ckuijjer's comments

I love how JavaScript / TypeScript allows a full stack developer to use the same language all over their stack, nice example about how it was even possible to move logic from the web to authentication layer by simply copy and pasting!

I’ve found another effect of using a single language is that it becomes easier to build teams, there’s less speciality needed and communication and sharing of ideas within a team becomes easier. Is this something you’ve seen too, and do you see the other parts of the Sjgar stack (e.g. due to the size of the React and AWS community) help with this?

Awesome! Being able to search through your tabs is such a powerful ability!

Some time ago I made a small Chrome extension, see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-switch/jibghim..., for this myself.

I love how you're building this into a cross browser, fully featured product with nice looking UI!

It listens to the online and offline events (using https://github.com/chrisbolin/react-detect-offline which is really cool). You really have to turn off your network connection.

Or fire the event yourself using window.dispatchEvent(new Event('offline'))

Nice! For my own purposes I once started on a Chrome extension like this: TabSwitch (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-switch/jibghim...), that uses a Most Recently Used ordered list and searches for domain and page title.

I really like that you have the interface on top of the web page itself!

I guess he doesn't call it scraping as the function retrieves a json document instead of retrieving some html and extracting data from it.

Quick video uploading and allowing everyone to self host webservices with a multitude of users I guess

I really like your site, it's the place I go when I look for an alternative to a specific app/webapp. I'm going to assume that most of your users are like me and come through your site by a google search. Some feedback:

- The main issue with your site is imho that it's trying to do two things at once. Next to giving alternatives to software, it also tries to be a categorized directory of applications. I would love for you to focus on only the former. Doing so would enable you to really declutter your site. There would be no more need for the grey navigation bar, nor for categories or tags.

- Give more prominence to: - The application searched for and to its external links. Don't be afraid to have users leave your site. - It's alternatives, on my laptop I can only see a single alternative above the fold. - User input, e.g. likes, comments and feedback. As you're a user input driven site, this is really important

- Give less prominence to or simply remove: - Questions, they look really empty and sites like http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ are better suited for this. - Forum, when looking for an alternative I simply want to take a look at a few options I don't much care for the forum - Recent user activities, I think it is simply clutter and no one but the person whose activity it shows cares.

jQuery uses getElementsByID, getElementsByClassName etc. when available in the browser. There is only a small overhead in parsing the selector to see if it's e.g. a simple ID or class selector.

I've downloaded them all, now I should really start reading them. Here are some direct pdf links of the papers:

- Spanner: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

- BigTable: http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

- Dremel: http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36632.pdf

- Paxos made live: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs262/Readings/paxosmadelive.pdf

I really like the step by step nature of his post, starting with an ad hoc jQuery implementation and moving gradually to a Backbone implementation while touching on subjects as separation of responsibilities.

I like what you did to the Twitter Bootstrap buttons by adding the arrow → and guillemet » symbols. It makes the buttons look more interactive.

I'm afraid you do need to add some additional tunes to bootstrap the site and get others to add new tunes.

Nice Xmas project!

Thanks a lot for it! I really like it and use it almost daily.

I also found that the Twitter Bootstrap documentation isn't complete. Using Chrome's Web Inspector to look at interesting elements of the Twitter Bootstrap website is a nice addition to its documentation.

Another project that uses a hash to search for subtitles on opensubtitles.org is Periscope (see http://code.google.com/p/periscope/), a Python command line program that searches several subtitles websites.

Nice weekend project!

My current workflow to sync subtitles is to find one sentence in the beginning of the movie and one near the end, and search the subtitle text for these sentences. The four timestamps are then ran through the perl program subs (see http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Subtitles-1.03/subs).

Perhaps using a search based interface, instead of letting the user pick from all lines, would be a nice extension.