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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:13AM (#25506962)
I was quite excited to try this when Fujifilm first announced it, but then immediately dissapointed when I found out it does not support the x-t30.
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:36AM (#24709305)
I might do in the future. To be honest, Github Pages has not been on my radar until I saw the recent article posted here with benchmarks across popular static site hosts.

I'll have to look at the benefits of that over Netlify, too.

Re:DigitalOcean App Platform on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:33AM (#24709269)
The logs would be useful, but there are alternate options that could be used over Netlify's $9/m option. For personal/side projects that price is a no go for me.

I've used GCS before and I agree it's not easy/hard, but certainly not as simple as Netlify.

> I would be interesting to have a matrix of supported features on different platforms. And how deployment compares to Nginx, letsencrypt, git.

That would be useful, especially now that there are more and more options out there. I've seen benchmark comparisons but features would be more useful in my opinion, unless the speed is really poor.

Re:DigitalOcean App Platform on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:43AM (#24698931)
I got quite excited at being able to stick my static sites on DO for free, but notice on this page[1] that only the first three are free, then it's $3/m/site.

Perhaps I've been spoiled by services like Netlify. I'd be interested to know what the benefits are of using DO's service over free alternatives.

[1] https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps?i=6bf7f8

Re:Riot is now Element on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:07AM (#23842842)
Same here.

Ask HN: How are online code runner/playgrounds made?

For example, https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/cr, https://play.rust-lang.org/, or https://executeprogram.comI'm thinking there are two options. Either having some kind of <Language> to JS interpreter that runs the code in the browser, or, running the code in some kind of container on a server and returning the response to the client. In which case, how are the servers secured against...

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Re:Web Dark Ages on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:40AM (#23712104)
Seeing those stickers and buttons definitely gave me flash backs (no pun intended) to when I was first discovering the web.

I have vivid memories of making websites during secondary school. First for free on Geocities and then later on my first paid hosting (Lycos if I recall correctly) so that I could host my PHP projects. At some point I started making websites and animations in Macromedia Flash and those glassy buttons easy but cool to make at the time.

Re:Indie Support Weeks in the Apple Developer Community on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:43AM (#22703184)
> Yeah, the team sharing stuff (kinda like 1Password vaults) would make this an absolute buy for my team

I admit it would be useful on my team too, I'll have a think about the best way to implement it.

>Either way, I've submitted this for a security review

I appreciate it, thanks!

Re:Indie Support Weeks in the Apple Developer Community on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:15AM (#22702977)
Thanks!

I decided on a subscription to help support the server costs and continue development. I do appreciate that not everyone likes subscriptions and I think that has hindered traction somewhat.

I send out automated emails a week before renewals to remind people about the subscription, and of course I'm happy to refund anyone that mistakenly rolls over.

> 1. Are you open to letting people pay once, without setting up a subscription? More of a year-long license model?

I'd love to do this but both my infrastucture and payment system aren't really set up to do so. I'm more likely to do a limited run one time cost (Pay once and access forever), but I haven't fully decided on that yet.

> 2. Do you have any infrastructure setup for teams? I could much easier justify putting this on my AMEX and allowing my entire team access.

Not currently but I do have some ideas in the works. Either sharing snippets between users, or a public directory where the community can share useful snippets. A team subscription also does sound like a good idea, I'll mull it over :).

For now, since it's all synced to the server, your team could all log in with the same account and share access. Not ideal, but it is a work-around!

Re:Indie Support Weeks in the Apple Developer Community on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:33AM (#22702670)
I messaged John on Twitter after he reached out to his followers about Indie apps. Happy to see my app has made the list!

For anyone wondering, it's called Snipline (https://snipline.io). It has very few users, but the people that do use it tend to reach out to me and it's really nice to see the value that they get out of it.

Re:Don't touch my clipboard on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @10:55AM (#22356911)
Out of interest what did you choose? I'd love something different that syncs between MacOS and iPad for ePub files.
Re:We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:49AM (#21574146)
I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven't already.

Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It's as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.

Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it's absolutely worth checking out.