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New comment by asadkn in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

asadkn — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:59:53 +0000

You're existing in hyper-capitalism. So yes big surprise, people need to make money.

New comment by asadkn in "Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows"

asadkn — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:30:12 +0000

It's a very subtle difference but noticeable in the anti-aliasing.

I don't have Windows right now, so I haven't tested if the change's closer to Firefox - but Firefox always had some heavy antialiasing on Windows, which I wasn't a fan of.

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams

asadkn — Sat, 04 May 2024 09:56:38 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from-flutter-dart-python-weeks-before-its-developer-conference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40256304

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by asadkn in "jQuery 4.0 99% Complete"

asadkn — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:47:59 +0000

Just leaving this here since people will wonder the relevance of jQuery today.

> jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.4% of all websites.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery

New comment by asadkn in "WordPress WASM"

asadkn — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:20:47 +0000

For those wondering about the "why", this post details the motivation: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas...

Basically for learning/interactive tutorials, trying out something quickly in different PHP versions (which is cumbersome right now), secure and easy demos for themes and plugins.

New comment by asadkn in "Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?"

asadkn — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:04:18 +0000

I'd say that most of the websites still use HTML/CSS/JS and are server-side rendered - well, at least 40%+ of the web does (WordPress).

The distinction mainly is in the apps. Yes, web apps almost always use a framework like React now. Others have already explained the whys.

However, it's still possible to do webapps the traditional way, with the server-side approach, adding only a little interactivity via JS - techs like LiveView and HotWire: https://hotwired.dev/

New comment by asadkn in "It is your responsibility to follow up (2019)"

asadkn — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:16:18 +0000

Anyone who tries to follow-up more than twice comes off as desperate or an automated spambot. I don't appreciate that hustle.

2 follow-ups should be the absolute limit (preferably, a single follow up).

New comment by asadkn in "25+ years of personal knowledge management"

asadkn — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:24:30 +0000

I agree. I rarely ever use new tools, but I switched to Notion a few years ago and even recommended it to many friends and colleagues.

Big mistake. Lessons learned. It's been slow and buggy all this time but I still kept using it. The final nail in the coffin was it started using 15-20% of a CPU core on IDLE, and has been doing so for 5+ months. Tried everything and gave up. Going back to simple text files.

New comment by asadkn in "PHP – The Right Way"

asadkn — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:23:18 +0000

I have used PHP as a replacement for even shell scripts, like perl and python, a lot in the past. The best thing is the very strong standard lib. Everything's built-in. I like node as well, but having to install so many packages just for that one file script is a major annoyance.

Covid-19 human challenge study reveals detailed insights into infection

asadkn — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/233514/covid-19-human-challenge-study-reveals-detailed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204231

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by asadkn in "GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts"

asadkn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:51:54 +0000

I understand what you're saying but it doesn't exactly address my curiosity of this specific case of HTTP GET requests for font files (no JS, no iframe, and no cookies either in this case).

Your thoughts about a like button widget, or even Google Analytics are perfectly valid. But I am talking about this specific topic under discussion, Google Fonts.

New comment by asadkn in "GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts"

asadkn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 11:33:53 +0000

Curious how useful is an IP address with a simple HTTP get request?

As long as a sane Referer-Policy is set, the Referer won't be sent. Sure there's a lot more to browser fingerprinting but with just an HTTP request, all the data that would be known from it is the language and the user agent. Both of which are not unique data points and shared by thousands of other users. No cookies either in this case of Google Fonts.

New comment by asadkn in "You Feel Like Shit"

asadkn — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:04:10 +0000

One distinction: Reactive Hypoglycemia. Even with low GI carbs, it may still happen. Small meals or keto is the fix.

When it comes to health, things are rarely that simple. Even medical professionals have knowledge gaps, let alone someone who isn't one. I'd be careful to make assumptions.

Heck, many people assume the other person's a snowflake, when in fact their patience and pain tolerance may be miles above yours.

It's the same as reductionists advice on complex health issues where you advice someone to try X based on your 5-mins reading material, when surely someone suffering for years have tried all of that in thousands of hours of searching for the magic fix.

New comment by asadkn in "Data seems to indicate omicron milder, more transmissible, hospitalizations low"

asadkn — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:29:04 +0000

That seems like a rather premature conclusion. WHO mentioned:

> Data which looked at hospitalizations across South Africa between 14 November and 4 December found that ICU occupancy was only 6.3 % – which is very low compared with the same period when the country was facing the peak linked to the Delta variant in July.

Did they account for previous infection or vaccination status? What if a lot of these are breakthroughs/reinfections. Considering excess deaths in South Africa, their national data on number of cases is sort of, doubtful [1].

Further, they seem to have observed mainly a population under 40.

[1]: https://theconversation.com/unpacking-south-africas-excess-d...

New comment by asadkn in "Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts"

asadkn — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:33:06 +0000

The difference isn't as much as it used to be in terms of file-size optimization as woff2 is pretty much supported by all browsers and you don't have to serve anything else now. Except for CJK and Arabic fonts, which have to be split or their woff2 size would be a few MB - this is Progressive Font Enrichment [1].

However, once distinction is font hinting data [2]. Google Fonts serve different files based for Windows vs Mac. The windows variations have hinting included.

[1]: https://rwt.io/typography-tips/progressive-font-enrichment-r... [2]: https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting

New comment by asadkn in "Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain"

asadkn — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 11:31:43 +0000

There can also be physical issues that can be masked psychologically. You can train your brain to ignore and mask many pains and aches and dull them down. IMHO, managing pain can definitely be done psychologically, at least to some extent.

Being too aware of the pains, obsessing over them, and being anxious and stressed definitely aggravate the conditions in my experience. Having an otherwise healthy balanced life in terms of work, relationships etc. with healthy amount of stress, makes some of the ailments very manageable or a non-issue.

New comment by asadkn in "Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)"

asadkn — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:57:42 +0000

MacOS dropped subpixel AA in Mojave by default but brought back a stronger default of grayscale AA in Big Sur AFAIK, which can be optimized. [1]

And I agree, a lot has changed since the article was written. On HiDPI displays, personally I don't like subpixel antialiasing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/jiwwga/big_sur_f...

New comment by asadkn in "Ask HN: What is your preferred notebook screen size and why?"

asadkn — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 11:32:42 +0000

Technically correct. But practically the perceived PPI/DPI would matter more, with distance. Relevant: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/#the-myth-of-apple-patented-...

New comment by asadkn in "Tab Unloading in Firefox 93"

asadkn — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:05:00 +0000

Same issue. Except multiple short-term projects with hundreds of reference tabs, in multiple windows, ranging from groups that would classify as "mood boards" to research.

I settled for Workona when it launched about 2+ years ago after trying many extensions else like OneTab, SessionBuddy, Toby and so on.

I might start looking for something else again as Workona is getting a bit more, commercialized, but it's fine for now.

New comment by asadkn in "Offline First"

asadkn — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:50:59 +0000

There are a lot of apps that would benefit from being offline first.

Apps like Notion feels quite sluggish to me on a higher latency 15mbps. And Figma is pretty bad on a decent 3g when loading files on a fresh load.

Building a proper syncing solution isn't that simple especially when it's for multidevice and requires conflict handling. Replicache looks quite good to me but I haven't found any similar solution that's opensource with MIT/GPL license.