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New comment by sbinder in "Fastpotify"

sbinder — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:42:36 +0000

Because millions of Spotify-compatible speakers are sold with firmware that will never be upgraded, so they can't ever change the Spotify connect protocol without breaking those devices.

Building highly efficient JavaScript packages with dart2wasm

sbinder — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.simonbinder.eu/posts/dart2wasm_library/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101426

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New comment by sbinder in "Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years"

sbinder — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:19:37 +0000

They've added it as an option recently.

New comment by sbinder in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

sbinder — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:34:00 +0000

I don't think the runtime is "much more advanced", the JVM has had most of these optimizations for years.

New comment by sbinder in "The rules behing Rust functions"

sbinder — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:31:26 +0000

by dynamically allocating FFI trampolines, which add their own performance and lifetime issues that would be unacceptable for Rust.

New comment by sbinder in "Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync"

sbinder — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:09:05 +0000

(I work at PowerSync)

This is a good point, and we definitely agree that the local sqlite database should be the source of truth for all things state management. The example here is consistent with that view because the intermediate providers and notifiers are stateless, their only role is to bundle related functionality as well as exposing database queries as typed providers (making it easier to read results in widgets because no explicit StreamBuilder is necessary).

We've recently published guides on using PowerSync with popular Flutter state management approaches [1], and we mostly agree that sync engines simplify state management to the point where intermediate layers are unecessary. Some really enjoy the structure Riverpod can provide though, and that's why we want to make sure PowerSync works well with those architectures.

[1]: https://docs.powersync.com/client-sdk-references/flutter/sta...

New comment by sbinder in "Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support"

sbinder — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:30:38 +0000

Perhaps they're referring to this famous objection of financial institutions to TLS 1.3, motivated by them not wanting to update their MitM software needed for compliance: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/CzjJB1g0uFypY8UDdr...