Hacker News·4yYes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
A new set of APIs give your browser the power to control CSS via its own Object Model in Javascript. This means that you can make custom CSS styles, add custom properties, and so on. The CSS Paint Worklet5 allows you to 'paint' on an element, and have the browser treat it as an image in CSS.
Hacker News·4yGoogle Search Is Dying
Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don't know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.
Hacker News·4yWhy is LinkedIn so cringe?
The LinkedIn newsfeed is full of cringe-worthy content. The site’s setup forces everyone on the site to wear the professional “CV mask” LinkedIn is basically tied to your identity and your identity is tied directly to your resume. I think the cringe is due to 3 factors: The personality, what LinkedIn asks you to be and the customer.
Hacker News·4yI quit my job to make free web tools
I quit my job to make free web tools. Of all the side projects I've done over the years, most failed, with only two standing the test of time. I'm optimistic that it should be possible to grow to €4000 ($4600) revenue with €3000 ($3450) pre-tax profit.
Hacker News·4yWriting an OS in Rust
This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language. Each post is a small tutorial and includes all needed code, so you can follow along if you like. The source code is also available in the corresponding Github repository. Latest post: Async/Await.
Hacker News·4yCareer Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never ignore a recruiter
Recruiters are just cold calling. They don’t care who you are — you’re just 10% of your first year’s salary. The obvious adaptive response that I suspect the vast majority of us use is to roll our eyes and ignore them. No one ever explained to me that recruiters are also one of the best career resources you can find. Who better to be completely honest with about what you want from your career?
Hacker News·4yPHP: The Right Way
PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards. It links to authoritative tutorials around the Web and what the contributors consider to be best practices at the present time. This website aims to introduce new PHP developers to some topics which they may not discover until it is too late.
Hacker News·4yWhy I Quit Shopify After Five Months
I decided to start interviewing for Senior Frontend Engineer positions in the Summer of 2021. During the process, I had interviews with a FANG-ish company, an early-stage startup, and Shopify. Most of the interview questions were frontend (React) focused. I received bittersweet news in late August that I did get an offer but I'd be downleveled from senior to mid.
Hacker News·4yIs Grammarly a Keylogger? What Can You Do About It? · Kolide
Grammarly offers a variety of products under their branding. If I want to use Grammarly, the options include: A web-based document editor or extension. A custom install mobile keyboard (for iOS or Android) An app running as an app on your device on your OS.
Hacker News·4ya free YouTube client
The application is open source and you can check on it at GitHub. Do you like watching videos on YouTube but want an intuitive, feature-rich and privacy friendly app for that? NewPipe has the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
Hacker News·4yHow a Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
Citizenship is the first to provide a. powerful new form of a powerful new. form of security that allows the kind of surveillance that allows. just a few years to be captured. The finding, computer code left by the. attack, provided direct evidence of the weapon of the. weapon, rather than deleting itself, after stealing the.
Hacker News·4yAndroid 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
Android & web developer “kdrag0n’ tested several Linux distributions compiled for Aarch64 on the Pixel 6 with Ubuntu 21.10, Arch Linux Arm, Void Linux, and Alpine Linux using “the KVM hypervisor on Pixel 6 + Android 13 DP1” He/she further explains: “As far as I can tell, we can pretty much get full EL2 on production devices now”
Hacker News·4y'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments, says Gabe Newell
Valve president Gabe Newell says Bitcoin is "a complete nightmare" Newell: "A lot of the actors who are in that space are not people you want interacting with your customers" "We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option," he says.
Hacker News·4yThe Fastest GIF Does Not Exist
GIFs have an optional "delay" value which determines how long that frame should be shown before moving on to the next one. The value can be set from 0 (no delay) to 0xffff (roughly a 10 minute delay) None of the programs that you'd typically be viewing GIFs with support 0 delay.
Hacker News·4yWhy I will never buy another Samsung device
The Samsung foldable phone broke after just 3 months of use. The phone was sent to Samsung for repairs. Samsung claimed the phone was damaged by a mechanical impact, such as a fall, bending or excessive pressure. The repair bill was 304,000 €. The owner of the phone framed the phone to remind him of the rejection.
Hacker News·4ygristlabs/grist-core: Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.
Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet. It combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data and make you more productive. Full Python syntax is supported, and the standard library. Many Excel functions also available. Grist Labs offers a hosted service at docs.getgrist.com.