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fdim··on You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazon app on Android
Time to disable auto update and see how long it continues to work! Disappointing outcome though
fdim··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2022)
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE, part time US time zone would be ideal as I could work in the evening. Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Web, Typescript, Angular, Angular CDK, Scss, Node

I'm software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently working as a frontend architect on a project involving multiple POs, UX team, 3 local feature teams(FE+BE) and few remote teams starting up.

Historically I've done full stack with Node, PHP, .NET, Java(Android) but over last 4 years I've focused exclusively on frontend with Angular. I was key driver for migration from AngularJS to v5. Today we are on v12. I've also landed some fixes to angular itself and 2 small features in Angular CLI (http client context is one of them).

Email: domas+hn@cuubas.com

I'm one of the guys who is excellent at problem solving, is more than happy to tackle more difficult technical problems and help others.

fdim··on I love React Hooks
Oh my, so much code for document.body.classList.toggle('dark-mode', !!locaStorage.darkMode)
fdim··on Living and working in Sweden as engineers
Denmark is very similar as well, but I despise the tax on cars...
fdim··on Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
For this exact reason I made an extension for chrome that covers some of it's features:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/e2e-test-builder/p...

I'd rather tag elements of interest and record (and adjust manually) than write everything in code.

fdim··on 2017 Camera News
I am glad that Sony Z5 has a camera button, it is much nicer and more natural to use than trying to touch the screen
fdim··on Show HN: AcrossTabs – Easy communication between cross-origin browser tabs
Reminds me mongodb being open/unprotected by default, that turned out well...
fdim··on In Pieces – A CSS-based exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction
Nope, you are not alone. I was looking forward to see some gifs or transparent pngs used as rounded corners.

Edit: the presentation itself is impressive, even with unexpected content

fdim··on No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
How about cookie policy popups/notifications/extra-top -bar? It's getting increasingly annoying to browse the Web. Basically you have to close some signup modal, cookie warning, chat head before you can start reading the content only to get another blocking modal right after scrolling - which will 'kindly' ask you to disable ad blocker... It's getting better and better!
fdim··on Heroku CI in public beta
For anyone using github and heroku - this may be convenient, but for anyone on bitbucket side - there is built in alternative (even within free tier). I'd say that they are quite late in the game
fdim··on Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook
I also hate when apps are doing this, especially when you can't disable it! I really don't know how doing that benefits the user.

Recently I was bit by Instagram app on ios (reported by the client, I am an android user) - it even breaks their own login flow! E.g. You can't open a link from within their app and login to some 3rd party site via Instagram. It simply times out and doesn't even replace the page - thus hides the actual problem. What is worse, is that typical user would blame site developers for this. In the end I had to refactor the flow to avoid login when user is coming from the app...

If you choose to do this, do it this right!

fdim··on YouTube TV will be huge. Apple must respond
Why does specifically Apple has to respond to this and not any other TV providers?
fdim··on The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults
Why would someone still use v2.6? There isn't much trouble to upgrade.
fdim··on Ask HN: Does anyone else have problems with Instagram API OAuth2?
I've started having the same issue yesterday as well, noticed few times before but it was happening 'sometimes', now it happens all the time. Only workaround is to switch to implicit oauth as @xmrcivicboix suggested
fdim··on Ask HN: What's the best laptop for a programmer that isn't a MacBook Pro?
+1 happy user of Dell precision 5510, ping me if you have specific questions
fdim··on Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers
Pitty that this represents only 12% of the global market, good to know nevertheless.
fdim··on Norman layout: less effort than QWERTY
I've never found it convenient to use. Touchpad with multi-touch (for scrolling) is much better and for any serious work not going to switch from a dedicated mouse (anywhere mx/mx2).I am not sure what people's issues are with such input. Disclaimer: I am software developer
fdim··on Microservices? Please Don't
Until performance becomes a critical issue and then you have to deal with increased costs (hardware), caching, complexity... And if you happen to pair service with its own database (trustpilot), aggregating data for statistical reason becomes even more 'fun'.
fdim··on My Pixel has a manufacturing defect
I expect manufacturer to take care of the case, custom ones just makes the phone thicker/heavier, but who knows - maybe in the future we will be buying 'case-less/naked' phones and 3rd party cases depending on the protection level needed.

Thinking about, idea doesn't sound too bad.

fdim··on Node.js recipe for automating JavaScript profiling in Chrome
Could we take heap snapshots as well? With some trigger in client side code, it might be possible to detect memory leaks.
fdim··on Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager
Don't forget that you can have platform specific bugs ;)
fdim··on Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager
Not to nitpick, but I fail to understand the problem you are trying to solve. Even if something like this would be bundled with some IDE, the reason is unclear to me. It's nice as a side project to get used to electron though.
fdim··on Dumb Password Rules
How about allowing special characters and not just a-zA-Z0-9.
fdim··on Realistic alternatives to Apple computers
Fits perfectly for my needs :) I've got 6820HQ and FHD. Not sure if anyone would notice any difference from 6920HQ.

Also "limited to 32GB" sounds a bit funny. Would you mind sharing why would you need more? (I am developer btw)

fdim··on Realistic alternatives to Apple computers
What about Precision 5510?
fdim··on Would You Take an 8% Pay Cut to Work from Home?
Good point. I am yet to reach that state though. Working at work involves more communication as well
fdim··on Would You Take an 8% Pay Cut to Work from Home?
Working from home may sound good only to those who haven't done it for a longer period of time. Having flexible hours is good to have, but only when you really need it (e.g. family visit, some delivery, some time off). Cut itself makes no sense, at least here in Denmark (Lithuanian here) if you work at the office you don't have to worry about food and coffee - at home you would.
fdim··on React Server
I see a bunch of failed attempts in console to connect to slack websocket. Is everything looking ok for you?

After blocking 2 iframes with adblocker I could finally inspect what was going on :)

Anyway, I can definitely feel that is fast and seamless and worth to give a deeper look! In the meantime, prefetching all the content in docs or source views upon load generates quite a few requests and might explain your scaling issues. Would you mind sharing statistics for number of users and hardware behind ?

fdim··on Create React Apps with No Configuration
Finally something that may convince me to switch from https://github.com/thardy/generator-ngbp - all I want is to focus on writing components not figuring out how to link gazillion dependencies
fdim··on WebGL Julia Set
Blank screen on Android as well
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