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1f97··on Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet
github link seems to be broken: https://github.com/petreminder/reminder
1f97··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
aws supports this as well: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
1f97··on IMDB Terminal Browser
it doesn't. it uses https://www.themoviedb.org/ and not imdb
1f97··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
that's not really been my experience. whenever i order something at a restaurant and then i ask for some tap water, most of them do
1f97··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
piggybacking on this, the performance of Firefox on a Mac with a 4k external screen is abysmal. any action at all takes an extra second or two to perform. not to mention that if i start watching a youtube video it makes the fans go crazy.

i changed back to chrome because of this and it's so much smoother.

1f97··on Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others
it refers to scrum poker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker
1f97··on New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
i have exactly the same issue. so many websites nowadays choose to have dark themes which are essentially black backgrounds with white text and it is physically painful to read. if i'm invested enough in the article, i always try to change the user styles a bit to make it more bearable.
1f97··on Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News
previous HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148
1f97··on Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema
thanks, i will take a look!
1f97··on Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema
can you tell me a bit more about this? i wanted something like this for a small api i have but ended up using marshmallow to validate jsons against defined schemas which i think is a bit overkill.
1f97··on Deploys at Slack
capistrano is perfect for that. we use it for all our deployment needs and it has been wonderful!
1f97··on Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look?
i find the title a bit misleaing. "your street" only if it is in Madrid, Brussels or Paris.
1f97··on [dead]
what exactly makes this random person qualified to say this and call other people 'doomers'?
1f97··on Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
i mean, it does mention Elixir and Erlang though...
1f97··on JavaScript Is Bad
i don't see nested ifs? from what i can tell, it checks whether the error happened in the request or in the response from the server.
1f97··on JavaScript Is Bad
can anyone tell me why he says that the axios snippet is wrong?
1f97··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
>-1x Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in my office running a dynamic dns script and sitting behind a forwarded port for easy sshing.

could you give more info about this? i want to set up something similar at home also.

1f97··on Hyper 3.0.0
out of curiosity, could you give an example of where Alacritty would be faster than iTerm in a day-to-day environment?
1f97··on Hyper 3.0.0
why not use iTerm if on OS X?
1f97··on Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases
how is this better than DataGrip?
1f97··on Show HN: Beautiful Python List Prompts Package
if you want to use python together with dialog to build cli menus, i recommend using http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/doc/. i've been using it for a project at work and it's very nice!
1f97··on Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
try to be autosufficient. if you have a problem, try to fix it yourself. try googling, reading source codes if you have to. it's very annoying when people come to me with questions that could have been resolved by doing 5 minutes of research online.
1f97··on Enabling the F4 key in macOS
you can always set them to be regular function keys and use karabiner to override those media keys. that's the setup I have and it's pretty good.