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EspadaV9··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Has Shopify given money to Omarchy too? Or more so because now Tailwind is owned by someone larger?
EspadaV9··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
I'm actually in need of a new hot water tank and have been looking for a heat pump one. Wonder if these will be available in Australia, and how they compare to the current range.
EspadaV9··on How I released a game that has no assets [video]
N.B. I am not the maker of the game
EspadaV9··on Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM
Living in Australia, and travelling to Europe last Christmas as a family of 4, I really wanted to get the direct London to Perth flight, but connecting flights didn't line up. Being able to do Melbourne or Sydney would be great. Not needing to deal with connections, and cutting 6+ hours off the total travel time sounds amazing, possibly getting us there a day earlier, meaning more time for Greggs vegan sausage rolls.
EspadaV9··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
I tried using omp, and really like the interface, but I found it used tokens much much quicker than the Claude cli. Some simple tasks would use all the session tokens in less than an hour, as where I could get easily get 3-4 hours with Claude. Both set to use opus 4.8 auto effort. I tried tweaking the models for agents down to haiku and sonnet in omp, but didn't notice any real difference in the speed tokens were being used.
EspadaV9··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Checked my Pixel 7 XL Pro and the app is installed and running (Version 1.0.866414232 com.google.android.verifier). I was able to force stop it, and disable it. Will check later to see if reenables itself.
EspadaV9··on OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
Wonder if the Yogscast Jingle Jam will use v16 in this year's stream. Might stop Duncan crashing so many trains if they're all driving slower backwards.
EspadaV9··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
I've had a Golf from new since 2016. I love it. It's the only car I bought new (only car I've ever bought actually), and wanted one since renting cars when I lived in the UK (had no need to own a car (cycle/public transport), so only rented as needed). I recently started looking for at EVs just to be prepared in a few years and know where things are at, and I honestly doubt I would get an VW car now. Unfortunately, I'm not expecting there to be anything much better, with most companies locking things down more and more, adding more tracking, etc.. Perhaps it'll just be better to buy a several year old EV.
EspadaV9··on Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Not ashamed to say that visiting the UK again for the first time in about 12 years, getting some Boots/Tesco/Greggs meal deals was on my to-do list. Something I missed moving to Australia. Not that they are _good_, just that they are so readily available, cheap, and have a lot of choices. Woolworths in AU have started doing premade sandwiches, but they are just bad, and don't come in a deal. I doubt they would even try to hit the A$10 price range if they ever did introduce deals.
EspadaV9··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
Exactly the same. I haven't played an Persona game but hear it come up on some podcasts and wanted to try it out. In fact, P5R is on sale right now for 80% off and would happily pay the A$20 for it, but it still includes Denuvo.
EspadaV9··on You Don't Need a Vector Database
I was genuinely surprised just how easy it was to get a fully working RAG set up with Postgres. It was a few hours over a weekend to get something "working" and then probably a bit less time a following weekend to have a nicer database structure and rebuild it learning from the mistakes during the first attempt. The harder part comes next, because that involves multiple tables of user provided data, multi tenancy with a shared core vector schema, and all the actual business logic, so I've put it all on hold for a real breakdown now, but I wouldn't expect it to be much of a problem with what I've found so far with pgvector, and Postgres in general.
EspadaV9··on You Don't Need a Vector Database
If you need to store vector, surely the easiest solution is to run `CREATE EXTENSION vector`. When, or if, you need more, then look at alternatives, but I'm sure most people will have a much easier time just adding it to their existing database.
EspadaV9··on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
There is a fork called PipePipe[0] too, that also implements SponsorBlock

0: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe

EspadaV9··on LocalStack to unify Community and Pro images, require account for use
Well, I was already thinking we need to move away from localstack, I guess this gives me a deadline for when I need to have it done by. Open to recommendations to replace S3 and SQS for local/CI tests.
EspadaV9··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
No. Please don't. Contribute to something like Heroic Launcher instead. Don't create something new just for GOG. Help make the existing tools better. It'll mean GOG has to do less work, and the programs people are already using will get better. Or even just sponsor Heroic so they can send more time we can working on it themselves.
EspadaV9··on December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more
I too was looking forward to Ladybird, until the main author revealed his political alignment, which is alas, not something I can support (https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and...).
EspadaV9··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
Not sure I'm at the regret stage, but the 3D printer has been sitting mostly unused, and I'm not sure that'll change. There have been a few things that were good to print, but mostly used to print fidget toys for the kids and their mates.
EspadaV9··on Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Like many others here, I was excited to hear pebble return, and have a Time 2 on preorder, but will be cancelling it if I don't hear a positive outcome from this.
EspadaV9··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains.

[1]: https://yaak.app/open

EspadaV9··on BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+
Might be harder to keep running ZFS on Linux after 6.18

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-write-cache-pages

EspadaV9··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
I got the app wrong, it was Uber. I have my phone set to English (UK) and change the measurement system to metric. Uber doesn't respect that though, so it keeps using miles.
EspadaV9··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
Ah, thank you, this was it. I had the language set to English (UK), but changed the distance setting to KM. I got the app wrong, it was Uber, and Uber doesn't respect the override, so it always uses miles. Changing it to English (Australia) and Uber switches KM.
EspadaV9··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
Wait, there's a setting for this? I've lived in Australia for over 16 years now but everything is still in miles instead of Kms and I have never been able to find a setting to change it (although it sounds like even if I did find itz it would be mostly useless).
EspadaV9··on Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now
With the number of interstellar objects being detected only going up, it would be amazing if we could get some probes to hitch a ride on them. Imagine something lasting as long as Voyager 1 but travelling 3.5x the speed as it leaves the solar system.
EspadaV9··on When circumvention is more popular than compliance
Or Australia?
EspadaV9··on I hacked my washing machine
My dryer doesn't have a delay function accessable via the front panel, it's been "app gated", and the only way the app can talk to it is via WiFi, so if I ever need to set a delay, I have to use the app. All IoT devices are on their own VLAN though, and where possible firewalled off too. I can easily imagine more features being locked behind the app for future models.
EspadaV9··on Faking a JPEG
Looks like he didn't get time to finish

https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/pics/2025/03/25/fa...

Terry Pratchett has one I'd like to think he'd approve of. Just a shame I'm unable to see the 8th colour, I'm sure it's in there somewhere.

https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/pics/2025/03/25/fa...

EspadaV9··on Faking a JPEG
I like this one

https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/pics/2025/03/25/fa...

Some kind of statement piece

EspadaV9··on Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files
Just and FYI, whilst they are supporting it, they only provide source. If you want the images you need to be a paying customer, or build them yourself.
EspadaV9··on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
I believe it's either live chat, or comments with a timestamp, I'm not sure. I don't personally use that option, unless I accidentally touch the wrong icon.
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