I only remember Atom being painfully slow. It was using Electron too btw.
At the time it was actually called "atom shell" iirc. Electron came from Atom.
Readit NewsCitrusFruits commented on You can now disable all AI features in Zed zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-f... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
CitrusFruits commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma
I can do better than that. Uninstall it.
It's a 600 MB app and you can log back in using only the iOS password manager. Reinstall it when you need to use it.
I think the 600MB part actually makes it harder to only install again when you need it.
I had a bad manager at a previous job, although they were just more incompetent than actively trying to micromanage.
I managed to get onto another team by making connections internally. I think showing initiative, interest, and promise to another tech lead or manager in their area could go a long way.
That being said, even after switching teams I eventually left for another job and took a big pay cut for it, but was totally worth it for my sanity.
I support the general idea here but just because something is in a browser doesn't mean it's a good formalism.
Notably, Web Components. They're fantastic for distributing components - after all, a Web Component will work in every framework (even React, the IE of frameworks, finally added support), or even in vanilla HTML. So you can build a component once and everybody can use it. It's fantastic.
But for internally composing a web application, Web Components are simply awful. They add nearly no helpful features that vanilla JS doesn't already have, and they add bucketloads of extra complexity. You got attributes and properties, and they're mostly the same but kinda not always and oh by the way, attributes can only be strings so good luck keeping that in sync. You got shadow DOM which is great for distribution but super restrictive if you want any sort of consistent global styling (and a total pain in devtools, especially once you go 10 levels deep). You can turn that off, of course, but you gotta know to do that. And plenty more quirks like this. It's just.. It makes lots of easy things 5x harder and 1 hard thing 1.5x easier. Totally not worth it!
If you really want to not use a big clunky framework, but at the same time you have a complex enough app that composition and encapsulation is important, you'd be much better off just making your own object hierarchy (ie without extending HTMLElement), skipping all that awkward web component luggage and solely doing what they do best (tie an object to an element).
Or, better yet, get over yourself and just use a framework that does this for you. Your future self will thank you (and your colleagues even more so).
ps. rant time: If only the web browser people had gotten off their high horse and not proposed the word "Web Components"! If they would've just been named "Custom Elements", which is what they are, then we wouldn't have had 5+ years of people mistaking them for a React competitor.
I remember when web components first came out and there was some hype around them, and just being really confused on what they're actually good for. I think it's really telling that since web components came out there's never been a popular framework, website, or company that has heavily leveraged them.
How do you think people NOT paid by the population feel about the idea of continuous surveillance, the potential for misinterpretation and huge impact on their lives? I suspect your discomfort and that of others in positions that create these types of environments is a feature, not a bug.
A lot of politicians are against surveillance too, they just get outnumbered. I think it's an unfair assumption to assume the parent comment is for surveillance legislation, especially if they're someone who frequents HN and are therefore more likely to be technically literate.
I think the missed a big opportunity with this kick starter by not offering people anything meaningful when they back it. They easily could've included people's names in a credits in an app as a reward, or made some fun limited edition stickers or phone cases that can be produced for cheap. Right now the kick starter is just basically a donation page.
That all being said, they've raised $57k so far so good for them.
(Edit: spelling)
I think readers of hacker news That find the original post interesting might enjoy this as well:
It's a different product for a different market, but a really cool idea and the people who have been working on it are super smart.
CitrusFruits commented on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance trae.ai/home... · Posted by u/Lermatroid
Can someone please do some security research on this to see what it sends when it calls home?
I'm terrified to install a binary like that
If you want the same thing but not as sketchy you can check out Cursor. You pay them, so it's a little more transparent what they're getting out of it.
CitrusFruits commented on Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud? · Posted by u/cedws
Prometheus on a decent digital ocean box? A $20/mo vps will handle that load easily, though you may need to buy extra storage depending on data shape.
If you're considering a VPS I'd also check out Hetzner. They only have Germany and Finland locations, but if latency isn't an issue (or if you're in Europe) you can get really good prices there.
CitrusFruits commented on Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud? · Posted by u/cedws
I know you said preferably Postgres based, but influxdb has strictly usage based pricing so that might be worth a look. Also you're an open source project and have tight budgetary constraints sometimes you can always ask for a discount, the worst they can say is no.