Yes. It is absolutely possible.
We have been including for more than 10 years a pure C web server on some of our apps that is currently 100% compatible for both Android and iOS
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snadal commented on Gumroad’s source is available github.com/antiwork/gumro... · Posted by u/philipjoubert
I would be happy if I could search my previous ChatGPT conversations! :)
snadal commented on Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be tedium.co/2024/09/08/smar... · Posted by u/shortformblog
Still, never saw it on the European operators I have used thus far, or on any of my trips outside Europe, while using devices bought directly without any operator contract.
You can see this today with some eSIM providers.
I’ve just travelled outside Europe one month ago and tethering could not be enabled until I changed to a different provider on an iPhone 15 without carrier contract.
snadal commented on Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool github.com/Stirling-Tools... · Posted by u/gitinit
Probably for the same reason there aren't any OpenSource comparables to Word, Excel, Outlook, Autocad, Quickbooks, or any other flagship productivity software
Not the same thing.
- Libreoffice can edit Word and Excel files.
- There are several tools to read a PST file. Anyway… pst files are not commonly being shared with other people so the need to accessing it is uncommon unless you already use outlook.
- Autocad and Quickbooks are far less used (less people) than PDF.
I also wonder why there are no more tools to edit PDF files. Maybe licensing issues?
Edit: formatting
snadal commented on Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs github.com/OnedocLabs/rea... · Posted by u/AugusteLef
May be this is just me but this looks extremely costly to me! It will cost $2,500 to generate 50,000 PDFs. Are edits/corrections additional cost?
I second this. Maybe I'm missing something in the value proposition, but we already generate PDFs from .docx/.html templates using open source libraries and Docker microservices.
Do not misunderstand. A Stripe for generating PDFs can be great, but for a small team, $0.50/PDF is way more than I can afford (after all, you can create a small number of PDFs without too much fuss). Maybe you are oriented towards large companies?
snadal commented on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language github.com/flydelabs/flyd... · Posted by u/gabigrin
Thanks!
Flyde is "just" a library behind the scenes, so you grab your .flyde file, and can run it with an npm package. For example:
``` import { loadFlow } from "@flyde/runtime";
const execute = await loadFlow("./celsius-to-fahrenheit.flyde");
const inputs = { celsius: 0 }; // "celcius" is a main input in the flow, therefore it must be provided when executing the flow const { result } = execute(inputs); // execute returns a "result" promise, along with a cleanup function that can be used to cancel the execution.
const { fahrenheit } = await result; // each output in the flow is a property on the result object
console.log(fahrenheit) ```
(taken from https://www.flyde.dev/docs/integrate-flows/)
But your comment strengthens my feeling that making this more intuitive and discoverable and is indeed something I should prioritize
Nice! I definitely will try it :)
snadal commented on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language github.com/flydelabs/flyd... · Posted by u/gabigrin
Nice work, congrats!
I do love visual programming and I use n8n a lot for my side projects. I really like its "delayed debug" features, so that I can analyse each step of the flow weeks later than it happened (i.e, I can see why a webhook failed long ago and even replay it step by step).
One missing feature that I've been working on is a "export workflow to code" feature. This way, once you are finished working on a workflow, you could run it everywhere without the need of installing the full IDE.
Again, nice work!
snadal commented on Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source) github.com/jasonjmcghee/r... · Posted by u/jasonjmcghee
Surprisingly this is something that I have been thinking on for the whole 2023.
I myself am really bad at documenting findings while doing research or bugfixing so I started at recording all my daily activities for both replaying research sessions and also for my future me in case something is not clear in the docs.
Then I knew rewind and I was happy to know that I am not alone. This REM is the confirmation that this definitely has great use cases :)
I’d rather prefer the recording phase to be as lightweight as possible so I am recording the full mp4 video and plan to re-encode at a lower rate at night. But there is a compromise between recording quality and file size, I do not want end up with several Petabytes of videos.
What codec do you recommend for this use case? Lossy video codecs usually are very efficient for real images (just like the comparison between jpg/png) and I am sure a video format that is PNG based should be more efficient in space while preserving text quality.
I am very interested in read your thoughts about this.
Anybody who interacts with writing or images in the course of his work will be impacted. Which is to pretty much everybody. Maybe hairdressers are exempt.
Actually hairdressers will probably be impacted also because people would like to see how they will look like after their haircut :)