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m5ron Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere.

I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it So I ended up open sourcing it

m5ron After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games

A study about this from researchers based in Netherlands was recently linked to on HN. They found a correlation between a drop in juvenile crimes following a GTA release.

m5ron Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy

You're being overly optimistic. I wasted half a day trying to dual boot arch alongside my existing windows 10 install on a dell xps 9700 a few months after it got released in 2020. I could not even get a DE working because of some issue with my dGPU driver. I had my fair share of driver issues with manjaro as well but it was much easier to get going than arch despite the rich wiki.

I can imagine it's easier to install on older~ hardware with no dual boot though.

m5ron uBlock Origin 1.50.0

Telling them it blocks ads on YouTube has been enough to convince them every single time so far

m5ron Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” Android malware that exploited 5 0-days

I don't understand why you're being downvoted, you're simply pointing out facts and raising a good question.

I'm interested to find out why too.

m5ron Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

I had the same experience within an app to manage doctors appointments on iOS. For some reason I was locked out of the app by cloudflare and I ended up having to call my doctor's secretary to move my appointment. It took 15 minutes on the phone for something that should have taken less than a minute within the app. Even my friend who worked for that company had no way to fix it. I don't know whether to blame the app developers or cloudflare here.

I wouldn't call Linux an obscure use case, it's particularly great for workstations and old laptops that struggle with running Windows.

m5ron Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

That's usually the first question that pops up when explaining it to non-Muslims haha but yes, really, no water either.

m5ron Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU

CryoByte33 on YouTube[0] has videos explaining in details different configuration presets to run games like God of War, Witcher 3, or Breath of the Wild. He's also maintaining an impressive piece of software[1] that helps optimize your Steam Deck. Worst case scenario, if you don't find the game you're looking for in his videos, chances are you will find a decent configuration on SteamDeckHQ[2]

[0]: https://youtube.com/@cryobyte33 [1]: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities [2]: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-settings/

m5ron Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

Your service worker dictates what the browser should cache. You could cache static assets only and let the browser hit the server for document requests. As for the refresh button, mobile users are now used to pull to refresh so you might not need an actual refresh button.

As an aside, I dig the design! It reminds of teletext haha

m5ron maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

I've been using Mozilla's extension[0] that contains everything Facebook-related automatically with Firefox containers and it's been working great.

This morning I looked for a similar extension for Google and I've found this fork[1] of Mozilla's extension. It's working as expected so far but I'd love for it to be officially maintained by Mozilla at some point. There is an open issue about it[2].

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook

[1] https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/758

m5ron What I wish I knew about React

Twitter can be a good place sometimes

/r/webdev, /r/javascript and /r/reactjs too

m5ron Freelancer Contract Template (2018)

YouTube video that goes along with the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ItNYnBDEU

Contract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg_1m1C05YqTJzp5MBZMhlRE...