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New comment by stu_k in "Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization"

stu_k — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:48:42 +0000

How does one handle an upgrade to mutators? If a client is running old code then the operation will differ to the server. Obvious answer would be to version them independently: `increment_v1`, `increment_v2`, but wondering if there is a better answer?

New comment by stu_k in "LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups"

stu_k — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:38:38 +0000

Has anyone built a mobile app on top of SQLite that can work offline, but then sync to a server when it gets connectivity? It feels like this could be built with a similar approach to this distributed SQLite, you'd "just" need more robust conflict handling.

New comment by stu_k in "AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS"

stu_k — Tue, 10 May 2022 19:35:48 +0000

Looks great! I've currently use https://contexts.co/ but might switch over for the thumbnails

New comment by stu_k in "CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”"

stu_k — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:26:42 +0000

This also addresses an issue when you transition from black to transparent to emulate a shadow, and end up with a "cliff" where the gradient abruptly changes. You can see this in the tool when you transition from black to white with LRGB. Any of the other color spaces avoid it. Very cool!

New comment by stu_k in "Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions"

stu_k — Sat, 16 May 2020 05:57:59 +0000

Although it technically has cross platform GUI, Flutter has actually reimplemented all the native OS widgets. As soon as the OS changes some look and feel your app will look out of date.

New comment by stu_k in "Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults"

stu_k — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:56:33 +0000

Do you know what effect those changes have in the body?

New comment by stu_k in "WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation"

stu_k — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:10:55 +0000

We currently use wasm on the Adobe XD team for rendering shared prototypes in the browser. It allows us to share C++ rendering code across desktop and web and has been a massive success for us.

The browser support is good enough for our customer base, as it works across all operating systems and mobile devices, and we can fall back for asm.js for IE11.

New comment by stu_k in "The cost of parsing JSON"

stu_k — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:52:01 +0000

You might be interested in a tool I wrote to serve .har files called server-replay: https://github.com/Stuk/server-replay

It also allows you to overlay local files, so you can change code while reusing server responses.

New comment by stu_k in "Raising Prices Is Hard"

stu_k — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:15:57 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Arq, that looks really useful. What are the cons you've found?

New comment by stu_k in "TextMate 2.0"

stu_k — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:00:58 +0000

"atom" probably includes searches for the particle, not just the editor, so not really fair comparison.

Also "vs code" trends higher than "visual studio code", so take all of these results with a pinch of salt.

New comment by stu_k in "Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro"

stu_k — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:20:19 +0000

System Preferences > Keyboard > Customize Touch Bar (at bottom). Drag off buttons you don't want, drag on buttons you do.

Not 5 seconds, but probably less than a minute.

New comment by stu_k in "Evidence of a nocebo response following a nationwide antidepressant drug switch"

stu_k — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 19:09:11 +0000

It's in the article:

"These switches to generic medical and psychotropic medications have from time to time caused an increase in reported adverse events, and this is likely to be due to negative attitudes towards generic medicines rather than pharmacological differences between the branded and generic versions of the medication.

This phenomenon is known as the nocebo effect"

New comment by stu_k in "Flutter desktop shells"

stu_k — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:32:03 +0000

Flutter looked great, until I realised that they were re-implementing all the OS controls themselves. For example: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/1db5d66932b873e17c8c...

This is the kind of thing that leads to an "uncanny valley" app, where things feel slightly off, or they look good until the OS changes something and Flutter doesn't keep up.

New comment by stu_k in "Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver"

stu_k — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 22:45:25 +0000

Citymapper[1] will do that to a certain extent and it’s pretty good, especially with docked bikes.

I wish I could tell it I like walking more than catching a connecting bus, so I’m occasionally working on a side project to allow custom routes for common commutes.

[1] https://citymapper.com

New comment by stu_k in "DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing"

stu_k — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:12:41 +0000

Interesting project!

Is there a writeup on how you architected the project to share 99% of code? I'd be really interested in reading that! From a skim it looks like React + React Native.

New comment by stu_k in "Report: Microsoft is scrapping Edge, switching to just another Chrome clone"

stu_k — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:00:22 +0000

Some developers might see this as a good move for them. I don't think it is.

It might be a good move for developers in the short term but it’s a bad move for developers and the web in the long term. We need to keep the web APIs vendor neutral so that one company cannot take control of the future of the web, and move it to benefit only themselves.

The number of barely-standardised APIs they’re adding to Chrome is astounding. It's great to push the web forward, but the fact that product teams at Google have a direct connection to the Chrome team allows them to prioritise the features that benefit their web apps the most.

If the web is going to become Chrome (and sadly it looks like it might), then Chrome needs be moved to a foundation that's outside the control of one company.

New comment by stu_k in "“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)"

stu_k — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:01:07 +0000

Lots of interesting bits in here, and some parts very prescient. The more interesting thoughts to me were near the end: “throw-away workers”, and the last quote on “truth”.

New comment by stu_k in "Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland"

stu_k — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:49:23 +0000

There are very few individually maintained OSS projects that would generate enough money from donations.

Henry Zhu, who maintains the massively popular Babel transpiler, only gets $2200/month in donations

https://www.patreon.com/henryzhu

New comment by stu_k in "Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle"

stu_k — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:31:09 +0000

This is great, I love rush hour.

Is there an web based version of the game where I can try some of these generated puzzles?

New comment by stu_k in "Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web"

stu_k — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 22:14:48 +0000

Except that rendering everything to canvas is not accessible to people with certain disabilities.

Also mentioned recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347216