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New comment by pragmar in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

pragmar — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:38:10 +0000

It's not configurable right now, but I have seen the feature in other products. If you want to chat about it off-thread, there's a contact form in the options page. Happy to chat.

New comment by pragmar in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

pragmar — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:46:09 +0000

I'm distributing msix (msixbundle) because it allows me to package a downloadable installer and a windows store upload. You should be able to double click the msixbundle to run the installer, powershell isn't necessary.

MSIX installers feel a bit odd, I think, because they're far less common than either msi or self extracting exe. They also virtualize the app. MSIX apps, for example, can't write to the canonical registry. It's not all upside, but it works well for my projects.

The SDK install is expected (if not already installed). It should hopefully have been automatically downloaded during the install process.

New comment by pragmar in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

pragmar — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:35:36 +0000

I don't mean to imply it's not possible, but I ran into issues packaging with Desktop Bridge and the web started pushing me toward extreme solutions, so I changed course. If there's a lesson here, it's to package early (and know what you are up against).

New comment by pragmar in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

pragmar — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:26:39 +0000

I realize now that the "Support" link is ambiguous. The price/free issue I'll think about how to make that clear, it's a good point. Going to wait for traffic to subside before making updates, but noted. Thanks

New comment by pragmar in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

pragmar — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:21:13 +0000

Thanks, yeah it is C#/.net9 and WinUI3. I started with C#/WPF, but wanted to get it on the Windows Store and couldn't figure out that would work with WPF.

Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

pragmar — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:24:32 +0000

Hey HN, I made a Windows process monitor for app developers and advanced end users. I wanted a taskmgr system-level graph view per app. Windows procmon, while capable, has always been tedious to set up (esp. if not used often). That's pretty much the whole idea behind the app--to simplify app-level monitoring, to make it easy. I hope some of you find it useful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255855

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New comment by pragmar in "Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation"

pragmar — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:53:34 +0000

Agreeable LLMs and embedded bias are surely a risk, but I don't think this a helpful frame. Most questions don't have correct answers, so it would follow that you'd want practical answers for those, and correct answers for the remainder.

New comment by pragmar in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

pragmar — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:43:10 +0000

Apple locks users in with software/services. nVidia locks in add-in board manufacturers with exclusive arrangements and partner programs that tie access to chips to contracts that prioritize nVidia. It happens upstream of the consumer. It's always a matter of degree with this stuff as to where it becomes anti-trust, but in this case it's overt enough for governments to take notice.

New comment by pragmar in "Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox"

pragmar — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:32:15 +0000

Became unusable for me (Firefox/Win) a few months back on my laptop with integrated intel graphics. Fine on other computers with more capable hardware. The solution was an extension called h264ify. There was something about the vp8/9 codec that was bringing Firefox to its knees. h264ify avoids those codecs altogether on Youtube.

New comment by pragmar in "Xamarin has reached End of Support"

pragmar — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:35:52 +0000

This project started back in the day as native MVVM (UWP). Switched to Blazor Server/electron a few years back. For Maui, I had to move to Hybrid but I'm glad I did. Hybrid is pretty great, seems better in every way except routing and some aspnet functionality is lost. Faster app startups, and feels generally more responsive.

Avalonia looks pretty nice, but I've never tried it so I'm not sure how it compares.

New comment by pragmar in "Xamarin has reached End of Support"

pragmar — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:00:07 +0000

I've been porting a Blazor/.net 8 project (https://interro.bot) to Maui for the past couple months. I just released Android last week, and Mac/iOS is in the pipeline. There are plenty of gotchas and I wouldn't say Maui feels mature yet, but the issues in my case are mostly on the build side. I'm optimistic though, the platform does improve with regular releases, and the end product (once through the build headaches) is solid.

New comment by pragmar in "Linkok.com – modern broken link checker I've been working on for 3 years"

pragmar — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 20:19:45 +0000

I think with the distributed nature of a desktop app (running headless chrome), outside of cloud infrastructure/IPs, the internet is generally less defensive. It has bought some leeway, but I definitely should look into proxy support.

New comment by pragmar in "Linkok.com – modern broken link checker I've been working on for 3 years"

pragmar — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:54:29 +0000

I'm not sure I've the best antibot solution, but it's handled through some crawler options exposed to the user. Out of the box, I use a (fast) http crawler with my app's user-agent. It is not at all resilient to antibot. I direct users who are encountering issues to first try a user-agent override, and if that doesn't work, to next enable javascript crawling (think headless chrome), which is slower and heavier, but clears up a lot of issues. I don't have a strategy for aggressive antibot (captcha/etc.) other than to tell the customer to dial it back on their website.

Edit: I've seen antibot SAAS providers, which claim to provide workarounds at a cost. You route traffic through their network, and they have teams that are constantly tweaking things to keep the requests working, much like scrapers adapting to website redesigns. It would be a treadmill to do on your own. There more info on this at https://substack.thewebscraping.club/ In my case, selling single-user perpetual licenses, it doesn't make sense.

New comment by pragmar in "Linkok.com – modern broken link checker I've been working on for 3 years"

pragmar — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:09:59 +0000

Congratulations on shipping, the site looks great. I've been working on a desktop app in the same space (website health/administration). It's been a similarly long journey. I've found marketing to be an uphill battle. It's a crowded marketplace, which in many ways indicates a healthy ecosystem, but difficult to crack nonetheless. Having a focused audience (e.g. bloggers) will help there. If you ever want to discuss marketing or talk shop, definitely reach out (ben at hn-username dot com)... maybe we could both learn something.

New comment by pragmar in "Prediction markets have an elections problem"

pragmar — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:47:37 +0000

I remember Nate Silver speaking of the golden age of online poker, when amateurs were the dominant audience, and a decent (non-pro) strategy player could make a living. Word got out, and just like that, it was over.

New comment by pragmar in "Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter"

pragmar — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:31:02 +0000

Best feature of Pro is Windows Sandbox, which I use to test/trial app installs in a VM. It's basically a disposable OS that spins up as fast as most apps. Sandbox runs on Hyper-V, which along with domain networking (for business) are the two main differentiators as far as I understand.

New comment by pragmar in "Blockchain dev's wallet emptied in "job interview" using NPM package"

pragmar — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:01:14 +0000

> The Upwork job posting asks the applicant to "fix bugs and resopnsiveness [sic] on website" and claims to pay between $15 and $20 hourly for a task expected to take under a month.

A take-home for a web3 dev-job that pays less than California's minimum wage (as of April 2024) is a story in itself.

New comment by pragmar in "'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months"

pragmar — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:20:09 +0000

The CO2 is going back into the atmosphere regardless, if the wood is not burned, it will decompose.

New comment by pragmar in "Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy"

pragmar — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:13:53 +0000

> COVID is on track to kill ~200K people this year

Where are you seeing this? I'm eyeballing cumulative deaths in the linked data tracker, it's about 50k through September 23.[1]

[1]: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths...

Astra SiteManager 1.0 Retro Review

pragmar — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://interro.bot/web-crawler-news/astra-sitemanager-retro-software-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718848

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