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by toastal 3y ago
React is already often slow enough. Pushing compilation steps to the client is inefficient, especially when you consider that JSX compiles to basic functions and you could have used those functions since the first version.
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by toastal 3y ago
Reminder: vendor your imported scripts if you’re doing this. I shouldn’t have to trust or give data to a CDN to use your website. There isn’t a meaningful performance win either since browsers now cache per domain for privacy reasons. http
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by toastal 3y ago
You should wish it could be self-hostable and _not_ require a proprietary account like Microsoft GitHub.
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by toastal 3y ago
Android custom ROM community still uses it. I bet it’s the ISO size that makes it preferable.
575.
by toastal 3y ago
I really appreciate his mentioning of FOSS communications as well. It’s unacceptable how many projects are locked solely into Discord or Slack.
576.
by toastal 3y ago
Microsoft GitHub gets the ability retain your entire Git history too for training, including the bits you may have force pushed away. Scanning other code forges wouldn’t give access to the ‘complete’ history of a project.
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by toastal 3y ago
lazygit (sadly on GitHub: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit ) offers a wonderful TUI for Git that has helped me on a number of occasions visualize Git when needed. The bonus of the TUI is that it works well with
578.
by toastal 3y ago
> If it becomes more shit, people will migrate, and it will slowly die. You might be surprised how vendor lock-in can prevent many projects from migrating in the future. If you’ve not yet migrated, it would be wise to stay away from Micr
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by toastal 3y ago
GitLab is also open-core and publicly-traded. For now, I appreciate what they do and how the issue tracker is mostly public, but when the investors say “it’s time to turn this into a money printing machine so I can get my ROI”, I don’t know
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by toastal 3y ago
> basic README GitHub (plus the wide adoption of the incredibly-limited Markdown) is the reason we no longer see a a README but a RENDERME. Have you tried to read most README.md files now? They’re filled with so many images and HTML that
581.
by toastal 3y ago
Related to search though, Microsoft GitHub does not allow you to search the source code of projects with the search bar unless you are authenticated.
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by toastal 3y ago
Self plug: https://sr.ht/~toastal/github-less-social/ I made a filter list for uBlock Origin (and compatible) ad-blockers that can hide many of the social media aspects of Microsoft GitHub to make it a bit more to
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by toastal 3y ago
I just wish the source code supported Unicode and the formatters supported tabs dispute the compiler accepting it.
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by toastal 4y ago
HN audience, despite being overrepresented by Americans, is a global board, and the rest of the world iOS vs. Android is 50/50 (boy do we need to break up this duopoly though).
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by toastal 4y ago
When I lived in Colorado Springs, my ex and I started only going to 2-star places for this reason, _especially_ if the biggest complaint was “bad service” or the restaurant “looked dirty”. Found a lot of great, minority-owned hole-in-the-wa
586.
by toastal 4y ago
It's hostile that Android doesn't let you modify things like the host file. It's running Linux but it feels like it's not your device.
587.
by toastal 4y ago
Doesn't Authy require a phone number? I don't know why you'd use Authy over something open source.
588.
by toastal 4y ago
You can get a lot of value doing const $ = document.querySelector, $$ = document.querySelectorAll;
589.
by toastal 4y ago
The problem is we use the same platform, the web, for real-time applications, games, CRUD, static blogs, and so on. It’s a flexible platform and many tools have niches in these different scopes & some _are_ quite large. But a lot of fol
590.
by toastal 4y ago
who’s* had a phone break
591.
by toastal 4y ago
> can be built into the phone I don’t like this idea. As a person whose had a phone break, like many others, tying auth to something so fragile should not be preferable. I’ll never forget my phone breaking and the process of trying to or
592.
by toastal 4y ago
Tangent: why can’t I backup the whole key? I have two OnlyKeys. I like have the second as a backup, and it covers the plaintext and TOTP slots well, but it can’t copy the U2F/FIDO2 slot. Naïvely I thought it would work like this an
593.
by toastal 4y ago
There's OnlyKey. Mine have been fine.
594.
by toastal 4y ago
I ended up picking Fedora too because I thought KDE Plasma and Fedora would be easy, stable, and up-to-date enough. There hasn't been much issue so far. I really wanted to go NixOS like I run to make it reproducible, but the casual use
595.
by toastal 4y ago
Is the performance decent for the ‘cost’ of lacking features?
596.
by toastal 4y ago
Hold off Microsoft! I got my girlfriend to try Linux because she like the bar on the side.
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by toastal 4y ago
Missing*
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by toastal 4y ago
No symlinks, no transparent compression… there's quite a few mission things
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by toastal 4y ago
> heavily customizable I like cheesesteaks every once in a while, but the green chile versions around the US Southwest were my absolute favorite. I wish I could get them where live now. The tikka version mentioned in the article really p
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by toastal 4y ago
Open hardware security keys exist. Software should not lock themselves into proprietary hardware for security anymore than goobers locking themselves into Symantec's wrapper or only-our-app for basic TOTP which could be platform agnost

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