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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:24PM (#46470755)
At this point its mostly a merchandise/ collectable which I also think is okay.
Yep :)

Show HN: I made a full-featured macOS app for Apple Music to challenge SwiftUI

https://daftmusic.app/

Some time ago I moved from Spotify to Apple Music for a few reasons. As someone who builds iOS and macOS apps, I quickly noticed how rough the Apple Music experience felt on Mac. It just wasn’t fun to use. So I decided to challenge myself and see if it was possible to build a full, complex, and performant Apple Music client using SwiftUI.At first, it went surprisingly well. SwiftUI made it easy...

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Is Hacker News the new Product Hunt?
Thank you! I worked on that one. For the rest of the discussion I’ll stay quite now
Re:What's your favorite RSS feed reader? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:02AM (#41380305)
Miniflux (hosted) + Reeder

Miniflux itself is an amazing small Golang app, that can be easily deployed through Docker.

Would you expect the food to be good if the cook in the restaurant doesn't want to eat it himself?

If you don’t have faith in or care for what you’re producing, it’s unlikely to be successful.

Re:Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:22AM (#40155638)
Did Spotify finally update their macOS Icon to fit the design guidelines introduced 4 years ago?
Re:First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:55AM (#37581984)
Preview.app in Sonoma also supports now JPEGXL. Its also part of the Exportoptions.
Re:SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:08AM (#37279584)
It’s important to mention that SwiftUI is for some reason in a terrible state under macOS. You notice that mostly when you try cross platform apps such as IceCubes. iOS version works great but the Mac version has a terrible performance.
Re:Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:29AM (#37198460)
Thats a really bad comparison since food is a consumable and most time not a investment since its expires (with exceptions like whisky).

Housing is a good example since our planet has a natural limit which can't be worked around. Otherwise please tell me why Bill Gates owns about 270,000 acres of farmland. There is a famous quote about it. “Buy land—they aren’t making it anymore.”

If you got spare money you are pressured to invest it, since the inflation will reduce the value. But not everyone is able. Thats where your financial gains are coming through you investments. By people who are not able to invest themself and the cake is getting smaller every year.

Re:Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @01:41AM (#37143260)
I don’t see an answer to the example. How can less restrict construction policy solve the problem that a minority is able to buy all real estates? Unequally is a problem as the word says since power is distributed unequally.
Re:macOS Apps in Rust on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:13PM (#35939998)
It actually is. Fortunately, the quality of apps dropped significantly, allowing these technologies to compete.
What helped me a lot was to regulate my caffeine intake. I consumed way to much, that it wasn’t helping me with my energy levels. Caffeine also takes about 8h until its gone from the body. So it effects your sleep quality as well. Now I usually drink one decaf coffee in the morning (decaf has only about 20% caffeine from normal coffee). When I need to focus on important tasks (like no meeting days or private projects) I drink a coffee and it helps me a lot.
Re:No, React Native is not the future on Sunday January 01, 2023 @07:24AM (#34205764)
If you want to nitpick ofc. in this case its about mobile.
Re:No, React Native is not the future on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:49AM (#34205050)
People don't speak about other approaches. For example my team adopted the BFF (Backend for frontend) pattern. Android and iOS Developers work together on a shared BFF and encapsulate there as business logic as possible. Also we define OpenAPI specs on the BFF to generate data models and API code for the clients. It works pretty good for us.
Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:52AM (#34114899)
Also my favorite, I used to host it by myself but went now for the hosted version. the only improvement I would like, would be better full site scrapping. anyway I mostly consume rss through an api (into reeder).