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I don't want to comment on the tool itself, but redirecting me to a non-english version just because I'm in a non-english speaking country (even though my browser is specifically requesting the english version!) is a already a dark pattern, but when it's clearly machine translated, and there's no way to go the english site is disappointing.

When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style

Does this really happen, or has it just became a meme? I haven’t worked at any company where we did not have auto formatting set up with a common style config, along with some form of linting.

What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.

Next.js 11 5 years ago

Next supports loading env variables from files, and as far as I can see, telemetry respects this. Add this line to a `.env` file, and it's done.

It's not standard, but that's not a surprise, as Markdown is a pretty barebones format. Most of what they extended it with is pretty simple, like [[wikilinks]]. There are also other tools being developed that can work with the custom syntaxt extensions.

Also, at the end of the day, it's still just plain text. You won't lose any of your data if you no longer use Obsidian.

Looping through a list of items, and doing different operations based on their value is an extremely common occurrence, and you’d hard pressed to find a codebase that doesn’t use that pattern somewhere.

I have 10k+ cards, and 100k+ reviews, and I've used Anki for years. It's a professional tool, and while I hate basically every part of it, it's reliable, and doesn't do unexpected things. I'm not willing to bet on a tool, that's pushing an unskippable bunny in a suit to my face that's animating with 10FPS.

You're clearly onto something: Roam and new PKM tools are more popular than ever, Remnote is even hiring people. You just need to figure out how to present your workflow ideas.

Anki is famously difficult to use. [...]

I agree that Anki is ridiculously hard to use, I had a hard time figuring out your app too.

Also, you have

- calendar

- tasks

- study plans

- community decks

- streaks

- trophies

- microtransactions?

- $300/month personal coaching

- pomodoro timer

yet I can't import/export from the app.

I'd love for there to be a serious competitor to Anki, as it's rather stagnant, and the mobile experience is atrocious, but this just doesn't seem like it.

I'm a heavy user with Anki, and I get a lot of value out of it.

Yet I never actually recommended it to anyone, because it's basically unusable unless you're willing to tinker a lot, and put up with its very unintuitive UI.

I've had a look at your app, and it looks like a way more complicated version of Anki. I think that will put off many people from even trying it out

Flutter 2 5 years ago

Well, this was the most prominently featured demo. Is there a demo somewhere that's not badly designed?

Flutter 2 5 years ago

The idea sounds very appealing, especially to an indie developer: being able to ship your app on multiple platforms from a single codebase is kind of the holy grail. Unfortunately, the result is....

I tested this Flutter example[1], on a 16" MBP with and i7, and it is janky as it can get, it feels like I'm using a 15 year old computer. From the code it looks like the whole thing is... rendered on canvas? I'll pass.

[1] https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/

You could, yeah.

You could put in a lot of work, just for read-only feature parity.

Or you could work some more, and have a competing product.

You seem adamant, that the former is a better path, but I don't quite see why would you do all that work for naught.

(Roam already broke my backup script 2 times, and there are better uses of my time than interfacing with a proprietary product, if there are better alternatives.)

You could, but why? I wrote a small package to automate my backups, and transform the content into something readable for myself. It's far from feature complete, even for my simple personal use.

But if you're doing a complete read-only copy of roam, why not go all the way and make it editable, and compete with them instead?