lakpan

> they're becoming a joke again

Are they? I don’t see it. They’re more profitable than ever and are still extremely competitive in multiple markets.

The arguments against this have been the same for decades: Apple is overpriced, Apple’s product are inferior to competition, and yet here we are with large chunks of the market share and larger chunks of market gains.

Some products are stupid, but it’s not like Steve hasn’t pushed dead products out before.

Warning is not possible, have you seen the amount of spam the web has?

What’s possible though is a better handling of these scenarios. Don’t lock me out of my entire account, but stop the specific service/action breaking the ToS.

Hire a non-metal band to play for you in the room.

The most interesting part of this tool is that it has enterprise features and it’s still free. I mean why. You’re producing a product to handle large amounts of money and you don’t want a cut?

Sorry but your argument makes no sense. The 10LOC/day guy is not to be singled out from the 1000LOC/day people because 1000 LOC could be just as trivial; 1LOC could have taken hours to discover.

So, AppleScript for the web?

Not really. Regular users send links to themselves all the time as a way to bookmark things.

And then something happens and you lose it.

A million editors and you pick the least capable. My go-to is a sublime text window, even if ST is not my code editor.

Why does this feel so relatable?

It’s not generated JS, it’s concatenated JS (plus some glue). Rollup make this clear.

In web extensions you can’t quite use sourcemaps unless you include the sourcemap in the .js file or upload it to your own server

The question is: is the output as good as Rollup? I haven’t seen a bundler that outputs code that isn’t junk that must be minified to be any good.

With rollup, I can just ship it as a web extension and it’s still 100% readable.

It’s called reader view and it’s great. I’ve been wishing additional support for things like comments etc, but yeah I really hope that we’ll soon have an “AI browser” that just extracts what we want from the pages we open.

I’m confident that someone already wrote an extension that does this automatically for every page, and that someone else is writing a Chromium wrapper.

The only thing holding us back at the moment is cost/computing.

I’m in my 30s and resident at my parents house, on a continent I spend 30 days/year on average. My company is registered there even. Most people have a “home” (or mailing address) even if they don’t live there.

> web standards are really a thing now.

Chrome starts a proposal, implements it and “intends to ship” it before anyone really has time to discuss it. Recently (2 months ago?) they introduced a new WebExtension API that nobody cared about nor really understood the need for, but it’s still there, making it look like it’s a “standard”

See, you don’t know how npm works. Npm does not care about the lockfile of dependencies. “Someone checking out my project” always gets the latest version of each dependency within the semver range, until their lockfile locks a version into place.