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strobe··on Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan
very nice that it has option to move tabs to bottom and hide address bar automatically - what other forks has support for that?

(bottom tabs - seems previously it was possible to do that for vanilla Firefox via userChrome.css but that becoming harder to do which each release)

strobe··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
'made 200,000' that doesn't meant that you able to get any profits from that, and it lot of cases with 200k revenue small game studios only loosing money
strobe··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
their terms also not about game profits. Let's say in case if $300k spent on Ads to get 200k+ installs and as result you made only $200k back as in-apps payments Revenue from game (so your profit is loss of $100k+fees+taxes) then Unity will demand you to pay them $40k+ just to cover installs amount and you almost won't have control to stop new charges because even if you will shutdown a game then some installs continue to happen from various pirate sources or some small app stores.

It looks completely insane terms for lot of mobile games where monetization is huge challenge and difference between profitable game and company bankruptcy measured in cents per user.

strobe··on Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings
'perspective' it's just a tool in toolbox of creativity and you can play with it whatever you think would be appropriate to archive your goals.
strobe··on My Thoughts on OCaml vs. Haskell/Rust in 2023
>null issues are more of a problem with Java packages I understand, but given that you can end up using lot of popular Java packages with Scala this is still a concern.

that not a real issue because its ecosystem based on Scala-only libraries which not suffer from those issues. Of course is always possibility that you will require to use some Java lib for your very specific user case but that actually happen almost never for usual back-end development needs.

strobe··on [dead]
Looks like something wrong with a link - it opens login form
strobe··on Ask HN: Best tech stack/process for soloprenuer to build and ship quickly?
it's really depends on that you are trying to build but in general you need to use tools you know and you can save some time by using PaaS services like 'heroku' because those will allow to focus on your product code instead of infrastructure and also you have to only write code that not possible to outsource to external services/solutions.
strobe··on Upwork removing 5% commission bracket and moving everyone to 10% bracket
it's really depends on the country laws and legal entity type, in some cases you must report gross income and all platforms fees can't be considered as expenses.
strobe··on Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework
how much actors is possible to spawn on usual hardware?
strobe··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
also indiehackers.com has few success cases examples and some relevant info too
strobe··on Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
it actually very good setup for some cases and I've worked in similar mode for a while using by usb switch device with single button - but I found that is little bit too painful because in may cases to move something from one machine to another is required unexpected 'extra' step which in lot of cases breaking usual productivity flow in worst moment.
strobe··on Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
one easiest solutions that I found is mac app BetterDisplayPro - even free version allows to create the Dummy display.
strobe··on Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
hm, that really nice solutions - what capture card do you have?
strobe··on Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
I thought about that in different angle - does it possible to use a second linux laptop as external monitor for a mac. I've tried few similar streaming solutions without investing much in tuning and creating proper wire connection and as result my initial impression was that is too much latency issues (as well with some additional issues related to creating a virtual screen), but probably with your approach I'll try again. Thanks.
strobe··on Subscription fatigue and related musings
more fair alternative to subscriptions probably is 'pay as you go' model which used by mobile carriers and some games developers. Do you need to use calculator app often? -just buy enough 'credits points' and if you won't need using app anymore is no need to pay anything until your credits is gone and would be new need for app usage again.
strobe··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
likely they not but is possible to say that because they buying a Carbon offsets or similar products to make it 100 neutral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset

(obviously apple can afford that)

strobe··on AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions
AsyncAPI as spec is good but unfortunately tooling not yet on same level as for OpenAPI yet. During small project development with it I found few things that was Ok from spec perspective but doc generator not able to render docs with those features at all. And because tooling currently only following recent version of spec on any spec update you might find that any hosted tools not works for you anymore. But of course is just matter of time then tooling will be good enough.
strobe··on Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
I feel in opposite way and my experience including few years of pre pandemic remote working.

At office you can work together with same peoples over years but not get any real clue about who they are truly, because lot of politics, pretending and fears included in office life. On remote work peoples usually more open, honest and direct, in most cases it easiest for them to share stuff that they have passion about or describe real issues in life (But I think that also not true if your work required to do lot of short projects with different peoples).

Also, if you already work with someone for a long time remotely it always nice to meet him in real life and get to know little more.

strobe··on M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
just in case, OWC Thunderbolt 3 to Dual DP [1] adapter work fine with two 4k@60Hz separate displays (with MBP15 2019). And seems similar Thunderbolt3 -> Dual DP adapters also should works well. But I agree that is a big mess with that stuff, I brought lot of usb-c->hdmi adapters before found solution with works fine with 2 displays (some of those adapters only supports 30Hz, some can slow-down MBP performance dramatically with 2 displays).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Thunderbolt-3-Dual-DisplayPort-Ad...

strobe··on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
if I've mac with accepted EULAs and share it via network to wife, kids or neighbor (might be even wife/neighbor used it to do some business activities) - how it does works from legal perspective? is it will viewed as EULA violation?
strobe··on Show HN: Zfs.rent
> UX and UI designers are manipulators now? of course not, but usually web pages creation is driven by marketing, so in most cases "sell" stuff has much more priority than actual UX/UI. So usually UX scarified for marketing needs (even UX and UI designers gains that).
strobe··on Ask HN: Whats features do you need for uptime monitoring of 50 endpoints?
Thanks for the reply.

I just wondering why uptime monitoring Saas services have a pricing model about the count of monitors (25, 50, etc). I got that they trying to separate hobby users from companies but for me sounds more reasonable to have tiers about a count of servers, IPs, projects (limited by some resources cap) or tiers about additional features like grpc, graphql support, alerts filtering, etc.

Also, if you have a serious project usually it makes sense to set up rich monitoring tools so maybe users of such services have specific cases. Probably they have something like a lot of simple sites, or need a cover of API endpoints by monitors but don't wanna use complex tools.

strobe··on Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?
yes, because they not trying to solve customers' problems - honestly I continue using it just because of the high cost of migration. Its desktop app constantly consumes much more resources than any other app (actually it was the main reason why I upgraded my MacBook Pro to decent model). Web ui functionality doesn't allow property manage hight count of files (for example it doesn't allow to move folders with 10k+ files - why they allow to syncronize that if not possible to manage) and synchronization might take weeks if you got few millions of files (I just have about 250gb of data so it's for sure not too much)
strobe··on Ask HN: GitHub notification spam using private forks?
I also got notifications like this at today.
strobe··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
do you know something like foobar2000 but for mac?
strobe··on Ask HN: How can I being a developer help my girlfriend sell art online?
as shop platform you could use something simple like ebay but you need to get very good discoverability of her works to find buyers - probably good solutions is to use many social sites like Instagram, deviantart..., therefore you can build (or find) tools to automatize posting/managing images+descriptions to lot of places at same time.
strobe··on Ask HN: Tutorials for building services in Scala?
Try to start by reading docs of Play framework. Play has the easiest migration path from Django, Flask that others (it also has a list of tutorials, examples https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.6.x/Tutorials).

Frameworks/toolkits like Akka, Finagle, Lagom very different from usual python things, therefore try some of it later.

strobe··on FaunaDB enters the enterprise
>>FaunaDB Developer Edition is free, but limited—you can’t set up a distributed cluster with it, and it’s not tuned for high performance...

How local performance differs from cloud version, especially for things which might be distributed between nodes?

strobe··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
One problem from my past experience at architecture industry: every country has it own rules & regulations for represent drawings of designs(documentation)(many small things like floor plans, sizes, fonts, frames, symbols descriptions all are different) as result CAD software developed in one country very hard to use in another without lot of weird tricks which works only for subset of original functionality. I believe it may be solved be separating actual building model and view/render representation like AST and interpreter. But unfortunately is super hard to do just because that AST model should include lot of complex stuff.
strobe··on Tweezer, a friendly Twitter data collection framework written in scala
hm, look like sources just placeholder for app - is it all? (https://github.com/unnati-xyz/tweezer/tree/master/src/main/s...)
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