Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220733

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Having recently gone through the F-Droid release process, I learned that this is not necessarily the case anymore.

F-Droid implements the reproducible builds concept. They re-build the developer's app, compare the resulting binary sans signature block, and if it matches they distribute the developer-signed binary instead of their re-built binary.

This is opt-in for developers so not all apps do it this way. I'd sure like to know how common this is, I wonder if there are any statistics.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954874

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

I usually dislike animations. I used to disable transitions whereever possible, as they made the UIs feel sluggish. And I still do.

But working on the project made me for the first time really appreciate in practice how much amimations help with understanding. I paid a high price in complexity to add transitions whenever the state of the visual graph changes, and suddenly it was really obvious what was happening. Commits and whole branches were sliding into their new position, and I would go "a-ha! I see" instead of "wtf just happened, what am I looking at now?".

EDIT: Fair warning, it's heavily WIP https://gitlab.com/indigane/visual-git

The only problem is that no one is using it.

A bit longer comment on it:

https://gist.github.com/indigane/70ed13d5287c2d18b3e8e5d4f0c...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556224

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

It is likely I will be moving from Unlicense to MIT-0 in the future.

[1] https://opensource.org/licenses/

If I want to use Unlicense, can I dual license as MIT and Unlicense?

The Unlicense is almost like MIT License but without any burden on those using your code.

On the other hand it offers you the same (perhaps handwavy) protections from liability as MIT License does.

If you're familiar with Creative Commons, it is similar to a CC0 license, but for code.

Basically it's a legitimate way of saying "I don't care about licenses, stop bothering me, do whatever".

If you use GitHub, then Unlicense is one of the choices you can select when setting up a repository.

One requirement I had if I were to build it myself was that it would be maintenance-free and still work years after I have forgotten about it, so having a server was a no-go.

https://github.com/indigane/cardsort

The long version of why:

I wanted to conduct a quick, one-off card sorting for a side project, but after spending hours looking at the available commercial and open source solutions, I couldn't find one that worked for me.

The commercial ones either had too restrictive free tier with only 20 cards or so, or they lacked basic features such as open sorting vs. closed sorting, or they would have cost me upwards of $100/month.

The open source ones would have required me to self-host them, which I wasn't too excited about, and after trying docker-compose up on one of them and hitting errors after errors, I was even less excited so I gave up on that. I also looked for demos of open source projects that could have worked for the one-off use I needed, but no luck there.

I wanted to avoid spending time developing my own solution, as I already had the side project I was supposed to be working on. I also especially wanted to avoid spending time on maintaining and hosting. If I could get away with a static site, no database, thus no need for me to host it, and get it done without spending too much time on it, it might be worth it, and maybe someone else could benefit from it too. And the result was this.

The lack of a backend has some obvious trade-offs, but the benefit is that it is fire and forget, and I can hopefully come back years later and use it again for some other one-off thing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408552

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371831

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22745863

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19233630

Points: 1

# Comments: 0