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iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
Original EnglishWhen I buy a gadget that opens my garage doors, I expect it to last 10-30 years with minimal maintenance.
I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
Original EnglishSmall screens bug some people but after using a 15" macbook pro and a 10" netbook, it normally doesn't bother me.
Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file
Original EnglishI'm using it mainly for auth and for keeping track of paid and free accounts.
I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
Original EnglishAnecdote: A couple years ago I migrated a 1M+ LOC application from one database to another, cutting the cloud hosting costs practically in half.
A database for 2022
Original EnglishThe reason is because I don't want to pay Postgres' startup costs every time I run the tests.
Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
Original EnglishSince that post, we shipped experimental support in our product for Ollama-based local inference.
Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
Original EnglishWe use Nix for reproducible builds and deployments.
Aging programmer
Original EnglishI wrote code, and was paid for it for many years, what interested me was not the code, but the problem we were solving with …
Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code
Original EnglishWe use CAMWorks Professional, which integrates with Solidworks and probably cost us $30K+ per license (between initial purchase and maintenance fees).