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Holy sticky header... It takes literally half the screen on mobile. Shit like this makes me wonder: do you even look at your website? At least sometimes?

Such a delight to read a technical article, and about something outside the hype cycle.

I also liked the color scheme.

I made an app using Win32 in Golang. It controls my monitors' brightness and "true-tones" them to match the sun cycle via DDC/CI. It has autostart, global hotkeys, persistent settings, sits in the tray, silent auto updates etc.

The hard parts were seeded by Claude Code. Happily maintaining and modifying it for close to 3 months now. Just a data point, especially about not needing C++.

I continue to be dumbfounded by programmer articles (and project pages for that matter) that would benefit immensely from leading with screenshots and videos but instead bury or omit them, opting for "a thousand words" that fail to deliver.

You're writing about desktop environments. Show pics.

Please test your site on a phone. 2fps while scrolling text is not ok.

While this is impressive, how come you can't make your website scroll without stutter?

Some old-enough browsers don't support SSL. At all.

Also, something I often see non-technical people fall victim to is that if your clock is off, the entirety of the secure web is inaccessible to you. Why should a blog (as opposed to say online banking) break for this reason?

Agreed! Nothing that can't be easily remedied though! https://www.remove.bg/

Care to share the salary range?

What's the salary range?

Barely Sociable did an amazing video on this: https://youtu.be/3Ws3YptLmLQ

Don't want to spoil anything, but locked down phone doesn't always mean it's a brick :-)

I recently read a thread about privacy here. One point was that the one best thing you can do is disable JavaScript. So I decided to try it. I installed Brave on my phone and disabled pretty much everything, including all cookies.

My thinking was, all I do is browse HN, hn.algolia, and lobsters. Those should work, right? Well lobsters works perfectly, including collapsing comments.

HN loses the ability to collapse comments. But algolia is the worst. Not only does it require JS, being an SPA, but it refuses to work until you enable cookies! My theory is that it reads the settings (popular, 24-hour) from a cookie, and plain dies if they're not there.

On another note, and to a pleasant surprise, a lot of the web works perfectly fine, and feels a lot snappier, including even google search. And many of the annoying cookie and paywall popups never appear, since they appear to be implemented in JS.

So yes, if you haven't tried it, I recommend you do. You can always whitelist sites you trust or really need to use.

The pro-Russia Mexico argument is a bit off, I agree. But please don't compare the Baltic countries to a 44 million population country. We'd barely fill half of Kiev.

  there isn't an IDE that takes care of doing this part for you

Why not Waze then? It's where google buys traffic data anyway. You also get police / speedcam etc locations and reporting.

Fully agree. Have come to similar conclusions with time.

Nowadays the only tool I'm using is https://workflowy.com. It's basically an infinitely nested list that you can expand / collapse or zoom into. Extremely fast to dump items into and delete afterwards.

I use it as a cache or stack for my immediate more complicated developer tasks. Once something's done - delete it.

Here's a referral link if you'd like to get me (and yourself) more free items: https://workflowy.com/invite/200f24b.lnx

So basically https://hexxagon.com/.

Highly recommend "The Shallows". (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) It's a book about our brains becoming shallow, incapable of deep processes like reading a book.

I’ve gotten a flurry of “your unused firebase database will be deleted” for tiny hackathon projects from years ago. Guess they’re running some global cleaning.

Maybe machine learning stuff needs a lot of space?