When I was on a trip in the US for vacation, I found out that most of the review services can’t be trusted. Despite good or bad reviews it was a complete lottery. Meanwhile in Poland when a restaurant has a good review online you can actually expect reasonable service and food quality.
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jadamczyk commented on Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
It’s not exactly related to electrical energy consumption, but i’ve been observing huge changes related to what source of heating people use to heat their houses in Poland. The surging natural gas and coal prices caused a lot of people to modernize their heating infrastructure. A lot of people in suburban areas have photovoltaic installations sometimes even exceeding their needs and a whole bunch of people started using heat pumps or air conditioner units to heat their houses.
jadamczyk commented on Ask HN: Which progressive web apps (PWA) do you use, if any? · Posted by u/Flimm
linear app
jadamczyk commented on The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results larskarlsson.com/?p=12026... · Posted by u/ptr
Looking only at excess mortality is pretty shallow. Being European and knowing the differences in health care systems across countries, the excess mortality chart also reflects the quality of healthcare systems in these countries. It isn’t much surprise to see nordic countries being the best here.
jadamczyk commented on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) · Posted by u/zJayv
BetterTouchTools and Karabiner Elements for macOS.
With a swipe of four fingers, I can turn a set of windows into a tiled configuration by "shoving" them where I need to go.
When I press Caps Lock, which I've rebound in Karabiner to F16 and then bound F16+various modifiers to Activate/Hide Application in BTT, I can switch between IntelliJ, Chrome, Figma, Slack, Notion, so fast that I feel like I have 3x as many monitors as I do - which, whether paired with actual monitors or on the road, is absolutely game-changing.
Knowing that I can context-switch immediately and get everything I need on screen, just so, lets me wear a lot more hats than I otherwise could have. There's an argument that I'm able to deliver results at a level as if I had 100 more hours every month!
I used better touch tool for some shortcuts and trackpad gestures, but never fully used it's power. Recently I had a problem that one of my monitors connected somewhat late and all my windows were out of place. Thanks for saving my time mate, the restore window layout thing is truly magical
jadamczyk commented on Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills? · Posted by u/tayo42
Building and selling macOS apps is a pretty good niche to be in right now.
I escaped my stressful corporate job 1 year ago and I’ve been living comfortably since then from app revenue only.
I’m making between $3.5k and $9k per month with https://lunar.fyi/ and the smaller apps I create at https://lowtechguys.com/
It’s not much for some parts of the world. But I’m well enough from this that I even took the time to build a small calendar app (https://lowtechguys.com/grila) from which all the funds will go to my brother’s college costs so he can stop working 12h/day jobs.
Before this I tried creating paid web services but none took off. I realized I actually don’t use any indie web product after 8 years of professional coding. I’m only using web products from big companies like Google, fly.io, Amazon etc.
Desktop apps on the other hand, most that I use and love are made by single developers.
With the ascent of Apple Silicon, and the ease of SwiftUI, this has the potential of bringing a modest revenue while also being more fulfilling than a corporate job.
In case you’re curious how the code looks for something like that, here’s a small open-source app that I built in a single (long) day, which has proven to be useful enough that people want to pay for it: https://github.com/alin23/Clop
I'm a fan of your apps. Huge kudos, especially rcmd is super nice. Use it all the time.
My Airbnb in Portugal experience was almost identical to the one in the article. After some time it happened it got me almost laughing at this point. Fortunately for me I was able to be enough of a pain in the ass to get a full refund from airbnb and a coupon that made the monthly stay discount apply to less than a monthly stay. I had to spend more money in the end anyway. After this I try to avoid airbnb as much as possible.
jadamczyk commented on The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched theverge.com/22727322/wor... · Posted by u/zdw
It gets tons of press and seems pretty meme-y to hate. But mine of 3 years has no problems and I actually enjoy typing on it quite throughly. More than an other laptop keyboard actually. I’m sure there are at least dozens out there just like me…
Honestly I really liked the short key travel and the tactile feel of the butterfly keyboards. The best part is that the one on MBP 13 from 2017 lasted me like 2 years until I had to buy a more powerful laptop. The thing is I like to keep my computer quite clean so maybe that gave a boost to its life expectancy
Good that they went for more less the same setup as in 16 inch model. The escape key and old keyboard switches really do make the difference for me.
But the size of the 16 inch is huge compared to 13 inch. Not too comfy to hold it on my lap when travelling by train. Finally there's an option.
Good that they went for more less the same setup as in 16 inch model. The escape key and old keyboard switches really do make the difference for me.