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webprofusion··on Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update
Is that like a Palm Pilot? Seems like 300 years ago.
webprofusion··on Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns
Chrome labelled sites as Not Secure if they didn't user https since 2018. Most people didn't like that label showing on their website address, so it was a clever way to shift everyone.

Years before that the free certificate authority Let's Encrypt was established (there are now several more), so for most people using https with your website is just configuration, not an extra cost. On top of that some http protocol versions are now https only.

webprofusion··on Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
Based on your interests I would suggest a junior role in IT helpdesk, going back to school sounds good for long term personal development but is not optimal for work and will require years of effort that you could have spent adding to your resume. Don't look for big tech companies, just look for any company with more than 15 employees, because basically someone needs to look after the computers, phones, printers, wifi etc. [ and if you are interested then eventually development work will come up in that context ]

From helpdesk you can then move into specializing in whatever you are interested in. Software development is a competitive field and is constantly in technological flux, but there is stable work behind the scenes if you don't chase the latest trends too much. If you want to do it I would suggest looking for a PHP job rather than an AI job. Freelancing is very piecemeal work and hand-to-mouth, which is the opposite of what you currently need.

webprofusion··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The main benefit of whois and RDAP is to see which registrar handles a domain and when there were recent changes or upcoming expiry etc. RDAP is also useful to see who operates an IP address etc. I've been using RDAP for a few years but the service has been spotty, hopefully that improves now.
webprofusion··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
You can indeed produce a compiled native executable with minimal bloat: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
webprofusion··on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
Nice, just needs a computer/browser use mode and thinking/agent mode. e.g. "Test this web app for me. Try creating a new account and starting a new order" etc.
webprofusion··on Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers
Interesting that Suno et al miss out on the obvious problem that actual musicians need extra musicians for their own projects.

For instance a guitarist will have a track they wish they had vocals for(and lyrics) for and if they could pay for that they would.

Literally if you could highlight a tune section in your DAW, prompt it, and vocals + lyrics were generated, possibly different version or harmonies for existing parts etc. Musicians already pay for plugins but the singing ones are awful to use so far.

webprofusion··on Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
If it's Blazor WASM the server side would a conventional rest API. If it's server rendered Blazor it would be a hybrid in a somewhat similar style to Server Rendered Components found on other frameworks.
webprofusion··on Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
I've been able to pretty much drop Javascript for business oriented apps due to Blazor (both server rendered and WASM)
webprofusion··on Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
You know about F# right? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/languages/fsharp

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fs...

Dotnet has compilers for C#, VB and F# and they can all share the same frameworks and libraries. C# is the most popular.

webprofusion··on Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
Tried it for a while, paid for the full bundle for a year to try a few of the products. Just could not see what the fuss was about, Visual Studio (the full version) does everything I need it to.
webprofusion··on BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil
This is why being a discerning consumer matters on a global level, eventually. Vote with your wallet and take the financial hit if you have to. Your choices today will matter tomorrow, even if it only matters to your kids.

If we all take the easiest path it will also be the slippery slope to the bottom.

webprofusion··on DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
Always two sides to a story but the guy who caused the validation bug at DigiCert already resigned because of it (which is extreme), the Sectigo guy wanted to prevent the bug being closed so he could keep pushing them (in a subjectively prickly fashion) for more answers about their general responsiveness.

A bit of back and forth discourse is fine and expected, but if you keep pushing someone who has their own legal dept they're eventually going to wander over to the coffee machine and have a chat about it with them, then they're going to take a look and it becomes their problem.

So the number one rule would be don't even breath the word "legal" unless you want to invoke them. This particular response is just a letter telling them to back off and it's why you have a legal dept, so they can argue with each other. This one has just found it's way into the open.

There is a understandable perspective that says CAs shouldn't be burdened with legal risk in their discussions, but that's contrary to the fact these guys are commercial entities protecting their interests, so you don't get it both ways unless all your CAs are non-commercial, and even then that would only extend so far.

webprofusion··on A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer
A little bit bizarre but I appreciate that a lot of effort has gone into it. Needs a sample project loaded on startup and a more obvious PLAY button.

Could maybe have a simpler UI by default with an option for advanced as most people would be consumers, not creators.

Could be fun to browse other peoples work if ranked by current popularity.

webprofusion··on I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
Technically they didn't put a price tag on the app, the $1 was github sponsor money, so the project was never really designed to make money.

The app itself (Midi editor with piano roll UI) looks great but is instantly made much less relevant if you just install Reaper (and actual DAW, free to try, available at the time all this was developed).

Cool thing, but the moral of the story is: release that toy thing you spent a few weeks on, it's as ready as it ever will be and maybe it'll grow with it's user base.

webprofusion··on Discovery Coding
Guilty, but as with anything there is a right time to use it and a time to most definitely avoid it. If you are working with others in particular there is very little room to wing it.

Experienced devs can do so in a first pass to flesh out an idea before letting the team get involved, but thereafter the design immediately becomes rigid. Inexperienced devs can wing it to learn in an exploratory way, but their work is unlikely to be re-purposable.

webprofusion··on A 20-year-old small company
Man, I got that beat by 5+yrs and -49 employees. Most businesses are small businesses. 89% have less than 10 employees.
webprofusion··on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
This is what the internet was invented for.
webprofusion··on I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
GitHub Action has supported your own locally hosted runners for years, so I presume "there is no way of running GitHub Actions locally" is referring to something else.
webprofusion··on Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)
Excellent, also check out the https://alphatab.net library which would let you render guitar pro tracks for the video.

Around 2013 I built a guitar tab synced to youtube video proof of concept thing and promptly let it rot, should have done more with it!

webprofusion··on Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)
lol
webprofusion··on Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams
You lost me at Create your account. I would just want to play with the editor and store in the local browser storage until I decide I like it.
webprofusion··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
Cool but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process
webprofusion··on The Origins of Wokeness
More importantly, how do you challenge social/moral injustice or push for good change without being dismissed as "woke"? Or do we not care about that now that we're just in it for ourselves?

As we've recently established, we apparently do like to watch the world burn and maybe that's just where we're at for now, like a pressure release valve.

webprofusion··on Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they'll run Linux
Hmm, it's Arm and Windows most definitely runs on Arm, Microsoft already sell a bunch of Arm based Surface PCs.

Yes Linux will definitely be one of the operating systems used on these new PCs, and they may even run Linux more often that not but if we assume computers largely exist for business to happen and money to be made, Windows is never that far away.

webprofusion··on Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap
Stop what you're doing and use Cloudflare (free) immediately. This is the slowest loading site I've used in years and it deserves better for all the work you've put in.
webprofusion··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Nice work!
webprofusion··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Love it, and I very much understand the level of work that went into making it (beyond your initial landing page). Good way to test the water then build the full product.
webprofusion··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
Yes. By virtue of most other popular browsers being based on it (chromium), with the exceptions of Safari and Firefox. The controller of the project is still Google.

Safari trails chrome because Google didn't like Apple being in charge of the Webkit repo, which led to the Blink fork (the Chromium engine).

Firefox is still a great browser, but it has fallen back to square one on popularity.

From an anti-trust perspective Google should offer to fund their competitors directly instead of splitting the browser out, the eventual result should be revisions to web standards specs to ensure they are correct and detailed enough to be accurately implemented, which in turn makes new browsers easier to implement. Eventually if specs are close to 100% correct it should be reasonable to generate new browser engines from them. Currently that's not possible due to chasms of ambiguity and contradiction, and because browsers like chrome occasionally implement their own design of stuff just because they want to.

webprofusion··on Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
This was 4 years ago. The team has now become https://unison.co/
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