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Awesome! I recently replaced Netflix for Criterion so this is quite welcome!
I read somewhere that the military uses iPhones with the camera removed and wanted to see if this was something I could buy. The answer is yes.
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davidhariri on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:05AM
from the noncam.com dept.
It’s a fair assumption. The React part is more about copying JSX and other React concepts (declarative UI etc) but it all boils down to native binaries. The toolchain is also pretty nice. It does hot reloading so you don’t have to recompile the app while building locally. The downside is you get less for free compared to SwiftUI. But SwiftUI also has many footguns and bugs. No free lunch!
Came here to write this. I am getting much better results from Firecrawl (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer).
Railway is the spiritual successor. Fly is great too. I highly recommend both.
I bought and tried to use the MP02 as a daily driver. Quite different from where Punkt is heading now. The industrial design is gorgeous, but the software was pretty bad (laggy, unintuitive navigation - Android on such a low powered chip was a bad choice). I can guess why, but it baffles me they didn't jump on the growing demand for dumbphones. If they had just released an MP03 with identical form factor but improved battery life, latency and screen improvements, I would have bought one in a heartbeat.
HTMX is a great choice for an app that
only needs forms, validation and partial template rendering, though CSS view transitions are making partials less relevant for server side web applications.
For things with heavy interaction (drag and drop, chat etc.), I find the code to make it work with HTMX is just too clumsy to work with as a mental model.
I learned so much from this site- including that so much education comes from being prompted to ask the right questions.
Not an ad! This is what I use.
Posted by
davidhariri on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:10PM
from the dhariri.com dept.
Success rate depends on many factors (risk of failure, your value to the business, complexity of the ask), but it's definitely on average much higher than 5% (I sell this technology and look at the results many times a day).
> Companies need to stop looking at customer support as an expense, but rather as an opportunity to build trust and strengthen your business relationship.
This is bang on. But unfortunately many companies have top down mandates to drive costs down (without backstops for LTV retention) and they look at top line growth as separate from OpEx. It's weird and broken, but it's a side effect of the common organizational structure of most enterprises. There are companies that do not look at themselves divisionally as CX, Sales, Product, Marketing etc. and the ones I can think of do have very high NPS (apple comes to mind).
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davidhariri on Sunday August 03, 2025 @11:17PM
from the protoweb.org dept.
I tried to follow many different tutorials on getting Diablo IV set up using CrossOver but never could get past Blizzards automatic patches that break it.
I had the same reaction. I wonder if it’s simply that more people are flying?
I can't think of a _technical_ reason why this isn't possible. I think it just comes down to Apple's security and privacy posture.
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davidhariri on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:40PM
from the dhariri.com dept.
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davidhariri on Saturday February 08, 2025 @10:12AM
from the eieio.games dept.
I think this is confirmed by the fact software vendors are still not taking advantage of ARM chips maximum performance.
Where this might shift is as we start using more applications that are powered by locally running LLMs.
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davidhariri on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:48PM
from the arun.is dept.
As it turns out, making it faster and better to manage things tends to get people’s attention. I think it’s well deserved.
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davidhariri on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:45AM
from the mobygratis.com dept.
Posted by
davidhariri on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm looking for 1 or more open standards (XMPP?) to use to define how our customer support chat bots might be able to autonomously communicate with other bots on the internet. Matrix has been suggested to me and XMPP came to mind. What would be best?
I created an app to track the scores and events for our annual family decathlon. Every year I learn what’s new with SwiftUI and I make the app a little better for everyone. It has notifications when events are coming up and it keeps a record of everyone’s scores in every event. It’s fun and working on it reminds me that programming is a creative act that doesn’t always have to be for profit.