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Another thing worth trying, is connecting a Livebook instance (see: https://livebook.dev/) to a running application. Keep in mind Livebook allows for multiple users to work on the same notebook at once so this can come handy in pair-programming / debugging situations.

All these technologies are just tools and you decide what tool you choose to get work done

Setting priorities is hard and developers want to try new shiny stuff for fun and also to feel up-to-date.

It usually goes like this, some developers pitch framework X, promising to improve metric Y. In the process many parts of the system change, making it incredibly hard to validate the improvement on metric Y. There's also lack of incentives to validate tech choices. On the other hand being familiar with many frameworks makes some devs feel more senior compared to their colleagues or competition.

Backend development suffers from this as well, you'll be surprised to learn how many nano-scale companies, employing a handful of developers practice buzzword-driven development, with a stack consisting of microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, lambdas.

Second that. I hear back my own voice, it drains the battery and the connection is almost always choppy.

I wanted to be able to use Signal to replace whatsapp, telegram and FB messenger. I've convinced some of my friends to install it, but none of them are happy with it.

On both mobile and desktop sometimes messages take hours to appear and on mobile it reserves ~2GB of storage for no apparent reason.

I trust that people behind Signal are brilliant got the security right, but the UX is simply not there yet.

The source is not available on GitHub yet. To view the source code, install the extension, then you can find it in:

* Linux ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/eookhngofldnbnidjlbkeecljkfpmfpg * MacOS ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/eookhngofldnbnidjlbkeecljkfpmfpg

I think you are conflating systemic corruption with culture. It's unfair to blame culture as the sole instigator of said corruption.

You can tell it's not cultural by the way Greeks abroad are not known for "gaming the system".

I've developed muscle memory for `g! <query>` even on mobile. I started using DuckDuckGo in an attempt to unGoogle my life, but I'm starting to realise that DDG won't do as a google replacement. It displays annoying ads with no clear way to disable them and the quality of search results is significantly worse.

I'm working on yet another alternative, which we're about to launch:

https://www.tefter.io/teams/free-trial

We charge 39$/month flat, no limitations on the number of users, links, lists.

The domain of bookmarking is definitely crowded, but we're focusing providing a solution where you forget you're dealing with bookmarks. With our browser extension, you can quickly jump between tabs, search you history and bookmarks either personal or your team's. There's also support for golinks style shortcuts, full-text search, a Slack app and even a cli app written in Elixir!

I used Nerves for a hobby project. A "smart" recycling bin which uses a camera to recognise recycling labels and open the lid of the appropriate bin. It was so much fun building it! Hooking a phoenix + LiveView backend was painless and straightforward.

I don't care that it's not the most efficient framework or not suited for industrial stuff, it does drive my creativity and brings me joy.

I'm a MacOS newbie and my experience with the App Store made me think that they've given up completely. It's incredibly slow, lacks a way to do things programmatically like Debian's `dist-upgrade` or the ability to automatically download and install security updates. Afaik most developers who work on a mac prefer either homebrew or downloading .dmg images.

My first mac computer is the 2018 MBP which features the butterfly keyboard, it started failing after about 6 months of use. My previous laptop, a dell e6230 which runs Linux, feels almost as fast, especially for Docker stuff, has a fantastic keyboard and way better battery life. Can't see myself buying any Apple product after that.

As a "tab collector" myself and after having tried some vertical tab implementations, I have been wondering why mainstream browsers choose to ignore this problem.

I wanted something which would let me quickly query open tabs, search my history and bookmarks and all without touching the mouse. So I released an extension which does exactly that[0] and here's a screenshot[1].

Surfing the web can me more intuitive. Chrome's upcoming tab grouping feature shifts the burden completely to the user and doesn't necessarily save the user any clicks.

It looks like the Chrome designers went for a quick win, letting the user nest tabs, so that they will no longer complain about the browser being unusable after 30 tabs or so. I think they're missing the job to be done.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tefter [1]: https://i.imgur.com/y1HfvI2.png

Sometimes I get paranoid and assume that startups of this kind get subsidised by the state to lower the unemployment. It looks like they had money to burn on engineers and the approach was to give them tasks to keep them busy so that they don't appear idle and give them an easy language to work with so that they don't complain.