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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
"Reversible SQL" is such a great idea. PostgreSQL does have pub/sub semantics via LISTEN and NOTIFY. At some level, we should think about removing the centralized database completely, and let all of user's devices synchr
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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
The site is made with Gitbook which seems to have gone through major changes recently. I'll see what I can do about it.
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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
Author here. I really think there's a lot of value in this model for users to self-host apps. PostgreSQL can run cron jobs, operate on external data with foreign data wrappers, and even do some number-crunching with Madlib right within
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Building single-page-apps with PostgREST(blog.polyglot.network)
161 points by nileshtrivedi 5y ago|84 comments
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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
This should also list Zoho which offers a free plan albeit without features like email forwarding.
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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
This is exactly why I end up making usernames non-unique in many of my online projects (such as learnawesome.org). It makes things more complex to implement, but at least nobody has to compromise on the online nicknames they want.
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by nileshtrivedi 5y ago
Since most of the music is consumed on headphones, I'm not sure if spatial music will appeal to many. What I would really like to see in purchased music is individual soundtracks for each instrument/vocal (which I can mix as per m
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by nileshtrivedi 6y ago
Here's a response by MobileCoin folks: > Signal had to verify that MobileCoin worked before exposing their users to the technology. That process took a long time because MobileCoin has lots of complicated moving parts. > With res
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by nileshtrivedi 6y ago
You will find links to some MOOCs here: https://learnawesome.org/topics/cd05721c-f47f-4351-a637-8d1a... The one called "Trading Basics" by ISB seems like a good starting point.
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by nileshtrivedi 6y ago
Either way, Apple loses nothing.
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by nileshtrivedi 6y ago
This is just a rough idea triggered by an observation on how browsers are adapting push notifications to be more user-friendly. See this: https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/google-web-push-notification-p... We users trust o
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Light-Weight Identity for the Web Using Browser Sync and Push(gist.github.com)
2 points by nileshtrivedi 6y ago|2 comments
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
The first member would create a group, and others can join that group by scanning a QR code. Strictly wanted to avoid any PII such as phone numbers. Need ideas on how to handle things like removing a person from a group (i.e. resetting the
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
I would love it if the new component revolution worked for sites not using Javascript frameworks.
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
> I decided to write my own app to scratch my own itch. I also decided to publish the app and use it as a learning experience. Strongly agree with this. I was fed up with all the messaging apps that compromise on security and privacy, so
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
I once used the Cartesian product of state machines to enumerate test-cases. Statecharts helped reduce the visual complexity. Wrote an article about it: https://medium.com/cleartax-engineering/enumerating-test-cas...
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
The article says: > One could rightfully counter that Google has a good product. They even offer it for free. But Google Ads are not free. If Search is the product, then advertisers are the customers, not users.
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
That's great! I actually want to build this as a client app for matrix.org backend. If you don't mind, could you share a few use-cases or feature ideas that would appeal to you?
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Proposal for a Composable Web(gist.github.com)
5 points by nileshtrivedi 7y ago|0 comments
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
I'm building an open-source equivalent with those exact goals (also using this as an excuse to learn Flutter): https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/family Just pushed a chat-screen UI and FireStore integration (all co
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
I started work on an open-source equivalent for the same motivation: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/family Signal and Matrix are good but there is value in UX optimized for closed, intimate groups. Signal also requir
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635758 I literally ran `flutter create` and pushed this 5 minutes ago. There is no working app. I'm hopeful that a few privacy-conscious developers can come together and
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Open-source, encrypted messaging and collaboration app for families(github.com)
6 points by nileshtrivedi 7y ago|6 comments
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
I believe a handful of developers could make an equivalent version with much better guarantee of privacy. I've been meaning to pick up Flutter development, so getting started here. Other privacy-conscious hackers are welcome to join:
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
Lacking end-to-end encryption and not being open-source is disturbing: https://twitter.com/alexcornell/status/1199048661117722624 By design, these will be the most private and intimate conversations, and server wi
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
There are cryptocoins like zcash where the ledger isn't open in the same sense it is on Bitcoin or Libra.
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
What would make your project really useful is if a user can choose a level of detail to get a summary of a given resource (book, course etc) in her preferred format. Perhaps, I just want a 5-minute summary to read or a 20-minute audio summa
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
Interesting idea. But do browsers sync cookies across devices? Are you suggesting that they start doing so for all cookies or a single one specially meant for this purpose? This would also require browsers to implement unified notification
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by nileshtrivedi 7y ago
If the goal is to build a learning plan, I find LearnAwesome's approach far simpler & better: No UGC except collecting links to existing resources on the Web, a simple markdown file and connections to other topics for discovery: h
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by nileshtrivedi 8y ago
Author here. "implement" is too vague here. All I wanted was to use in my triggers ECDSA utility methods from pgcrypto, the way it already supports PGP. pgcrypto is written in C, not in SQL. I just wanted to use something like t

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