template thing, you'll suffer. Honestly, that pseudo language isn't even well documented. I had to go through so many posts or questions on different forums to find all its features. Their UI tool is still a good thing but it's definitely not that developer friendly.
yrezgui··on Is It Time for Swift?
I'm not an iOS developer but for the native modules that I developed for Cordova or React Native, Swift is definitely a much better and cleaner language to develop it.
yrezgui··on Ask HN: What to do if you hate your coding job? (UK, 24yr old)
Hi dthrw, I'm from UK too. In my previous job, I was working on something very cool with the best colleagues that I got so far in my professional life but I wasn't feeling great by the new vision of the company. They weren't going in the wrong direction, just not the one that I was expecting. So I left. I didn't travel around the world like some people do but I searched for a remote job because I wanted to take a break from offices and work in my cozy room. UK and specifically London are looking for many developers so it should not be a problem to find a new job. Take your time to choose the right one. You may find it hard first (for me, it was remote or nothing) but you need to stand on your choice of life. You may have chosen the wrong job, don't do the mistake one more time. It's not selfish to privilege yourself. You worked and studied hard for your future so you should have the life that you want. Cheers and good luck bro ;)
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Are any startups working on text-to-speech?
Have a look to Watson Text to Speech API: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Has anyone found employment through “Who wants to be hired” threads?
I got my new job on one of these threads. Even so, I'm disappointed by how many companies don't even reply to mails while they need "urgently" more people
yrezgui··on Ask HN: Your Experience Using Soylent as a Food Replacement?
Huel was a good experience for me. I don't think it's possible to replace food completely. Having good lasagna or whatever is your favorite meal at least one time per week is needed to avoid frustration. I found it quite useful when I don't have time to cook or I want to eat lightly for dinner.

I don't know the taste of Soylent because they don't deliver yet in UK but Huel has a small taste of vanilla and it's quite nice.

http://huel.com

yrezgui··on Why is Facebook instant article so fast?
I didn't have a look yet but I guess it's a combinaison of removing all secondary content (ads, comments, etc.), compressing images, cache all the assets in all Facebook CDNs and saving them offline based on your favorite and popular news websites among your friends on a background process.
yrezgui··on ReactNative vs. NativeScript – A user's perspective
How "Tight to ReactJS and facebook ecosystem for React Native" is a minus but "Closely work with Google" is a positive point ? Even if ReactJS is made by Facebook engineers, I never saw integration with Facebook ecosystem in their code. Honestly the comparison is so subjective.

The plugin model of Nativescript is easier to write because you don't need to write the binding part but you're not showing all of the plugins already created for React Native. I'm pretty sure there are more for it than Nativescript.

I still didn't see good app written with Nativescript. The iOS demo in your links is so simple. Even with Ionic Framework, you can make better. For React Native, have a look to Gyroscope. https://blog.gyrosco.pe/the-making-of-gyroscope-running-a4ad...

I tried Nativescript and it's really good but I found myself more comfortable with React Native due to my ReactJS background. Like every hybrid solution, it depends on your knowledge, needs, targeted platforms, there is no absolute answer.

yrezgui··on Whatsapp is censoring links to Telegram
It reminds me that Windows Live Messenger blocked the share of YouTube links: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080510/windows-live-messe...
yrezgui··on Chat messages in bytes?
Did you have a look to Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift or Cap’n Proto for efficient network exchanges ?
yrezgui··on Ask HN: How did you start using Buffer?
I like to share articles, projects or even videos on different social networks. I never liked to use Tweetdeck or Hootsuite because I just want to share things through an extension, not via a dedicated application. For that, Buffer is the best
yrezgui··on React.Component vs. React.createClass
No one stops you to use ES6 notation in React.createComponent methods.
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