Hacker News: lostfocus

New comment by lostfocus in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

lostfocus — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:01:53 +0000

It's honestly weird to me how much work they put into their hissy fits. It's not like their bottom line or their stock price would notice it when they would just open up their OS a bit more.

New comment by lostfocus in "Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?"

lostfocus — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:38:51 +0000

That's why there are efforts to get platform companies to allow putting PWAs into their app stores. I think on Android it's already possible with a thin wrapper and with regulatory pressure it might be necessary for other platforms to enable that as well.

New comment by lostfocus in "Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map"

lostfocus — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:51:07 +0000

They are the commercial ADSB provider

New comment by lostfocus in "How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry"

lostfocus — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:38:29 +0000

It was Mary Schmich and later Baz Luhrmann turned it into a song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

New comment by lostfocus in "Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)"

lostfocus — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:48:00 +0000

I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)

New comment by lostfocus in "A successful Git branching model (2010)"

lostfocus — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:49:01 +0000

I honestly don't understand the hate that Git Flow gets these days. We've been using it in our little client-services agency (projects of 2 to 8 developers with infrequent deployments) for the last couple of years and never had any problem with it. It's easy to explain and automate and mostly just works without getting in the way.

New comment by lostfocus in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

lostfocus — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:45:19 +0000

Sure: https://lostfocus.de

New comment by lostfocus in "Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?"

lostfocus — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:57:50 +0000

It doesn't hit my inbox but my feedreader but I usually read https://www.garbageday.email/ first thing in my reading time

New comment by lostfocus in "The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit"

lostfocus — Wed, 10 May 2023 05:19:55 +0000

Yes. I even started to hear the noises.

New comment by lostfocus in "Push notifications are now supported cross-browser"

lostfocus — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:08:53 +0000

Oh boy, do I have exciting news for you! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html

New comment by lostfocus in "Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes"

lostfocus — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:27:12 +0000

I'm happy with INWX

New comment by lostfocus in "Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs"

lostfocus — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:16:20 +0000

Yes, absolutely this. Dark Sky was very generous with their historical data, none of the others is doing that.

New comment by lostfocus in "Open Airport Map"

lostfocus — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:16:34 +0000

Yes. The restriction on the Location API are pretty strict.

New comment by lostfocus in "Open Airport Map"

lostfocus — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:12:48 +0000

That's a browser's default behaviour when the location is requested without user interaction. In this case they request the location immediately when opening the page, they're supposed to add a "Use my location" button and in that case the browser would remember the decision for the current session.

New comment by lostfocus in "Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur"

lostfocus — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:39:39 +0000

I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.

New comment by lostfocus in "Blogging is not dying anytime soon"

lostfocus — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:26:39 +0000

It must be fascinating to find the people who are still watching the Tide Pod challenge today.

New comment by lostfocus in "Overture Maps Foundation"

lostfocus — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:53:58 +0000

I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?

New comment by lostfocus in "Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media"

lostfocus — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:36:09 +0000

Nerds

New comment by lostfocus in "Modern PHP features – PHP 8.0 and 8.1"

lostfocus — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:51:29 +0000

Basically what everybody else said: tests and a static code analyzer.

New comment by lostfocus in "I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring"

lostfocus — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:41:35 +0000

Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and once in a while I look at Twitter while in the bathroom.