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> However, in this situation it may make more sense to disable biometric authentication. In Face ID, there's a setting that requires direct eye contact in order to open your phone.…

Most people who make a living as a musician these days do so by being a "renaissance man" of sorts, where they make their money doing a multitude of different things. This includes…

> SWC was one of the earlier Rust builders, which then became absorbed into Vercel and turned into Turbopack (is my understanding) SWC and Turbopack aren't related in the sense tha…

> I was also similarly disappointed with the quality of Supabase’s auth offering considering all the praise I consistently see for Supabase on HN. Around the time you were trying i…

I had a comment in this file for a very long time but the project lead was something of a Professional so he removed it. The comment was "# MULTIPASS!" https://github.com/workarea-…

> The fact that those boundaries are crossed means that anyone who is in competition with Automattic might have any and all ecosystems that Matt has any control over leveraged agai…

This went from "hey you guys shouldn't use WP Engine because it's not Real WordPress" to "WP Engine is violating trademarks and isn't welcome in the WordPress community anymore" re…

> while the WordPress people may not like it hmm i wonder why... https://wordpress.com/wordpress-hosting/ always great to see devs sh1t on other devs under the premise of "this isn…

As someone who's made a few Electron apps in the past, I can say that it has a lot more to do with what you're putting into the app itself than the runtime shell you're working wit…

can we do this for react native? asking for a friend...

What developers _should_ be doing is disabling such animations if `prefer-reduced-motion` is set in your browser. This way, both people who have trouble seeing stuff when there's t…

Finale was my first notation program, and while I switched to Sibelius out of necessity during college, I never really liked it. Will definitely check out Dorico, heard good things…

Is anyone else sick of the "European Parliament" deciding the rules for the rest of the Internet? I know I sound like a dumbass American here, but I feel like there's gotta be a wa…

Ugh...the tax shit in the US is so annoying. At least your e-commerce system is meant for a single kind of transaction, I worked on a more multi-purpose system (that was also open-…

> The team has a history of over promising and underdelivering (or scamming - depending on your perspective). Their attitude of not communicating anything and basically inventing s…

me to rabbit: "why don't you just give up?"

How does this compare to tools like Yabai? I'm pretty happy with Yabai and SketchyBar, is this any easier to use?

This is awesome for folks who don't use their own custom status bar! Personally, I use SketchyBar and Yabai for window management. SketchyBar is shown almost all the time, but the …

After years of watching spyware make a ton of money on their platform, Microsoft took a page out of Apple's book and created their own spyware for Windows.

As someone who used Go since before v1, I can say that Go's approach to dependency management was basically "we don't want to touch it until we know we have the right idea". At the…

get it because ducks

I always thought Charlieplexing was when you go on a tirade about Pepe Silvia and how Carol doesn't actually exist.

someone at Northrop Grumman has been watching Technology Connections...

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