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drunkan··on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
The Orion browser has had this for a while and has the best native implementation by far I just hope they don’t remain pigeonholed into apple OS as they currently are
drunkan··on An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
Same here - mostly just need something for invoicing etc. and its just outrageously expensive.

I have been eyeing up https://www.waveapps.com/ as a free alternative (not open source though) but I have not seen it mentioned much in this thread so either its just less known or not very good.

drunkan··on Microsoft employees are hooked on the company’s training videos?
Hard agree.

For learning programming etc I have to wade through recommendations for YouTube this or some other video platform for a channel run by some learning influencer.

All the best online courses I have taken have always been text form.

The one impediment to my learning unreal engine is that every single course is video based. It makes no sense.

Video is for entertainment.

Off topic - If anyone happens to know any non video based learning for unreal engine 5 please recommend

drunkan··on What is a Vector Database? (2021)
Thanks for the links and discussions, I’m keeping an eye on this one it looks really promising, at least in the hybrid area compared to the much hyped surrealDB whose graph implementation looks more like an afterthought when you get down to the technical details, functionality and performance
drunkan··on Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web
I’m interested to know what extensions you are using?
drunkan··on Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking
I too find Reactive Programming appealing and have successfully used RxJS as you mention to build a fully reactive app - every action and data change can be observed and reacted to - its a fantastic library and it makes TS really powerful IMO (not to say other languages don't have this, just a powerful addition to an already versatile language).

With TS and RxJS I really like to do all the plumbing and housing a little more classically with some container classes that I call services who house and expose RxJS observables with an init() and a destroy() function where a service needs to manage its own subscriptions. So classes "services" group observables and there functionality, RxJS observables are the "plumbing" of the app, piping data around via events and then all the logic is in pure functions. I find programming like this leads to a clear data/event flow and neat seperation of concerns.

drunkan··on Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen
I think perhaps this is a little more developer and creatives focussed as opposed to business meeting focussed al la zoom and I suspect and it’s inferred from what they’ve focussed on (optimization, multi screen, 60fps) that this will be more performant than zoom. That said I am yet to try it but zoom is pretty much down there at the bottom of screen sharing tools I would want to use daily… There wasn’t much mentioned about security but again it’s probably more secure than zoom
drunkan··on Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen
Interesting - I had not come across coscreen before but I can see straight away how much better that would have been to use than any of slack, teams or discord all of which I’ve used previously for pair programming/on boarding etc. I could see value here also in brainstorming sessions where previously collaborating on a google doc etc.

I haven’t delved into what the pricing model is but presumably it won’t be free for 1on1 use forever but I can easily see the business subscription model working perhaps well enough for individuals to have free 1on1.

Like many of us here big appreciation for the write up as opposed to video I think I got a good idea of how it worked and it’s key selling points just from the text and screenshots.

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