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hgyjnbdet··on Considerations when building embedded databases
That's what I initially thought too, though having read and understood little of the article, is sqlite not a consideration too? Or does it take up too much memory?
hgyjnbdet··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
I think they mean Flutter, and Darts truly cross platform abilities.
hgyjnbdet··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
I'm not agreeing with that assessment but recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997745

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184763

Among others. Again I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying you don't see the same with Go.

hgyjnbdet··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
Out of interest, why are people so confident in Google when it comes to Go, yet every other day there's articles about how Google can't be trusted in related to Dart/Flutter which are soon to be abandoned?
hgyjnbdet··on Ask HN: I can't grok front end development
I struggled with understanding web frameworks, though I didn't struggle understanding the basics of plain JS, html, and CSS. CSS kind of just made sense for me.

In the end I settled on dart/flutter for frontend.

hgyjnbdet··on Show HN: Flood – Flutter toolkit that streamlines app development
Thanks for the reply. I'm really a beginner to dart/flutter. I found dart extremely easy to pick up but flutter has a steeper learning curve.

I'll definitely be checking this out, but think, similar to JavaScript and it's frameworks, learning the underlying technology first will give me a better insight into what this is doing.

Good luck with both this and your business.

hgyjnbdet··on Show HN: Flood – Flutter toolkit that streamlines app development
There's loads of these types of tools popping around dart/flutter (flutterflow, etc). Nearly all of them are subscription based.

This seems decent, and free, after a quick look, where's the catch?

hgyjnbdet··on Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach
If it was real RoyD would have asked for it to be reset to Mickey1928. Anything else and MarkP would have known it was a scam.
hgyjnbdet··on In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
Me: seems like my sort of thing.

Me: navigate to linked website, see wall of text.

Me: clicks reading mode

Me: *193 - 245 minutes*

Me: bookmark to read later; probably not

hgyjnbdet··on Every company should be owned by its employees
I suppose a side effect might be employee loyality, which might be a good thing. And the wealth disparity we have now is obscene. But all this is predicated on the company doing well, where's the story about the companies set up like this that struggle or fail? Are the employees worse off than those in a traditional company?
hgyjnbdet··on What App to Use for Notes?
I have used many open source notes taking apps. My goto used to be Zim Desktop Wiki [0] but its just a desktop app and the was no built in sync solution. On mobile I used Markor [1] which understood Zims syntax, as well as markdown.

Due to lack of mobile client and built in sync options I moved to Joplin [2]. Its markdown, cross platform, and i can sync with WebDav. People don't like that its SQLite based, but honestly worse com to worse your notes are an export away, or you can just open the database yourself. Im happy with it.

I always recommend Treesheets [3] though, excellent for brainstorming/rapid note taking.

[0] https://zim-wiki.org/

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/

[2] https://joplinapp.org/

[3] https://strlen.com/treesheets/

hgyjnbdet··on Show HN: I made a task manager / calendar app to use it with my wife
I suppose my question would be why would I use this over a normal calendar/task app that uses the iCal spec and paying for a caldav service?
hgyjnbdet··on Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench
I might be wrong but you'd need to install pandoc-crossref and add it as a filter in Zettlr, somewhere in the pandoc preferences. Then use pandoc-crossref's syntax on the equations.
hgyjnbdet··on PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client
DBeaver is my go-to as well, came here to ask the same question.
hgyjnbdet··on The one person in America happy about tipping fatigue
I'm not American, and the culture here wasn't to tip everyone for doing their job, but I don't mind it if I feel the food and service were good. But presented with a screen suggesting I tip, with/out a suggested amount, is pretty much a guarantee I'm not tipping. If I tip I want to make sure it's going to the people I want to tip.
hgyjnbdet··on Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench
It's free?
hgyjnbdet··on Why You Should Not Use Tcl (1994)
Hahaha
hgyjnbdet··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
Quarto appears a popular alternative, out of interest is anyone using Zettlr?

https://www.zettlr.com/

hgyjnbdet··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
I saw this come up today in a different thread.

I'm a mature undergrad, I've never used LaTeX, actively avoided it in fact and am forced to produce word documents. My current workflow is pandoc style markdown and obviously pandoc for conversion, with zotero for citations. I make use of pandoc-crossref for figures, tables, sections, etc.

I'm hopefully moving to a different uni for a masters this year. Can anyone who uses typst comment on whether I should consider moving from my fairly complicated workflow to typst?

hgyjnbdet··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
Not the OP but I use pandoc-crossref for this: https://lierdakil.github.io/pandoc-crossref/
hgyjnbdet··on Show HN: Wrote a JSON parser from scratch in go
CSV is easier.
hgyjnbdet··on Ask HN: Looking for a Short Story
Thank you, you're a star. I would never have got this with what I was searching! Even tried gpt, no joy. Again thanks.
hgyjnbdet··on Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
Mupdf.
hgyjnbdet··on What's Next for Flutter After Layoffs Hit Google Team
What a non-story!

TL;DR:

Random, purported, Flutter dev says this one time an unnamed google Dev expert told them not to learn Flutter.

Google spokesperson says Flutter is not getting abandoned by Google.

hgyjnbdet··on A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives
I was expecting powershell to be in there. I like it over bash for most things.
hgyjnbdet··on How to choose what a programming language to learn first
If you want to do any sort of app development (mobile, desktop, web) I'd chose Dart and Flutter.

This is what I'd do if I was starting again and knew what I know now. Darts a decent language and simple to learn.

hgyjnbdet··on WhatWeb: Next Generation Web Scanner (2021)
I don't know why my I was a little shocked by this.
hgyjnbdet··on WhatWeb: Next Generation Web Scanner (2021)
Does the fact it's not been updated since 2021 not affect its effectiveness considering what it purports to do and the ever changing web development landscape?
hgyjnbdet··on Using the 5S Principle in Coding
But at that point your problem isn't needing a better lifeboat, the problem is why it's sinking. At this point solving the problem of why it's sinking is the problem you've got, solving it before you had that problem seems silly.
hgyjnbdet··on I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
Not popular on HN, but you should look into Dart/Flutter, especially if it's for a hobby.

I too was daunted like you and that's why I chose Dart/Flutter. Though if you're wanting web technologies I'd consider looking into: https://leanwebclub.com/

Nothing to do with them but they're all about franework-less web technologies.

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