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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
Original EnglishThat said, I wouldn't recommend record/replay for Gmail, for example, so I do believe they meant smaller and simpler ones.
Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
Original EnglishBecause I am sure user experience will decrease massively because of the increased Windows 10 requirements.
Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
Original Englishbut in this case product and business decided it was the only way to move forward because the system was in maintenance hell and it …
Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
Original English$10k saved on every house is $big profit.
Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
Original Englishbut for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with …
Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
Original EnglishOn my servers, for example (which are typically running OpenBSD or some GNU/Linux distro), I'm at least somewhat-okay with backwards-compatibility breaking (within reason) if it …
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Original EnglishI tested it with Unity and the C# support is fantastic.
Two years of Rust
Original EnglishI branched but _before_ I deployed that still has an invocation of the old name. …
Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers
Original EnglishI realize it's just programming, but it's programming that I don't trust myself to do in a way that's reliable and secure.