Hacker News: tessela

New comment by tessela in "Stop Using Face ID"

tessela — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:50:06 +0000

… or you can just close your eyes, and move your face around. The device will not unlock if you're not looking at it and after 3 or 4 tries will ask for the password.

New comment by tessela in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

tessela — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:02:33 +0000

I remember writing apps for PalmOS (long time ago) distributors like PalmGear took over 60% from international developers like me, plus they held your earnings until you hit a minimum payout threshold. Add bank fees on top of that, and it was basically not worth developing for the platform. 30% felt like a godsend in comparison. (I'm not defending the Apple / Google tax)

New comment by tessela in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

tessela — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:25:31 +0000

It happens to me a lot, I just created a small automation to use https://cobalt.tools to download the content. Their loss, not mine.

New comment by tessela in "Prioritize work at the task level"

tessela — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:34:21 +0000

This kind of thinking is exactly why Electron-based apps end up consuming 4% CPU while doing nothing, and why some games use 100% CPU just sitting in their menus.

Why would you expect users to manage threads, processors, and system resources themselves?

New comment by tessela in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)"

tessela — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:19:54 +0000

> A garbage collected relatively simple language that compiles into a statically linked binary but has a type system similar to rust, rest types etc.

Swift.

New comment by tessela in "Security research on Private Cloud Compute"

tessela — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:36:53 +0000

I hope this helps people to consider Swift 6 as a viable option for server-side development, since it offers many of the modern safety features of Rust, including simpler memory management through ARC, compared to Rust’s more complex ownership system and more predictable than Go's garbage collector.

New comment by tessela in "Apple Passwords' Generated Strong Password Format"

tessela — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:38:27 +0000

You can customize the password format on apps or pages: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/customizi...

New comment by tessela in "HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience"

tessela — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:30:35 +0000

re: controls

Custom controls are the enshittification of the tag. IMHO there's no custom video component that allows the user to control volume, picture-in-picture, AirPlay, control speed and scrubbing better than the standard controls, especially on mobile.

'One in a Million' iPhone photo shows three versions of the same person

tessela — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:21:36 +0000

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/16/one-in-a-million-iphone-photo-shows-two-versions-of-the-same-woman/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38480014

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tessela in "Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB"

tessela — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:59:21 +0000

BigQuery had a 25% price increase in July/23: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

New comment by tessela in "Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps"

tessela — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:43:32 +0000

I would like to see examples of integrating refine in a existing app.

New comment by tessela in "About Security Keys for Apple ID"

tessela — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:17:50 +0000

Yes, you can, if the device's owner is wearing glasses.

New comment by tessela in "Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website"

tessela — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:51:34 +0000

Reminds me of https://jasonette.com (also AMP, sigh)

New comment by tessela in "Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta"

tessela — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:14:36 +0000

This 'hassle' will change in 2023 - https://webkit.org/blog/13152/webkit-features-in-safari-16-0...

https://webkit.org/blog/12945/meet-web-push/

New comment by tessela in "Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong"

tessela — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:45:50 +0000

In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world — https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6

Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong

tessela — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:45:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/corticallabs/dishbrain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341916

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by tessela in "How I regained concentration and focus"

tessela — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:38:45 +0000

Extra tip for iOS/macOS/iPadOS users: go to Settings / Accessibility / Display & Text Size / Color Filters and enable the Grayscale filter.

New comment by tessela in "Sshfs Is Orphaned"

tessela — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:28:48 +0000

There’s no need to use libfuse on macOS. You can use https://mountainduck.io/ instead or write a FileProvider for Finder (macOS) / Files (iOS / iPadOS) https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10182/

A really good example of File Provider API is the Secure ShellFish app on iOS / iPadOS - https://secureshellfish.app .

New comment by tessela in "A New Standard for Mobile App Security"

tessela — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:33:32 +0000

Apple is a member of Zigbee Alliance / Connected Home over IP. Also https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip#connected-ho...

New comment by tessela in "A New Standard for Mobile App Security"

tessela — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:46:12 +0000

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/