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I don't think it's likely any time soon but forcing Apple etc to provide drivers would be a pretty natural extension of the 'right to repair' and other tech regulation demanding in…

Aside from utilities many games have lots of similar competing products where you can differentiate on permissions/ads/in-app purchases/etc: crossword puzzles, sudokus, games for y…

The permissions list allowed you to make a better-informed decision before you download the app, even though you can't change what permissions an app requires you could shop around…

It's unfortunate that regulators have largely overlooked privacy in smartphone apps amidst all the other concerns they have over such platforms.

I like having hair but recently noticed mine is thinning now, it kind of sucks but we made it into our 40s so I think we got pretty lucky because at our age nobody is ever going to…

The first issue is Apple's vision of privacy requires absolute trust in them and providing them with access to all your data so they can leverage whatever parts they decide is usef…

Ugh. I really liked that "nutritional label" because the advance warning tells me upfront if the developer values my private data. I would prefer app stores be similar to health wa…

I have always loved this method of debugging because printing messages outputs a chronological summary spanning the entire execution, and only relevant information is included.

I'm looking forward to quitting the App Store once sideloading is allowed, once I can get my iPhone software from GitHub I won't go back to apps vacuuming up my data under Apple's …

I like to use a library called Puppeteer which is an API for Chrome/Firefox, in conjunction with a testing library (mocha) to verify UI works as expected. My UI tests start at a pa…

I really like the Noctua cards they're collaborating on, it's not really necessary to go water-cooled once you've got a 4ish slot card/heatsink with quiet 120mm fans! https://noctu…

This sounds interesting, I popped the key cap off that button and also the print-screen button since I was amassing a sizable collection of accidental desktop screenshots! Edit: It…

I'm excited about this, I would love the IDE to move to the browser and have been a fan of the idea since the Cloud9 days. If browsers had a way to delegate their reserved keyboard…

I find `nvm.sh` pretty invaluable for juggling node versions - https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#intro

The lack of support for ePub is very annoying, when my 2013 Paperwhite finally breaks I'll definitely replace it with a non-Amazon ebook reader with better file support. Probably o…

Fly have https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek working for them so it's hard to imagine they would get security wrong.

On their forums they say they envision some other company handling Postgres too. Personally I would prefer they handle the databases, redis etc because that way the services you ne…

I guess it comes down do your preference, it's just a GUI for Docker you can do the same Docker commands and container manipulation with or without it.

It's going to take a while to impact the current ecosystem but NodeJS is implementing testing natively and that will inevitably erode the popularity of jest/mocha/etc - https://nod…

Digital Ocean's "App Platform" is pretty nice, although not as slick as Heroku - https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform Railway.app is pretty nice, very slick interface…

Railway looks really cool but what is the procedure if you want more than one of the same data store in my case one redis for cache and a second redis for aggregating usage metrics…