willswire

I’m here for this comment haha

Honestly I'm surprised that it took Apple this long to take this product behind the barn and shoot it.

My first device was an iPod touch - but the iPhone is better (clearly). A consolidated line-of-effort for one less platform will be helpful, I think, in allocating talent behind the other products that matter.

__Lake Mead, formed by Hoover Dam in the 1930s and crucial to the water supply of 25 million people, has fallen so low that a barrel containing human remains, believed to date to the 1980s, was found in the receding shoreline on Sunday.__

Imagine finding this on the shore!

Long time Cloudflare customer (and fan!). It's great to see their ever-increasing traction on the global scale.

Glad to see a Stripe alternative to Plaid.

Hey HN! We recently launched Party Banner for iOS - an app where you can easily stream custom party banners to smart TVs in your home or office for special occasions. Party Banner is also available as a native app for Apple TV, and we are working on a macOS version as well.

We’re excited to hear your thoughts or feedback on the app. Thanks!

Hey! Thanks for your comment. Yeah… we realized pretty early after launch that this was an issue.

We’ve decided to make more banners free, at least 2 per category, to allow users to toggle between the available banner designs.

A timeout feature or branding is a great idea, though. Thanks!

Here's the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/party-banner/id1610931185

Love me some UTM. I use it to virtualize the ARM version of Kali. Works flawlessly on M1 MacBook Air!

Are you on macOS with Apple Private Relay enabled? A privacy service could potentially be the issue here.

I also submitted the code challenge - haven’t heard anything either :/

“To glorify God and enjoy Him forever” - The Westminster Shorter Catechism.

Either God exists or He doesn’t. Your decision about which part of that statement is true, can only be taken by faith. No logical proof can convince you of either.

I cooked up a little app that has a UI front-end for these statistics. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/network-quality-test/id1596010...

If you want to manage a fleet of these on an Enterprise network/LAN, check out my balenaPrint project: https://www.balena.io/blog/wifi-enable-usb-printers-with-a-r...

Pi-based CUPS is the way to go. I developed an image for balenaOS to manage a fleet at the previous enterprise IT company I was with.

https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint

I’ve been using SheetJS for several months now on my https://afiswim.com project. Super effective, and web-packable!

The Touch Bar only ever meant “battery drain” to me. I’ve been using the M1 MacBook Air instead of the pro, just to avoid the Touch Bar.

The timing of this article is interesting - I feel that the same thing is happening again with the advent of Apple Silicon.

As someone who writes web extensions, I have to disagree with many entries under the “ Useless API” section. The storage and permissions api’s are two that I use on a daily basis.

I really like the activity report idea. This seems like such an efficient, useful practice to help audit one’s time. Good read! Thanks for sharing.

This is nice and all, but as an indie developer, I've never needed to design my app layouts separately from my actual project in Xcode. Maybe I'm going about this development thing all wrong - but as a one-man-band, it would take too much time to design my app layouts outside of the coding environment IMHO.

The chart on page 16 blew me away. I know people give Apple a hard time for taking such a large cut - but it seems the be the industry standard.

Here’s a link to the original Tweet from 2011:

https://twitter.com/edballs/status/63623585020915713

Just submitted a PR - thanks mtmail!

Great question!

Appreciate your comment - thanks! Yes, I wanted to make sure people saw how lightweight the app was.

Thank you so much for catching this!! I’ll post an update this week fixing that CSS rule (and make sure to give credit where it’s due in the change log ;)

Try flipping your macOS theme thru control center. Hacker News won't go dark unless the system UI is set to it.

Yes - that's correct! Those were my thoughts too; that maybe a general-purpose dark mode extension for Safari would work nicely, but the ones I found costed $$$ and I didn't want to have to pay for something I could easily code myself.

Appreciate your thoughts on comments on this!

As a Safari Web Extension, this app is actually intended for use alongside the ole' faithful web version of HN. I found myself in the same boat as yourself - trying other HN clients, but always coming back to the web version. But DAMN! the lack of dark mode kills... so I built this small CSS injector plugin to help :)

Speaking of which... I found a few minor adjustments that still need to be done w/ regards to the CSS rules (for example, reply links are still dark text in dark mode; oops).