AlexITC

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by AlexITC 7y ago
What's the biggest challenge on maintaining such an important project? Have you even been tired of it and just willing to stop? I understand this started as a toy project and they are always fun, but Scala.js got to an impressive state
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We built https://safer.chat some time ago and I have been using it on my phone for a while, there are some glitches but in general it's been usable.
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As others mention, I also have the trust that I can pick anything and it will have decent quality, even on certain items that are cheaper on different stores, it's simpler to get them at costco because I know I can return them very eas
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This project accepts Bitcoin [1] and it even accepts 0 confirmation payments [2]. [1] https://smsprivacy.org/ [2] https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/zeroconf-payments.htm...
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by AlexITC 7y ago
We have had compile-time checks on SQL in Scala for years, I believe slick 3 ( https://scala-slick.org/ ) was the pioneer in the language. One detail that I really liked from Slick is that the compilation fails if your querie
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I have seen some suggestions but I haven't been able to find an app supporting the following, if anyone knows one app, please share: - Works on the phone and on the computer. - The data can be synced to a server which stores it encrypt
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Your comment made me remember, the first time my extension took more than 3 weeks in review was when the description was "improved". There weren't any code changes, it's totally insane and as you said, it makes developin
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by AlexITC 7y ago
Sadly, yes. I worked on an extension deployed to Firefox and Chrome, initially, Firefox was taking around two days to accept changes, while the app was being released on Chrome pretty fast (taking a couple of hours), at that time, the exten
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by AlexITC 7y ago
After working a bit with extensions, I noticed some tricky details, this opinionated template can help you to get started easily to build browser extensions without thinking much about the architecture. It is far from perfect but it's
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Show HN: An opinionated template for building browser extensions with scala-JS(github.com)
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I know two not-so-complex ways for dealing with this: 1. Use a persistent queue where you store what needs to be done, this allows you to ensure than an operation will eventually succeed by a leveraging the powers of the queue, you'll
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GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries(github.blog)
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Of course the browser is capable of handling e2e encryption, I even built a chat that does that: https://safer.chat/
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IOHK | Scala Developer | Remote | Full-time | https://iohk.io We are a fully remote company working mainly on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, we have lots of researchers and have a formal methods team, our main programming lang
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As far as I remember, GitLab supports rendering PlantUML diagrams. On GitHub, you can use a trick to render the diagrams using the public PlantUML server, which works only is your diagrams can be public. I have a script that renders the dia
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by AlexITC 7y ago
IOHK | Scala Developer | Remote | Full-time | https://iohk.io We are a fully remote company working mainly on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, we have lots of researchers and have a formal methods team, our main programming lang
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Until tsc compiles just fine even when you wrote a function that uses an undeclared variable.
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> This also means that other messengers using similar contact discovery allow to de-anonymize its users the same way. While I don't like to have messaging apps tied to the phone number, it has become a mainstream model that most peo
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I haven't tried them but the in our case, the problem is the same, there is no good timing to accommodate the 3 time zones.
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Well, if I have stayed with ubuntu 16.04, there wouldn't been any problem at all. My understanding is that dell ships the OS with some proprietary drivers which were there on 16.04 but they they were missing on the default 18.04 instal
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One detail that hasn't be mentioned so far is, scheduling meetings when the team is distributed among several time zones. We used to have weekly meetings with different timezone considerations, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, the
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I'm now working with a Dell Precision 5530 which costs around 3k on its current specs. The good: - It had ubuntu 16.04 which means the hardware has good compatibility with linux and you don't need to pay for the windows license. -
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Looking for a parental controlled app for Netflix? or insights for building one?
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https://safer.chat is an end-to-end encrypted chat that allows to create rooms with up to 4 participants, the idea is to have what cryptocat used to be, without the need to install browser extensions or applications, in 2019 we
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Show HN: Groupal end-to-end encrypted chat using the WebCryptoAPI(safer.chat)
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Toward scalable decentralized identifier systems(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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We built https://safer.chat/ which is basically cryptocat (a secure end-to-end encrypted chat) without requiring to download/install anything. Let me known if you are interested.
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by AlexITC 8y ago
Google meet works for me on Chrome, also, appear.in works great on Firefox.
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Ask HN: Hybrid authentication method for web apps (JWT, cookie)
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I'm still impressed by the number of technical people that are willing to give you their passwords by a way or another, a common way being when they are offered to check if his password has been leaked. Once a friend shared with me one

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