Re:Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers
by lloydatkinson on Saturday December 12, 2020 @09:11AM
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What on earth? A Mac only application, that searches websites anyway? Why is it not a web based search engine?
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Re:Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers
by mromanuk on Saturday December 12, 2020 @09:21AM
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Why not? The UX of a native App can be 10x better, when I’m programming I’m 100% of my time on a Mac. Why I should use a lesser medium like a web browser?
Kudos to the developer
Re:Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers
by lloydatkinson on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:00AM
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Okay good for you, meanwhile the other 90% of the developer world using Windows and Linux are excluded because they can’t use this application to search websites...
Re:Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers
by whatyesaid on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:48AM
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It seems to have multiple issues.
StackOverflow and GitHub could be formatted with great effort, and stuff like language docs. But not blog posts which differ highly in formatting and need to display images, at that point, you're just outputting the webpage in an IDE. You'd also need a way to index/retrieve those blog posts.
But, you also want actual browser features, as tabs are useful for further reading or comparing various things, or something to look at later.
Just using multiple screen displays is good enough.