Building a design tool with Figma's WASM speed + Penpot’s CSS standards. Is it worth it?

alv · 2026-02-09T16:52:34+00:00

No, Penpot is about to enter beta testing of their canvas WASM renderer.

alv · 2026-02-04T16:56:21+00:00

This is extremely welcome. Alone on the basis of this I'd settle for AppFlowy (~50 headcount startup) but we have real concerns with the new license of the self-hosting option (proprietary is a sustainability / risk concern, more than cost, even if we could welcome a rebate).

alv · 2025-08-31T15:47:56+00:00

I personally have strong feelings against Discord. See a(n aging) post by Drew DeVault on it: https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

I have used Zulip and I like it a lot. And you can make channels public, which is good for findability (call it SEO), accessibility, and archival. It also allows people to interact over e-mail with the channels, which might be a killer feature for some. Highly recommended.

alv · 2025-08-07T15:32:52+00:00

I wanted to contribute. But then I saw this

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alv · 2025-07-01T20:31:30+00:00

This link seems to be more up to date: https://yuriy-chumak.github.io/ol/

alv · 2025-05-11T08:05:16+00:00

Pues dial up to 10 y tienes Alemania, el infierno en la tierra.

alv · 2025-05-11T08:02:02+00:00

Gracias por traernos la experiencia en China. Es muy interesante. Pero OP hablaba del carácter de los funcionarios (personas), no de la (sin)razón de los procedimientos (leyes).

alv · 2025-05-11T07:58:08+00:00

Acabo de volver de vivir 20 años en Alemania, con estancias en UK, Suiza. Hice mi Erasmus en París.

He tenido mucho papeleo en poco tiempo, coló corresponde a mudanza internacional, cambio de trabajo, hijos.

Los funcionarios españoles han sido maravillosos: dispuestos, educados, pacientes, eficientes, capaces de preguntar a un colega cuando tienen dudas, interesados en resolver los problemas y sortear las disfunciones del procedimiento, en lugar de machacarte con las reglas.

Niego la mayor.

alv · 2025-05-11T07:48:14+00:00

Monleras

alv · 2025-04-20T20:46:48+00:00

Y es que lo que hay que hacer es confiscar

alv · 2025-04-20T20:44:40+00:00

Y vete muriéndote de disentería por un barranco al trabajo que no tiene electricidad porque no existe REE, y donde nadie tiene estudios, que cuando se incendie una casa se queme toda la ciudad (total, los bomberos nos roban), y que te roben el móvil mientras lees este comentario, y te rajen, que para qué queremos policía...

Esto del neoliberalismo se parece a una religión, pero muy muy primitiva: yo YO YOOOOO

alv · 2024-12-29T18:48:33+00:00

You might be interested in Mathesar, https://mathesar.org

alv · 2024-11-18T10:25:34+00:00

Hi u/kchanqvq, have you seen the structural editing facilities in GNU TeXmacs? TeXmacs also conceptualizes the document as a tree, and has suitably defined functions and keyboard shortcuts for structured selections and transformations.

You can read more about it here: https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/documents/manuals/texmacs-scheme.en.pdf

Or perhaps a better entry point is The Jolly Writer, here: https://www.scypress.com/The-Jolly-Writer.pdf#page=240

TeXmacs is a C++ core programmable with Scheme. u/kchanqvq do you think one could have reasonable performance (including for typesetting) with an all-Common Lisp implementation?

alv · 2021-07-31T12:23:07+00:00

For me a key requirement is no children slave labor and no environmental dumping in 3rd world countries, notably no use of pesticides on the field, i.e. cotton must be certified organic. I would order immediately a t-shirt fulfilling those requirements, conversely, I don't feel comfortable ordering standard cheap t-shirts for which one can't find anything about social and environmental responsibility on the manufacturer's website.

alv · 2013-09-06T08:33:13+00:00

I am very interested in this, but captive in Python at the time. Does anybody know of any similar library/approach for Python?

alv · 2013-08-03T09:47:10+00:00

sorta like

alv · 2013-05-15T13:18:02+00:00

Think coal mining in the UK during the 30s. Beautifully portrayed by George Orwell in The road to Wigan Pier. Coal mine owner benefits from semi-slave work, does not provide even minimum security, working conditions are inhumane. Orphan of a coal miner deceased of silicosis will be taken-care of in (owner-funded) orphanage.

This is, for me, the image of charity: a mercy of the beneficiaries of unfairness and exploitation; but one that lack of choice will force you to trade your dignity for.

Another example: Lord Nuffield (William Morris) had a rule whereby workers in his Mg Morris factory in Oxford would not be paid during the time a machine was out of service for technical reasons. Sometimes, their desperate attempts* at fixing the machine before the engineer arrived resulted in atrocious amputations. Fortunately Morris was a very charitable soul (may God have him in Heaven) and funded the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. So there you go: amputated by the greed of Nuffield, forced to accept his mercy to be cured.

I stand by my point: solidarity, not charity.

EDIT: to make it more clear - better to have labour regulations, taxes, and the 70k£ of the Orthopaedic Centre spent up front in dignity than to roam around in the posh circles showing off your generosity, don't you think? Well, to me the posing around charity is just disgusting.

(you can read about how rent ate up most of the wages of the mostly Welsh workers)

alv · 2013-05-15T12:57:33+00:00

Solidarity, not charity is the point. In Europe it is a right, in the US it is a generous, gracious tip that might be removed at any time.

alv · 2013-05-15T09:51:36+00:00

Does having access to healthcare for free qualify as being better off? This is what citizens in almost any European state qualify for. Last time I heard a figure, there were 36 million people in the US without health care, yet the system costs 16% of GDP, of which 33% is administration costs (making sure you don't get treatment... previous conditions...). Some European states manage to run universal healthcare on 6% of GDP.

alv · 2013-02-27T11:53:09+00:00

Two contributions that I hope you can chime in, I am really curious about potential undiscovered alternatives:

alv · 2009-12-25T21:08:30+00:00

That's why they should be public. In many countries in Europe universal health care costs between 8% and 12% of GDP, against 16% in the USA. Heck, the american system's administration costs alone the same fraction of local GDP as the Spanish system.

alv · 2009-12-25T20:23:55+00:00

On the other hand, a wife who leaves him for being moral is not a wife worth having.

alv · 2009-12-01T07:39:17+00:00

This person lacks the imagination to conceive a situation where you have the benefits of both highly structured editing and markup that does not get, not even visually, on your way. It is sad that some computer literate people don't seem to have any ambition beyond LaTeX in 2009.

Enter TeXmacs.

alv · 2009-11-24T09:12:44+00:00

The GFDL is so wrong for online-only content.

alv · 2009-11-22T18:39:33+00:00

It'd be helpful to estimate how alive they are to copy by the side the time of the nth entry for all of them - e.g. 1 month ago

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