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Meta. Specifically to undercut Apple.

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Hi HN. I made this app initially for my own personal use to help me sort my images based on EXIF data (Creation time, geolocation, etc.) and it sort of grew from there. If there is…

On the contrary, I think people don't give Hypercard (and Flash) not enough credit. These tools were not about UIs. They were about enabling mere mortals to make their own tools (a…

Your intentions are noble but there are very strict regulations as to who can handle ballots, the USPS being one of them.

This is the hack I use: once I’m ready to stop for the day, I figure out a solution (usually to a small bug) but I stop myself from coding it. The next day, the code just flows fro…

This makes the most sense to me.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple. This is a company that popularized GUIs, gave us hyperCard, gave us the iPod and the iPhone and now it’s selling us a credit card? Really? Am I mi…

YES! Thank you. As an indie PWA developer this is exactly what I've been looking for.

Even though I work with Typescript daily, Typescript feels like a stop-gap measure until ES6 /ES.Next take hold. Dart feels like the future - given Fuchsia + Flutter + Android apps…

Hey Felix, was Dart ever in consideration? I use both TS & Dart (I'm on a TS project currently) but I find Dart so much cleaner but the JS code it generates is very hairy. Thoughts…

This. Well put.

"I can see a future where a mandatory Google account follows you up the grades. Educational software is released exclusively in Google's Play store. Assignments and homework are ha…

If I could, I would give you gold. But I can't.

I qualify. Actually I'm a stay at home dad. I work about an hour each day with my customers (mostly support and help for those users who don't read instructions) and bring in high …