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Hey, author here. Thank OP for considering my project interesting. Our goal here is to experiment different ideas to capture the underlying structure of type errors. We went through a few iterations up to this day and are going to continue improving on the design, the type inference engine and various integration options. Feel free contact me if you have inquires in the Chameleon project.

Tony Fu [email protected]

I genuinely think platform like brave is in the position to do good things with ads. A few things I have in mind:

First, I want my browser to be upfront about what they are doing. "We monetize through ads distribution." Honestly that won't throw me off. I don't dislike ads. In fact, I used to insist on not running ad-blockers when YouTube started to play ads. "that's how you support internet", I thought to myself at the time. My attitude changes when I realize YouTube is not a great representative for the internet.

Second, I want to see more diverse ads. Not new amazon prime titles, not the same mobile games, not Udemy, not square space, not the same thing over and over. I remember the first few years the ads on podcasts are quite interesting and diverse, and I can even find helpful business and products from the ads. Maybe it is because the entry fee is low so small businesses have a chance to market themselves. And maybe all you need is to write a appealing script instead of hiring professionals to make a Hollywood grade video with celebrities shouting brand names. Unfortunately that dynamics is certainly lost today.

I know I am asking too much as someone who's opinion does not matter at all. But place like Show HN and products hunts kind of give me hope that someday maybe paid ads can become something useful instead of hateful, someday maybe people with good products and honest marketing strategy can have the equal chances to get attention as big players.

I have used exa for a few weeks. It turns out I like it quite a lot. Not that I am a huge fan of colorcode all the file names, but I do enjoy the inclusion of tree output inside exa command. I have `tree` in my disposal for years, but only use it when I need print out the file structure of a project. Now I use `exa --tree --level 2` religiously.

That's a good question. Unfortunately I can't do System76 and Ubuntu guys justice here because I really don't know the work has been done in both distros.

From the user perspective, I would say smoother hardware integration (I download the ISO with NVIDIA proprietary drivers, haven't encountered any graphic card comparability problem), consistent theme across gtk and qt based applications , saner defaults and clearer setting structure, good keyboard shortcuts. There are merely less than a dozen shortcuts that are not found in Ubuntu, but very easy to get used to. like win + up/down to switch between workspace.

I know all these can be accomplished by extensions, add-ons and themes. But they do feel different when it is out of the box and carefully curated.

Nice pick. I think we went down different path in the maze of linux distroes. But I'm glad you find something you find fit. I like KDE base softwares better than gnome based counterparts.

Fair point. I enjoy rolling release model too. Some times I hope Pop!_OS and Elementary were not based on Ubuntu at the first place.

I love Pop!_OS. I have used Gentoo, Ubuntu and Arch in the past 10 years. I ended up with Antergos packaged version of Arch with a bunch of personal tweaks. I tried different distro every now and then but always ended disappointed.

My only needs for distros are to install softwares I use and run them. It turns out to be significantly hard, none of the distros do that without glitches, screen tearing and inconsistency across GUI frameworks. Surely I can tweak them to my liking, but the rabbit hole goes very deep until it comes to a satisfying result.

Pop!_OS is the first OS that stay out of the way, I barely notice the existence of OS, and neither do I want to tweak it, and that is the way I want from a distro. The workspace arranging and switching is a nice touch, making it feel like home for tiling window manager users, coming from i3wm, xmonad or whatsnot.

I don't have any obsession with distros. I want one that works. Pop!_OS provides by far the closest experience I get.

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"Emacs can do the job!", "Emacs is faster than Emacs" "Emacs is faster than Emacs because it runs inside an emacs environment"

This is absurdly accurate I have to say

Thanks, man. That are some good reads.

Thanks man. I have heard a lot of good words of laravel. Will definitely have some experiment with it.

I really enjoy articles like this. In fact if anyone know some high quality resources of modern PHP, please give me some pointers. I am somewhat proficient in programming, and a recent project requires me to work in PHP. I know people in the industry likes to make fun of php's design flaws and quirks, but a few weeks in, I feel it is alright. The community around it are making solid improvements. The only frustrator is that once too often when I search something the top results are all W3C school tutorials from 2004.

I haven't got a chance using ember. But the rancher guys https://rancher.com seem to use ember a lot for their web app. And it looks solid. There's no doubt that ember is capable when it comes to handling complex application.

I like the idea and had some fun play around with OP's website. I like the footnote on not collecting any data. Hope OP get more attraction.

Your website looks sleek. Hope dad joke newsletter business goes well for you.

I like what you said here. Keep a business for 18 year old is a success, and I can only imagine is challenging in many ways, could be boring in few. I have seen greedy consultant companies cutting corners here and there. Caring about backups, security and monitoring is great attitude in my opinion. Keen to hear more story about your venture.

I think yes we are actually over-engineering front-end development at the moment, and I think part of the reason is we are under-engineering on unified standard and toolings in front-end realm. The ever fast progressing in web platform concepts has surpassed the speed of advancements in the platform (mostly browsers) and development environments. Therefore what used to be as simple as an <a href> now could very well be 200 LOC of history state manipulation and observation, what in other programming language is out-of-the box with fresh install or IDE integration is a few hours of webpack config and everyone is different from everyone. In short I think the cause of notorious front-end development is the non-unified status quo. Can't say it is whether a good sign or bad, it may be the price we have to pay to evolve, or maybe we overpaid already.

That has been said. To answer your question, I think if user experience is not high on priority and there isn't much point re-use a lot of UI code, the company is fine with back-end framework and many do. I do believe front-end framework provide many benefits, code re-usability, loose coupling from back-end code, easy for team collaboration, such and such. Company should only switch to them for reasons not the fuzz it generates.

Enpass is great. The desktop and mobile apps are both very clean and easy to use. I tried a few and settled with enpass.

Subscriber here. Thank you for cron.weekly. I really like it and it has been my habit reading it every Monday morning. It is totally understandable that it is not the big scary task that make your brain wear out but the ones require your continuous efforts and time. I hope the the missing of cron.weekly will help remind people of the pressure newsletter writers, bloggers, open source maintainers are facing and the nature of burnt out. Take care

As a person who is not well-versed in front-end technology, it will be great if the author(s) could provide more comparison on the website against some other tools that serve the similar purpose in aspects other than performance. For instance the by comparing the scope the problem each solves, the ideology behind each project, or even a side by side configuration file.