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ivanfon··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
I use Thunderbird on desktop and K9-Mail on Android.
ivanfon··on How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
I remember in the past the Discord devs have moved particularly overloaded servers to their own dedicated hardware to improve performance.
ivanfon··on GNU nano 3.0 released
Looks like a cool alternative to nano, but if it isn't included by default on everything (like nano) I don't see why I would use this over Vim or Emacs.
ivanfon··on Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
To be honest, I've come to much prefer FF's devtools. You might want to take a look at [Firefox Developer Edition](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/), it adds quite a few nice features that are helpful for development. [This article](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/new-in-firefox-61-develope...) is a bit old, but a good look at the type of stuff that it adds.
ivanfon··on Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
Perhaps setting the UI density to “compact” will help? I like minimal UI, but Chrome’s feels a bit too minimal. I think Firefox on compact is a perfect balance.
ivanfon··on VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
It's worth noting that VS Code is only available in the AUR:

[visual-studio-code-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code-bin/): Original binary from Microsoft

[code](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/code/): Build from latest release source code

[code-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/code-git/): Build from latest Git commit

The versions that build from source (`code` and `code-git`, AFAIK have telemetry disabled).

ivanfon··on Vue.js Tutorial for beginners
Working fine for me in both Firefox and Chrome.
ivanfon··on Porting Death Rally from DOS to Windows (2010)
Weird, works fine on my end.
ivanfon··on Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
Sure, but configuration is more powerful. I the shell a lot, I’m not going to choose a suboptimal solution for my use case just because of a little bit of configuration.
ivanfon··on Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler
Is something really wrong with WebPack? Didn’t we decide that we want more modularity and plugins, instead of “zero configuration” solutions that lock you into a few technologies? What about the next hip new frameworks that release in the future? Will they just be piled into parcel, or will they add a plugin system? This seems like an unsustainable model.
ivanfon··on Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler
dude it's 2018 i only program ⌨⌨ in emojicode
ivanfon··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
A fire? At a sea parks?
ivanfon··on What's the best keyboard and mouse you owned?
My favourite keyboard ever is the IBM Model M. Best switches ever.
ivanfon··on Vue Native
How does this compare to nativescript-vue?

https://nativescript-vue.org/

ivanfon··on [dead]
Can anyone explain what’s going on to those who aren’t aware of the situation?

Also, the tweets seem to have been deleted, did anyone archive them?

ivanfon··on How Voxels Became ‘The Next Big Thing’
Weird... Is there any reason for them to do that or is it safe to assume it’s an error?
ivanfon··on A client-side encrypted PasteBin
There are also Up1 instances, which support pastes as well as files, and encrypt everything client side.

https://share.riseup.net/

ivanfon··on DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
What’s the use case for this compared to gcc or clang?
ivanfon··on Firefox 60 released
This Mozilla Hacks article[0] will tell you everything you need to know.

For something shorter, the import[1] and export[2] pages on MDN are great. These pages also have some useful related articles linked at the bottom.

Unrelated side note: MDN and Mozilla Hacks are doing an incredible job documenting web development and web standards.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/es6-in-depth-modules/

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

ivanfon··on iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
Looks like they use Google Cloud and AWS. I assume they’ve built their platform in a way that they can easily use many different providers.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo...

ivanfon··on De-Googling my phone
FreeOTP hasn't been updated in years. I recommend andOTP, it has more updates and features.
ivanfon··on Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers
This is awesome! The how it works section was an interesting read.

https://github.com/intoli/exodus/blob/master/README.md#how-i...

ivanfon··on I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
Another important argument which is brought up in this excellent EFF article is how Bluetooth allows for DRM.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/analog-last-defense-ag...

ivanfon··on Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter
I used to have a Boxee years ago. It was an awesome little device.
ivanfon··on ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive
MDN has the best articles.
ivanfon··on Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
Linux package managers are a beautiful thing.
ivanfon··on How we interview engineers at CircleCI
I think the majority of the candidates are capable, and a lot of them are probably quite excellent. But when you have that many candidates for so few positions, you have the luxury of really trying to go for the best people.
ivanfon··on Google Cloud Armor
Not a huge fan of Google getting more control over the net. On the bright side, Cloudflare getting a serious competitor is good.
ivanfon··on TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story
There’s a bot on Reddit that automatically posts summaries of long articles (/u/autotldr). Looks like it uses the smmry.com API, and it works quite well. Something similar for HN would be interesting.
ivanfon··on Better-sqlite3: A faster Sqlite library for Node.js
I'd love to see a benchmark against Sequelize as well.

Not sure how I feel about it not being async...

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