Hacker News: archie_peach

New comment by archie_peach in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

archie_peach — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:35:51 +0000

A lot of people here seem to be advocating the superior experience that native apps provide, but forgetting how saturated the app market is and what a poor job Apple does to help its users discover new apps.

Further, the majority of US smartphone users download zero apps in a typical month. What's the point of making a "superior" app, if no one is ever going to see it? https://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-ap...

From a user perspective, I care less about whether the app is a PWA or native, and more about the "goal" I'm trying to achieve. If my goal is to find a new house, a PWA allows me to instantly see results (without first having to download an app), then use native-like features such as being notified when new properties are available. I can use these features after I visit a given website and am prompted to save the app to my homescreen.

Compare this to the random native apps that people accumulate on their phone until it slows down so much that they have to perform an "app purge".

How to write beautiful Node.js APIs using async/await with Firebase Database

archie_peach — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:30:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-write-beautiful-node-js-apis-using-async-await-and-the-firebase-database-befdf3a5ffee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701263

Points: 4

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New comment by archie_peach in "Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop"

archie_peach — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 23:46:06 +0000

This is really great. Would love to see a version available for Smart TVs.

New comment by archie_peach in "Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS"

archie_peach — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:08:41 +0000

Seems this is a fairly popular idea :) I've also been working on something similar for the past year.

https://vocabifyapp.com/

Currently only a web app with a React/Redux/Node/Firebase stack. Anyway, hope it goes well and good luck with your project!

Show HN: Vocabify v2, a vocabulary builder based on spaced repetition

archie_peach — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:41:37 +0000

Article URL: https://vocabifyapp.com?v2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554949

Points: 1

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New comment by archie_peach in "Decades"

archie_peach — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:18:59 +0000

I always thought it was the Noughties and the Teenies?

Delightful words I learned from reading Don Quixote

archie_peach — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@paulbreslin/delightful-words-i-learned-from-reading-don-quixote-920829a9852#.qlwih0chk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762749

Points: 2

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Essential tips for Firebase users

archie_peach — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@paulbreslin/essential-tips-for-firebase-users-be80c4388a6e#.qp1oecay3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634924

Points: 3

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Firebase review – 9 months in

archie_peach — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@paulbreslin/firebase-review-9-months-in-cc7c3e1baf7e#.um3ofx7fw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13588887

Points: 2

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Show HN: Vocabify for Chrome - Remember the words you come across

archie_peach — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocabify/kfflofdchiheamgnkdipdkhlbcecbnge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13570910

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Experience of having full-stack devs working on modern JS projects?

archie_peach — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:24:50 +0000

In my company there are two front-end developers and roughly thirty back-end/full-stack developers. The management believe the two front-end developers can guide the rest of the team to write proper, good quality code in an ES6, Angular 2, Webpack tech stack. The "full-stack" developers seem to have virtually no knowledge of modern libraries/best practices however.

Have any of you come across similar situations? What was your experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13550653

Points: 2

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Dawn of Vocabify

archie_peach — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@paulbreslin/dawn-of-vocabify-aabb881785a9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476358

Points: 1

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Show HN: Vocabify – Remember the interesting words you come across

archie_peach — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:27:38 +0000

Article URL: https://vocabifyapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12987877

Points: 1

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