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Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:58AM (#38624027)
The one that the most other people found useful: Remote Control Collection. It's an app that allows you to control your PC or Mac from your Android or iOS smartphone while connected to the same network. It also was available for Windows Phone and BB10 back in the days.

I've built it about 10 years ago for myself because I was too lazy to get up from the couch to control my media PC and the existing apps were all terrible to use. Turns out many people found good use for it, over 10 million across platforms by now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh...

Re:Ask HN: How would you invest $20k? on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:55PM (#27424868)
Thanks for sharing. The white text on light green background is very hard to read though (Google sheets app).
Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveil... on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:22AM (#25821036)
Sure. This wasn't the only reason and I had a meeting with my team lead talking about all of them.
Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveil... on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:01AM (#25819727)
I worked for NBB as an Android Engineer about 5 years ago. While refactoring the analytics / tracking services (5 different providers in the app), I noticed that customers credit card data was leaking to analytics providers. I informed my PO about this, but he decided that this wouldn't be worth the effort fixing. I left the next day.
Re:Ask HN: What video games got you thinking about society this year? on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:18AM (#25526593)
Couldn't agree more. Hollow Knight is easily the best game I've ever played, topping even Zelda Breath of the Wild.

So much to explore, so challenging and so interesting lore. I'm really looking forward to Silksong.

Re:Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:22PM (#22835864)
You can, in fact, do BLE scans in the background on iOS. It's tricky and requires some workarounds, like basically everything related to background tasks in iOS.

Source: Providing apps with that functionality.

Ask HN: Reviewing PRs in a language you don't know?

Posted by Steppschuh on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm an Android engineer with only basic knowledge of a few languages that are not Java. I'm responsible for a project that will now also include an iOS app. I have never worked with Swift before, but of course want to make sure that the new iOS developers are building up a healthy codebase.I feel like I'll only be able to look at a higher level when reviewing their work (like architecture,...

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Re:Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive... on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:41AM (#16490509)
Also created a page: https://buymeacoff.ee/steppschuh

I'd wish for a higher maximum word count in the Thank You message section.

Re:Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use? on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:13AM (#15985989)
Bdrive[1] is end to end encrypted and implemented as RAIC of different cloud storage providers. It's currently a B2B only solution provided by the Bundesdruckerei (German federal printing office).

Disclaimer: I work for a software engineering company related to the Bundesdruckerei.

[1] https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/About-us/Innovations/BDriv...

Re:Ask HN: How do you stay focused while programming/working? on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:58AM (#15903786)
You might also enjoy http://chillingvibes.com

It's playing mostly chillstep and slow electronic music with decent or no vocals.

Re:Ask HN: What is your home media PC setup? on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:03AM (#14289780)
You could check out the Remote Control Collection app. It will allow you to use your phone for controlling the mouse, keyboard and media players.
Re:Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Mo... on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:00AM (#13035003)
Newton Mail subscription is 50℅ off at the moment, which I find is a great deal for their service.
Re:Show HN: Whosfiring on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:06PM (#12959908)
That's not true. Google indeed waits for async content to load for a given amount of time. You can inspect this from the Google webmaster tools.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:38AM (#12899717)
It's just indexing data from other porn sites. Pretty much like Google, but accessible via a JSON API. I contacted you with more details. Make sure to check the spam folder ;)
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:35AM (#12899704)
Contacted you. Make sure to check the spam folder ;)
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:35AM (#12899697)
Everything is scraped from large porn sites. Please contact me for details, link in my profile.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:06PM (#12893879)
Thanks for pointing this out. The actual API provides SSL encryption, the landing page however doesn't.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:51PM (#12893718)
http://json-porn.com

Well known API for adult content, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. 0 seconds down time since about a year. Profitable.