phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
Since Internet Explorer is not supported anymore by most websites Safari has become the new worst browser in regards to having really bad CSS and Web API Support.
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
One important thing not mentioned here: Apple should make sure to keep up Safari Development. It's by far the worst browser available and the web platform is only growing.
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
These two might just be the best comments i have ever seen on HN
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
I'm completely with you on that. WebP should be the smallest, best supported solution right now.
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
Depending on what Device API you want to use, wrapping your webapp using Capacitor is a solid option.
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
The company I currently work for still actively uses classic ASP in production and they still actively develop that product. Currently trying to get away asap, because I don't wanna touch spaghetti vbscript from '99 with a ten foot pole.
phoenixdblack
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4 years ago
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on: Imp: A full-stack relational language built around incremental maintenance
Imp ist der Beste.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Primo IDE/CMS (v1): Web development, finally simple.
I have originally seen this back on the OG post a couple of months ago.
This has really evolved quite a bit in that time and I really enjoy working with primo.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
Came here to see if anyone had the same idea
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
If we ever plan to make a manned mission to that place, we better pack enough water filters and a nuclear reactor, else we solely rely on a mad man in a blue box.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Examples of ImageMagick Usage (2016)
imo sharp is probably the only thing that comes close. It does not have the full feature set of imagemagick, but it is faster
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: German coronavirus smartphone tracing app goes live
Wrong. It took 20 Million Euros to build the App twice, setting up hotlines, localization, server infrastructure etc. in a very short time.
This is a huge undertaking and budgeted accordingly.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
The thing that's really invaluable for me is the firebase javascrpt implementation. Saving the state in a web app and new Objects being addable/editable offline with firebase automatically synchronising when network is available with me doing absolutely NOTHING is absolutely insane. Having just the API isn't really going to cut it.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
I really love where I am currently living (Würzburg, South Germany) I'd really love to spend a couple of years in the Provence (South France) I love the food, the landscape and the sea and I really like the climate.
But I'd probably come back pretty soon after leaving, because I just love my hometown
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?
Or scrolled through swiping on the phone. I think this would be pretty difficult considering the different pixel densities on touch devices.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: May Sky Challenge
I don't think we'll jump straight to mind-controlled (that sounds weird) devices, but I'm pretty confident we'll be there by 2040.
As VR and AR progresses there are great new features like hand tracking, which allows for even higher precision than swiping on your phone. I agree with you, interacting with things through your hands is really intuitive, but I don't think we have unlocked it's full potential.
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: May Sky Challenge
I don't think smartphones will stay with us for very long. They'll probably be replaced by future technologies less clunky (and yes, I am calling smarthphones clunky) in favor of things like glasses, contacts and implants.
I think our children won't be "anti-smartphone" in the same vain as we are not "anti-mainframe"
phoenixdblack
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5 years ago
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on: PWA Store
Thats pretty unsurprising seeing as Pale Moon is not on-par with the standards and actively trying to not keep up, but instead seem to focus on keep support with legacy tech Mozilla removed quite a while ago.
Also they actively disabled service workers, the very tech that enables PWAs in the first place
phoenixdblack
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6 years ago
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on: Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year
Well, you are right about that, but this is the kind of thing I usually see done in things like job descriptions to avoid gendered third person and to sound more personal
"Sie können fließend Englisch sprechen und [...]"
Using "sie" to specify one person in german sounds a lot like "pluralis majestatis" to me. Which is sorta like (but not quite) the "royal we" in english
phoenixdblack
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6 years ago
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on: Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year
This is not a mess in german, because it would not be "sie", it would actually be "Sie".
Edit: Typo
