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by tmcw 5y ago
Did you miss all of American politics from Reagan to Bush, the "era of small government"? Might want to check any political ad or speech from those few decades.
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by tmcw 5y ago
> Nearly all are open source and tracking free. Just checked OpenSea - Google Analytics, Amplitude, DoubleClick, Cloudflare insights, plus error tracking from Sentry. Zapper has Google Analytics and Amplitude. Click through to 'conn
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by tmcw 5y ago
Ethereum is, what, 6 years old. Metamask has been in development for 5 years. Bitcoin is 12 years old. Bitcoin is older than React.js. Ethereum has been around for as long as TikTok. Uber was founded in the same year as Bitcoin and has esse
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by tmcw 5y ago
People are building things like renewed web standards (Project Fugu, for example) and P2P networks (Beaker, Hypercore), and light clients (Mighty). These projects don't get any attention from the "Web3" crowd because they don
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by tmcw 5y ago
[author] Thank you, I was winging it a bit with secondhand (YouTube video) Minecraft knowledge :)
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by tmcw 5y ago
Hi! I wrote that article. Basically… the anti-patterns stuff is really not that different from "React anti-patterns". JavaScript supports mutability, a lot of frameworks embrace immutable patterns (like Observable, and React). Usi
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Choosing a React component library for a large application(blog.placemark.io)
5 points by tmcw 5y ago|0 comments
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by tmcw 5y ago
One of my favorite projects, and a great example of how to use technology to help people understand and participate in street design decisions!
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by tmcw 5y ago
Little to argue with on the fundamentals here, but ending up in a place where everyone's winning move is to work for one of five unregulated monopolies is, ahem, a bummer, in a macro sense.
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by tmcw 5y ago
(author) - Yep, I have a few friends with remarkable tablets and generally adore eInk and could totally see them being a worthy alternative to field notes. Planning on getting one sometime, maybe when they come out with a v3 whenever that i
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Hosting a simple fullstack app in 2021: Render(blog.placemark.io)
1 points by tmcw 5y ago|0 comments
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by tmcw 5y ago
Agree on all points but > Font rendering and layout can all easily be accomplished by embedding libraries like freetype. Whoooah no. This stuff is way, way, way harder than dropping in freetype.
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by tmcw 5y ago
Which APIs? Worldcat, with decent data but paid licensing and lots of dirty data? Amazon’s, which they’ll shut down if you build a competitor? Try finding an API that gives you high-quality book cover images, too. And the ability to retain
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by tmcw 5y ago
This missed the biggest technical moat by a mile: data. Book data is scarce and expensive. Goodreads gets it for free because of Amazon, Amazon gets it subsidized because of Amazon's chokehold on book publishing. Any Goodreads competit
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by tmcw 6y ago
I've definitely scraped by this problem on several occasions. Recently I was writing a tool to check outgoing links from my site, to see which sites are offline (it's called notfoundbot). What I found was that many sites have &quo
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by tmcw 6y ago
On my last project - which was mostly a Rails app with Stimulus, but Web Components for the parts where they fit, we exclusively used GitHub's components. They're all really solid and well-engineered, and you have the guarantee th
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by tmcw 6y ago
It costs about 16 cents to make a $20 bill. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm In truth, if I factor in the establishment of the United States and several hundred years of money policy, it'll b
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by tmcw 6y ago
If they factored in the other-bank transaction costs, there'd be something else to "what-about." What about the company's energy costs in its non-payment processing? How about all the plastic they use to make those credi
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by tmcw 6y ago
(author) I appreciate Haskell's power in this domain, and apparently sum types are life-changing (they get mentioned in so many language conversations). That said, I'm mostly concerned with types like columns, rows, tables, colors
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by tmcw 6y ago
I worked on this ages ago :). It's replaying the last minute's edits, and since all of the editing tools just file a changeset (like a commit) all at once, it has to reconstruct what it looked like to draw those features. That tim
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by tmcw 6y ago
There are two hyperlinks in that sentence that I hoped would avoid ambiguity by citing sources, but I'll make it more explicit in the copy.
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by tmcw 6y ago
Darrell's one of the most informed voices in SF about transit and housing, too! Just following him on Twitter has been one of the best things I've done in terms of acclimating to local politics in California.
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by tmcw 6y ago
The post mentions this, but the main concern is continuous deployment, where cache doesn’t really help - you’re building from scratch at least once, and the build isn’t happening on your MacBook or fancy development machine but on Google cl
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Rust is a hard way to make a web API(macwright.com)
331 points by tmcw 6y ago|422 comments
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by tmcw 6y ago
Hacker news is fixated on the Vitamin D hypothesis. 142 posts in the last year, many hitting the front page.
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by tmcw 6y ago
About time this project gets some love. One of the most mind-blowing bits of code I've ever encountered.
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by tmcw 6y ago
Sorry for the delay updating the article - one heck of a week. I've linked it and added a few more notes from folks who wrote back.
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by tmcw 6y ago
To be clearer: "it helps other companies, for free."
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by tmcw 6y ago
I won't get into all the context, but I think we should consider whether a community without contributors is a community. GL JS never had major active contributors outside of the company, and there are no self-funded webgl experts with
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by tmcw 6y ago
I wrote that paragraph and I agree with the decision to change GL JS's licensing.

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