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Hi HN! I’m Ville, CTO of Nuanic, a Finnish company developing a smart ring that tracks stress using Electrodermal Activity (EDA) rather than the more common Heart Rate Variability …

My last experiment was with bulma css and vanilla javascript (typescript) with web components for components that needed custom/complex interactions. Nice thing with this approach …

Rather, copied over from other languages.

Regarding the error handling case, I've played around with the idea of implementing a Result type with typescript and hiding the errors behind that. The end result looks something …

Oh, thats why the colors change. It actually hurts my eyes when jumping from link to link. So far, the purple is the worst (makes it hard to read).

From the linked post: > Know when to break the rules.

Oni was/is build completely on top of neovim and oni2 turned vim (not neovim) into a library and builds on top of that. I suppose the vscode plugin support is implemented in simila…

You could try to calculate some numbers on savings or "wasted hours because the corporate support is slow and wont fix our problems fast enough" to turn their heads around. Another…

> worst lang What makes it bad? > worst toolkit Its actually quite decent. > worst platform support How come? GTK works on window, mac, linux (+ BSDs and probably other unix like s…

> Why does the rust documentation still suck? Thats a bit harsh. Yes, the documentation might be (is) a bit hard to read in a sense that its hard to _find_ something from it, but o…

Is that somehow fundamentally different from "git describe --tags --always"?

Thats just one data point, and for which you could argue that javascript has not one, but two null values: null and undefined. PHP got (or is getting?) type hinting, while javascri…

Your comparison of today's js/node to PHP from 20 years ago is interesting. I wonder if javascript will be in similar place in 10-20 years that PHP is today (e.g. "its not like it …

> I think the introduction of emoji reactions was a bad idea, it gamifies the issues system. It depends on the community. I've seen many where the reactions are genuine and actuall…

More and more places are "offering to give a tip" at least in Helsinki when paying by card. The machine asks if you want to give some or not. Its... weird.

Besides just writing and designing software: Developed and upheld a process for writing requirement documents for software development with my team mate. Started to do scrum master…

> My JavaScript tests catch typoed property names every time. My typescript compiler catches typoed property names every time. > I can't remember the last time I merged code with a…

> TypeScript is less readable. What makes you say so? I find it more readable than javascript.

Would be worth mentioning that the inline-webassembly npm package is created by the author and quite recently.