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drizze

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drizze··on Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
def package this and put it on the App Store before clones eat your lunch. Would happily pay a couple bucks to play this on my phone offline.
drizze··on I Lost Faith in Kagi
I was a Kagi subscriber for about 5 months. I had noticed a slight improvement for random software development related content vs my previous search engine (bing). After cancelling 6 months ago I don't miss Kagi at all.

The thing that made me cancel my subscription was one specific interaction.

One day I was trying to buy tickets to a podcast tour, the sales for tickets was set to open at a specific time and I was searching for the purchase page at the moment of opening. I frantically searched "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets", the first search failed to bring relevant results. I tried "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets $YEAR", nothing.

I tried many searches for about a minute along these lines and thought maybe their site just wasn't public and I needed a specific link. Then I typed my original "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets" query into bing and got the exact correct webpage on the first try.

Bought the tickets I wanted and immediately cancelled my subscription to Kagi.

drizze··on macOS Apps in Rust
There was a talk given on this subject at iOSoho if ya want to take a peek:

https://youtu.be/8ApcIOZe9qg?t=1921

drizze··on Site.js: Small Web construction set
following the dynamic part of this, it looks like they recommend DotJS.

https://sitejs.org/#dynamic-sites

I am not too familiar with DotJS, but it looks like its depreciated/unmaintained for years.

https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

drizze··on Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
Some devs prefer a GUI even when a perfectly good command line tool exists. For example the many git wrappers.
drizze··on Show HN: DCPM – Docker Compose Package Manager
FYI you have a ref to 0.0.0.0:8000 as your homepage from the docs.dcpm.dev link

<a href="http://0.0.0.0:8000/" title="Docker Compose Package Manager" aria-label="Docker Compose Package Manager" class="md-header-nav__button md-logo">

edit: looks like a cool project though! congrats on shipping!

drizze··on Show HN: Assembly: A Pythonic Object-Oriented Web Framework Built on Flask
>Assembly Makes Flask Great Again

The fact that flask can bar a basis for other frameworks makes Flask (and werkzeug) great in itself.

drizze··on Programmers can’t write algorithms without help
In their defense, some other languages make the length of a string an attribute/property on a string instance. Python feels like the odd one out here making it a free function you must pass an instance to.

If the tech lead spent a lot of time working with another language that made the length an attribute, I think it would be reasonable for them to need to look it up often.

https://apidock.com/ruby/String/count https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.h... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string/30035...

drizze··on Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi
Rx has a bit of a "namespace collision" with the functional reactive programming library ReactiveX, which has implementations in many different languages. Often these libraries are called Rx(Java|Swift|Ruby|PHP|js|$LANG).

Paradigm: http://reactivex.io/ Implementations: http://reactivex.io/languages.html

That being said the editor looks very cool! Congrats on shipping!

drizze··on Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why
Does anyone have this info in a nice info graphic? I would love to hang this in my kitchen as a quick reference.
drizze··on Strava cuts off Relive
The "my data" vs "strava data" is probably the reason why they've left this bug in Apple Health syncing unresolved for years, despite there being good facilities for de-duping workouts in HealthKit.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/206393444-Dupli...

By de-prioritizing the use of Apple Health as a central store for all your personal fitness data, it makes Strava the one place for all your workouts and allows them to dictate how its used.

Now, I record all my Workout data in Apple Workouts with an Apple Watch, then sync them to other platforms using this fantastic little app to export the data in any way I want.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthfit/id1202650514

drizze··on Show HN: Discover and listen to podcasts that are worth your time
This happens to me in Safari (12.1.1 (14607.2.6.1.1))/ macOS (10.14.5) as well.
drizze··on On logic in a Rails app, revisited 6 years later
But placing logic in the controllers means you need to get a rails controller to test your business logic. This may seem fine in a small application, but as an app grows it becomes a headache to need to tie all your business rules to your framework.

“Rails is not your application”

drizze··on Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
I’ve used this tool which provides similar functionality for several presentations and I love it. Especially using git to version control my talk.

https://www.deckset.com

drizze··on An opinionated guide to Haskell
What sort of apps can you build with Haskell For Mac? The website gives me the impression it’s more akin to Swift Playgrounds than IntelliJ.
drizze··on An opinionated guide to Haskell
I’ve been reading “Real World Haskell” and enjoying it thus far. Big bonus is it is available for free online:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org

drizze··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
Computerphile, lots of their videos stay away from the details of code, but the concepts they talk about are fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

drizze··on An Experimental Course on Operating Systems
Redox looks very cool!

It is very funny that their "Screenshots" tab is full of pictures of real computer screens:

https://www.redox-os.org/screens/

drizze··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
Give the app overcast a shot if your sick of the stock podcasts app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857?mt=8

drizze··on Data Classes for Java
To provide flexibility in the future. When your data comes from a method you can change its source without changing the caller. This can be very useful and should be leveraged whenever possible.
drizze··on What’s New in Python 3.7
I think *iterable would just pass one argument that's a list, not pass each argument individually
drizze··on Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
Congrats! Hope they do great things with it. Use them to host a middleman site and love the service.
drizze··on Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles
Great app, totally going to start using it on a day to day basis. It looks like deep links appear to be broken for me:

Link https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/public-wifi-nyc/id1232095734...

Renders this screen http://imgur.com/a/E29QX

Also is there better place I can submit this kind of feedback?

EDIT:

Found github repo and made an issue: https://github.com/spolu/dazzle/issues

drizze··on Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 10s installation time
Why is it that the C++ code is pink in one screenshot, but blue in another? And Python is blue in one screenshot and pink in another?

Looks like a great project! Thanks for sharing!

drizze··on Show HN: Remember – A progressive Todo app
The animation into 'completed' is a little too jerky imo. Also the concept looks very similar to 'clear'.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-tasks-reminders-to-do/...

drizze··on NYC Bike Stats
Also with citi bike people can find themselves biking home from a spot they didn't bike to and not have a helmet on them.
drizze··on Ask HN: What software is used at SpaceX and NASA for PM?
It looks like SpaceX uses jira: http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/202828

Not sure about NASA though.

drizze··on Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
David Beazley's, "Discovering Python": https://youtu.be/RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

A fascinating tale about using python during the discovery phase of a trial. Very fun watch. Anything by David Beazley is great!

drizze··on Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS
I believe he referencing the fact that a well known technology called 'Rack' already exists.