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by segphault 5y ago
The install footprint from npm is 302 packages weighing in at 504mb. It includes a lot of superfluous debris, with packages containing single functions like "is-string" and multiple polyfills for functions like object.assign. That
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by segphault 5y ago
Cloudflare Pages locks you into git-based deployment, which isn't always practical, especially for sites that are heavy with images and other non-text static assets. I don't want to use git to manage the images for my website and
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by segphault 5y ago
The way $ref resolution works is hideously complicated, to the point where many JSON Schema implementations just don't even bother supporting external $refs. It really should be a totally separate concern from validation, especially si
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by segphault 5y ago
TSMC is building a $12b manufacturing facility in Arizona that will be able to produce the 5nm chips used in Apple products. They are fully aware of the geopolitical risks and are taking responsible steps to mitigate them. To the extent tha
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by segphault 5y ago
I have been really impressed with esbuild. It is lightning fast and trivially easy to configure. Instead of using a crappy React boilerplate that stitches together a thousand fragile, poorly-maintained npm packages, you just install one tin
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by segphault 6y ago
Over the past decade, Mozilla has capitulated over and over again on critical issues. They failed their users and the ecosystem by not standing up to industry pressure for h.264 and EME. They also ended up following rather than leading on k
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by segphault 6y ago
The npm ecosystem needs something like the distinction between Ubuntu's "main" and "universe" repositories, so that you have a smaller subset of known-good packages with harmonized transitive dependencies, stronger
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by segphault 6y ago
It's not just an open source problem. It's fairly trivial to scrape the keys out of a lot of closed source applications. When Twitter first mandated OAuth, I was able to grep a key right out of the apk of their native Android clie
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by segphault 7y ago
Web MIDI is really cool. I recently bought a new MIDI keyboard controller from Novation and was really impressed when I learned that the configuration tool can run entirely in the browser without requiring local installation. In Chrome, it
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by segphault 7y ago
What the npm ecosystem really needs is something like the distinction between Ubuntu's "main" and "universe" repositories, so that you have a smaller subset of known-good packages with harmonized transitive dependen
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by segphault 7y ago
I've been hoping that somebody would do this for quite some time. I previously experimented with using CloudFront logs in GoAccess for awhile for my personal blog in order to avoid invasive JavaScript-based tracking, but it was too muc
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by segphault 7y ago
What's funny about this is that Oracle has a long and colorful history of doing the exact same thing[1] that they are accusing AWS of doing in this case. It feels like Oracle is just unhappy that they got outmaneuvered at a game they p
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by segphault 7y ago
Those who are interested in this might also want to check out Kni, an interactive fiction language implemented in JavaScript: https://github.com/kriskowal/kni
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by segphault 7y ago
Oh yeah, those were fantastic little devices. It's a shame that it wasn't popular enough to warrant successors. The OpenMoko people did some really innovative stuff back in the day, but hardware is tough.
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by segphault 7y ago
This comment is spot on. UWP apps feel gratuitously non-native on Windows, have terrible keyboard accessibility, and exhibit a ton of interoperability issues with third-party utilities like xkeymacs that hook into platform functionality. Ev
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by segphault 7y ago
I had a somewhat kafka-esque experience trying to install the Docker client on Windows recently. I just wanted the standalone executable so I could connect to Docker running on a headless Linux server on the local network. They don't m
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by segphault 7y ago
Really hope that the "full window manager" item leads to good things. Having proper tiling window management with extensive keyboard control would be so awesome.
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by segphault 7y ago
For those who are interested in this topic, I highly recommend checking out VCV Rack, an open source application that lets you build Eurorack-style virtual modular synthesizers: https://vcvrack.com/ I've been going dow
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by segphault 8y ago
My career as a technical writer began 15 years ago with an article that I wrote for Linux Journal. I'm glad that they were able to work out their financial issues and find new sponsorship to sustain them.
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by segphault 8y ago
Looking at the source code, this appears to be a UWP wrapper around the xterm JavaScript library loaded in a system web view. It uses a WebSocket connection to facilitate communication between the embedded web environment and the applicatio
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by segphault 8y ago
At this point, ES6 support is sufficiently widespread that I don't really have a problem using it natively. Major features like the const, classes, template literals, and async functions are all at least at 90% market penetration. I ca
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by segphault 8y ago
I use rollup with an extremely minimal configuration. No transpilers at all, just standards-based JavaScript.
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by segphault 8y ago
This solution pulls in 155 packages from npm, including multiple versions of bullshit packages like "kind-of" that it can't deduplicate. One of the direct dependencies is a library that renders a loading spinner in command li
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by segphault 8y ago
> I just hate programming in windows and haven't touched one of these that are powerful enough to run Ubuntu in a VM in a reasonable fashion. I have a hard time understanding where this sentiment comes from. WSL is categorically bet
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by segphault 8y ago
Yup. Another prominent example is Amazon’s inability to sell books in the Kindle application on iOS, which has the same anticompetitive undertones given that Apple sells ebooks to users of its platform.
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by segphault 8y ago
> Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work. And it’s not just the App Store that they’re trying to squeeze — it’s also artists, musicians and songwriters. Uh, I seem to recall Apple being forced to re
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by segphault 8y ago
The site has slowed to a crawl as the HN audience hugs it to death. Unfortunate that they didn't anticipate the increased interest and allocate more capacity accordingly.
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by segphault 8y ago
I have a Rift, but I've never purchased any content from Facebook's marketplace. I use Steam, because that's where my gaming library lives. As long as the headset is tethered to a computer, Valve is going to capture the conte
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by segphault 8y ago
I have no problem with somebody deciding that a shareware or dual-licensing model are the best choice for their business. But it's incredibly toxic for the people pursuing those models to muddy and contort the accepted definition of &q
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by segphault 8y ago
There are huge American banks that rely on SMS as a form of 2FA. It's totally unacceptable for AT&T to happily hand over a SIM activated against somebody's phone number without performing basic identity verification checks, es

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