Chris McCord, who built this app (and author of Phoenix) talked about it on the Thinking Elixir podcast. Excited to learn that many of the learnings that he got when building this app will make its way into Phoenix LiveView.

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/84

This talk at Nextjs Conf explores cross platform solutions for common issues like routing, styling and animation. Found it to be quite helpful!

https://youtu.be/0lnbdRweJtA

Would also recommended this talk! It highlights some key libraries bridging these two (Next.js/ React Native) opinionated libraries together.

> A better solution for me was using Karabiner-Elements to only swap the right command and option keys:

macOS has a built in tool called hidutil[1] for simple keyboard remapping. Prefer to use that since Karabiner-Elements has some issues on M1 and macOS Big Sur. I use this[2] tool to generate a simple launchd config.

1 - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450... 2 - https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app

That tool is awesome! Thank you.

Excellent tip, thank you!

Thanks, added to the article!

Another limitation is that you can't pin chats on desktop/web.

this is possible (use daily, verified again right now).

There's a drop-down menu underneath the last-message received timestamp in the list of chats.

It's not possible in the beta app

Great article! Is there something similar to Replicache that is targeted towards simple multiplayer games? Im building a multiplayer version of a clicker game like Universal Paperclips[0] and dealing with similar the problems that Replicache tries to solve.

[0] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

It was buggy as well. I was locked out of receiving and sending payments for about a month. After some updates, had to relink my bank account and the app created a new UPI ID by appending a -1 ie. myname-1@okhdfc! It's like creating a new email ID to resolve the issue.

> Jeff started to think - we have all this excess server capacity for 46 weeks/year, why not rent it out to other companies?

If Amazon rented out excess capacity after Nov/Dec, what did they do for next years Nov/Dec peak? Did they build up more capacity throughout the year and not rent it out?

> Zoom "happy hours" pretty much get dominated by two or three voices (usually of the most senior people) and everyone else just listens, because you can't have 2 conversations at a time.

This is definitely a problem and my co founder and I wanted to solve it. We tried a bunch of stuff, but one thing that we noticed was that we were playing a lot more casual games with our friends and family since the pandemic. It was pretty enjoyable. We tried the same with our colleagues and it was definitely much better than a Zoom happy hour. The game provides some structure which removes the awkwardness and there is some amount of participation from everyone on the call. We are now working on a product (https://getlounge.app/) that helps teams organize these game happy hours.

Jackbox series of games could be really good for this, only one person needs to own the game everyone else logs in on a phone or browser to play. Mixture of trivia/adlibs/assorted minigames

https://www.boardgamearena.com/ is also good

Dropbox Paper has the best editing experience. Notion should try to emulate that.