Hacker News·4yTailwind CSS v3.0 – Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here, bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features. Every color out of the box, including all of the extended palette colors like cyan, rose, fuchsia, and lime, and fifty shades of grey gray. Colored box shadows for fun glow and reflection effects, and more natural shadows on colored backgrounds.
Hacker News·4yDefensive CSS
Defensive CSS is a collection of snippets that can help you in writing CSS that is protected. Oftentimes, we wish that there was a way to avoid a certain CSS issue or behaviors from happening. This is built upon an article I wrote a while back called “The just in case mindset”
Hacker News·4yWeb3 is going just great
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Hacker News·4yMy Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
After 12 years in the corporate world, I am ecstatic that I have finally attained my goal. This article is about the nuts and bolts of my journey in case anyone else finds it useful in charting their own course. There are many steps in my journey that would be hard or impossible for others to replicate. But there are others that you would find more useful and applicable in your own life.
Hacker News·4yPico.css • Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
Large and complex CSS file increase memory usage and cause longer style calculations. A great design should be minimal, fast and maintainable. Most popular CSS frameworks are bulky, overkill and hard to customize. Huge stackings of wrappers and CSS classes are unnecessary for semantics elements.
Hacker News·4yTwitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “Worst thing we did”: it affected users and developers
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO until recently, has been highly active this week on the social network, but not about it, but about the future of the web. Dorsey has criticized the idea that web3 will be decentralized (as opposed to Web 2.0, which was centralized in the hands of large platforms and social networks), claiming that we do not own web3.
Hacker News·4yTen Years of Logging My Life
Chronofile is an Android app that tracks a person's daily activities. The app is open source and available on GitHub. Over the past four years, it has logged 85,000+ activities over the span of a decade. The data is endlessly fascinating to sift through, but it also tells a personal story.
Hacker News·4ylapce/lapce: Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
Lapce is written in pure Rust, with UI in Druid. It's using Xi-Editor's Rope Science for text editing, and using Wgpu for rendering. The code editor is lightning-fast and powerful, written in Rust. It has a built-in code editor that can edit any text in any language.
Hacker News·4yjesseduffield/lazygit: simple terminal UI for git commands
A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library. Binary releases for Windows, Mac OS(10.12+) or Linux, you can download a binary release here. The lazygit formula can be found in the Homebrew core to get the frequently updated one.
Hacker News·4yMy productivity app is a single .txt file
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file. Every night before I go to bed, I take all the items on my calendar for the next day and append it to the end of the text file as a daily todo list. Here's an example with names replaced so you can see what it looks like when I move a day's schedule from my calendar.
Hacker News·4yI blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business
I started a business that lets you build websites using pen & paper. I went viral on Twitter, made $1,000 in two days, and blew $720 on 100 paper notebooks from Alibaba. I'm a man who once bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan, but the idea of building a website from a piece of paper seemed a bit strange.
Hacker News·4yLinux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It
74 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are in "Gold" or "Platinum" status. That means the game should work "out of the box" with no modifications. The quality of Proton is a matter of ever-increasing importance as we creep closer to the February 2022 launch window for the Steam Deck.
Hacker News·4yDeno joins TC39
Deno has joined ECMA International, the standards organization that is responsible for the JavaScript standard (ECMA-262) We will be pushing for features and improvements to the language that benefit everyone, but especially users of server-side JavaScript. If you have suggestions of features or improvements that could make JavaScript better, please email me at luca@deno.com.
Hacker News·4yFrom Node to Ruby on Rails
Rails is a Ruby-on-Rails framework that was developed by Paul Graham in 2005-2012. Graham is building a web app for a new side project using the framework. He says that learning to code in the current Javascript ecosystem makes discovering Rails a revelation. He also says that he can focus more on learning useful patterns to create with the framework vs. how to set it up.
Hacker News·4yThe Web3 Fraud
Web3 is only about adding an additional layer of complexity in the name of justifying the underlying cryptocurrencies. The web browser is augmented with a cryptocurrency wallet and part of the computation and storage is shifted from my server to the decentralized cryptocurrency infrastructure. When a user wants to use my service they will pay some amount of cryptocurrency to perform the cryptocurrency-side computation.
Hacker News·4yEasily run Windows software on Linux with 🍷 Bottles! ⋅ Bottles
Bottles introduces a new way to handle Windows prefixes using environments. Environments are a combination of ready-to-use settings, libraries and dependencies.Choose between Gaming and Software environment based on the type of software you want to start. Empowered by environments you can create your own applications.
Hacker News·4yDatabases in 2021: A Year in Review
It was a wild year for the database industry, with newcomers overtaking the old guard and vendors fighting over benchmark numbers. We also had to say goodbye to some of our database friends through acquisitions, bankruptcies, or retractions. Here are some of the highlights and a few of my thoughts on what they might mean for the field of databases.
Hacker News·4ysupabase/supabase: The open source Firebase alternative. Follow to stay updated about our public Beta.
Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We’re building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools. You can sign up and start using Supabase without installing anything. We are currently in Public Beta. Watch "releases" of this repo to get notified of major updates.
Hacker News·4yUbisoft Deleted Account With Hundreds Of Dollars’ Worth Of Games For Inactivity
The account in question had been inactive for more than a year when the owner decided to take a break from gaming. When he decided to get back into gaming in summer 2021, he found that he was unable to login to his Ubisoft account. He was able to reset his password but later discovered that the account itself had been closed and permanently deleted along with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games.