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It's honestly weird to me how much work they put into their hissy fits. It's not like their bottom line or their stock price would notice it when they would just open up their OS a bit more.
Re:Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product? on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:38AM (#40725836)
That's why there are efforts to get platform companies to allow putting PWAs into their app stores. I think on Android it's already possible with a thin wrapper and with regulatory pressure it might be necessary for other platforms to enable that as well.
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:51PM (#39769128)
They are the commercial ADSB provider
Re:How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:38AM (#39238263)
It was Mary Schmich and later Baz Luhrmann turned it into a song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen
Re:Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011) on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:48AM (#38248883)
I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)
Re:A successful Git branching model (2010) on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:49AM (#37430750)
I honestly don't understand the hate that Git Flow gets these days. We've been using it in our little client-services agency (projects of 2 to 8 developers with infrequent deployments) for the last couple of years and never had any problem with it. It's easy to explain and automate and mostly just works without getting in the way.
It doesn't hit my inbox but my feedreader but I usually read https://www.garbageday.email/ first thing in my reading time
Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:19AM (#35883923)
Yes. I even started to hear the noises.
Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:08AM (#35340414)
Oh boy, do I have exciting news for you! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html
I'm happy with INWX
Yes, absolutely this. Dark Sky was very generous with their historical data, none of the others is doing that.
Re:Open Airport Map on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:16AM (#34936098)
Yes. The restriction on the Location API are pretty strict.
Re:Open Airport Map on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:12AM (#34936073)
That's a browser's default behaviour when the location is requested without user interaction. In this case they request the location immediately when opening the page, they're supposed to add a "Use my location" button and in that case the browser would remember the decision for the current session.
Re:Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:39PM (#34902327)
I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.
Re:No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:26AM (#34532832)
It must be fascinating to find the people who are still watching the Tide Pod challenge today.
Re:Overture Maps Foundation on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:53AM (#34001420)
I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?
Nerds
Re:Modern PHP features explained – PHP 8.0 and 8.1 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:51AM (#33358413)
Basically what everybody else said: tests and a static code analyzer.
Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and once in a while I look at Twitter while in the bathroom.
Re:Passkeys on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:43AM (#32949081)
Yes, it is WebAuthn + iCloud storage of the client credentials.
Re:FlipCoords – lat, lng lng, lat on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:31PM (#32771679)
I use it quite often, especially to get the json strings. It's a small tool, nothing groundbreaking, but useful for a certain target group nonetheless.
Re:Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:51AM (#32651196)
That's vector tiles, right? I'm still looking for an easy-ish way to render and host the old style of pixel tiles. Does anyone here have good pointers for that?
I think in the past they sent out "free" receivers to areas with low coverage: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/making-the-flightradar24-... while the other tracking sites tend to be enthusiasts with their own hardware only.
Re:Apple Passkey on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:18AM (#31651271)
You might at least want to put a warning there for people who access the page with unsupported browsers? There's nothing on the left of "⬅ Go ahead... click it." for me.
I'm usually a big fan of Paul Ford's articles but this one seems a bit off.
Re:OwnTracks – keep track of your own location on Monday April 04, 2022 @08:51AM (#30906026)
It's a bit more in the user's hand. You could put a beacon in your garage and one in your kitchen and send different events with OwnTracks depending on which one is close. It's a bit more granular and hyperlocal than iOS' location API.
Re:The complicated futility of WordPress on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:01AM (#30179369)
I hate to tell you but its 2022.
Re:Protocols that have not changed in the last 30 years on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:29AM (#29947050)
The fact that this is on medium dot com is rather funny.
Re:PHP 8.1.0 on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:40AM (#29349314)
> Server-side Rendering, which no other backend-only language could do

Isn't it the definition of a "backend-only language" that it renders server-side?

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