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by irskep 4y ago
Adding my voice to this - I was actually looking at Synapse a few days ago and was wondering why SQLite was not recommended. This would have answered a question I didn't know the answer to until just now.
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by irskep 4y ago
I'm extremely excited about LiteFS. Looking forward to trying it out once write forwarding lands. I think it has the potential to make hobby projects scale to zero but also serve reasonable traffic, which is exactly what I'm looki
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by irskep 4y ago
Sure, you can do all that, but have you also written video games, UI frameworks, compilers, Twitter bots, localization tools, and web-based whiteboards? Have you ever made a music video or gotten a novel published? If not, why not? I'd
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by irskep 4y ago
I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with these details. I do go deep on application-level tech (CSS, HTML, JS with and without frameworks, iOS dev, etc) and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not
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by irskep 4y ago
Well, he did cherry-pick one joking comment out of a well-intentioned post in order to say I have a bad attitude, so that's not exactly welcoming. And very patronizing, considering I have actually done that kind of work with Salt Stack
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by irskep 4y ago
I'm not convinced this is true. Django supports SQLite out of the box, and otherwise database management is an exercise for the reader. The migration tools, for example, work fine with SQLite.
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by irskep 4y ago
> You can run migrations from another process. Migrations are just writes, and SQLite supports writes from multiple processes. Thank you for explicitly saying this! I'll see if I can update my repo to allow for online migrations. I
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by irskep 4y ago
Hey that's really cool, thanks! I'll consider adding a link to it in the repo. I'm a little skeptical that any given PostgreSQL free tier will stick around indefinitely, after what happened with Heroku. And once you hit 500MB
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by irskep 4y ago
I think it's more that PaaS vendors aren't interested in first-class SQLite support when they can sell overpriced managed Postgres instead. Sure, it doesn't scale the same way, so it's hard to move upmarket and sell to E
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by irskep 4y ago
The sarcasm and intentionally-missing-the-point here is not really in the spirit of HN, but I'll try to address what you seem to be trying to say, which is that "it's obvious and I'm an idiot for not seeing that it'
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by irskep 4y ago
This sentiment pops up regularly on HN, and I've seen at least one article per month for the past few months, but the trouble is, none of them seem to help you actually deploy it. They assume you're comfortable spinning up public
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by irskep 4y ago
I recently made https://namegenerator.band , which generates band names. I pulled it out of a game project I'm working on for fun. Just doing my part to create ad-free alternatives to SEO spam farms!
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by irskep 4y ago
I reproduced the parts list in PCPartPicker, including some manually entered price data: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/irskep/saved/x8Jxf7 Comes out to about $2K USD. Just in case anyone's looking to do
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by irskep 4y ago
This is an incredible example of organizing information well and making a case to a wide audience. It's difficult enough to shave all the yaks necessary to get a high-level view of all issues related to a problem, and to express all th
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by irskep 4y ago
"Web tech" could mean WebGL or Canvas, which are not accessible. Does it create HTML elements? I'd check myself, but none of your examples seem to be available to just look at without cloning the repo locally.
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by irskep 4y ago
LibreOffice will happily re-save CSV in place. That's the only reason I have it installed! But Excel does require the same workflow as Numbers.
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by irskep 4y ago
Some people dislike interacting with the HN community for one reason or another. I imagine that's the case here. This person definitely isn't the only one. Getting a post or tweet picked up by a large community who doesn't se
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by irskep 5y ago
I've half-learned both. My impression is that Godot is more like a framework (but more so) with prescribed ways of doing things, with lots of custom languages and formats, and Heaps is more like a library you use in a codebase that bel
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by irskep 5y ago
I use an Apple TV with my LG TV and it has a better UI with no ads.
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by irskep 5y ago
So he should destroy his business? Seems like extremely terrible advice.
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by irskep 5y ago
Minor correction: Ken Kocienda didn't do the Konqueror port. He was working on getting Gecko to build and a teammate got Konqueror working in X11 before Ken even got Gecko to compile.
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by irskep 5y ago
The difference is that none of that stuff is running in the background when you aren't using it. Maps doesn't take up a global menu slot. Apple Music doesn't open unless you explicitly open it (unless you happen to hit an App
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by irskep 5y ago
OK, yes, but at that point you're writing your own parser for a custom language that is not Markdown anymore. Markdown _does not_ support SGML. Look at the source for any CommonMark parser—there's a whitelist for the HTML tags. Co
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by irskep 5y ago
I spent some time working with the Sphinx source code (the main user of rst), and found that reStructuredText is very poorly suited for porting to any other platform because a lot of the "spec" is just whatever the Python implemen
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by irskep 5y ago
You could probably construct a decent Asana workflow around this using forms, custom fields, and automation rules, but it's not free.
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This Guitar Pedal Does Not Exist(thisguitarpedaldoesnotexist.com)
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by irskep 5y ago
This still makes absolutely no sense to me. The developer of Runescape is not going to collaborate with the developer of Warcraft to give them a copy of the model, figure out how the stats translate, put the textures in the right format, et
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by irskep 5y ago
I've been keeping a private notes file about this. People tell me I'm fast, and I agree with them, so I'm trying to track why. Some examples: - Be a fast typist. At 120WPM, typing is not a limiting factor. I know professional
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by irskep 5y ago
To be fair to Spotify, Apple Watch development is pure hell, and I wouldn't expect them to ever implement that feature. On the other hand, the LG TV app for Spotify doesn't support gapless playback, which completely blows my mind.
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by irskep 5y ago
Looks like the linked article is a rewrite of the original iFixit post: https://www.ifixit.com/News/50450/samsung-galaxy-upcycling-u...

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