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  • No worries. You can use those sentences in any shape or form, without any need to mention my name. They are released under BSD zero-clause.

    I think it is a bit like clickbaits, but sometimes you need them. Hope you find your way soon and most importantly, enjoy yourself in writing!

  • I created a blog for my app. Roast my blog.
  • Agree with @jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee on intro text. Some tech blogger will make the first few sentences really catchy to keep you scrolling. If in your case, I think what they may do with the "Introducing Decentralized Chat" article will be like:

    Have you ever imagined having a completely private and secure chat app that keeps your messages only in your browser?

    There are already so many chat apps in the market, so why are we building a new one?

    Signal is great, but does it mean that we don't deserve a chat app that is even better?

    (I am trying my best...)

    On the other hand, I see that most of the time when people post on Hacker News, they simply put a link in there and people will watch and comment. I don't have an account myself so can't say I am sure, but would it help generating some traffic as well?

  • Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
  • Not an expert in both the languages but I heard that C developers are trained to use memory smartly, sometimes even reuse a range of allocated memory for completely different purpose to save cycles freeing and reallocating. But for Rust developers, everything is about making sure when one should get the hand away from the memory, and whose memory is allowed to be touched.

    Sounds to me like sharing rides that maximise economically but we may have some oops moments sitting on someone's laps vs absolute private rides to make sure no one in your family will be harmed but we have to make sure everyone gets a car only when needed.

    It is quite interesting to see how it will work out eventually...

  • Is it better to check if a file exists before trying to load it, or to try to load it, and catch the error and move on?
  • I saw long time ago from somewhere saying that handling exception is expensive in terms of stack operations. To avoid the unexpected I guess you should do both, but a check before loading just saves you from unnecessary exception handlings which, if the very first statement is indeed true, would harm the performance.

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
  • RSS works great for me though.

    I have an app on my not-so-smart phone to read news when commuting. It is not a long journey so I just want to have a quick glance at the headlines and read the actual articles that I want to. There are only 6 sites that I am interested, but still will take quite some work to crawl from the proper websites. RSS in turn is unified so I don't need to worry about their website layouts, formats, etc. It also gives me an URL to the actual content which I can use readability/reader mode library to parse and further reduce unnecessary contents.

    Quite the opposite, I hope more informational sites offer/keep RSS! (Some removed RSS typically after a revamp, design change)

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