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ttty··on Stadia died because no one trusts Google
Maybe reading real reviews from real users will help too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/xsyr8x/i_am_really_...
ttty··on The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
Let’s say with your optimised settings your ROI is 20%. With Google settings is 15%.

An end user might say 15% is pretty good and don’t touch it.

Google just earned 5% by giving you worst ROI.

If you start comparing with other ad providers you’l you might notice you’re being screwed. But low spenders rarely do proper checks.

ttty··on Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
https://bankstatementconverter.com/

Interesting stories, I read the one about HSBC statement, what a mess.

ttty··on Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript
So you rather write your app twice: once in react and once in go? And keep it in sync, including css and styles and dom… ? For real?
ttty··on Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript
I'm building a simple page. Ok let's do simple html. Now I need popup for email capture, ok add a bit of hacky js. Now add a menu, could potentially be done with css only.

Now add responsive images. Good luck. You need to process then on server side, then handle them on client side etc...

Now add some customer area...

Add a few more features and it becomes complex.

Why would you want to now throw away all this and rewrite in react when you could just start with react.

In addition I can even migrate my old app to the new one and sometimes I can just copy paste certain components and css styles (thanks to css in Js) and it just works.

Honestly I don’t want to write responsive images manually. I just wrote a system once, now any app reuses the same thing. Same for other stuff. Plus I only need to know react and I can build anything.

You telling me now to learn htmlx syntax and use it sometimes, then use react other times just because… it’s simpler. The benefit is minimal, but now I need to know 2 worlds: react and htmlx.

ttty··on Cold Showers
Refactor any js code to typescript. You’ll see how many bugs are discovered and how many wtfs!
ttty··on Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
It’s the 2nd comment mentioning this issue
ttty··on Fresh – Next-gen web framework
Image resizing can’t be done statically. That’s a big issue if you want to serve things from cdn property.
ttty··on Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser
Tailwind is to styled components .... Like jQuery is to react.

Popular now, huge pile of mess in a few years.

ttty··on Plain Text Calendar
> My Google cal emails me notifications

Until you get locked out/banned by Google.

ttty··on Tell HN: My early access eBook over iOS made $120k in 1 year
That’s the only key thing in the whole post.

Take away that, and no matter how good that book was, sales would be closer to 0.

Actually getting this success is more likely like this:

- spend last 5 years getting followers on Twitter by writing engaging content, reply to others.

- spend also many years in your website and include a mailing list

- email your email list regularly with very interesting things

- spend 1 year to write a book

- send a blast email and tweet about your new book: Most likely people will buy whatever you say at this point because they trust you already.

This is the secret formula, which is hard work and 99.99% can’t do this consistently. (In addition, but not really required, also be smart and bring something new to the table)

From the author:

- I wrote on my blog for nearly a decade before I could launch a book that I sold.

- Announce it, ask for email sign ups if they are interested, keep them in the loop, and then launch. The mailing list had about 1,000 people on it once I launched (about two months from announcing it to doing the early access launch)

- I settled on adapting one of my more popular [blog posts][2] that I keep updated through each version of iOS into a five book series

Actually full details are here

https://www.swiftjectivec.com/the-best-in-class-book-beta-la...

ttty··on The balance has shifted away from SPAs
I’m also surprised how people can’t see the benefit of have 1 way of doing things. 99% of the websites end up in app like features.

Maybe we don’t talk about the same thing, but isomorphic code with react is great for websites too: server side render, instant page change on client side. Reuse of exact code. Huge benefits.

ttty··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
That was announced like 40 minutes after the crash… doesn’t make sense
ttty··on Show HN: I made a browser-based RTS game
Related to multiplayer rts games this is also done with same tech but node.js only to reuse code between client and server side https://bitplanets.com/

I wonder what performance issues you had with node.js that justified a bridge to c++ (including the increase of complexity of the architecture). Pathfinder is not terrible in node.

ttty··on User friendly web games
Free to play, no registration, no install, no gimmicks, just pure game.

Works on mobile and desktop.

If you like multiplayer RTS games, try it out. It’s similar to the board game Risk, but real time and with planets.

(You can play with your friends multiplayer)

https://bitplanets.com/

ttty··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
I watched people use software for years. If you have the exact same Popup every day, you’ll get used to click ok. Has no meaning anymore. It’s in the muscle memory.
ttty··on Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
But I rather have event sourcing and save every single event in my brainy and rebuild the current state of my memory weekly or monthly.

All those inaccurate facts you learn would be gone and would not pollute your brain

ttty··on A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
I don’t want to touch the root of my server. I rather add a new container that doesn’t modify anything on the root.

Benefits: can cleanly and delete 100% of what was installed. If you use something on root can always infect, save cache, logs…

I don’t want to impact anything else running on my server. I don’t want anything to depend on that either silently.

Docker is the best thing. I just can’t understand how people still can’t get the benefits yet.

Is Amazing to start a project you had 3 years ago and just works and you can deploy without reading any docs. Just spin a docker container. Eat, safe and just works.

ttty··on A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
Premature optimisation? 5 gb doesn’t matter. It’s not great, don’t get me wrong.
ttty··on Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
Not only that, if they charge and you dispute any payments they might ban your account. (This service requires a credit card )
ttty··on Ask HN: Why do password managers have TOTP?
IPhone/android is much More secure than a browser extension or windows, even macos.

Attack surface is much larger.

ttty··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://bitplanets.com/

Real time multiplayer strategy game. Can play with friends.

Typescript, node, sockets, react, postgres, custom redux, pixi (webgl)

ttty··on Friday.app is shutting down
I’d be interested to buy your website. I have some ideas on how to improve and I’d like to take a chance.
ttty··on pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
I just bundle everything except binary dependencies. Faster deployments
ttty··on Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine
I have to agree. Basically if your users will just use the reader, they will never hit the real websites.

Owners might make the partnership with you to get ad revenue, which most likely will be much much lower than their current income.

They might send you DMCA for copying their content.

I don't see how can be a win win situation if you republish articles...

ttty··on Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno
Tbh I think this is quite risky to mess it up. Using a simple regex to convert…

https://github.com/porsager/postgres/blob/master/transpile.c...

ttty··on CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
The problem is that people don't treat css as code. If you use styled components or css in js you'll treat it as code.

Nobody would change private properties in a js class from outside that class. Same to css, you should not change css attributes from parents. Those are private to their component they are rendering.

If you need that, provide a public attribute to the component and he'll change it's design.

Do this, and css is very maintainable.

ttty··on State of JavaScript 2021
I still don’t understand what’s so interesting about it… why you wouldn’t just write js that you already know? Instead choosing to use strings to code… ugh
ttty··on State of JavaScript 2021
Most likely the 2nd. Everyone I know that is on angular hates it.
ttty··on Framework Raises $18M Series A
More ambitious than a laptop it's a phone
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