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use-browser would be an amazing name too!

given that they are not very partical, how do you make sure to retain what you read? do you take notes?

(asking as someone who only recently started reading cs-related literature)

this is really interesting

but as much as i want to agree with the author’s stance:

> [..] no matter how hard these companies try to sell us on AGI or “research” models, you can just laugh until you cry that they really thought they could steal from the well of knowledge and turn around and sell it back to us through SaaS

i feel like at the end, these companies will still win

That's right. The whole thing is open source -- just, since it's hard to make any money from open source, they made the online editor (which is pretty good BTW)

Yup. I use both LaTeX and Typst (although I prefer Typst when possible) and I haven't used anything other than tectonic for the past few years. It simply has everything you need included, and is pretty darn fast too.

I love how I just downloaded this, and had the wireframe of my app's main screen built within 3 minutes of me knowing about this piece of software

To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Tensorflow which fits in under 15mb.

The feed of your camera is transmitted "directly" to the person you're looking at (well, no, not really directly, it uses WebRTC, so your data passes through Neal's TURN server, but do you really think Neal wants to take care of properly storing your data and handing it off to advertisers?)

I really wouldn't suggest the Elixir + Phoenix stack to someone who doesn't have experience with the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem and functional programming

It is amazing though.

You can actually self host Supabase, that's really the whole point: a Firebase alternative that you can host yourself. Obviously you can use their hosted service as well.

I also noticed that.

Then I remembered: this is just a free and open blog of a very talented writer. I assume this is not his only income, but I think it's justifiable.

Not fully related, but I remember looking at a website of some person two or three years ago, who claimed to be one of the original developers of Firefox, and if I'm not mistaken, in some blog post on his website, he said something about not getting the recognition he deserved for his work? and shared some early source code of Firefox.

I cannot find that person or that blog post, anyone know anything about this?

thank you for making this site! i'm planning on moving to germany after i'm done with my studies and this will be pretty helpful do you have any other resources helpful for expats? (perhaps something more like adjusting to the social life, meeting people, etc) would sure be helpful to put it there

the second I read it I knew it was Greek I have actually thought of using the name for an app before years ago, but it never happened as I thought it's... a bit rude? not sure if this applies when exposing your app to a mostly non-greek audience though

I've never built C++ code for Windows, and I still am quite familiar with CMake.

CMake is dominating across all platforms, sadly