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OliCon I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time

There is a fairly popular tiktok account doing much the same thing. Travelling from town to town to point out the worst parts of them. Although I'll admit it sometimes feels more depressing than funny.

OliCon Show HN: Favicons for HN

You could update the screenshot now your link is near the top :)

OliCon I started a paper website business

What a great idea. We need more of this sort of thing.

OliCon Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

You might want to delete that link. They've replaced it with something a little NSFW.

OliCon The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming

Absolutely! I'll definitely do that!

OliCon The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming

My friends and I love playing "Murder, She Wrote" on a big TV screen during downtime at LAN parties. We streamed it on Twitch for a while. We're big fans, great work!

OliCon Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

Ah, a fellow Swindonian!

OliCon Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

My driving instructor sketched The Magic on paper and asked me to draw various routes before he let me drive on it. My driving test went over it, so at least I was prepared!

OliCon Show HN: Build, run and share React Native apps in your browser

We've gone full circle!

OliCon To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose

It can be really bad, my short experience with a DK1 left me feeling sick for hours afterwards.

OliCon Git Tutorials and Training

I can't recommend Githug highly enough for learning git: https://github.com/Gazler/githug

OliCon HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

Why didn't this come out of Adobe a year ago?

OliCon 'Quake III Arena' Bots Reportedly Stop Fighting After 4-Year Match

This is simply not true. From John Carmack's Twitter: "Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks" (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809)

OliCon Browser Pong

I honestly thought that moving a browser window with javascript had been impossible since early IE.

OliCon How to properly plagiarize a website

Replacing the title with "Come back! We miss you!" when you leave the tab is cute but it makes finding the article in a sea of tabs difficult.

OliCon Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists

I would imagine that Apple like the headlines they get from runaway app successes like Angry Birds. Along with the subtle "Write apps for iOS and become the next Rovio!" message they send out. These massive hits are usually initially fueled by the "Top" lists so I don't see them being removed any time soon.

OliCon Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

Sure, but a button would still be a nice touch. I closed my connection before shutting the server down. I hoped there would be a "kill it" button on the page but there wasn't so I had to reconnect before I could shut it down. Hardly a great effort but some people might not bother.

OliCon Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

You should add a "kill it" button so I can easily free up the server if I finish playing with it before the ~30 minutes is up.

OliCon Try Git

Githug is also a really great way to learn Git - https://github.com/Gazler/githug

OliCon Magic Roundabout

I too took my driving test on this beast. I spent a good part of a driving lesson learning the different routes across it.

OliCon Rails Rumble Winners - Gem Teardown

You and me both! But there were some fantastic entries this year.