“Consistent” UX is often one of the downsides of cross platform frameworks. Android and iOS have distinct UX details that users expect in their apps.

Yes but React Native uses native elements. It doesn't fake them like Flutter. It just provides a unified way to address them.

This is a problem even with desktop apps. Look at the print dialog abomination that Firefox unleashed on us.

Chrome did it first, and (at least on Windows) the system print dialog sucks anyway.

Sure, and the single biggest weakness over at Mozilla is that they're more focused on building a better Chrome (a.k.a. following the leader) instead of innovating or fixing bugs. That's why we've lost useful tools like the 3D DOM rendering in favor of a fucking chat client in Thunderbird. Or why if your system is lagged enough you can hit Cmd+T, start typing a URL, hit return, and have Firefox load the new URL in the old tab… but at least we have that awful search instead of separate, proper, URL and search bars. It's why we get limited-time-only!!! paid themes while all extensions get disabled because someone forgot to deal with an expired certificate.

Mozilla, and by extension the Firefox crew, lost sight of their core competencies a long time ago. Every dumbass design decision the Chrome folks make, Mozilla will emulate a few years later.

Definitely agree on some of this stuff. The themes situation sounded pretty delusional the whole time. And there were many more decisions like that.

However, what is this about separate search and url boxes? I have that, still. You don't have to have just the single box. Still, the main url box still behaves as a search either way. Is that what you mean?

I also think Firefox had lost its way, but not because of these things.

IIRC Thunderbird is a separate project now, not part of Mozilla, no?

Well they went corporate (MZLA Technologies) but they are still under the mozilla foundation.

This is click bait. Nordstrom just announced in March that they’re closing down all of their Canadian stores, most of which are in high end neighborhoods, and I highly doubt this is unrelated.

Eleven Labs is the best I've found for speech, not sure about singing. Open to alternative suggestions.

Probably both, depending on which developers you compare against and how you measure productivity. Keep in mind there's an entire world of development where productivity is measured by number of JIRA tickets closed for button text updates.

Professional headshots have been both taken under unrealistic conditions and heavily edited for a long time. This is true for most selfies nowadays too. This doesn’t seem significantly different to me.

Possibly this: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230314005528/en/Gre...

Dollar Store comes to mind

I've run http://olodolo.com (it mostly runs itself) since 2018, which lets people buy things on AliExpress using crypto. I often describe it as the only non-scam crypto website :)

It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.

What's the biggest cost? The disparity between the rev and net are pretty big

That sales number would likely be the value of goods bought through the platform, not total revenue

Back in the day(2014-2015) I regularly used a service that does the same thing but for steam games.

I try not to think about the exchange rate difference compared to now :^)

Can confirm to some degree as I built this system almost 10 years ago. Back then it was used for rich data in 3 apps that were all turned down years ago. I've been out of Google for a long time, so I don't know if it's still around or what it would be used for anymore.

This is awesome, I’ve been looking for something like this (particularly for mobile) for a while. One small issue I came across is a photo I uploaded came out with the wrong aspect ratio and I can’t seem to fix it.