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So you want to write an “app” (2025)

arcanenibble.github.io
143 points·by jmusall·4 bulan yang lalu·74 comments

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jmusall
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
This post mentions https://github.com/wyager/zfs-backup for (offsite) backups. Why would they recommend this over something more established like https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid? Has anybody tried it?
jmusall
·28 hari yang lalu·discuss
There is Mathics: https://mathics.org/

It doesn't cover the full standard library of Mathematica but the syntax is very similar and a lot of functionality is there.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Can you elaborate on how your Forgejo frontend will be different than the default one? I'm asking because I've only ever used GitHub, GitLab and Forgejo for longer periods and Forgejo was the fastest and easiest to use for me.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Refreshing to see competition entering this space.

However, if you want to self-host, not caring for reliability or ease of use: bind9 supports RFC 2136 DNS UPDATE and DNSSEC, too (haven't figured that out yet, though). For my setup I also wrote a small Go executable that translates HTTP requests, because my home router does not talk DNS UPDATE.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
In my humble opinion it was balanced when Google gave traffic to sites and these sites gave good results for Google to show
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
My hopes are high that the EU will be able to do this some day (unless it's fully enshittified first -- see chat control, age verification etc.)
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I've seen good, low-budget indie sci-fi short films that would presumably meet all of the Dogma 25 rules. So I think it doesn't protect against this category of films and neither would that be a good thing anyways. It just requires creative solutions if you want to e.g. portrait space travel.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The comment sections are perfectly fit for this purpose, too.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
HN also decides what you see. Yes, it's (mostly) based on other users' upvotes, but on TikTok et al. its the same just with a different metric (watchtime, interaction, retention and probabily more). Where do you draw the line? Or do you have a different proposal how these generated feeds should work? I don't think just showing content by users you follow is going to cut it, because ideally the purpose is to show new and interesting stuff nobody in your circle was aware of.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Related: https://lilypond.org/

I don't know if you can write drum sheet music with it.

I really like your editor with the transcription view. Maybe a spectrogram would be more helpful than a simple waveform display.
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Fun idea and also I didn't know that websites could get access to my accelerometer data. However for me the sample frequency is 50 Hz which is way too low to measure even the lowest string pitch (E2, about 82 Hz).
jmusall
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Could one mistake this

> Status: Resolved (accidentally)

> Severity: Critical → Catastrophic → Somehow Fine

for a real CVE report?
jmusall
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
How is it partisan political flamebait? While the title and opening paragraph might be exaggerated and not exactly neutral (which is even admitted right after), the rest of the article contains what looks to me like well-researched facts.
jmusall
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Probably not because EUV gets absorbed incredibly quickly by anything other than vacuum. This is why it is created in low density gas, thin liquid or solid samples (high harmonic generation) or electron clouds (free electron laser).
jmusall
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Haven't tried iNaturalist yet, but I love Merlin Bird ID [1] and Flora Incognita [2]. The latter seems to be exceptionally accurate (over 80% up to 98% depending on the dataset) [3]. They also expose an API for "registered external clients" [4], but so far I sadly wasn't able to find any further documentation on it.

A problem I often have with Merlin is that the birds seem to know when I record them, and promptly stop singing...

[1] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

[2] https://floraincongita.com/

[3] https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10676

[4] https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13611
jmusall
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Direct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Canon_EOS_digital_cam...

Not sure why it is a "template".
jmusall
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Of course! I bet there are tons of ideas that didn't make it into Unicode, for better of worse. Where you draw the line is kind of arbitrary. You, personally, can of course opt out of all of that by restricting yourself to ASCII only, for example. But the rest of the world will continue to use Unicode.
jmusall
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The fact is that there were so many character sets in use before Unicode because all these things were needed or at least wanted by a lot of people. Here's a great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about it: https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
jmusall
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Very cool! Do they accept external contributions, e.g. from Norwegian citizens? Also, was there any thought given to "digital souvereignty" (wondering because the repos are hosted on a US service)?

I'm also surprised that you were able to (or expected to?) use your private GitHub account for your work.
jmusall
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I think you could only get around this by forcing your whole dependency chain to only add non-breaking security fixes (or backport them for all versions in existence). Otherwise small changes will propagate upwards and snowball into major updates.