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It's naive to think any company exists for any other purpose than maximizing profit. That's business 101.

I have the same opinion as the author here. When I buy a 4k monitor, it's generally for the higher PPI. There's just less eye strain for me reading less pixelated fonts.

Personal sweet spot me in terms of pleasant readability is: 4k 24" @ 200% scale (so same screen estate as 1080p) or 5k 27" @ 200% scale (same screen estate as 1440p).

And WordPress, which is hated even by PHP devs, continues to grow now powering 37.3% of all websites [1]. Until last year, it maintained compatibility with PHP 5.2 essentially relying on PHP of the 2007 (now bumped to 5.6 which was released in 2014).

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management

You mean they go viral?

Says low-cost but anyone knows what exactly is "low cost" here?

It is only natural progression here. Heck, I am surprised it took this long. Considering the fact that in many Github projects, "Issues" were being used for discussions, questions, often tangents.

This looks great. For browsers, would have been even better if the result was an SVG or pure CSS gradient. Canvas can still have performance hit on mobiles.

The JS implementation of Gradify [1] did something similar but by using CSS linear-gradient which is even better in terms of performance. I wonder if the same could be implemented here.

[1] https://github.com/fraser-hemp/gradify

Did this for 15 years. Todos, notes, any list goes in a plain text file.

It was all good but not aesthetically pleasing in terms of readability (wonder if Text Editors will ever focus on improving leading and tracking, or better fonts). And lack of other visual goodies like easy columns.

Tried almost all todo apps and the lack of flexibility was always annoying. I wanted the flexibility of a text editor - an enhanced text editor.

Last year, I discovered Notion and have never looked back. I use it for everything. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close to what I've always wanted.

All good suggestions. Adding to this, there's a thread full of similar gems: https://twitter.com/flybayer/status/1220406529901223936

I do get that not all of these can be done and many are specific to niches. But I believe a lot of boilerplate can be done by one framework.

And an opinionated framework can do a lot. Say Payment integration modules (Stripe, Paypal et. al), Logging & Error Reporting, Opinionated Backend/Frontend and storage for basic CRUD, CI/CD integration and deployment workflows working with cloud providers, tight integration with a messaging queue etc.

Something like this could be a massive time saver in communities like Indiehackers.

The last hackintosh I made was in 2017 and it's still a beast. Maintenance was relatively easy

However, the future of pain-free Hackintosh doesn't seem very likely. It's rumored (or confirmed?) Apple will do its proprietary ARM system as MacOS eventually moves onto that [1] (maybe not this year, but in the near future). And then there's the T2 chip.

I have been slowly moving away from Mac in general as I have no need for it (not a Mac/iOS developer). The alternatives are just as good or better for my taste.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-arm-cpus-2020-in...

It's not that the contrast is low (which is another problem on its own, I agree). It's the other extreme - too high of a contrast [1] by using a fully saturated yellow and black. The same reason you don't use #fff on #000.

[1] https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...

I believe OP is referring to the terrible readability and color contrast, with that background color.

> I’m saying these improvements are accidental. It’s sheer luck they happened.

No. They're not accidental. They're entirely intentional, done by sheer hard work.

On a related note, I am surprised a person who claims to write about UI design has a website with that background color. The contrast is just awful.

It's odd to talk about EU as one. I can hire from EU countries that are on-par or even cheaper than India (at some skill level).

Yes I am talking about some of Balkans (Serbia, Greece), Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania), Eastern EU (Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania) where the rates can be $20-30 an hour for very decent devs.

Microsoft has done the right thing here. The non-issue could be created an issue of. Who'd want the negative PR.

That being said, it's prudent not to add the most common religious or cultural symbols for a global product. If you cater to one, you'll be expected to do the same for other cultural rituals.

I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it seems dismissed [1].

It was a dismissable admin notice that looked like an ad and wasn't exactly a tracking link (in the wp.org classifications at least), but a generic marketing campaign link [2].

[1] https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69... [2] https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/cla...

Let's get a few things right since the link is misleading.

- It was an upsell to the Pro version of free plugin. Not some random ad spam.

- The ad was an admin notice - which appear in WordPress on top of every page in the backend Admin Area in what's generally the notification area.

- It's free, GPL, and open source - you know, "No Warranties" and all that.

Grayhat, and not something you should ever do. But not as nefarious as everyone is making it sound like.

WP.org is about freedom, so they're unlikely to restrict it either unless malicious: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69...

Being very involved in the WordPress industry, what I find funny is the majority of angry reviews masquerading as victims are from entitled pseudo devs who sell WordPress sites to clients and now they were made to look bad because they had automatic updates enabled while charging their customers for a retainer package with "plugin & themes updates".

How about buying premium version in the first place just as you charged your client for it.

Ignoring the red herring, and the assumption I read these stories after a bad experience, let me address, yet, as a consumer, all that matters is the vocal user experience.

If there are 100 bad stories out there, that's enough of a failure of a company irrelevant of its size. And I have personally conducted the support experiment multiple time over the years to have the first-hand experience.

Either way, since you clearly have a vested interest in Ad companies from your HN comment history, I shall engage no more.

I have read similar stories all over the community in general. The support simply doesn't exist or takes 2 weeks for a simple, useless response, generally.

Given your vested interest in Ads and Google in specific, I am sure you know this already.

Never rely on Google Ads to be honest. They are unlikely to respond at all.

After spending ~100k, our ads randomly stopped working last month without changing anything. Support took 10 days to reply saying the account was up for a review (no notifications sent, no indicators). Yet, it still wasn't working.

Booked a consultation with one of their so-called "Experts", he couldn't find anything wrong and suggested to contact support again.

After the initial 10 days response, still waiting for a reply from so-called support 20 days later. I'd assume support only exists for companies that spend millions a year.

Hit hard with what? The 1% marketshare it will eventually get like the previous Edge versions?

Apple store techs can't really fix stuff. All they can do is replace and it takes 3-10 days depending on country.

Yeah, when their batteries swell up twice in 3 years, and they take 11 days each time and you're out of your main workstation for that long? See how that compares with an hour fixing it yourself.

It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced.

Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker.

Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.

No PWAs, no proper service workers, no native lazyload, no WebP, always lagging behind with more buggy implementation of almost everything. Can't blame people who call it the new IE6/8.

I agree, this doesn't sound "everyone": https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/the_basics/full...

Apple music is available in another 59 countries that Spotify is not.

This is very cool. One feature I'd like is the market share report that caniuse has for each listing.

I currently rely on https://emailclientmarketshare.com/ (by Litmus) for this but if someone's aware of a better data source, I'd like to know.

If you're a tab hoarder, Chrome does seem to have gotten worse in the last year.

Usually the GPU process. Even if your tabs are all inactive, killed by something like Great Discarder, the GPU process continues to use a lot of RAM (2GB in my case, at times) and CPU.

I am not sure if it's a Mac-specific issue though.

It's just sad that enormous amount of developer resources are being wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. It's not just the developer hours put into the AMP project itself. Thanks to all the SEO blogs, every site out there has to wasted resources into an AMP implementation.

The days of maintaining two versions of a website - a "mobile version" (in AMP) and the normal - are back again. Takes me back to the WAP days (not saying it's that bad). Then there are those that are going AMP-only - getting locked into AMP and all the excessive-yet-limited JS baggage (try building a full-fledged site and you will have a lot of AMP JS). JS compilation and execution isn't cheap on phones either. I sure as hell can make faster-rendering sites without that AMP bloat that can compete despite their prefetch.

This proprietary tech isn't helpful and is a massive dev resource sink. And let's not kid ourselves, there were many better ways for Google to prioritize and encourage speedy websites.

For all the bashing GitLab gets, personally, I want GitLab to survive and keep competing at some level with GitHub.

Should GitHub dominate the market and gobble up competition, we all know how it goes for its parent company.

The most it resembles is the San Francisco font (Apple's default system font) which itself was inspired from Helvetica and DIN.

Personally I liked this font much better than the other opensource alternatives, especially with the number of weights it offered. I am glad it's gotten popular.