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by bengotow 8y ago
Eh, I can almost guarantee it has almost no battery impact. JavaScriptCore is fairly fast, business logic doesn't take that long to run (100ms vs 200ms, whatever.), and it all pales in comparison to running GPS or the display for a few
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by bengotow 8y ago
Sure they can't "kill" it, but a huge fraction of the work on Atom comes from full-time people employed by GitHub. They can handicap it to the point that VSCode becomes the better editor.
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by bengotow 8y ago
Haha not to bash on the article at all, but I laughed at the title. Here's my take on how founders write a quality blog post in 1 hour: 1) Founder opens iA Writer and types for an hour 2) Founder thinks post is great and publishes imme
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by bengotow 9y ago
Electron’s performance is fairly tied to Chromium’s - the Electron changelog references a Chromium version bump and you’ll need to look there for perf improvements (which isn’t ideal - I wish they’d pulled in some highlights!) To be honest,
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by bengotow 9y ago
$69 is chump change - Navicat is like $1,000. I worry that it's not enough for the app to be maintained for a long time after purchase. I'd pay $69/year without even thinking about it, maybe they should jump on the subscripti
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by bengotow 9y ago
Haha 1) this is crazy 2) I think it'd be more fun to train the data set against Christmas trees. The Eiffel tower's lights don't much resemble other buildings since the lighting is decorative and not functional. Much closer t
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by bengotow 9y ago
I can’t speak for Slack, but I ship Mailspring for Linux as a Snap (and not a Flatpak) because snap provides a unified approach to automatic updates and the app is updated frequently. It’s an a major win from a developer perspective, becaus
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by bengotow 9y ago
Maybe you thought it'd be an infographic? This is totally a valid visualization as far as I'm concerned. It packages and communicates data visually that would otherwise be difficult to see. It doesn't abstract up from the dat
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by bengotow 9y ago
Nice! Went to a talk about this last week - this post outlines a fairly solid approach to syncing application state in a multi-window Electron app if you have a lot of data. I haven’t used Realm, but we built something similar on top of SQL
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by bengotow 9y ago
My favorite part of the whole PWA marketing push is that they encourage use of the Service Worker API for offline caching, but leave cache invalidation / cleanup as an exercise to the reader. "Do it the way it makes sense for your
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by bengotow 9y ago
This looks great! Minor nits: In what way is this an OS? Also in the US, Airborn (e.g. to be in the air) is spelled "Airborne" and it's difficult to type it without the trailing 'e' without spellcheck fixing it auto
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by bengotow 9y ago
I think the problem is that 10% of Gmail users think Inbox is awesome and the rest think it's godawful for breaking 'feature X' they loved. Where feature X isn't one feature but a thousand tiny things. I think with Add-o
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by bengotow 9y ago
Yeah - in the macOS community Coda is a fairly well known text editor for web development. The team at Panic should definitely stand their ground on this one...
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by bengotow 9y ago
Whoa—and there's currently one in Georgia enroute from Nevada! That's super cool: https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL033/f3b3a2c
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by bengotow 9y ago
I mean, if you just want to record your purchases / expenses and you don’t want any features that use the internet, you’re basically talking about a spreadsheet. Maybe there’s a spreadsheet app with decent enough UI to be a good choice
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by bengotow 9y ago
Yeah—something is definitely up with SMTP auth on Linux. I have a few test accounts it seems I can connect on Mac which are not working on Linux... stay tuned.
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey! This is a bug—should be fixed in 1.0.2 later today: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/17
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by bengotow 9y ago
This sounds great - if you're interested in folks implementing the extension in third party clients, let me know!
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey folks! Mailspring maintainer here — glad to see this on Hacker News. For anyone just catching up, here's the tldr on Mailspring: - It's a fork of Nylas Mail with the entire mailsync codebase (~40k lines of JavaScript) replace
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey! Mailspring maintainer here—could you elaborate on the "open core model"? I'm not sure I follow. If it'd generate more than $~10k/mo in revenue and would allow me and others at F376 to sustainably work on Mailsp
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey! Mailspring maintainer here—the app doesn't support plaintext emails (at least not out of the box), but it's likely we'll add support in the future. A lot of the features in the app, like read receipts and link tracking,
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey folks! Just to be clear, Mailspring does /not/ send your email credentials to the cloud - all the mail sync is done locally, and your passwords are stored in your system keychain / keyring. I spent a good chunk of time re
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey folks! bengotow here—the linux version is /almost/ ready, though the debian and rpm packages above should work. I'm working with some folks at Canonical to get the app packaged as a Snap (Snapcraft.io) so that Linux users
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by bengotow 9y ago
This sounds bad, but I'd suggest an alternate interpretation: 1. Company invests heavily in engineering and builds a sync engine. Progress is visible on GitHub and rapid. 2. Company launches and repeatedly adjusts pricing and business
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by bengotow 9y ago
Hey thanks! I used to work on Nylas Mail at Nylas and I'm the author of the Mailspring fork. It's definitely sad to see this post, but Nylas has remained committed to open source and I think they've done this right. Relicens
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by bengotow 9y ago
Yeah... doesn't seem promising to me. When transaction fees need to pay for mining / transaction validation, people will probably stop using Bitcoin for purchases they could make with other methods of payment.
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by bengotow 9y ago
Update: I figured out how to do this and posted my findings here: http://jpgtoheif.com/
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Show HN: Converting a JPEG to the new HEIF format(jpgtoheif.com)
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by bengotow 9y ago
Haha thanks - I didn't think it supported H265 but it looks like I just have to build it from source ( https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265 ). Suppose that's still fairly "easily" ;-)
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by bengotow 9y ago
License notwithstanding, has anyone tried to create a HEIF file? There are a few samples on this site, but even given the code they've provided on GitHub I can't seem to create a HEIF image from another image format. Their code se

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