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sm4shon Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billion dollars (German)

Have a few friends who work there. But they have no needs for a subpar php backend developer :(

sm4shon Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings

Well okay, but guess which one I'd rather have to maintain in a big codebase? Clearly written by a theoretical engineer.

sm4shon I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks

sometimes != always

makes sense that he would want to strengthen his credibility in an article like this, no?

sm4shon Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS

Am I not getting this or is this just a slightly different way of using breakpoints like bootstrap some years ago? I think we've come full circle.

sm4shon Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries

The thing is most companies would want to have a web presence anyway. It's just easiest exposure and people have to be willing to install a software - visiting a website not so much. So if you're building these cross-platform apps on anything other than the Web stack people will still have to have different code bases for native and web which kinda defeats their purpose.

So I don't think you have any real alternatives until there's other technologies on the web or wasm can do everything.