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by netghost 5y ago
It sounds like rxdb is built on top of pouch, so probably the same set of options with the possibility of some opinionated design or sensible defaults though I can't find anything. obvious.
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by netghost 5y ago
Since you asked, I'll drop it here. I built Brook, and it works well enough for me that I often forget I built it, or that it isn't just part of Firefox: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Bonus: If anyo
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by netghost 5y ago
I don't know your background, but if you're interested hacking on an open source, locally run RSS client, I built a reader that should be able to support this fairly easily. https://github.com/adamsanderson/br
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by netghost 5y ago
You're entirely right, and yet I think there's still a place for it. It all depends on what you want to use it for. For my use case, I built a feed reader that just needs to know the titles, URLS, and publication dates of article
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by netghost 5y ago
I wrote an RSS reader named Brook that's open source, runs on Firefox, and keeps all your data local, so you don't need to rely on a service that might disappear. There's little or no keyboard support at the moment, but if yo
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by netghost 5y ago
Wow, hey folks as the author here, I'm really surprised to see this pop up on HN. It's been a long time since I wrote this, and I've come to appreciate that there are a lot of nuances, a lot of different teams, and a lot of d
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by netghost 5y ago
Howdy, I was the author of this a lifetime ago. Having been on a nebula project with a timeline once or twice, you're right, this is definitely a trap to avoid. I'd love to hear an example of how you've negotiated it.
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by netghost 5y ago
Hey there, I'm a bit surprised to see this reposted. I'm the original author. I don't think it requires perfectly spherical humans in a frictionless office, but it does require everyone to have the same incentives in place. W
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by netghost 5y ago
So that you can implement new layout algorithms, gradient generation and such in user space. It's extremely unlikely that most developers will use this directly.
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by netghost 5y ago
Can someone clarify what the new URL() thing is?
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by netghost 6y ago
There's a happy medium in my mind where you just use RSS to notify you of new content, and then click through to see the real post. That's the approach I take with the RSS reader I've built anyways.
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by netghost 6y ago
The "patterns" documentation seems like a good place to get oriented around the ways they suggest people use this Tauri: https://tauri.studio/en/docs/usage/patterns/about-patterns
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by netghost 6y ago
It doesn't use firefox sync yet, but it probably could. I think it's fairly restricted on how much data you can sync and I'd want to make sure "normal" usage doesn't get too close to that.
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by netghost 6y ago
Oh, of course. That makes a ton of sense, I'll think about how to do that shortly. If you're on Github adding an issue would help me remember, if not I'll try to keep it top of mind until I put the kids to bed.
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by netghost 6y ago
I should work RSS into the title… feed encompasses RSS, Atom, and then a few other tricks I use to get feeds of content. It _should_ tell you you're already subscribed if the feed is in your list. It gets a bit tricky with redirects a
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by netghost 6y ago
So I take the opposite view of preferring to read on the actual pages. I'm curious though, I've built a feed reader that caters to my preference, but I'd like to make it useful to more folks. If you could automatically open a
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by netghost 6y ago
RSS lets me see the content I care about without black box algorithms getting in the way. This is so important to me that I wrote a feed reader as a browser plugin so I don't need to worry about a service disappearing some day. If you&
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by netghost 6y ago
That's an interesting use case. My POV has always been that the site itself is the best representation of the content and completely ignore the feed content.
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by netghost 6y ago
It was a sandboxed online Ruby interpreter. Oh gosh, it must have been at least 13 years ago now. The idea that I could execute arbitrary Ruby in a web based repl taking to a server was pretty wild then. Now with docker and web assembly we
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by netghost 6y ago
Why do some people like onions? Let's not say "Why do Rubyists like this…", consider instead "Why do humans like this…". Some of us liked it because it was fun, and appealed to our sense of humor. Ruby was weird b
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by netghost 6y ago
I think the more nuanced point folks tend to make is that they catch the errors at Run Time instead of Compile Time, and that the cost of strict typing is greater than that of catching it at Run Time. Personally, I'm agnostic (I make m
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by netghost 7y ago
This _is_ how it was for quite a while. Check out Rails as of about Rails3 or so. Unobtrusive JS, serving up partial HTML, etc. There's a set of interactions for which this works incredibly well and a set where it falls short. If your
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by netghost 7y ago
You know, when you had to support ie6 and php was cutting edge, the good old days! I jest of course, but while frontend tooling has gotten quite complex, there's a good reason. Transpiling, minifying, and tree shaking are non trivial,
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by netghost 7y ago
Does anyone know if anything comparable to SMAC these days? I probably spent more time playing this game than anything else.
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by netghost 7y ago
Since this seems to be the thread where everyone mentions the RSS feed reader they use/write, I'll share Brook. It's a very minimal feed reader that gives you what you need and gets out of the way. You can use it in Firefox r
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by netghost 7y ago
Just remember, the people who read and respond to you are probably not the people who either implemented or designed features and bugs you may run across.
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by netghost 7y ago
Still my favorite editor, but I really appreciate the language server protocol support in vscode.
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by netghost 7y ago
I had a similar experience, eventually I found the message in my spam folder. It's ridiculous that messages marked as spam show up on the calendar, but now we know.
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by netghost 8y ago
I see a lot of complaints about the PDF format here, what's the alternative though? Is there another format that achieves the same goals which people should rally around? Just curious given PDF's ubiquity. (For the record, I had
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by netghost 8y ago
Babel can transpile typescript now and strip the types off. So I think it's pretty easy to back out of you ever need to.

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