Hacker News: faizmokhtar

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Ask HN: Anyone lived/living in a war zone/instable country?"

faizmokhtar — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:01:45 +0000

The current hype of genocide you mean?

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Stack Overflow is a cacheless, 9-server on-prem monolith"

faizmokhtar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:17:32 +0000

"What I think it should be"

That's a little bit arrogant no?

New comment by faizmokhtar in "How to Start Your Blog in 2023"

faizmokhtar — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:12:08 +0000

TIL. There's a bug with the text editor where cursor will jump towards the last line. Really annoying and I think it's still not being fixed yet. Had to scour through Github issue to find the fix.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:09:02 +0000

Last I checked, the push notifications that are masquerading as native popup asking user to install “antivirus” are all on web.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Ask HN: Which courses (online or not) have had the greatest impact on you?"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:44:11 +0000

The Science of Well-Being from Yale University

https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023"

faizmokhtar — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 12:51:29 +0000

> Twitter was about ephemeral day to day life

This is what I like about Mastodon now. People(including me) posting about their mundane life.

There's no "growth hacker" looking to game the algorithm, there's no listicle about JS and the algorithm didn't try to push for the latest "viral dumb takes" to you.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 01:17:33 +0000

Does this applies to app like Buffer?

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Apple Reportedly Working on Touchscreen Macs, Including MacBook Pro"

faizmokhtar — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:46:26 +0000

I used to be against touchscreen Macs but after they implemented Universal Control I find myself mindlessly touching my screen to quickly close applications, muting the mic on Teams, etc.

I guess this will do well for people who use iPad as their second monitor?

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Mastodon has gone from 2.5M active users in early December to 1.8M last week"

faizmokhtar — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:23:53 +0000

Migrated to Mastodon and so far I like it much better than Twitter.

The iOS communities I followed on Twitter have been posting regularly on Mastodon which is great.

Most important of all, there's no algorithm on the timeline trying to push the latest viral stupid statements and rage-inducing drama to keep users engaged. I have block and mute so much accounts and word yet Twitter still manage to show it on my timeline.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web"

faizmokhtar — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:47:09 +0000

Is it because it's actually riddle with bugs or just that most devs built on top of features only available on Chrome?

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Bring Back Personal Blogging"

faizmokhtar — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 01:43:30 +0000

Do you mean this site?

https://kagi.com/

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF"

faizmokhtar — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:35:33 +0000

I find the timing of the announcement somewhat interesting. Just right when SBF is en route to NY.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules"

faizmokhtar — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:52:27 +0000

I think this is possible on the Mastodon app. There's an option to login to multiple accounts but I haven't try it yet since I only have a single account.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "George Hotz: Resigned from Twitter Today"

faizmokhtar — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:16:20 +0000

That's basically a classic "problem" whenever a new software engineer joins a new company.

"Everyone else code is shit except me. I don't want to waste my time reading the code." kind of scenario.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "George Hotz: Resigned from Twitter Today"

faizmokhtar — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:55:05 +0000

Well that was quick. Can't even last for 12 weeks.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "A software change allowed FTX to use client money"

faizmokhtar — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:41:20 +0000

Yes? You don't need to be lawyers or financial gurus, you just need to have common sense and strong ethics.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:06:53 +0000

Not being able to run project that's using older Swift version on the latest Xcode is a terrible experience tho.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Why I'm less than infinitely hostile to cryptocurrency"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:36:43 +0000

I find it weird when westerners used developing world in SEA countries as a use case for cryptocurrency due to terrible banking systems or poor access to bank.

We have instantaneous online banking systems and for the unbanked they can simply register for an e-wallets.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents will not be teaching Stanford Law School next year"

faizmokhtar — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:26:46 +0000

It's like saying "I'm looking for new challenges" when asked why you're leaving your previous company.

New comment by faizmokhtar in "Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements"

faizmokhtar — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:49:39 +0000

My guess is that it's for og meta tags so that the post link renders nicely on social media.