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hmans··on Kantree – A better alternative to Trello
The fact that it's relatively light on features is one of the things that makes Trello great.
hmans··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Ok
hmans··on Ask HN: Anyone else planning to head back to Microsoft?
I built a PC -- my first in ~10 years -- because I want to follow what will be going on with Windows 10. I won't get rid of my Mac anytime soon, though, but I do agree with the sentiment that Apple has lost its way in parts. I don't feel the level of excitement for OS X as a couple of years back.
hmans··on Ask HN: Do I give up now?
If you haven't made it big at 25, you can just as well kill yourself now, because as everybody in tech knows, your life is practically over. </s>
hmans··on From Fastmail back to Gmail
tl;dr author switches back to Gmail because it's convenient. I wish the article would simply say that.
hmans··on What are your biggest career regrets?
Nothing.
hmans··on Is Persona the Authentication System That We’ve All Been Waiting For? (2012)
Persona solved a real problem in a straight-forward manner, which, in today's web, is a surefire way to fail. People often complain about things (Facebook being a walled garden, Twitter mucking up third party clients, authentication being broken etc.), but then end up giving in to convenience.
hmans··on Introducing Aurelia
We've reached a point where I don't even need to open links named "Introducing [fancy sounding name]" to know that it's yet another Javascript framework.
hmans··on Tuxedo.js – A Framework Built on React and Flux
Please stop.
hmans··on WhatsApp doesn't understand the web
The web doesn't understand WhatsApp.
hmans··on Io.js 1.0.0
Anyone fork it yet?
hmans··on Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework
A framework, by definition, must be opinionated. A framework without opinions is just a library.
hmans··on Rails 4.2 released
Unless you need one of the new features on offer, there is no reason why you would need to upgrade right away. It's perfectly okay to give a new Rails release a couple of months to settle, including gems that need to be compatible with it.
hmans··on Lazy Expert Syndrome
tl;dr Buy my online report.
hmans··on Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
So will it scale now?
hmans··on Ask HN: What is your daily rate?
Yes.
hmans··on 'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands
Ello is living proof of the importance of a story. You see, Ello wasn't just built, it was built "by artists" "frustrated" with the "establishment". There you go! Instant story, instant success.
hmans··on Nemex – A tiny app that helps you to track and curate ideas and projects
"As soon as you successfully uploaded them, navigate to the /projects folder and set the permissions to 777."
hmans··on 10 Most Common Rails Mistakes
This is the first article of this kind that I actually agree with. Usually, these things are "5 Popular Rails Mistakes: 1) Your code Book Of Fours the SRP concurrency something something don't use the database in tests blah."
hmans··on Show HN: Matrix, a fast and flexible blogging engine
What is this I don't even
hmans··on Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead?
He's getting ready for a Sublime Text 4 alpha release. It's supposed to ship any day now.
hmans··on Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer
What is the question?
hmans··on Smarter Rails Seeding with Sprig
No. Just no.
hmans··on The new PHP
The title is misleading; I expected an article about Javascript.
hmans··on Hum
I don't understand what this is.
hmans··on Why we love Mozilla Persona
Absolutely. Ogg Vorbis could have crushed the big licensed formats, though, if the Xiph Foundation had had any clue about telling a good story.

I love Persona and I love Ogg Vorbis, but both fail(ed) at understanding what _normal_ people look for in authentication/audio compression formats.

hmans··on Why we love Mozilla Persona
Persona is _awesome_. I use it on all my sites.

But it also proof that being awesome not only is not good enough to be successful, but simply doesn't matter. The user is not interested in a solution that is awesome, but one that doesn't scare him. And a big ugly third-party popup is as scary as stuff on the web gets these days.

Remember Ogg Vorbis?

hmans··on Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web
No.
hmans··on Stop making me sign up
"Stop making me sign up. [...] Discuss this on Hacker News."
hmans··on Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant, master it now.
lol.
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