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Find me online: https://github.com/frederikcreemers https://mastodon.nl/bigblind https://frederikcreemers.be https://bigblind.at.hn
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bigblind··on Every person on the planet should have their own website
Cringe ass shit is in the eye of the beholder.
bigblind··on WeatherKit
My hunch, but I'm not sure about this, is that there might be some centralized caching going on on with the native SDK, so that if multiple apps use the WeatherKit API, they can share the cache.
bigblind··on There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
Congrats to the maintainers!
bigblind··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
I've always wondered why there's not more R&D going into making power tools quieter, and I wonder if a "sound tax" on products could incentivize it. When selling any item that makes noise, where the noise isn't the intended result of the item (so it doesn't count for, say, speakers), you'd pay a small fee for each db over 70db, or some other level, determined to cause hearing loss, or noise pollution in a somewhat large area.
bigblind··on I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
> Sacrificing your personal now for a better future is one of those church ideals that always struck me as weird.

I think in certain ways they're valid, but more for creating circumstances that will allow you to do fulfilling things in the future. Taking care of your body now to avoid health issues in the future, saving now so you don't have to worry about money in the future.

I guess a common baseline requirement for happiness is a sense of freedom. A healthy body gives you freedom to move (move in the broadest sense of the word, meaning also mobility, being able to pick something up from the floor without too many aches and pains), some financial backing means you're not constantly worrying about where your next meal comes from, so you're free to think about other things.

bigblind··on Launch HN: 1Flow (YC W22) – In-product user feedback for web/mobile apps
Well, we do actively say that you're not allowed to use it in production, and we have the banner to try and discourage it, but we also actively look for suspicious usage patterns on dev accounts.
bigblind··on Launch HN: 1Flow (YC W22) – In-product user feedback for web/mobile apps
The company I work for does it this way: you sign up without a CC, and you get access to an environment that has all the features, but you're not allowed to use it in prod, and it shows a "you're using this product in test mode" banner on the widget. Maybe that's something you could consider.
bigblind··on Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
For screen readers, there's the "tree" aria role[0] which lets you mark a specific element as a tree, and mark the elements within it as items at a certain level.

[0] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_ARIA_trees

bigblind··on Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
It's always been insane to me that databases aren't better at migrations. There are so many blog posts out there on how to do zero downtime migrations, and I feel like a lot more of that could probably be abstracted away.
bigblind··on I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
I can't comment on whether this holds for C++, but I've experienced it at my current position with Elixir. While it's a high level language like most programming languages I know, it's still a large paradigm shift to a purely functional language. And yet, I could get to the level where I could make useful contributions to our backend within a few days. I went through Elixir's "Getting Started" guide, and afterwards, I just learned concepts as I needed them. Yes each language has its quirks, and I guess C++ has gained quite a few of them over the years, but you can get quite far with a basic understanding of a language, and an existing code base to learn common usage patterns from as well.
bigblind··on Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food
I really hope you socceed and manage to spread globally. (I'd loev to have one of your restaurants around the corner in Maastricht, NL, where I live.
bigblind··on Email a Dumpster Fire
s/confused/employed
bigblind··on Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces
The quickstart is quite clear, but I'd love to see some slightly larger examples like, how is state passed between components? How do event handlers work? The API page seems sparse as well.

But it looks like a great start

bigblind··on Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces
No, it's niche with a French accent
bigblind··on Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries
"Living a little" is not recommended, because it may lead to confusing situations.
bigblind··on Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials
I don't know about GitHub, but GitLab has an open source distribution, so you can assume they use the same configuration internally.
bigblind··on 80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
That's quite a blurry line, though. How much functionality does a site need to become a web app?
bigblind··on An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)
Is there a full ebook available somewhere?
bigblind··on Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
I know extremely little about the subject, but aren't we decennia away from battery storage at the necessary scale as well?
bigblind··on A blogging style guide
Loved this style guide. As a non-native English speaker, I think it's even more important to be mindful of your style, so you don't continuously use a limited vocabulary or small set of idioms.

I would have liked some good/bad example sentences for some of these.

bigblind··on SHOW HK: Changed phone can't login my gmail account ever again. Any help?
contact them. If you get it wrong there's usually a link to contact support.
bigblind··on Show HN: Glorious Demo – Create animations for your code samples
What this can provide over gifs, is accessibility, although I haven't checked it with a screen reader.
bigblind··on JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
Any advice on where to read more about these modern cred stuffing countermeasures? I'd love to learn more.
bigblind··on 6.S974 Decentralized Applications, Fall 2018
Will they make video lectures available as open courseware?
bigblind··on Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
Hi everyone, author of the blog post here.

Thank you @kroltan for sharing this.

I know the mobile experience and accessibility of my site have some issues. I have a change coming t fix it, but feel free to report any issues you encounter.

bigblind··on Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
I think that if changes are small, you can just update the structure in small increments as needed, just like you'd do any other refactoring.
bigblind··on Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
I'm sorry, I was working on the mobile-friendliness of my site last night before I went to bed, but decided to prioritise sleep over pushing out the change. I wasn't expecting this post to get posted here, and now I'm kind o frustrated that so many people had a sub-par experience with my site. I'm pushing out an improved layout ASAP.
bigblind··on Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
There are cross-cutting (unintended knife pun) concerns, and I Usually do give them their own directory.
bigblind··on Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
It works well in the projects I've worked on, but I'd love to hear specific cases where it breaks down for you, since I've never worked in code bases developed by a large team.
bigblind··on TravisBuddy: Adds comments to failed pull requests, tells author what went wrong
I really like this idea. I think more tools should integrate into GitHub this way. The status API is nice, but you always have to click through to get the details.

I think you could do something similar with code analysis tools, so they make review comments in the code where issues occur.

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