Hacker News: dafi70

New comment by dafi70 in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

dafi70 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:07:16 +0000

Honest question: how can VCs consider the 'star' system reliable? Users who add stars often stop following the project, so poorly maintained projects can have many stars but are effectively outdated. A better system, but certainly not the best, would be to look at how much "life" issues have, opening, closing (not automatic), and response times. My project has 200 stars, and I struggle like crazy to update regularly without simple version bumps.

New comment by dafi70 in "VisualDiffer Released Open Source"

dafi70 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:29:52 +0000

Two years ago, for personal reasons, I had to abandon development of my commercial application, VisualDiffer, which was only available on the Mac App Store. I had a lot of success with it, but I couldn't follow up on the user reports that deserved respect, so I removed it from the store and continued to provide support to those who asked.

Today, I rewrote 99% of the code in Swift 6.2, still using AppKit, which I deeply love, and I released the source code.

There will be regressions, new bugs, and old bugs, but I hope to improve it with the help of other "crazy people" like me.

VisualDiffer Released Open Source

dafi70 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/visualdiffer/visualdiffer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788505

Points: 1

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New comment by dafi70 in "A graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit"

dafi70 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:24:01 +0000

is it open source? I like to compile myself

New comment by dafi70 in "Goodbye, Feedly"

dafi70 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:31:02 +0000

I agree with you about useless PRO features.

I loved the 'Mute filters' feature, but they ruined it forcing to use Leo, expressions like "title:HackerNews" are no longer available and LEO is less useful than a simple search by keyword

but... there is a "but", I use Feedly APIs and I love them, I developed apps for myself to aggregate and quickly find informations starting from the feeds, using Feedly is so easy, so I continue to pay for a really small subset of features only to be able to extract info from my RSS feeds

New comment by dafi70 in "Plain Text Calendar"

dafi70 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:11:07 +0000

My contribute ;)

2033-06-12 w23 Sun Resume on HN the 'Plain Text Calendar' post :P

New comment by dafi70 in "I am an 80 column purist"

dafi70 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:12:33 +0000

Probably the language can help to "stay" at 80 like C or C++ but I dare Daniel to write Objective-C or Swift and stay at 80 columns, it's possible but it's hard and I prefer to write code than add carriage returns

The 80-column war remember me the TAB vs Space dispute, I'm a 4 spaces man :)