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by ildon 5y ago
Given their declining market shares, I guess that this decision by Firefox goes in the already quite large bucket of bad choices made by Firefox in the last years. I really tried my best to use it, going back to it every now and then, but I
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by ildon 5y ago
I also did the same with my FOSS app Anita! In my post I go through some additional configs to deploy a React PWA to GitHub pages, you can find it here https://anita-app.com/blog/articles/the-journey-of-anita-to-..
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by ildon 5y ago
The point about academic research is freedom, in every possible meaning. Including not using the right tools for the job. This ensures "natural selection" of the ideas, processes and workflows that actually work.
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How we share the app state data between windows in the Akiflow Electron app(akiflow.com)
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by ildon 5y ago
This is super exiting! I did not know about the improvements, thanks for sharing!
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by ildon 5y ago
Yes, many are refusing to implement it due to security concerns. A notable one is Brave, which is based on Chromium, and yet refuses to enable it ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11407 ). I'
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by ildon 5y ago
Yes! Unfortunately the most important one is the App Store, no wonder why PWA have the least and worst support on Apple devices...
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by ildon 5y ago
If you need to use IndexedDB and you do not want to have to handle the absurdities of IndexedDB, give Dexie a try ( https://dexie.org/ ). It really makes using IndexedDB a breeze.
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by ildon 5y ago
Glad you liked it! And thanks for mentioning absurd-sql, I did not know the project. You are absolutely right on memory and crashes. It is a very inefficient way of storing data in a browser from a memory perspective (and data loss risks).
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SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI(anita-app.com)
81 points by ildon 5y ago|29 comments
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Porting my PWA (Anita) from Angular to React resulted in 20% less code(anita-app.com)
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by ildon 5y ago
EU Professor here. You're right, expectations are very different in the "old continent". Things very quite significantly from country to country, but generally speaking in most EU you can do your PhD while working. Retrospect
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by ildon 5y ago
> The only thing it requires is that you have hash power and internet connectivity. Your argument is a bit naive and this sentence I quoted is the one that shows the reason. Proof of Work is a energy intensive activity, not to mention th