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The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist Completely rewired how I view language, consciousness, and matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matter_with_Things

My fingers have been aching lately, likely due to inflammation, and I have an important project I need to work on, but haven't been able to put in the time it needs. I tried the va…

Viberunner is another stab at this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236729

I made an app that lets you build one-off desktop utilities: https://viberunner.me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236729 Ultimately I think it’s too open ended. Users got o…

I kept seeing people making macOS apps for their one-off use cases and automations. I thought surely the hassle of paying for an Apple dev account and fighting with code signing an…

Is this the first time we can say “iPhone has had this feature for years”? :) It’s quite excellent btw. Almost magical. There is a “Studio Lighting” preset that truly does give you…

Here was my reply, but of course a nuanced refutation doesn't get as much attention as an agitative tirade :) There's definitely truth to the fact that our self-hosted setup requir…

For me, it’s for the love of the game. I like being productive and being challenged more than I like being indolent. I imagine pro athletes might feel the same way. You have to enj…

It is largely unsolvable if you rely fully on the server. I describe here how we handle this at Standard Notes where the client can reject weak parameters from the server: https://…

The way we solve server-side iterations with Standard Notes (which uses Argon2 and not PBKDF2) is to tie the derivation parameters (iterations, bytes, etc) to a hard-coded protocol…

There's no reason it has to hurt UX in theory. The difficulty is just in spending a lot of extra time perfecting the animations and interactions, which is 100% doable. We just rele…

Eh, these are easy fixes. We're making progress daily on making it feel more "native" (i.e recently added present/dismiss animations). Try the demo[0] in your mobile browser, shoul…

> There will be a move away from React Native back towards WebView based toolkits such as Capacitor and Tauri (I think Tauri will win over Electron in the long run), as people real…