Hacker News: bowlingx

New comment by bowlingx in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

bowlingx — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:27:54 +0000

I started working on a WYSIWYG CMS Editor for Web-Applications and Websites.

Based on my experiences, I think there is something missing in the market for content creators / editors for WebApps (with landing pages etc.) and websites. There are many headless CMSs available but many are lacking a simple editing experience.

I want to make it easy for the developer to integrate it into a project (using React for example) - but also make it really easy for the content creator to be more independent of developers - while keeping UI constraints etc.

I choose to build a native iOS and MacOS App with SwiftUI that basically provides all editing UI as native components instead of using HTML/CSS - Basically an overlay on top of the website that let's you control the components and website grid/layout. It's mainly a proof of concept and for me a way to learn SwiftUI :)

There are many Website builders that provide great editing UIs (e.g. Webflow, Builder.io etc.), but I feel a native app, especially on iPad OS could provide benefits and it's a nice challenge :)

New comment by bowlingx in "Next.js 12"

bowlingx — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:59:45 +0000

Congrats! This is a very exciting release!

New comment by bowlingx in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

bowlingx — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:46:11 +0000

Yap, been there :/.

New comment by bowlingx in "Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs"

bowlingx — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:17:22 +0000

I remember printing out the gentoo documentation back in the days to do a stage-1 install with the only computer I had :D. This was so much fun

New comment by bowlingx in "Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails"

bowlingx — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:44:52 +0000

We use mjml as well, together with nunjucks. It's awesome :). No more HTML wrestling for all the different clients.

New comment by bowlingx in "The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW"

bowlingx — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:51:09 +0000

I ordered one :D. I love the size of the car, it's small enough to navigate in a town and AC charging speed is high (22 kw, no one else, besides a SMART offers this in this price range). I can't charge at home (as I live in an appartment in the city) and I don't want to wait 6 hours for a full charge. Fast chargers ( >= 50kw) inside towns in Germany are (still) rare and there are more 22kw chargers available around me, also free ones at supermarkets. I occasionally drive more then 500 km, but maybe 3 times per year, and then I would propably take the train anyway.

New comment by bowlingx in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

bowlingx — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:53:02 +0000

I love your songs :) Thank you!! <3 And you defnitly popped up on discover weekly :D. I usually star songs that I like there, and / or order them in my custom playlists.

New comment by bowlingx in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

bowlingx — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:56:14 +0000

I'm working on a vegan catering platform (launch page: http://launch.vegcraver.com/). Stack is nextjs, postgraphile and stripe as payment provider.

Physical Borders rise up while Online Borders fall

bowlingx — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@roxyvelez/physical-borders-rise-up-while-online-borders-fall-disappear-and-become-a-business-advantage-fe5f0a7b9b2d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667128

Points: 1

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New comment by bowlingx in "Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps"

bowlingx — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:08:20 +0000

I used redux before switching to Apollo and a query parameters / routing based state management. In Web Applications especially, it makes sense to couple global state to URLs. It makes the page and the current state shareable and brings value (like tabs, filters, pagination etc.). I developed a library based on zustand and immer for this case (called Geschichte). It’s open source https://github.com/BowlingX/geschichte

Most of the use cases I can solve with that, the rest is usually either forms (covered by formik, final-form etc), async loading of data (Apollo) or local state and animations.

New comment by bowlingx in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

bowlingx — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 01:36:38 +0000

I think a highly underrated Topic:

Food and Environment:

1.) Clean meat will become affordable to produce and cause a big shift in the meat industry.

2.) More People will switch to a (more) plant based diet, either for health and/or environmental and ethical reasons

3.) There will be a lot more startups in the plant based food sector (like beyond meat, just egg etc.)

New comment by bowlingx in "PostgREST"

bowlingx — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:06:15 +0000

I am using postgraphile in library mode with keycloak and passport.js (an open source project https://www.keycloak.org/) instead of auth0 and it works great.

New comment by bowlingx in "Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?"

bowlingx — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:30:51 +0000

Thank you for this <3

Technology wise this year was great.

- Learned a lot more about kubernetes (bare metal, gcloud and finally digital ocean, rancher 2.0)

- Improved my JS skills (react etc.), focused a lot more on architecture

- Improved my spring-boot skills and upgraded to Java 11

- founded a company with my partner and got a bit into after-effects (from the technical side, meaning distributed rendering, automation)

- Created a "home lab" setup and learned vmware ESXi

Missed machine learning will check that out next year :)

Happy Holidays <3

New comment by bowlingx in "Working in a Prison Goat Milk Farm"

bowlingx — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:46:02 +0000

Interesting article...I think the real inmates are the goats here.

New comment by bowlingx in "Apple announces iOS 10"

bowlingx — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:13:46 +0000

For websites this seems ok for me, but for apps that run inside wkwebview, I think there should be more control about this behavior. You can't zoom normal apps so this would make the Usebility properly worse or unexpected.

New comment by bowlingx in "Apple announces iOS 10"

bowlingx — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:10:34 +0000

The releasenotes mention at least the zooming in safari.

New comment by bowlingx in "Apple announces iOS 10"

bowlingx — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:35:28 +0000

Finally they managed to remove the weird intelligent selection behavior in safari!!! (The one that unpredictable marks blocks or the whole website). Thank you apple :)

They also ignore any viewport meta data so you can always zoom. My Cordova app doesn't like this :( I hope it can be disabled for WKWebView programmatically

New comment by bowlingx in "History API broken bad in iOS 9.3"

bowlingx — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:00:14 +0000

My cordova application's history management stopped "randomly" working with "SecurityError: DOM Exception 18" exceptions. The reason (mentioned in the link I found) is a limit that has been recently introduced by apple to prevent a security flaw.

It doesn't make any sense for me. This might break a lot of applications and Websites that rely on the History API.

History API broken bad in iOS 9.3

bowlingx — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:57:48 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/36650

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351413

Points: 5

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New comment by bowlingx in "Show HN: Flexbox.io – a free video series on learning CSS Flexbox"

bowlingx — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:02:56 +0000

thanks :) you're welcome, I will extend FlexCss in the next month and add more documentation!