Brilliantly stated.

The scenario the author describes here is a result of mental illness.

Posts like these are why I am so incredibly glad that HN isn't the only place where the blog post is being discussed.

This place already was lousy with empathy-challenged people, but these days, man, they’ll gladly kick a person down on their luck.

I also see kindness and concern on here, we get what we give! It's a thing to glom onto drama, and in this attention economy it's easy to fall down a dopamine spiral, even on a algo-lite platform such as this. Hello my name is sellmesoap and I'm a hacker-news-aholic!

There's a bit of space between batshit asylum crazy and "mental health break that was induced due to a death in the family".

Maybe not a thing in the USofA, elsewhere a number of G20 countries have compassionate leave and such things baked into workers rights.

Family court type things as well. I notice friends I have who are highly effective in big orgs can take care of themselves with mental health days on the regular. I've too often found myself in a role where the company 'needed' me to keep my holiday leave short because the bus factor was too low, such a drag!

I can assure you it is not. Are you a licensed professional in the mental health space to be saying something like this?

Yes.

Somehow I doubt the words of an account with negative karma.

No.

Apps for Apple platforms.

No.

Tweetbot for Mac.

That is incredibly short sighted. The web is universal, iOS is not.

I'll second that "incredibly short sighted" judgement. It's efforts like Hewitts, which works exceptionally well for a days work, that lead to superior mobile web apps.

Monoculture is seldom a good thing. Though native apps have strong advantages, web apps also have advantages in terms of deployment, compatibility on multiple platforms, and (possibly) freedom from Apple's walled garden.

Just like everything else: use the right tool for the job, and choose your trade-offs.

Being able to develop one simple web app that make the page so much more accessible on a smartphone without the need to develop 3 native apps (iOS, Android and perhaps Windows Phone 7?) is pretty nice and cost effective.

There are a lot of native apps that are easily reproduced in pure HTML, CSS and Javascript.

while i agree that there are ways in which native user interface controls are currently more compelling than their web alternatives, shouldn't we all be diligent in hoping for and working towards the end of that situation? it might not be as impossible as it once seemed, they're doing angry birds in a browser now!

either way i can't imagine that an iOS monoculture in high-end mobile applications really serves anyone but apple in the long run. i think there's a general consensus that it didn't work out that well with windows, and there's arguably a lot more at stake this time.

No, it's not, at all.

They'll need to explain really strongly why it's not, then, because that'll be all most people will think.

No, it's less shiny than the predecessor, which was actually graphically "shiny," in that it's a flat gray and only rarely appears.

There is the option to base scroll bar appearance on your input device.