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I'll suggest giving it another shot. It really is a game changer (I can't tell what you're doing wrong, but in a few people I've seen it has been about doing a psychological switch…

> Anyone else find where they are doing anything iOS specific to enable background uploads when you don't ever open the app? Search for "SyncService.instance.sync" in the code, tha…

Yes, the app does iOS background sync. Many of us (I'm part of the Ente team) are avid users and have a huge photo libraries, and day-to-day, it works seamlessly. We don't need to …

+1 for your invocation of eldritch gods :) I know what you're saying, there is undoubtedly a complexity angle too, not all of it is malice. But after a while, one starts noticing t…

This is beautifully put! I hope more people are able to understand the point you're making, especially how "having a globally accepted standard for anything is a unique and histori…

> I think this is beautifully written. Thank you! I'm so happy that what I wrote other have found beautiful to read :)

I believe that there is too much negativity going around, and I try my best to nudge things in a positive direction, and reading your comment I feel happy that it now that is also …

I feel sad that you feel like that, because it really isn't! Of course, different things work for different people, and you and I just might have different ideas of fun, but for me…

OP here. Funny you mention Shoutcast, because a Shoutcast player is what I'd made earlier - https://github.com/mnvr/Soundtrack . So I sort of know what you mean :) And you know the…

Wow, that's a great way of putting it! Thanks, I had never linked the dots that way before.

I would second that. Frameworks are secondary. React + TypeScript was the key (for me at least). After that it is just learning web standards - starting with CSS, HTML, JS - and th…

I didn't move from Google because of this bug. I'm just using that bug as a (pretty symptomatic) example.

Thank you! :) What has really made me happy recently is realizing the web now has at-par capabilities, and I can make all sorts of cool AV stuff that works straight out in the brow…

Thank you for saying that! Such feedback is very encouraging, much appreciated :)

This was super helpful and easier to understand than the wiki page. Thanks for taking the time to writing these!

Interesting! I'm curious, are there examples of the non-promissory estoppel that could give me an idea of what those look like?