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Every line you delete is a line you no longer need to maintain. We aggressively prune old code in our apps and it has definitely helped with maintainability. For a mobile app it’s also code you don’t ship so that’s a nice bonus which I guess is not much of an argument on a backend codebase
Re:Building a Foursquare Clone on AT Protocol on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:52AM (#44269070)
Wrote up a high level overview on what you would need to build an open source Foursquare clone on the AT Protocol today. Based on what i've learned experimenting with Anchor.
I’m experimenting with adding location data to Bluesky posts. Think Swarm/Foursquare check-ins but federated. This is a roundup on the current state of things.
Re:Fastlane Plugin for Translating iOS Apps on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:35AM (#44086663)
Just released this fastlane plugin to translate your iOS apps. It uses the DeepL api to translate all the languages you have in your Localizable.xcstrings file. I use it to translate my own apps and feel like more iOS devs could use this to have a bigger reach for their apps.
Claude Opus 4 is releasing today it seems. Time story was published by accident and retracted again.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun? on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:40PM (#29640523)
Top notch developer experience; it just works. But when i was building a semi large web app with it a few years back I got quite bored with the amount of cookie cutter code I needed to write. Perhaps the amount of rails type frameworks has progressed enough for that to have become a non issue though.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun? on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:35PM (#29640476)
As a react native developer I can confirm SwiftUI is more fun. Mostly because of the relative simplicity. You just need Xcode or these days an iPad with Playgrounds on it and you can build stuff.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun? on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:32PM (#29640456)
I’m intrigued with Funny. What makes these frameworks funny?
The documentation only has a screenshot of the brands supported. Would be nice to just be able to lookup my car brand and make support in the docs instead of having to make an Auth flow first...
Re:Rust 1.34.0 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:21PM (#19638766)
Huh... Safari on iOS crashes on that page
Re:Show HN: Lima, a Swift-based DSL for responsive iOS development on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:30AM (#18400197)
Did that not turn out to be uikit port to macos?

https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/porting-ios-apps-macos.htm...

* differentiate between backlog and ready for development: (bi)weekly triage * bugs first, then code reviews, then features * order features by priority; PM? Triage as well? * work ready for development list top to bottom

Looks like the tags and keyvals could cover some of that. Maybe a bit hard to express priority (or change it).

Would be neat if changes in the dashboard would update the todos in your code (bit scary though)

Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:39AM (#17380540)
The resale value for a Mac after 4 years can easily be 50% of the original price. With this issue; not so much.
Re:The US startup is disappearing on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:06PM (#17368321)
fixed budgets. works fairly well for most european countries like e.g. germany; https://theconversation.com/how-germany-managed-to-abolish-u...
Postico is great but it does seem to hang/crash with big operations quite often. From my quick tests it does not seem like TablePlus has similar issues which is fantastic.
Re:A quick guide to Stripe’s culture on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:45AM (#14802401)
We had been collecting these internally for a while now. We're working on a product in this space currently so this seemed like a good time to start sharing some of this stuff with the outside world.

We intend to keep curating on high quality full handbooks only but perhaps it's worth thinking about other sub sites or a blog at well at some point.

Glad you like it!

Re:A quick guide to Stripe’s culture on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:30AM (#14794869)
If your interested in how different companies deal with 'sharing' their culture you might enjoy https://handbook.work We have built this recently to start collecting company handbooks, and culture guides like this, as inspiration for writing your own. Or just for the curious.
Re:Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:23PM (#14555319)
Ugh typos, but you got my point :) Are you planning to move beyond programming too (duolingo for learning -anything-) or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
Re:Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:15PM (#14555252)
Just finished the swift course and it leaves me wanting more. I mostly like that I can do a few excercises while waiting for the train to arrive and then just pick it up the next day for a few minutes. Feels a bit like duolingo for learning. Unnoticed some humanities subjects in the store screenshots? Would be cool to do the same treatment for history or more high level concepts in programming like algorithms. Kudos so far!

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