Same here. I self-host it since 3 years and didn't feel the need to change it. A stable application which doesn't have any problems which OP mentioned.
I use it as a PWA on mobile.
I can agree with that. I still use my XPS from 2022 on a daily basis, but I regret it alot.
Battery life and cooling are unbelievably bad, it's a shame when you start thinking about the price.
In Germany or maybe Europe(?) many enterprises use Java for completely new services.
Some reasons I found:
- it's a matured stack with a matured framework (Spring)
- there's already a lot of Java knowledge in the company
- there are already existing services written in Java. Why should the company start to maintain another stack?
- there's a lot of Java knowledge walking outside the company. So hiring is easier.
- it's still taught as one of the first languages at universities.
I've only seen few alternatives for language usage:
- C#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.
- Typescript, but there are still skeptics
Anyway, the number of companies who are adapting other languages like Go or Python is rising.
That's my biased perspective as a Cloud developer working in finance, IIoT. I don't know how it looks like for other areas.
Not me and I don't know if it's small enough to answer your question, but at my university there was someone doing research in the area of locating and navigating visually impaired people in the outside and inside of buildings.
While HCI and indoor navigation is a wide area, visually impaired people have another requirements for UX, navigation hints etc. You need to do things more different.
He said that at the time he was doing research there were maybe 50-60 people worldwide who also published papers in the field.
So, when he went on conferences 2 or 3 times he met everytime the same people. But he also said that it's far easier to do some fundamental research in this field.
Does it also offer syntax highlighting?
One nice thing about Npp is not only the temp files and tabs, but also that it offers syntax highlighting if needed.
Sometimes when viewing a large Json it's nice to paste it in, turn on syntax highlighting and finding the information needed.
+1 for self hosted FreshRSS.
The only feature I'm missing from it is selecting multiple unread entries and marking them as 'read' instead of opening them one by one or marking the whole feed.
Other than that it gives a feeling like using the Google Reader.
And then you also have the books which cost 60€ and aren't even printed in color. I mean it makes sense for ecological reasons, but I can get books for 19€ that are colorized.
It would be a much better reading experience if some boxes would actually show colorized instead of different shades of grey.
Despite of the question being very unspecific I can’t tell you many details about alternatives. But: I think the biggest ones are Quarkus, Micronaut and Vertx. While Vertx defined itself more as a toolkit.
I never had the chance to try some of these for Production systems or for a proof of concept. This would be really interesting, but I think many companies lean towards Spring, because it is matured, has a big ecosystem and community and stays for so long. And all of this although Spring has a bigger footprint.
My experience is: As long as you don't write about something really controversial you won't get negative feedback. Frankly, in the beginning you may not get any feedback at all
So, beside of disabling comments I'd suggest to start writing about something where no one can have really strong opinions. This will give you a good feeling about blogging.
I get sometimes feedback via mail and sometimes hints about bugs in the presented code of a posts. Which I'm really thankful for. Blogging is a great experience and people are really friendly out there. Try it out!
> "The last official WikiReader image was released by Pandigital in 2011. However, there exists an active fork [...]"
> "The latest update was released by this community in June 2021."
Nice to see that a community-backed project can outlive the official one for such a long time and keep it alive.
Shows how good open source can be.
You need to be careful when looking at wasmer.
They build upon the Wasm and WASI standard their own stuff like WASIX.
Running WASIX compatible services/stuff may not be compatible with other WASI runtimes.
Furthermore they do offer their own package manager to serve Wasm modules. Which is why it is published there.
They are doing a lot of effort to speed up the development around Wasm, but you need to know what you can use with your run time and what is the "real" Wasm/WASI standard.
I'm torn between two sides when thinking about lobste.rs
On one side they have imho high quality content. But on the other side they can keep this just because their registration is invite-only.
Which leads to fewer/smaller discussions.
On HN I don't like everything, but I read a lot more discussions even about topics which I'm not interested in.
I agree. Understanding the inner working of languages and their runtimes is IMHO what gets you one step closer to a senior. Luckily, I had in my young career few seniors in the team who knew a lot about Java and shared their knowledge about the behavior.
I worked two years in the field of indoor navigation & positioning and we tried to achieve some of the things you mention in your post at smaller scale
That said: I am impressed by the functionalities you seem to provide as I also know which and how many obstacles lay in this field. Good luck with your goals, I'll definitely not forget about you!
https://dkwr.de/ very small personal website.