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txmjs··on Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?
BitBar (https://github.com/matryer/bitbar)

Allows you to create custom MacOS menubar items from the text output of any script.

txmjs··on React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
Of course - email in bio :)
txmjs··on React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
I'm under the impression, in Udacity's case especially, that part of the problem stems from asking native engineers to use a language and ecosystem that they're not used to working with, and then trying to get them to integrate RN code into an established, brownfield native codebase.

As a sole dev in a 3-person startup, I’ve managed to build a pretty large app with React Native, having zero prior native experience (although, that’s not to say that I haven’t had to learn a _lot_ about Xcode!)

txmjs··on React Native at Airbnb
Check out the landing page at https://vue-native.io/ at the bottom, "Compiles to React Native". It's important to note that "Vue Native" isn't officially endorsed by Vue.js.
txmjs··on Guide to Angel Investing
Isn't this just the same as startups who hire engineers and "compensate" with equity and don't pay salaries?
txmjs··on Gitlab 500 error
Had quite some trouble pushing this afternoon. Hope it gets resolved soon.
txmjs··on Ask HN: Which job perqs mean the most to you?
Training budget for confs/courses/books is a big one for me, it shows that a company is invested in you and helping you further your career.

Another one is relaxed working hours and having a culture of trust with regards to when you're actually in the office. It shouldn't be a big deal if I need to leave early one day, or if I decide to do reduced hours but work flat out during the time I'm in the office, as long as the work gets done - who cares when?

txmjs··on Plainbudget: Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting
Really great project! Good work. Love seeing Nuxt in the wild too.

Reminds me of Numi[0], a really beautiful text calculator I've been using on MacOS for a few years now.

[0] http://numi.io/

txmjs··on Snap Inc. presents Yellow – An investment and mentorship program in LA
I really disagree that it's a "waste of developer time" to use React for projects like this.

`npm install next react react-dom` takes an insignificant amount of time and gives you an extremely efficient developer experience immediately, with automatic code splitting, server side rendering and great modern CSS support. Compared to the amount of time I've spent over the years fiddling with gulp/grunt configuration files for "static websites", it's a no brainer for developers who are already productive in React.

txmjs··on Ask HN: Best choice to build cross platform mobile app with JavaScript?
React Native. Write the React we all know and love, be supported by a huge ecosystem and community, and leverage the power of OS level UI components and libraries whilst enjoying the ease of writing in JS. It’s making the production of a truly native-feel app completely painless and with little learning curve for an existing React/JS developer
txmjs··on Show HN: Noderize – Create Node apps in 30 seconds
Cool initiative, would be great to see an "eject" command similar to what CRA provides so that the user can expose all of the configs if they wish.
txmjs··on Ask HN: what is a good dev setup with an iPad?
I remember reading a good article outlining this: https://jann.is/ipad-pro-for-programming/
txmjs··on Rethinking front-end error reporting
Absolutely, keep up the good work!
txmjs··on Rethinking front-end error reporting
Are you still planning on releasing an open source version of LogRocket, much like Sentry offers one?
txmjs··on Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text
Amazon Polly?
txmjs··on The State of JavaScript 2017
I've been using Vue.js on large scale projects for a while, but for a greenfield project I'm choosing React instead. React has better support for SSR which is still really important for public facing websites, JSX feels much more natural to me than the v-* directives, not to mention React's incredibly large ecosystem. That being said, I really like the way Vue handles CSS in single file components, and the simplicity of Vuex compared to Redux. I'm still struggling to find a styling solution for React that I'm completely happy with. As with everything, it's about choosing the right tool for the job.
txmjs··on Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets
Someone I follow retweeted it on to my timeline and now the website keeps hanging. Does anyone know how it happened?

EDIT: Just seen someone explain it: https://twitter.com/hexwaxwing/status/926919811820609536

txmjs··on Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
The presentation may promote unbiased content, but it would be naïve to suggest that Twitter had no idea who RT would support.
txmjs··on “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
I think this says it all (from the employer's website)...

  <meta name="keywords" content="Instafamous, Contacting brands, sharing, posting, get famous, make money, exposure, more followers">
txmjs··on Is Facebook down?
Looks like they're having a pretty bad outage at the moment. http://downdetector.com/status/facebook
txmjs··on Ask HN: What is essential reading for learning modern web development?
I would encourage people to use MDN as a reference (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/) instead of w3schools, far more in depth and useful.
txmjs··on Ask HN: What is your CSS setup in 2017?
PostCSS + sometimes a lightweight helper library such as http://basscss.com/ which provides some really nice defaults.
txmjs··on Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages
Would it still be unethical if the source was shown when displaying the scraped recipes?