indiantinker's comments

On: CSS Grid Areas

[indiantinker]

Superb article. Things are so clear. MDN/W3C should hire him to do this for many web concepts.

On: Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Tea...

[indiantinker]

Hate teams! I have heard many friends quit companies as they could not stand using teams after companies abandoned slack to jump on the free teams bandwagon. They had to hire Microsoft experts to manage the IT infrastructure which was just auto-managed before Microsoft sold them the stack.

[mikestew → indiantinker]

I have heard many friends quit companies as they could not stand using teams

I could believe that one might have a friend that is privileged enough (and petty enough) to quit over such trivialities. But “many”? Color me…skeptical.

[vundercind → mikestew]

I’ve moved to a place with it and if they’re remote workers, I could see it. It’s really bad for remote work, in the sense that it simply discourages effective chat communication patterns for teams (yes, Teams is bad for teams). I could absolutely see that getting bad enough that someone would leave, largely because the tools the company selected were wrecking communication and making everything miserable.

[swozey → mikestew]

At the height of Covid I know a bunch of companies that started using Teams to effectively monitor their employee idle time at PCs. Teams had a much more robust admin/usage reporting system. That's when those little mouse jigglers started showing up all over Amazon to keep your machine from appearing idle.

I'm in a decent amount of engineering social channels and while I never heard someone leave specifically for that i could see it. I absolutely saw people not take jobs because of it.

Which, considering all of the layoffs and how the markets going now, I miss having that power.

[miked85 → mikestew]

I don't think it's all that petty. Teams is really bad, and if you have to deal with it daily, time to find another job.

[badgersnake → indiantinker]

Writing the messages on sandpaper and transporting them via my back passage would be more pleasant than using teams.

On: Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

[indiantinker]

Wow! What if Apple decided to stop operating in EU altogether ?

[xvector → indiantinker]

The EU would rapidly collapse if US big tech pulled out. It actively prevents the development of a flourishing tech industry.

[postalrat → xvector]

Nah, there would just be more Androids phones sold.

[Aloisius → postalrat]

Google's Android?

On: One Knuckle Rice Rule

[indiantinker]

Sticky rice is tricky as if you need good texture, you must steam it. Here is a good guide : https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-sticky-rice/

On: One Knuckle Rice Rule

[indiantinker]

Thanks for the correction. It has been reflected on the article. I meant, Basmati (Indian)/ Jasmine (Thai)

On: Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple sta...

[indiantinker]

They might not get Ddos protection because Shirky principal. Institutes further problems they are meant to solve

On: Show HN: Google Sheets as backend for React apps

[indiantinker]

You can do it directly using just 'google-spreadsheet' npm package. I built this[1] mini-HR portal using that. 95+ lighthouse score :) [1]: https://www.wildcardjobs.com

[haxzie → indiantinker]

This is pretty cool. Quite similar to the solution I have posted. The actual benefit comes when you use it for other APIs, because the app allows you to setup access control rules over individual endpoints, so that you can expose endpoints to frontends and no-code apps without worrying about security.

On: Why Tailwind CSS Won

[indiantinker]

I do layouts in barebones CSS and elements styling in Tailwind. Works for me.

On: Reflections of an Employee

[indiantinker]

Totally! Thanks for your comment.

On: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host ...

[indiantinker]

I have several cron jobs running on https://www.deta.sh/ . Its free and works well.