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by pbowyer 5y ago
I looked into Sunamp last year as they sounded idea for us when redoing our heating. They seem to have had many teething problems, including the control circuit boards having fundamental problems, and people having the battery contents expa
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I remember yEd from university 2 decades ago so got excited by the idea of yFiles. Until I calculated [1] the license price - for a single developer on a single project it'd be $14000+$4200 maintenance. Wow. 1. https://www.y
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by pbowyer 5y ago
> I don't understand why heat pump solutions in the UK are so expensive. An air to air heat pump from Samsung can be had for a thousand pounds and installation for another five hundred here in Norway Hot air heating is missing in di
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I'm sure Apple will introduce a good "SSD Replacement" program when they wear out. We'll be without our machines for a few weeks, it'll cost $200 more than it should - but they will find a way to replace them and st
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by pbowyer 5y ago
Thanks for that blog post! I downloaded https://mac.getutm.app/ a couple of weeks ago but haven't used it yet - this sounds similar but a more automated way to do what you do? Coming from Windows, Vagrant & Virtual
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by pbowyer 5y ago
> So you own your specific type of computer for the hardware and the software... > Is there any other reason to own a particular computer? Fashion? Because you like using it? Because it fits in your budget? So... yes.
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Xcode, developing iOS apps and similar. TBH it's the only reason I own a Mac of any kind, that and the hardware lasts well.
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I have the 14" MBP and my wife the Surface Laptop 4, and I am envious of her touchscreen. As a free-thinker who sketches ideas on paper and draws arrows between thoughts, doing that on my laptop with a stylus would be _wonderful_. Buyi
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> The way HTML forms (in particular, but also things like tables) are stuck in a not even good for the time '90s level of functionality is an under-appreciated drag on all web development, IMO It absolutely is, but things are changi
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The UI Fund(web.dev)
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by pbowyer 5y ago
Where? All I can find is https://www.okta.com/uk/free-trial/ and https://www.okta.com/pricing/
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> If you're employed by your clients and do it in their name, doesn't that make you the first party? If you're an employee, yes. If you're a consultant, contractor, freelancer or similar then you are a third party doi
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At the same time can you change 2.2(a) and remove the "or sign up on behalf of a third party"? My clients are not technical, and when they do manage to sign up they then email me their login details in plain text... Without this i
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> Fastly need to decide if they are a CDN or a internet company with a CDN product. They seem undecided what they are at the moment and have poor product structuring and it's genuinely very hard to go put in your credit card and giv
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Percival: Web-based, reactive Datalog notebooks(percival.ink)
2 points by pbowyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 5y ago
I'm not convinced by Enums having methods. For those of you using other languages that support this, do you find them useful?
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by pbowyer 5y ago
Up the wrong tree :) Vue.py gives you a way to write Vue to run in the browser using a Pythonic syntax. I'm talking about running actual Vue code (or anything else in that style) server-side as Django templates.
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by pbowyer 5y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted for saying this. As a server-side developer of 20 years the server-side templating languages have a lot to learn from the frontend experience. And I say this as a user of Smarty, Jinja2 and now Twig & nun
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by pbowyer 5y ago
I've used Apache for over 20 years and I'm going to give you a feature it's missing: request coalescing. My servers mostly proxy requests to a backend (PHP-FPM, but this is applicable to all other server-side languages). If m
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by pbowyer 5y ago
Is it the resolution you've found limiting on the M1 Air? My eyesight is slowly getting worse so I'm assuming I'll have to run both at 200%. Which makes the Air a 1280x800 screen - something I last had on my 2009 13" MBP
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Same situation as you, looking at 14". Need to see what the Xcode benchmarks are like for the variety of M1 Pro processors on offer, to see if any upgrades from the base model are worthwhile. If I was sticking with 16GB RAM I think I&#
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Project Turpentine: an easy way to get off Varnish(blog.cloudflare.com)
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> There are libraries which can automate this for you which is the route I would recommend Which libraries do you recommend? I've had to do this a couple of times in my current project and it's painful (and I made mistakes).
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That was my experience too and yes, it gets better. I went from "I don't understand it" to "I hate it with a passion and want a proper typed language" to "uh okay it's caught 2 bugs I overlooked. This is u
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How I built a modern website in 2021(kentcdodds.com)
92 points by pbowyer 5y ago|154 comments
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A Better Web View(ionic.io)
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Yes! I would see this tied in with temporal support throughout the database, so you can query the schema and data as it was at 2021-09-03 11:53:28. This avoids some big problems with temporal data but I can't see it ever being efficien
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> Because it establishes an exploitative precedent that shouldn't be followed. It also allows small creators to survive. I'm working on hybrid mobile apps again after a long break. The number of essential packages in both the I
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Same, and same for MacOS if on your own hardware. Instead I'm looking to Linux; I've been testing it as a desktop system in a VM for work and enjoying it. I need to keep Adobe Creative Suite running which is the only software like
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> I really wish we'd gotten a couple more useful native controls back when there was any will to add that kind of stuff... We're trying, and we need help: https://open-ui.org/ Come say Hi on Discord, anyone who

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