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New comment by tobiaswk in "Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms"

tobiaswk — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:13:46 +0000

Cool!

Can't help but to mention photopea; https://www.photopea.com/ Pretty impressive stuff made by one guy (it was initially). Basically a viable alternative to photoshop in a browser.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Flutter looks good, but is painful"

tobiaswk — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:09:26 +0000

I agree. It tears on the developer for sure.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Flutter looks good, but is painful"

tobiaswk — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:29:28 +0000

I simply love Flutter for Android and iOS development and have been using it since alpha. I haven't tried the web application part; I'm pretty sure I never will. Here's my opinion. I've created several apps with Flutter and every time I enjoy it. The UI is easy to make beautiful and the resulting code easy to read. It feels like all what the current Android SDK is missing. The current Android SDK is old and quite frankly painfull to work with. You just can't create beautiful apps with ease; it's always a hassle. It's also messy and not easy to read the resulting code. The way the whole way the framework is structured entails ugly code in my opinion. This all becomes evident when you use different apps on Google Play. You get the sense that every app reinvented their UI; there is no real UI continuity. Google became a freeloader after JetBrains created Kotlin and marketed it will. The thing is Kotlin made just a little better; in terms of boilerplate stuff; the framework I still hate compared to Flutter. What I really like about flutter is the framework and “it’s all a widget” idea. You can basically do crazy things in UI with ease and on the other hand just use the standard UI components with a great result.

My alternative is called "My Leaf" and its available on Google Play and the App Store; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-leaf-for-nissan-ev/id143670... It's completely open source.

New comment by tobiaswk in "The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D"

tobiaswk — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:50:14 +0000

Couldn't the same be said about the US dollar? In fact there's no limit on that one. With the fractional reserve banking in place as todays standard the Federal Reserve just print more notes when needed to bail the banks. The whole system is based on trust. Trust does not scale well.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily"

tobiaswk — Thu, 09 May 2019 08:29:34 +0000

Cool project. I'll stick with LaTeX and Beamer.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop"

tobiaswk — Wed, 08 May 2019 11:42:00 +0000

As an example I've created an alternative to Nissan's Connect EV app. It's basically a way to control and monitor your electric vehicle from Nissan. The official app is I’m very disappointed by; it’s slow and full of wrong decisions. My alternative is called "My Leaf" and its available on Google Play and the App Store; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-leaf-for-nissan-ev/id1436...

It's completely open source.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Java 12"

tobiaswk — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:31:25 +0000

I love Dart and Flutter. I actually think it was a good idea not to use Java. Dart is much more modern and nice to work with in my opinion. There are many reason and I won't dwell into it here. The biggest-ish project I've built with Flutter is an alternative to Nissan's ConnectEV app; it's used with the electric vehicles Nissan Leaf and Nissan E-NV200. You can see statistics, battery status and control climate control and charging of your vehicle. My alternative is called "My Leaf" on the Play Store and "My Leaf for Nissan EV" on the App Store. It's completely open source; https://gitlab.com/tobiaswkjeldsen/carwingsflutter

It consists of the main Flutter app and a Dart library for communicating with Nissan's API.

New comment by tobiaswk in "PureOS is convergent"

tobiaswk — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:03:30 +0000

Was very interested in their stuff. I was very disappointed when I saw a demo of the current state of Librem 5 running on development hardware. It did not look good. Laggy and slow. Very bad UI/UX.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter"

tobiaswk — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:35:43 +0000

This is a beta project, just like the Lightning Network itself, so losing small amounts is a possibility.

I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.

New comment by tobiaswk in "A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop"

tobiaswk — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:02:31 +0000

I have made a couple of applications with Flutter. Mainly for Android and iOS. I really think Flutter is great. It's my favourite framework currently. It feels like a modern Android SDK and frankly how the Android SDK should feel like. My "biggest" project currently is an alternative to the official NissanConnect EV app for controlling Nissan electric vehicles. You can find it here if you're interested; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca... It's also open source; https://gitlab.com/tobiaswkjeldsen/carwingsflutter

I think the Flutter team takes accessibility quite seriously; https://flutter.io/docs/development/accessibility-and-locali...

New comment by tobiaswk in "Emacs Rocks"

tobiaswk — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:40:40 +0000

You should try Spacemacs; best of both worlds. It's amazing.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0"

tobiaswk — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:01:21 +0000

I've been following and using Flutter since release 0.2. I think Flutter is an amazing project. It makes writing concise and beautiful apps very easy. I've come to love Dart and the whole Flutter framework. I really think it is the best framework to write Android applications. It also works great for iOS were you can either choose to use Material or Cupertino components. It is a huge improvement over the old Android SDK; which is quite outdated in my opinion. It's too hard to create a beautiful app with the current Android SDK. To many hurdless. Flutter feels like what developing an Android app should be like today. Another thing about Flutter is that it's also ready to work with Google's (upcoming; maybe) Fuchsia OS. One loose end is still the plugins for native features on either iOS and Android. There are many community driven plugins which aren't really maintained. Fortunately there is also a large set of plugins maintained by the Flutter team itself.

I've tried Xamarin, React Native and Cordova (god forbids) and native development on iOS and Android. My preference is Flutter.

I've done one big(ish) project with Flutter and it's called "My Leaf" and it is a third party alternative to the NissanConnect EV app. It's used for controlling the Nissan Leaf and Nissan e-NV200 (both EV's). It's open source and available on Android and iOS;

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-leaf-for-nissan-leaf/id14...

I've seen some of the comments in this post talk about developing plugins for Flutter. I actually think it is easy and does not require much boilerplate contrary to what people say. My guess is that they really haven't tried writing a plugin but only peeked at the documentation.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract"

tobiaswk — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:51:03 +0000

I remember reading that the U.S. Army is the single largest installed base for Red Hat Linux. Guess it only covers a little part of the infrastructure.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Kessler Syndrome"

tobiaswk — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:37:57 +0000

Great show.

New comment by tobiaswk in "WireMock"

tobiaswk — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:13:32 +0000

Very similar to https://getsandbox.com/.

New comment by tobiaswk in "IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services"

tobiaswk — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:46:36 +0000

Every time I see this project pop up I think about how awesome an idea it is. Not sure about the practical side... but the project is very cool indeed.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager"

tobiaswk — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:29:24 +0000

Great tool. I use it together with keybase.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Mobile Airbag Deploy When Device Is Dropped"

tobiaswk — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:27:34 +0000

It's there to save your life potentially. €299 seems cheap in that regard.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Cool Retro Terminal"

tobiaswk — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:35:17 +0000

Tried it for what it's worth some time ago. Pretty novel and cool looking. Ended up removing it again; I found it too novel even after fiddling with settings.

New comment by tobiaswk in "Apple Leaks Video of MacOS 10.14 Showing Xcode 10 with Dark Mode, News App, Etc."

tobiaswk — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:22:30 +0000

There are so many other problems with Xcode that this dark mode is completely irrelevant to me. AppCode from JetBrains is lightyears ahead and has been for a long time.