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Plaastix··on Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser
Wow same! I'm so amazed to see this on HN. One of the few amazing open source multi platform games
Plaastix··on Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google
Oh sorry to repost this!
Plaastix··on Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518230424/https://addyosman...
Plaastix··on Oh, 2022
https://web.archive.org/web/20220109192632/http://www.antipo...
Plaastix··on How We Built the GitHub Globe
This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.
Plaastix··on I am a horse in the land of booleans
In Kotlin, if is an expression: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/control-flow.html. This is why the language drops Java's ternary operator.
Plaastix··on I Nearly Lost All of My Data
Thanks for sharing this! Vorta seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I can't seem to get it up and running on Mac OS.

Edit: It looks like Vorta doesn't obey Mac OS's Dark Mode so it looks like the app doesn't launch.

Plaastix··on Write – A word processor for handwriting
From what I can tell, all the text is rendered via SVG.
Plaastix··on Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt
Awesome teardown! I would never have guessed that the Bolt was an Android device. You should have run the Bolt APK in the Android emulator on your computer instead of on your actual phone. Nevertheless, great read.
Plaastix··on Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
I agree with you as well. It makes deep linking easier since you don't need to recreate an entire fragment backstack.
Plaastix··on Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
There are quite a few "sample" open source projects that demonstrate best practices and various Android architectures. However, they are not fully fledged production applications like the Kickstarter app.
Plaastix··on Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
It is definitely production ready now.
Plaastix··on Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
That "glue" can be Android's Databinding library. I've used it to bind ViewModel data to views. Works really well.
Plaastix··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a VPN provider?
I use PIA and it works great. Their website design is not representative of their service at all.