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I love Arc for the vertical sidebars and the spaces features. Zen browser is NOT the same. None of the other alternatives are the same. I hate the fact that Arc isn't open source, and it will now die. Am I the only one?

Has anyone successfully used Apple's Self Service Repair Store recently? I've tried ordering a battery replacement kit and toolkit for an iPhone 13 mini this week. Despite multiple attempts using different credit cards (Visa and Amex), browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), and accounts (mine and my spouse's), each transaction was declined due to an "information mismatch" at the bank's end.

I confirmed with both banks that all entered information is correct, and they have no issues processing the transaction if submitted properly. They even ran test transactions using the exact information I provided, confirming that they would approve the transaction if submitted correctly. This suggests the issue lies with the repair store's payment processing.

Has anyone else faced similar issues? Is this program still functional for consumers? I reached out to their support and was told that I can pay for just the battery via PayPal, but I am not able to rent a toolkit via PayPal. And they refused to help me any further.

Is it me or them?

I just listened to several CS heavy interviews with Lex and several guests. Knowing nothing about the host I would have assumed that he has no higher education at all, let alone a Ph.D. in CS from MIT. Am I wrong?

As far as I am concerned he lucked out because someone got him into MIT and he lucked out the second time because he got on the Joe Rogan podcast. The rest is history. But I was just amazed how dumb the man sounds on his own podcast and the quality of guests he gets.

I'll be honest, I am probably jealous, but damn, I almost think like his podcast has negative value. Every time his guests speaks I get smarter, every time he speaks I just get angry that someone this dumb got this lucky.

Edit: Typo + It turns out that Lex actually has a PhD from Drexel University, not MIT, as pointed out by slater.

Every year I work on many different projects, from design, to coding, to 3D design, to personal projects. My usual model currently is to create folders for each project and after I am done with them file the folder in some kind of logical tree structure.

But, let's say I have a project that involves an ESP32 micro-controller and a specific client. Sometimes I want to list all my projects that are related to ESP32, sometimes I want to list all the projects that relate to a specific client, and sometimes I just want to list all the projects that I started in 2020, or any other given year.

I know tags would work well for this task, but tags are not very portable, and once you have several dozen tags it becomes unwieldy. Are there any other organizing solutions out there that you use.

My ideal solution would be to put a PROJINFO.md file inside each project folder and have some kind of system that would allow me to search the contents of the PROJINFO.md files, but instead of giving me a list of those files it would return a list of containing directories.

But, perhaps there is an even better solution that you could suggest. The goals are:

1. Portable System that can be stored on ExFAT drive, if need be. 2. Ability to search for projects by different attributes or tags. It's fine if I have to go through all my past projects and tag them or create INFO files in them. 3. Some kind of tool with UI would be nice, but CLI is ok too, as long as the system can work on Mac and Linux (Win would be nice too).

Any recommendations or maybe just a wholesale different approach to achieve the same result?

And leave the API open. Thanks!

I am looking for a good stack for a simple web app that I am planning to build as a side project. I would like to find an option that would allow me to build the app as a single binary that can run as a server, serve my app, and also run the API for it.

Basically think Transmission or Resilio Sync, both of which are written in C. I am pretty good with C, but would rather try something new while working on this side project.

My priorities are:

1. Small Compiled binary size. 5-20mb is reasonable, larger is NOT.

2. Dependency free binary, statically linked and self contained.

3. Low memory footprint.

4. Scalable to large number of clients.

I would love to work either in Swift or TypeScript, but those don't appear to be viable options. Please correct me if I am wrong, especially when it comes to Swift.

Go and Rust are my top contenders at the moment. Any other languages I should consider? Any specific stacks that you liked in the past?

PS: I am well aware of many ways to package JS code, Python code, etc, but those options are neither dependency free in practice or particularly size and memory efficient.

We are working on an app right now. It needs to have a calendar and scheduling functions, but it’s not the main function of the app, and we would rather just drop in a configurable component rather then code it from scratch. The app is PWA, with React front end and NodeJS backend.

Any recommendations? Ideally we are looking for something that would allow us to store data in our own DB and also would be nice if it has a drop in front end for react.

Hi all. I am developing a hardware product that I want to be able to configure via a web interface. I need to keep the costs and power consumption down, however. What kind of CPU would you recommend that can run a minimum stack necessary for a web admin interface. Maybe something like what routers use. Any suggestions for an inexpensive stack that's NOT Raspberry PI or similar.