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New comment by Cheese48923846 in "Ask HN: Which is Better–Android or iOS?"

Cheese48923846 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:38:00 +0000

iOS banned NES/SNES emulators back in the day. Android has many options for NES/SNES emulators for portable gaming. Works well for turn based RPGs where imprecise touch input doesn't ruin the game.

New comment by Cheese48923846 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

Cheese48923846 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:17:49 +0000

Remember Flash? The big tech companies felt a threat to their walled gardens. They formed an unholy alliance to stamp out flash with a sprinkle of fake news labeling it a security threat.

Remember Livescript and early web browsers? It was almost cancelled by big tech because Java was supposed to be the cross platform system. The web and Javascript just BARELY escaped a big tech smack down. They stroked the ego of big tech by renaming to Javascript to honor Java. Licked some boots, promised a very mediocre, non threatning UI experience in the browser and big tech allowed it to exist. Then the whole world started using the web/javascript. It caught fire before big tech could extinguish. Java itself got labeled a security threat by Apple/Microsoft for threatening the walled gardens but that's another story.

You may not like browsers but they are the ONLY thing big tech can't extinguish due to ubiquity. Achieving ubiquity is not easy, not even possible for new contenders. Pray to GOD everyday and thank her for giving us the web browser as a feasible cross platform GUI.

Web browser UI available on all devices is not a failure, it's a miracle.

To top it all off, HTML/CSS/Javascript is a pretty good system. The box model of CSS is great for a cross platform design. Things need to work on a massive TV or small screen phone. The open text-based nature is great for catering to screen readers to help the visually impaired.

The latest Wizbang GPU powered UI framework probably forgot about the blind. The latest Wizbang is probably stuck in the days of absolute positioning and non-declarative layouts. And with x,y(z) coords. It may be great for the next-gen 4-D video game, but sucks for general purpose use.

New comment by Cheese48923846 in "Ask HN: How can I support the AI resistance movement financially?"

Cheese48923846 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:15:08 +0000

Have you seen Terminator 2 - Judgement day with Arnold Schwarzenegger? That an AI resistance movement.

New comment by Cheese48923846 in "What do you want out of a coding monospace font?"

Cheese48923846 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:50:01 +0000

Wide range of weights (light to bold). Iosevka did a good job of making paper thin to thick sumo.

Sometimes I like to use a very dark theme and crank up the font size. Thick fonts become blinding light. So I need thin variants to dim them down.

This ties into "relaxing". When you zoom in to only ~28 lines on screen you are more focused on the relevant section, present in the moment. Relaxed not worried about the 50+ lines that no longer fit on screen.

New comment by Cheese48923846 in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

Cheese48923846 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:54:21 +0000

tab width = 3

It's big enough to clearly see indents. But small enough to preserve screen real estate. And no one needs to agree 3 is best because TAB.

New comment by Cheese48923846 in "Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?"

Cheese48923846 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:02:01 +0000

Ditto. On an M1 mac mini since 2021. Cheap little machine. Chugs the typical web developer workload like a champ.

I will try to get 10 years use out of it. 2031 will be time to evaluate the next machine.