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dive

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About dive

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    Comment #48171842

    It makes sense when the editor is a core feature of your paid product. I understand the sentiment. But is not it strange that I would need 8 months & a "development is ongoing" min…

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    Comment #48169218

    I am with you here. But I think my opinionated point from the article still stands: if you need rich text & good typography without fighting the platform, then web technologies qui…

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    Comment #48168908

    Hey Marcin, Skill issue, I guess. I even tried your SSTextView (which is a very nice piece of software, by the way), though it does fit here, but I tried to understand how wrong my…

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    Comment #48168844

    Do not know about "forever", at the moment it works okay, I guess. But for a long long time most of the iOS apps were using this https://github.com/TTTAttributedLabel/TTTAttributed…

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    Comment #48168748

    I tried Textual earlier today with some not-so-good results: - Static completed Markdown scrolling fails the new focused probe. Result: p95 18.86 ms vs 16.7 ms budget, max 232.49 m…

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    Comment #48168572

    Yeah, this is actually my current in-progress solution: render the final Markdown & the streaming through WebKit. And yes, I agree: on macOS, WebKit is a native OS framework. In th…

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    Comment #48168526

    `NSTextView` is good. My point is not that `NSTextView` itself is bad. The problem is that once you are working with all the "modern" Apple stack (Swift, SwiftUI, and the direction…

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    Comment #48168431

    Was going to answer almost the same. This is my pet project, a desktop app for working with xAI models & capabilities, so by "performance" I mostly mean "pleasant to use" (as it go…

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    Comment #44198004

    This is me. I use Safari’s Reading Mode for almost everything, and for sites like Medium and similar platforms, it is enabled by default. There is something pleasant and calming ab…

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    Comment #44162874

    Many people I know use https://astro.build/ to create impressive landing pages for products or validation. It is fully static by default which is impressive.

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    Comment #42989299

    Thanks for the app! I am curious about some of the design decisions on the iOS side. In your blog, you mention that “We truly believe a native Android & iOS experience stands out c…

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    Comment #31673638

    NetNewsWire uses [0] ‘dateArrived’ as a fallback option. As an example. [0] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/941342...

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    Comment #31313233

    I am glad that they are trying to improve the security aspect of the tool. The tool is pretty good, but it is still uncomfortable that they use Adjust and Appsflyer to track almost…

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    Comment #30800241

    As a mobile engineer with 20 years of experience and some knowledge about web development, I would say that web dev is more mature, flexible and (what is the essential part) keep u…

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    Comment #30166239

    Bumble | Google Cloud Platform Engineer | Full-time | Moscow, Russia (on-site, remote or mixed) | https://bumble.com Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Badoo and Bumble, two of t…

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    Comment #30126103

    I use Things[0]. My journey looks like Emacs Org Mode -> Omnifocus -> Journaling mode (Notion, Craft) -> Things, and I am happy with the current setup. Things supports Someday/Anyt…

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    Comment #29821560

    > What room do you use in the house? Had to move from central London to a suburb to afford a house with a dedicated cabinet. One of the best decisions I made at the beginning of th…

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    Comment #29440391

    Thanks for the answer! It does make sense. With a few caveats, however. From my experience, this is a way to go if you: - Identified your market fit as users who appreciate and acc…

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    Comment #29431391

    The project looks interesting, and I like the approach. But the "Claim your habit plan" paywall after a few onboarding screens with no option to try the application does not look r…

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    Comment #25871415

    That's what I thought recently about the MacBook Camera. I have switched to Mac Mini M1 and bought Logitech StreamCam for ~£150. It sucks in every possible way: focus does not work…