danstewart_'s comments

On: Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client

[danstewart_]

I’ve been using Yaak for a few weeks now and it’s great.

I bounce around API clients a lot because the UX just never feels right, they always get in the way or start to feel clunky sooner or later.

With Yaak it feels natural, it’s clean and simple and is a joy to use.

I’m looking forward to seeing it grow and improve further.

I just hope as its feature set grows it can hold on to that simplicity. Hopefully the plugin system can be used to bridge any gaps without overloading the main app.

[gschier → danstewart_]

Yes, that's the goal for the plugin system. The overall interface should not noticeably change from here on out.

On: We were wrong about GPUs

[danstewart_]

I don’t think this comment does justice to fly.io.

They have incredible defaults that can make it as simple as just running ‘git push’ but there isn’t really any magic happening, it’s all documented and configurable.

On: Command line interface guidelines (2021)

[danstewart_]

I tend to go the opposite way and have the default behaviour not actually make any changes and require passing `--commit` to actually do something.

I feel it’s safer for scripts that have irreversible (or difficult to reverse) actions.

[enriquto → danstewart_]

Even safer: your program does never perform any actual deed. It just prints commands that you can run afterwards, using an external program, ideally a shell. This has the advantage of allowing the user to edit all the actions one by one.

Instead of

    myprog           # see what would happen
    myprog --commit  # alright, do it

You do

    myprog           # see what would happen
    myprog | sh      # alright, do it

But if you want to change something:

    myprog > x
    vi x
    cat x | sh

And if you just want to run everything in parallel:

    myprog | parallel -j 16

On: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web

[danstewart_]

I’ve only just started using it but https://solito.dev/ seems to do exactly that.

On: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web

[danstewart_]

I’m new to React Native but I think the main benefit is that it can make a native app instead of just a web view. You can have transitions between screens and use native menus, for example.

Take a look at the 3 videos here: https://solito.dev

Solito is a thin wrapper around React Native and next.js so make it easier to share as much code as possible between the website and the native apps but still have the apps actually behave like native apps.

On: What is the closest to Google Keep but self hosted?

[danstewart_]

You can use obsidian to just edit files on disk and handle syncing yourself (eg. With Nextcloud, syncthing, Dropbox)

On: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

[danstewart_]

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[flashback2199 → danstewart_]

Thanks, I have edited my comment to meet the requirements of the community.

On: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

[danstewart_]

I've got no use for it now but damn this used to be such a pain point in an old job. Looks great!

On: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

[danstewart_]

Do you use firefox? I think by default it uses UTC to prevent fingerprinting.

The site is showing the correct timezone for me on safari.

[jonas-w → danstewart_]

This should only happen when you activate resistfingerprinting iirc

[kseistrup → danstewart_]

Correct, I'm using firefox.

I didn't know about the UTC thing in firefox, usually it will show the correct local time. But now that you mention it, the online booking system for the local vaccination centre shows the time in UTC, too. Recently I actually filed a bug report to their administration because of that.

All other sites I can think of — including https://time.is/ — are showing the correct localtime.

On: Hogmanay

[danstewart_]

A few people telling you that you’re wrong when you’re correct, a lot of Scots (myself included) do not like to identify as British.

Yes, Scotland is within the island of Britain but many of us (though not all) identify as Scottish, not British.

This seems to come up a lot online and I wonder what percentage of people making the corrections are actually Scottish…

[midasuni → danstewart_]

Fairly meaningless. Some do, some don’t. Personal annecdotes are useless as there’s plenty of Scots that identify as British and plenty of Scots that identify as Not British. Hell there’s plenty of people living in Scotland that don’t identify as Scottish.

The census puts is about 2 in 3 as Scottish Only though, not British, which is usable data.

I get the impression the OP is an American. Plenty of people in America believe they are Scottish despite their entire experience of Scotland being a day trip to Edinburgh and some tourist shop selling them a kilt because their great-granddad was born in Aberdeen.