tropshop

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by tropshop 4y ago
I have Apple Silicon but develop on docker x86. The game changer for me was macOS Ventura with rosetta support for linux vms. I use UTM to run Debian 11 ARM. The update-binfmts command is absolutely magical, docker images will happily run b
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by tropshop 5y ago
Remix is a server-side rendering framework focused on pre-SPA web fundamentals like progressive enhancement and minimizing downloading and evaluating JavaScript and CSS assets for lighter, faster pages. Edit: It does in-fact load a JSON pay
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by tropshop 5y ago
Halo Combat Evolved is how I got into software development. It only had LAN multiplayer, but tunneling software on your PC enabled you to play over the internet. That blew my mind in high school and I got heavily involved in the community,
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by tropshop 5y ago
A submission not so long ago made it sound pretty straightforward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26653788
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by tropshop 6y ago
Some time ago I dealt with this exact bug for an e-commerce site with millions of requests per day, and it was also Rails + Unicorn. ANY time ruby 1.8 raised a timeout, it was silently swallowed, and Unicorn returned the adjacent request se
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by tropshop 6y ago
Just getting into this. Do you recommend any particular "dumb" camera devices with a quality stream?
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by tropshop 6y ago
Props on your design + dev execution. I noticed your personal website mentions building products with React Native, but in this thread you mentioned Gentle was built with Flutter. It's been a few years since I took a serious look at mo
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by tropshop 7y ago
This struggle is often referred to as the "Curse of Knowledge" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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by tropshop 7y ago
More likely from developers who hate to identify as developers because developers like to focus on development problems without empathy for the end result.
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by tropshop 7y ago
I have kids and no doubt they have reinvigorated the journey of life. Watching them grow and learn and experience things for the first time brings back that taste of life that grows stale with age. But before you have kids, it is more impor
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by tropshop 8y ago
We suffer from the same problem. If only I had an app that linked to a trust fund that I could redirect people to. There is a weird social pressure to always show up to a kid party with a gift. I'd rather all those $20-$50 gifts go rig
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by tropshop 8y ago
The pendulum swings back and HTML/CSS make a major come back as digital natives look to create without giving up data ownership.
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by tropshop 8y ago
So does this make it trivial to input a source portrait, and then visualize different hair styles?
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by tropshop 8y ago
I'm not sure why the content is lazy loaded on scroll. Extremely jarring, can't skim, can't estimate the length of the article. Closed tab.
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by tropshop 8y ago
Front-end devs need to first master the vanilla tools, then reach for the frameworks once they understand the why. I'd like to see a build tool that focuses on plain HTML, CSS, and ES6 modules. It takes the input .html file, parses the
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by tropshop 8y ago
Both you and the parent seem to assume that there is this clear boundary between gathering requirements, and implementing the solution. The hard part is accepting that this is an ongoing cycle and that you need to find ways to build inertia
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by tropshop 8y ago
I've been a mint user and YNAB customer with all bank accounts linked, but neither turned out to capture me. I've had some interesting ideas and conversations about budgeting and influencing purchase habits, so I looked into gett
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by tropshop 8y ago
> built almost exactly the same thing in 2009 (at the peak of 'hyperlocal' hype) In 2009, there was around 25 million smart phone users. We will close out this decade close to 3 billion. That is half the world with a geo-locati
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by tropshop 8y ago
You might be interested in https://markojs.com I used it a few years ago and one of my favorite aspects was using primarily for generating templates server side, and only upgrading to a client component when things became more c
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by tropshop 8y ago
> Finding senior rails devs is harder than it used to be though, hands-down. Money talks. I'm sure you can find someone in no time if you advertise $500k in compensation. Most employers balk at that rate, so most of the talent take
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by tropshop 8y ago
Meanwhile, "Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge" is about the hit the 3rd page with 157 comments and only 3 hours old... I guess anything Ruby is old news on HN
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by tropshop 8y ago
We avoid Webpack/Parcel and NPM dependencies entirely. I understand that convenience wins for most people, but it comes with a cost. Dependencies are magically stitched together with limited developer insight, arbitrary 3rd party code
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by tropshop 8y ago
React ecosystem heavily encourages the use of build tools dependent on NPM package management. Vue users are more likely to bypass NPM. They are often on-boarded with the gentler approach most familiar to those who "sprinkle in some jQ
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by tropshop 8y ago
Care to share your Instagram username? I don't see anything in your profile, but I am interested in the niche community/local business space, and how to drive customers to those places that I am proud to recommend.
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by tropshop 8y ago
> learning to know when to make something run flawlessly, and when to make it just... run. Or learning that user has a very different meaning of flawless, and that is almost always the more important definition.
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by tropshop 8y ago
> A 10x engineer isn’t someone who is 10x better than those around them, but someone who makes those around them 10x better. This makes things even more confusing. What do we call the former, then? 10x individual contributors are absolut
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by tropshop 8y ago
If I walk away in the middle of an unsolved problem, it persists in the back of my mind and is mentally exhausting. I won't be able to sleep or let go of the problem; only potential solutions race around my mind. However, if there is a
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by tropshop 8y ago
I'm not sure how the licensing works, but would it be possible to allow guest users to act as a "speaker" - and only require Spotify Premium when upgrading to DJ features? If I have a group of 100 people in a similar physical
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by tropshop 8y ago
I was hoping this was an entity for independent software developers to group together to have access to health, dental plans, maybe a network to find bookkeepers, lawyers, etc. Seems like there is a greater movement towards the freelance ec
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by tropshop 8y ago
Care to share a link? I’m interested in community software and how the market will evolve to serve these groups.

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