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robertwt7

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robertwt7··on RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
where do you start learning reverse engineering things? I'm also curious, as a software eng focusing on web stuff and api, it's getting quite boring.

These things excites me but i never got to start

robertwt7··on Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
FYI, last code update on the repo was Sept 22, 2022. seems inactive already
robertwt7··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
I'm using Synology Photos, have no complaints. Its really a good starter when decoupling from google photos, removing all subscription and taking control of my own data with expandable raid storage
robertwt7··on Threads, an Instagram app
Twitter will take a big hit from this.. given the current situation, will reddit take a big hit as well? it's definitely an interesting time where both blue bird and reddit users are looking for alternatives. Meta has a good track record of running social app, this can be a really successful product with the launch timing if the app fulfil the mass requirements from both sides
robertwt7··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
This is crazy, Bob is such an excellent engineer that has contributed so much to the engineering world. I have no words for this.

Sf needs to get their shits together, i still can’t believe that the majority of the high income earners stayed home because they’re afraid of the people on the street. I often asked my mates when I visited SF, how come a city so rich has such a basic security issue where people don’t feel safe walking around their own city??

robertwt7··on Sex and the citizenship process
I did, and submitted a lot of photos (some are in the bedroom but don't feature any nudity), evidence of living together, travel plans, bank statements of joint accounts for the past few years, marriage cert, witnesses who has statutory declaration. it is time consuming, but i would never think of submitting nudes.

Maybe it helps for some people, but if that's the case then the system is rigged

robertwt7··on Sex and the citizenship process
> Now, submitting graphic materials like this is generally a bad idea.

No shit, what are these people thinking? after all of the years of hardwork to get the citizenship, they would just send it for what? for fun??

robertwt7··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
that is better because: 1. naming is hard

2. grouping css classes is also hard

3. having some unified naming for all utilities for all developers in your team is much easier to understand and maintain?

4. you reduce 3 steps from creating css file -> writing css class -> re-write them back in the html, vs writing classnames

5. you can have unified styling with color, spacing etc instead of rogue assignment

I'm a tailwind convert from bootstrap but it's definitely worth it after trying. Have created 15+ project with tailwind ever since

robertwt7··on When did New York start building slowly?
This goes the same with tech company right?

When you're a startup, you build features fast, you're not afraid of breaking things. Big features are scoped out within days, development starts, and everything is done within a couple of weeks or months. It is so different when you start working for big tech companies, in FAANG for instance some of the small features will take developers months to build given all of the process required to do (RFCs, collaborations with other teams for different services etc)

robertwt7··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
Please correct me if i'm wrong since i'm not a finance guy,

apart from the loss of $1.8bn and the delta of the interest - growth from their assets.

Isn't everyone still going to get their money back - the percentage of the loss that SVB has which should be less than 5-9%? Sure FDIC has to liquidate all the money from the assets and it takes time. But at least the impact is not going to be as hard as losing all the money like FTX or Maedoff in 2008 right.

robertwt7··on Deutschlandticket for regional bus and rail services to be offered for €49/month
I wish Australia also has this :(, we have different cards for different states lol. what a joke, also its very expensive!
robertwt7··on Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks
> Canada has announced it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices

This is only on work phones

robertwt7··on From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
Fly.io is so good, i really like it. Started using it to host my backends for hobby project while all my FE are at vercel. The free version keeps my project running and it is very generous as well!

Because of all their generous free tier, I'm willing to pay more for my personal projects and literally host everything at fly lol.

robertwt7··on Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing
Sundar just keep finding reasons to cut cost because he can’t find a way to innovate or create new revenue streams for google
robertwt7··on Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
omg same!! i have visited this page soo many times the first 6 months of my first web dev job.

Really sad to see this, hoping all the best for OP

robertwt7··on Transmission v4.0
how does this differ from qbittorrent?
robertwt7··on Show HN: Open-source OAuth service for 40+ APIs
This is very similar to keycloak right? I use next auth when developing using nextJS but mostly always use my own backend to manage the auth and tokens even though they offer schema for backend integration. There has been many discussion and confusion at next auth repo on the flow to register user to backend services after getting the token from sso services. I’ve never heard or encounter issues related to saving the tokens or managing them but i do hope that this product solves some of the pain point for next auth.
robertwt7··on Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Most of the tech gadgets this year will not release crazy features with the recession coming anyway. I expect iPhone 15 not to have huge improvement, just like Samsung s23.

Pretty sure next year apple will have a hike after this year's negative

robertwt7··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
I am sticking to Typescript nowadays, its so easy to share types between FE and BE, creates monorepo with many different packages.

I am in fact building MVP right now with Nextjs and Nestjs, i've never felt more productive than this

robertwt7··on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away
this is quite a hard problem for Japan to solve tbh. it's a beautiful country, however originally they're not immigrant friendly, you can't even get a citizenship back then.

Because of the working culture, many of the younger generations are reluctant to have family, apart from that the stagflation is getting worse and hardly solved.

I'm not really sure what to do as a leader of Japan as well tbh, hopefully they find out what to do before all is too late

robertwt7··on Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

https://github.com/nestjs/nest

robertwt7··on Intentionally making close friends
tbh I feel like it's much easier for me to make friends when I was younger (5-10 years ago). Many of my high school friends are still in touch right now back in my home country. It is quite hard though when you're an immigrant in a foreign country, I don't feel like I have close friends here although I have decided to settle in this country.
robertwt7··on Deliveroo is leaving Australia
Wow one more down. They used to compete with foodora here, I thought by this time thdy would have been established with a profitable business model as they came first before doordash. However it seems that it is not the case
robertwt7··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
yeah right? after the article mentioned that he waited 2 months, I was already shocked, then he mentioned 3 months, and so on.. sometimes it's just annoying to report something really important and still you don't get enough attention.
robertwt7··on ActivityPub
I wonder what other cool app (other than Mastodon) has been implemented based on this protocol.. 99% of the app out there is built based on centralized and traditional protocol, it's pretty cool to see more app built based on this protocol with new use cases
robertwt7··on Mastodon Explained
I don’t get it. Can anyone eli5 to me please?
robertwt7··on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
when I go to libgen though, link number 2/3 always point to zlib though.. am I on the right libgen? are they connected?
robertwt7··on Most people don’t finish online job applications
I wonder where does the drop happen in the funnel. Probably the most troublesome part is writing cover letter? I remember that I have to create a template in LaTex for my cover letter which i can just change the company name and responsibilities.

At this point I’m not even sure if big companies read cover letters at all.

robertwt7··on Python 3.11.0 final
What’s the difference between mypy and python built in type hint?
robertwt7··on Python 3.11.0 final
What’s the difference between mypy and python built in type hint?
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