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This is a really good use case. Maybe there _is_ some "market"* for an app like this.

*: Market as in people who may find it useful, not market as in "I would monetize it", screw that.

Same! Learning that this PWA is "barely useful" on mobile because the lack of background API support sucks :(
This sounds cool, I'll add the small fixes other users recommended me and then ask relatives to use it.
I wholeheartedly agree, it's been the most difficult part to do for me.
I have added the icons in the `manifest.json` file but as you said the are still not showing up, will fix this up later today.

Thank you.

Hahaha, thank you for "quoting the full name".

It's mostly a "toy app / learning experience" at this point, but I'm glad it may provide even the tiniest bit of value to others.

Sadly on mobile seems to be fairly useless due the OS killing the worker, but I'll try to wrap it in a native app.

Yeah, I've got a bit of feedback about it, will remove.

Thanks!

What a great suggestion, and you even made a mockup! That's so considerate of you, thank you so much.

I'll try to implement these UI changes tonight.

I knew I wasn't alone!

:fist-bump:

Yes! I noticed this too, I really want to go with the PWA / open approach, however after a bit more research it looks like the PWA would be barely usable on mobile without their "closed APIs" a native app has :/

Will research what is the thinnest "wrapper" I can use to avoid maintaining 3 different apps.

Show HN: MyTimers.app my first offline-first PWA with zero dependencies

https://mytimers.app/

Hello,For quite some time, I've been unsatisfied with the built-in timers on both Android and iOS; especially for workouts, when I needed to set up a configurable number of series with rest periods in between. That's when I started thinking about building something myself. It was just a timer and I said to myself "how hard could it be?", I had no idea.The first iteration of the project worked...

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Re:All you may need is HTML on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:59PM (#34999271)
SSI is supported by "old battle tested" servers like Apache or Nginx, there's a "new guy on the block" that I find quite promissing: Caddy[0] however it doesn't support SSI, instead they have some built-in template engine that is a bit more powerful than old SSI but can achieve the same result.

[0]: caddyserver.com

Re:All you may need is HTML on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:58AM (#34997304)
100% agree, nowadays for static websites the only thing you need to pay is your domain, if that matters to you.
Re:All you may need is HTML on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:53AM (#34997224)
I never released a production website with SSI before, but I found it when I was searching for a more bare-metal approach to make websites; then I found Caddy's template engine and it's been more than enough for what I need.
Re:All you may need is HTML on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:44AM (#34997070)
HTML + CSS for whitespacing & viewport width + SSI | Caddy's template

That combo is more than enough for almost all the websites out there, I've 3 different sites like that and they are blazingly fast, everything served from a $4 VPS (serving about 20k views per week).

Ask HN: Any Experience with ForwardEmail, Pobox and SimpleLogin?

Hello HNers,I'm looking forward to have more "ownership" of my digital identity, and I want to start by controlling the domain of my e-mail addresses.Been searching possible solutions and I think an e-mail forwarding service is a pretty good middleground, so I can keep my Gmail / Outlook accounts active while also being able to create "identities" on the fly.It has come down to three different...

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I didn't know about this software, I'm currently giving it a shot, I have a tiny bit less than 20k pictures and seems to be working great.

Thank you for the amazing suggestion!

Ask HN: Any good FOSS solutions to organize the family albums?

Hello HN readers, do you have any suggestions on how to organize a few hundred gigabytes of family pictures and videos?Currently I use DigiKam in 1 external HDD + borg in another external HDD and I'm planning to get a Hetzner borg box to get an off location backup too.It's been working ok so far, but I've felt that Digikam is getting slower by the day, also doesn't seem to work fairly well on...

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Re:Tell HN: Signal Is Down Again on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:41PM (#25850195)
I know, but may be worthy to give Matrix a shot.
Re:Tell HN: Signal Is Down Again on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:39PM (#25850161)
According to their status page everything is good so far: https://status.signal.org/
Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:34PM (#21277268)
I'm not "smart enough" to calculate that acurately, but if the "cost per transaction" is high enough to get a couple of articles written about it, I won't participate into that.

I'm more worried about humanity having a future.

Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:55PM (#21276919)
One of the main reasons why I dropped BTC.

"Getting rich" at cost of the environment (extremely high resource consumption)? No thanks, I'd rather leave that world for future generations.

I didn't know about this one, but looks perfect.

Thank you.

Oh well, there it goes...

It's a bummer TBH, I'd need to take a big pay cut to work there.

Thanks for the information.

Where I work at the moment doesn't have a single Ruby application, and it's "corporate enough" that introduce one would be pretty hard-ish.

I can give it a shot with personal projects, but still I don't think it'd be enough experience.

I like the idea that they are "remote focused" and the quality of their product.

I'm not "married" with the idea of working there, as a matter of fact I'm already on the interview process with another company (remote too).

Ask HK: How to get “production level” experience with a new technology

Hello.Recently I've got really interested on working at GitLab, I've started using their products and they are so great, I'd ~rally~ really love to be part of that.However, one of their strict-requirements is: "You have worked on a production-level Ruby application, preferably using Rails (this is a strict requirement)."At the moment I'm a Sr. Software Engineer at my current job, but the stack...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018) on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:04PM (#18357299)
Location: MX / US

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Django, Tornado, Flask, Meteor, Rails, NSQ, Redis, HTML, CSS / SASS / LESS, REST, SOAP, Git, SSH, LXC, Docker, Vagrant, AWS, Nginx, Apache, uWSGI, Puppet, Fabric, Node.js, Webpack, Grunt.js, Gulp.js, React, Angular.js, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Mustache / Handlebars / Spacebars, Heroku, jQuery, Prototype.js, Underscore.js, Ember.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, UNIX / Linux, Windows.

Résumé/CV: Please, email me if interested.

Email: me [at] y3klo [.] com

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