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FastEatSlow

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Blog: https://brianstadnicki.github.io/
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FastEatSlow··on Terrible real estate agent photographs
> Many people have transitioned to homelessness and the rental market has eased up a little bit.

Well that's a sad state of affairs.

FastEatSlow··on ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links
They mention this in their docs: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior#W...?
FastEatSlow··on We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Web browsers tend to degrade a webpage rather than fail to load it. Given that every day using Chrome I'll come across a website that is having issues with rendering, it should be acceptable.
FastEatSlow··on Thinking hard makes the brain tired
If you want to avoid being a low performer then maybe take a junior job where you're not expected to do much.
FastEatSlow··on Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server
This has been attempted by many people in the past, including myself, but I'm sure that if anyone is to have a shot, it's SpottedLeaf. He's done a lot for Paper performance and is very familiar with the workings of Minecraft.
FastEatSlow··on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
Love this. Anxiety isn't a new-fangled piece of tech, it's primitive and should be treated as such.
FastEatSlow··on 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
There is IDA Home https://hex-rays.com/ida-home/
FastEatSlow··on Showering at the South Pole
Their shower water's not heated beyond cold, so it doesn't make a difference.
FastEatSlow··on Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)
Perhaps this could be more useful if it could be fed information from a bug tracker, so it could use the context to create a meaningful (if inaccurate) commit message.
FastEatSlow··on A Pathetic Example of Living Beyond Your Means That We Have Normalized
Yep, car ownership is expensive.
FastEatSlow··on Always look down in London: Pavement oddities
I'll be keeping this in the back of my mind, just in case. /s
FastEatSlow··on World’s only sleeping bank website
Were the Canadian banks using US insurance?
FastEatSlow··on What comes up when you flush
In the UK we usually have lids, unless it's been vandalised.
FastEatSlow··on My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container (2017)
This is pretty neat, how well does this compare to how services such as cloudlare workes currently operate?
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
Haha thanks, sadly it's probably going to have to change for something a bit more visually appealing.
FastEatSlow··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
Thanks for catching that, I got my English the wrong way round.
FastEatSlow··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
I thought that that in Slavic languages Sunday would be the first day of the week, since the Polish for 'monday' means 'after sunday'.

EDIT: got 'monday' and 'sunday' the wrong way round

FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
Thank you all so much for this list! It's really going to come in handy with my custom Teams client, OperCom! https://opercom.co.uk
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
I have a write-up about how their API is funny. https://blog.opercom.co.uk/posts/odd-microsoft-teams-api/
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
I hope not, though that may explain why they keep any message content as oddly formatted HTML and CSS.
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
It's surprising that nobody has mentioned that MS is calling this Teams 2.0. They're rewriting to React with WebView2. I don't believe any of the functionality will be in the C#, but we'll see.

It's probably worth me mentioning that I'm building a Teams client using Typescript and Tauri! https://opercom.co.uk

FastEatSlow··on Aerodynamics of Gravel Bikes
The oldest age I've found is 75, and they still rode 2x per week in 2011. http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/02/who-cycles-in-n...
FastEatSlow··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
That's a shame. What was your product, and did you have any troubles with reverse engineering or did you not consider it?
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Where do you host your CSS files?
Caching should be handled by the proxy in front of your server in that case. Adding another host is unlikely to improve performance, especially with HTTP/2.
FastEatSlow··on Create an Inexpensive Flying Wing / Drone (2019)
I've been looking for instructions for a drone this simple and cheap for a while now, guess I have a project to do now.
FastEatSlow··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
Microsoft Graph requires the organisation administrator to enable extra user permissions or to add an app to allow users to use this, whereas by reverse engineering users don't need organisation administrator permission.
FastEatSlow··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
I'm working on a vanilla JS web app alternative if you're interested, OperCom. You can see its current status at [1] and keep updated at [2]

[1] https://blog.opercom.co.uk/posts/news-13-08-22/

[2] https://www.opercom.co.uk/contact

FastEatSlow··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
(self-promotion ahead)

Since the Microsoft Teams client is well known for being quite frankly, terrible, as many have pointed out in this thread, I am working on my own, alternative Teams client: OperCom.

I'm building it as a simple, vanilla JS web application, in a SaaS model (since I need to keep bending to Microsoft's will). The Teams API isn't great to reverse engineer, but it's do-able and has been done (partially) before, but never to the extent required to create a full-featured app.

If anybody's interested, you can see its current status at [1] and keep updated with its progress at [2].

[1] https://blog.opercom.co.uk/posts/news-13-08-22/ [2] https://www.opercom.co.uk/contact

FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?
I agree that the client's performance is important. I'm hoping to avoid frameworks so that any issues will be as clear as possible, but maintenance will tell if that's a good decision.
FastEatSlow··on Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?
(bit of self-promotion)

They do have a React version on WebView2 that is (supposedly) much better, but it's only for personal accounts right now, though that could change [1].

Thankfully their internal API is fairly self-documenting, so I've been looking into creating my own Teams client if you're interested [2]. We'll see if it'll have been an effort in vain depending on how well Microsoft Teams 2.0 goes.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/a-new-generation-of-microsoft...

[2] https://blog.opercom.co.uk/posts/news-13-08-22/

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