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It's honestly weird to me how much work they put into their hissy fits. It's not like their bottom line or their stock price would notice it when they would just open up their OS a…

That's why there are efforts to get platform companies to allow putting PWAs into their app stores. I think on Android it's already possible with a thin wrapper and with regulatory…

They are the commercial ADSB provider

It was Mary Schmich and later Baz Luhrmann turned it into a song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enou…

I honestly don't understand the hate that Git Flow gets these days. We've been using it in our little client-services agency (projects of 2 to 8 developers with infrequent deployme…

Sure: https://lostfocus.de

It doesn't hit my inbox but my feedreader but I usually read https://www.garbageday.email/ first thing in my reading time

Yes. I even started to hear the noises.

Oh boy, do I have exciting news for you! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html

I'm happy with INWX

Yes, absolutely this. Dark Sky was very generous with their historical data, none of the others is doing that.

Yes. The restriction on the Location API are pretty strict.

That's a browser's default behaviour when the location is requested without user interaction. In this case they request the location immediately when opening the page, they're supp…

I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.

It must be fascinating to find the people who are still watching the Tide Pod challenge today.

I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?

Nerds

Basically what everybody else said: tests and a static code analyzer.

Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and o…

Yes, it is WebAuthn + iCloud storage of the client credentials.

I use it quite often, especially to get the json strings. It's a small tool, nothing groundbreaking, but useful for a certain target group nonetheless.

That's vector tiles, right? I'm still looking for an easy-ish way to render and host the old style of pixel tiles. Does anyone here have good pointers for that?

I think in the past they sent out "free" receivers to areas with low coverage: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/making-the-flightradar24-... while the other tracking sites tend t…

You might at least want to put a warning there for people who access the page with unsupported browsers? There's nothing on the left of "⬅ Go ahead... click it." for me.