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matkvon Ask HN: Share your personal website

I'm guessing they mean a 5 kilometer running race, those are usually called 5k.

Just as I was wondering why my `git push` wasn't working all of a sudden :D

matkvon VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT

Having only used VSTs but never even looked into how they're actually built - what does this now mean in simple terms? Did you need a specific closed source framework to build them or something like that? What has changed now?

matkvon Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

Have you tried out CLion (https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/)? AFAIK the JetBrains IDEs work pretty well on Linux.

matkvon Ditching Obsidian and building my own

Genuinely curious, which plugins do you mean for example when you say that many heavy features are leaning on them?

I could see the dataview plugin as an example (even though I don't use that one personally) but most other plugins seem like they just add more convenient ways to do something that would be still pretty simple to do manually. (Templates for example).

matkvon Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

So is this now just a mirror? I'm not sure what the point of moving to GitHub was then.

matkvon Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

I'm not the same user as the parent comment.

matkvon Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

I've actually been talking about the developer's perspective as well - I have a couple of personal projects that I've invested quite a bit of time into but I still don't feel the need to try to find a way to monetize them.

I can definitely see your point though. Maybe an option would be open sourcing your app? (considering it's already free anyway) - that way you could maybe find some contributors to make it easier to keep up with everything.

matkvon Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

I agree - it's definitely OP's decision and a valid one.

matkvon Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

It is totally fair to charge for work you've done - but then again, in my opinion, not everything needs to be built with some profit in mind (not talking about this app in particular now).

I think it's really refreshing to find an app that doesn't lock any features behind a paywall or makes using it more cumbersome unless you pay. I'm mostly okay with one-time payments though.

Just because you invested some time into making a project doesn't mean that you absolutely need to make some money to make it "worth" it. Hell, most open-source software is built on free/voluntary labor.