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This isn't okay - the author is selling their own alternative to Sentry, 'reusing' Sentry's open-source client SDK's, while spreading FUD about self-hosting Sentry. I've been self-…

I had to look up if he's ok, three decades later. It appears so: https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/olin-shivers/ and https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/923911 .

Wow, their example to "clean up the code" does a bit more than just refactoring to make code more readable, it appears to change the output. One would have to check the resulting c…

For those that want to try it, and have a rust development environment installed, the following runs Zed on Windows. (The editor part at least, I haven't tried the collaborative fu…

Yes, see ManicTime [0], Timing [1] and ActivityWatch [2] for that. They passively record what you do, on computer and phone, and at the end of the day (or when invoicing is due) al…

ManicTime [0] passively records your computer and phone activity in minute detail. This makes it great for consultants, i.e. people working for multiple clients every day. You can …

PostHog Analytics [1] is open source, and sofar a very nice alternative (or complement) to Google Analytics. It's more like Heap Analytics, in that it collects user clicks and othe…

I wanted to mention Sonic [1] as another lightweight document indexing alternative written in rust, when I found MeiliSearch to provide a thoughtful comparison page [2] [1] https:/…

Other solutions in the `write sql and share the graphs with your team`-space: - ChartIO - 'WagonHQ, Modern SQL Editor' [1] (now aquired by Box) - MetaBase [2,3] - Redash [4] MetaBa…

Focus does not seem to erase your history in a way you may expect. Try this on Android: - Erase your history. - Go to HN, click any link you haven't clicked before. - Wait for it t…

It's about preventing easy scaling of voting fraud. To corrupt vote counting at multiple precincts when using a paper-based, manual counting system, requires the bribing of a lot o…

Most development setups have a way to do a regex search through a codebase; You'd be looking for declare type.*any

This is kind of a random Typescript tip, but when migrating regular Javascript, there is an alternative to adding the type 'any' to every object to 'silence' the compiler. That is …

Being able to run the same code both on the server side (nodejs) and the client side (browsers).

Does this font feel Canadian to Canadians? The Dutch government also has its 'own' typeface [1,2], used on everything from the official weather reports to tax forms and road signs.…

Fabrice Bellard [1,2] should be on this list. Author of QEMU and FFMPEG among other open source projects that have been useful to a lot of people. Also, author of jslinux [3]. [1] …

Fun to see, familiar and new at the same time as intended. For the Amsterdam map there appears to be a large part of what I know is water that is rendered green? Why is that?

In Holland, there's a national stolen bike registry too, and an ecosystem with bike dealers and police participating in it. - It's hosted by the government - the equivalent of the …

He means 'being illegaly there', i.e. being an illegal immigrant. This was part of a recent political debate; it was reconfirmed as not being punishable. It would have affected mos…

So Naur is saying that programming helps programmers understand how software can solve the problem at hand, and that this is more important than the resulting code. I might be read…

Yes! Please refer to the image at [1]. It's also on the cover of the introduction of 'Clean Code' [2]. Everyone here has some code that they are not proud of. You should see it as …