CommonGuy
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I have been building Kreya [1] for over 6 years now as a Postman alternative. It's offline-first and privacy focused with a storage format made for git.
In all our years, Kreya "just worked" for our users without any drama or unwanted changes, unlike most of our competitors...
[1] https://kreya.app
Many may think that EDIFACT is easy to parse, which may be the case. But it is NOT easy to interpret.
There are hundreds of "substandards" per industry. For example for clothes or medicine, most vendors have custom fields outside of the standard which MUST be interpreted/sent or everything falls apart
Reminds me of sprinkling DoEvents all over my VBA code to keep it "snappy" when I started to get into programming
Posted by
CommonGuy on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:48AM
from the ornith.ai dept.
Acid (oxalic acid, formic acid) treatments can be used multiple times in a row, but are harder on the bees
Yes, they remove the mites if they detect them. Asian honey bee colonies usually do not collapse from varroa mites.
But since European honey bees produce much more honey, the are the prefered species and used worldwide
I have bees myself. Beekeepers and scientists all over the world are trying to breed better bees with improved VSH. While it may work in a laboratory, it does not seem to work consistently in practice. You cannot just buy a "VSH colony/queen" and no longer treat Varroa mites. Even with careful breeding, the VSH behavior often vanishes (or is greatly reduced) after 1-2 generations.
Of course having only colonies with a strong VSH would be the end goal so we no longer need to treat our bees. But until then, better treatments are needed.
Cloudflare really likes to publish new projects, but improving them in the future is not really their style. Some examples:
- They launched Cloudflare Web Analytics in 2020, but it still does not support basic things such as UTM parameters or custom events
- With wrangler (their CLI), you still cannot undeploy a Cloudflare Page
GraphQL implementations could switch to this
Proxies are allowed to drop bodies of HTTP GET requests.
RFC 9110 states:
> [..] content received in a GET request has no generally defined semantics, cannot alter the meaning or target of the request [..]
> A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request [..]
Posted by
CommonGuy on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:05AM
from the kreya.app dept.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:32AM
from the kreya.app dept.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:46AM
from the agents.stackoverflow.com dept.
He was arrested in New York, so he was in the US
Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.
Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:30AM
from the kreya.app dept.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:40AM
from the kreya.app dept.
Insufficient mock data in the staging environment? Like no BYOIP prefixes at all? Since even one prefix should have shown that it would be deleted by that subtask...
From all the recent outages, it sounds like Cloudflare is barely tested at all. Maybe they have lots of unit tests etc, but they do not seem to test their whole system... I get that their whole setup is vast, but even testing that subtask manually would have surfaced the bug
Posted by
CommonGuy on Saturday February 07, 2026 @10:42AM
from the finance.yahoo.com dept.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:17AM
from the kreya.app dept.
I recently tried out
https://daisyui.com/ (CSS only components, depends on tailwind) and so far I really like it.
It also highlights how far browser have come with new features such as dialogs, which I always implemented with (a lot of) JavaScript in the past
Posted by
CommonGuy on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:06AM
from the kreya.app dept.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:56AM
from the kreya.app dept.
StackOverflow always wanted less low-quality questions, which is now the case. Whether they still receive some high-quality ones...
But I'm sure the website still receives a lot of views, as it still is highly ranked in Google.
Posted by
CommonGuy on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:16AM
from the advent.sveltesociety.dev dept.
Yes the start menu is now very slow with the web stuff enabled.
If you disable it, it becomes snappy again. Pretty crazy to me that Microsoft allows the default option to be that slow
Or do not use caching at all until you need it
Creator of Kreya here, thanks for mentioning us! If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them
Switzerland has this and for basically every other job as well. Apprenticeships are very common here, I did mine as a "programmer"
I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.
Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions
[1] https://kreya.app