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This site makes a big point of using the term "RESTful" repeatedly, but it seems to be JSON-based by default?

I don't know why modern web frameworks insist on continuing to misuse or misapply the term despite a fairly large amount of messaging recently about how exactly this term is misapplied, and the resurgence of frameworks and tools that do correctly apply it, e.g. HTMX, Datastar, Alpine AJAX.

Otherwise, this looks cool. I'd encourage you to un-roll-your-own docs and use something like Starlight or Docusaurus so you can have usable search and versioned docs.

What’s with the pivot away from the purely speed based testing? I recall getting the ick when I saw it as your primary metric for engineer goodness not too long ago and I don’t see any mention of it anymore on your site. Have you pivoted to something more sane?

You should make it draw from a palette of colors, like an actual terminal does, and easy to customize. Base16 would likely be enough given the web has opacity and a bunch of other ways to slightly modify colors. I'd also like to see how much of this doesn't need to be React™, even if your application is entirely React. Maybe splitting the CSS and the component logic?

Also, firebase? seriously? this is a company with like, low level software engineers on payroll, and they are using a CRUD backend in a box. cost effective I guess? I wouldn't even have firebase on the long list for a backend if I were architecting something like this. Especially when feature-parity competitors like Supabase just wrap a normal DBMS and auth model.

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I don't think they are planning to do this; they are at least maintaining support for whatever MacOS (Metal?) and the Nintendo Switch use in addition to Wayland, which suggests to me they are dropping X11 as a hard dependency not as a usable backend.

I don’t know what you’re trying to prove here.

This is totally different tech and a totally different video.

It’s pretty easy to create photorealistic work in blender when you have high resolution textures and photogrammetry of what you’re reproducing, I’d challenge you to find similar textures of planets or every building in New York City.

The video authors focus seems to be mostly on the shaders and volumetrics used for the large scale “simulations” not on making insanely high fidelity assets for the speaker or etc.

It’s also worth noting that the most jenky thing by far in this video is the animations/facial simulations which are not even consistently solved in billion dollar productions yet, let alone one guy

Show HN: Astro App 2 years ago

Should disambiguate from https://astro.build/ and various other name collissions in your title somehow, maybe "Astro App | Explore the Night Sky" ?

Also the "Identifiers" section and some other things have extremely low contrast text, 2.35:1 instead of the recommended 4.5:1 for body-size text. You can check on issues like this using the accessibility tab in Firefox or Lighthouse in Chrome.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted, I'm not trying to suggest that this death isn't suspicious, just commenting that even if it wasn't people wouldn't believe the Russians due to how often this happens.

Its funny to me that with the current state of Russia this guy could have died with absolutely zero interference from the state and the rest of the world will assume he was killed no matter what comes out of Russian media, purely due to their track record with this sort of thing.

Its funny to me that with the current state of Russia this guy could have died with absolutely zero interference from the state and the rest of the world will assume he was killed no matter what comes out of Russian media, purely due to their track record with this sort of thing.

Ultimately engineers exist to make things, usually to make money. Any trend in the knowledge required to do so is just a reflection of what sells. This is reason why some web developers barely know any theory, they don't need it to make a thing that makes money. Same reasoning explains why a Game Developer (if the money-senders demand, customers, publishers, whatever) might need to know these things.

Just saying "kids these days" or chalking it up to education or a generational issue is silly, there's simply more software and faster computers, unless you make comically bad decisions the average paying customer isn't going to complain about a web app's performance. If you want to find someone who has this "Deep knowledge" of how computers work you needn't look further than someone who works with any sort of hardware limitation.

Yeah what who knows Haskell, C++, Python, TS, WebGL, React and CUDA (already an impressive list) then just as a hobbyist uses hyper converged storage systems runs databases and uses nix?

I hope covering all of this isn’t a serious expectation, should probably reword if it’s not

It's software according to the article

Starting today, Apple will only sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, which both came out in September, with a US Customs and Border Protection-approved software workaround that disables blood oxygen monitoring capabilities. These watches will be available at Apple’s physical and online stores, Apple said. They also have part numbers ending in "LW/A," per updated Apple support materials.