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by soapdog 6y ago
The Visual Studio Code version from the Insiders Program is now available as a native arm64 build for Windows 10. Owners of Surface Pro X can finally use a native editor on the platform. Still this is still an electron-based editor and even
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Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64(github.com)
106 points by soapdog 6y ago|79 comments
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by soapdog 6y ago
Just for the kicks, I tried using deno for a task at my day job. We had a need to extract records from a database into a textual format to be processed by other tools later. This is the typical task for a throwaway script which can be writt
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by soapdog 6y ago
If microsoft was doing this there'd be a riot but since it is Apple but will rationalize this bad behaviour and say it is for the best.
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by soapdog 6y ago
Why not use midnight commander on ubuntu?
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Firefox Tricks – Using alternate stylesheets(andregarzia.com)
2 points by soapdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 6y ago
In my opinion, I suspect that many people shipping electron-based apps would gladly switch to a native toolkit if there was a dead easy way to develop cross-platform GUIs. In the 90s and early 00s, there were many easy language products lik
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by soapdog 6y ago
Damn, I almost spilled my coffee reading this :-)
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by soapdog 6y ago
I really like my Surface Go 1[0] and am looking forward to upgrading to the Go 2. I have a Surface Pro X as well but the Go 1 is more pleasant to use in my opinion. [0]: https://andregarzia.com/2020/01/a-year-with-
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by soapdog 6y ago
Mozilla offers many Android components for those building browsers: https://mozac.org/components/
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by soapdog 6y ago
I guess Objective-C/Cocoa might have not changed much between the last HyperEdit version and now. If the developer organized his codebase well, replacing the old webview with the new stuff and so on should be less work than rewriting t
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by soapdog 6y ago
I bet you can get at least double on eBay! Jokes aside, for those old computers, selling on eBay is way better than trade-in programs. There are collectors out there that might need this to complete their macbook shrine, and others who that
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by soapdog 6y ago
Looks really nice! :D I wish it supported arm64 on Windows or at least win32 32-bits so that I could run it on a Surface Pro X.
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by soapdog 7y ago
> and they're the only company making high end ARM chips I'm typing this with a Surface Pro X running a ARM64 CPU called SQ1 which a customization of a Snapdragon 8cx. It is quite high end and is not made by Apple. It might not
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by soapdog 7y ago
The Surface Pro X that was released last year uses an ARM64 processor.
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by soapdog 7y ago
Hey, this page is outdated. It is basically a list of APIs from ssb-server and some other related plugins, but there are entries there that are old and haven't been kept in sync with the actual modules. https://scuttlebutt.n
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by soapdog 7y ago
I'm the author of one of the clients ( https://patchfox.org ). All clients support blocking people, both visibly with a public message, or privately with an encrypted message only readable by you (which causes your client to
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by soapdog 7y ago
in all this talk about form-factor and sizes, the two most comfortable phones I ever used, in terms of their physical feel in my hand, were the palm pre2 and pre3. They felt like a little river pebble that was warm to the touch. I wish comp
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Cross-Platform Development with LiveCode(andregarzia.com)
3 points by soapdog 7y ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 7y ago
That is quite subjective...
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by soapdog 7y ago
Years after the discontinuation, the Newton got drivers for WiFi and SATA from community members...
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by soapdog 7y ago
It is a IDE toolkit. You're supposed to use it to build your own as can be seen in the "Arduino IDE Pro". They've used monaco[1] which is the editor part of VS Code for their project but Theia apparently is easier to wor
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by soapdog 7y ago
When you allow a company like Amazon to control that much of the publishing business, you end up with some real problems. Among them, these are some very important ones: * Amazon can dictate with their recommendation engine and promoted she
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by soapdog 7y ago
Brazilians have been enjoying the exact same setup for more than a decade. The estante virtual (virtual shelf) site is exactly that, a single store front where you can search and buy books which are fulfilled from indie bookstores throughou
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by soapdog 7y ago
That is true but have you seen the windows app, the one they preferred to discontinue? It was awful.
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by soapdog 7y ago
OP here, I just posted an update section there with some extra information that I decided to clarify upon after interacting with people here. Thanks a lot for the responses, this has been quite great. I wish more people that are affected by
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by soapdog 7y ago
I'm the OP and I am a Mozilla volunteer. I prefer a web with many engines, I want it to have WebKit, Blink, Gecko and more.
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by soapdog 7y ago
Their Kindle Cloud Reader is better than the native windows app IMO. I don't know when it was last updated, I first used it this year.
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by soapdog 7y ago
I really like it but I wish Microsoft would support FOSS developers better and provide more support and incentive for them to port more developer tools. There are almost no native aarch64 programming languages for Windows 10. If you keep yo
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by soapdog 7y ago
OP here, I just posted an update section on the post that touches some of the comments I've been seeing here. English is not my first language so I think that sometimes I don't make my ideas clear enough or well explained enough.

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