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Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Original EnglishWe switched my grandmother-in-law over to Linux last year and the amount of support calls I've had to do has dropped to 0.
AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
Original EnglishI found it to be much faster cold start times (about 100ms for me) and much faster runtime (< 10ms) than Node.
Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
Original EnglishAs long as the device keeps working with the last firmware, then that's basically what I paid for, anyway.
App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
Original EnglishWe decide every byte that gets included, and manage to score 100% on all page speed tests.
A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
Original EnglishWe wrote a lot of "feature requests" that were really bug reports."
Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
Original EnglishAll the adaptations to avoid running Linux also often don't work identically to the real thing (i.e. VM CPU & memory allocation vs.
Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
Original EnglishAnnoying, but I'd rather find this out at compile-time than runtime.
Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps
Original EnglishAnd, when I deployed it to AWS, even after using PackageCompiler I wasn't getting instant server responses (I'm assuming I did something wrong here though).
Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
Original EnglishBut at the same time, every application I developed was a little easier than the previous one, for four reasons.