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Re:Why don't more developers "use the platform"? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:40AM (#49951286)
There’s only one “the platform” but there were tons of competing libraries to do things like css, components, etc. The competitive landscape just produced better results. For me, Tailwind is nicer to use than regular CSS, and React is nicer to use than web components.
Re:Doing Everyone Else's Job on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:40PM (#49735421)
For me - I don’t enjoy it personally.
Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:22PM (#47521980)
> Content from your issues, discussions, or private repositories at rest. We use the phrase “at rest” deliberately because Copilot does process code from private repositories when you are actively using Copilot. This interaction data is required to run the service and could be used for model training unless you opt out.

Sounds like it's even likely to train on content from private repositories. This feels like a bit of an overstep to me.

Re:Code and Let Live on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:02PM (#46581397)
On the documentation, you install the NPM package via Anthropic: https://sprites.dev/api (on this page, if you select Node)

npm install @anthropic-ai/sprites

Is there some relationship between Anthropic and Fly.io that I didn't hear about?

Dang, I just got one and it’s my favorite iPhone I’ve ever had.
Having seen a lot of negativity around it, just want to say that the iPhone Air is the most exciting iPhone to me in a while -- I've been waiting for a big but still light option, but with the top-of-the-line CPU and a decent camera, for a long time. Will be curious to see how it pans out in the market, but I imagine I'm not the only one.
For what it's worth, very happy with React and excited to keep the inertia going. "Good enough" in this case is quite good.
Re:Tailwind CSS v4.0.0 Alpha on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @12:50PM (#39618641)
Looks like a lot of great improvements, but wanted to put in one vote in favor of keeping the capability of having a JavaScript-forward configuration/usage approach, rather than requiring a CSS-forward approach.

For us, one big benefit of using Tailwind has been that we can avoid spending a lot of time thinking about CSS and CSS tooling, and being able to configure everything via JS has helped in that regard.

Very cool to combine documents and tasks in this way! Jumping between Google docs with checklists and tickets in Linear can be a bit of a drag.
Seems like something that will continue unless people vote with their feet and switch to a different platform.
If you’re rendering multiple pages concurrently on the server, it’s nice to be able to know, for example, the current user without having to pass it down as a prop through the whole tree.

Context is a really nice way to do this.

Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:23PM (#35060660)
Pretty disappointing to see all of these stories being dropped from the front page.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:53PM (#33424778)
Role: Founding engineer, joining two technical founders

Location: New York or USA remote

Flipturn is a funded early stage startup working on increasing adoption of commercial electric vehicles (EVs) -- vans, buses, trucks, etc. The two technical founders are ex-Stripe, Samsara, and Apollo GraphQL, with a track record of delivering products from zero to product-market fit.

We've found that vehicle fleet managers are excited about EVs, but need a lot of help to make it through the whole process of evaluating and buying EVs. A lot of these revolve around planning and simulations, and can be significantly improved with software!

The commercial vehicle industry hasn't been saturated with software tools, and so this is a unique opportunity to work in a very greenfield environment where you can make a big impact on a huge industry -- over 12 million commercial vehicles are sold each year.

If you're interested in a super early stage role an have wanted to contribute to reducing emissions and fighting climate change, this could be the perfect opportunity!

Please email me at [email protected] if you're interested and want to chat.

Re:Postgres WASM on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:57PM (#33075994)
would this make it possible to install Postgres from NPM for local development? could make it much easier to build/run an app vs. installing Postgres on the machine directly, or running in a Docker container.
FWIW on Mac you can copy-paste a file between devices using the iCloud paste thingy.
Things! The todo list app. It's the most elegant app I've ever used. feels like it just works, and I can rely on it 100%.
Re:Stripe Reader on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:49PM (#27535987)
(Hi! I work at Stripe on the JavaScript SDK)

What types of features / compatibility are you looking for?

I'd be interested in seeing this exam!
Re:Tip Jar on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:27PM (#27070527)
There are plenty of uses for Twitter unrelated to debate or discussion. Sharing news, building a community, posting about your day, etc.
Re:Designing Accessible Color Systems on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:55PM (#21275552)
That would be amazing actually - I frequently run into situations where some combination of colors doesn’t have enough contrast in my editor.
Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:10PM (#21018892)
Hi! I work at Stripe on the Dashboard.

You can delete all of your test data by clicking a button in Settings > Data (/account/data). We also recently launched a feature that lets you delete multiple customers at a time, and hope to expand that to more different types of objects soon!

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming :)

Re:Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:53PM (#20166678)
(disclaimer: I worked at Meteor/Apollo for about 5 years)

I love the callout to how this is continuing the vision for improving application development started with Meteor -- it really does feel that way to me. Apollo, supported by GraphQL is IMO really delivering on the vision of making a lot of aspects of client-rendered app development much more straightforward than they have been in the past.

Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:42PM (#18840130)
I write them down in Things and group them into projects, makes them easy to search and organize!
Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:07PM (#18622815)
If I'm using Safari as my default browser, does it make sense to switch to Firefox just to support them? Interesting that Safari is not coming up in any of these articles as a third competitor, but maybe the fact that it's limited to Mac means it has very small market share.
Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:24AM (#18442153)
As some anecdotal evidence, I get about half of my Medium views from people browsing the Medium app/feed. That's definitely been the number one reason I've stayed on the platform.

Perhaps someone should develop a platform that creates the same discoverability, but while allowing people to retain control of the content?

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