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auroranilon Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

Interesting. It is using iframes behind the scenes. According to W3C it should limit the recursion depth to one, but it seems that you can get around that.

Relevant: https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/03/24/infinitely-nested-ifra...

auroranilon Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

That's what I was thinking. It is April 1st in certain parts of the world.

auroranilon A Map of Mathematics

I like this poster: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y&feature=youtu.be

auroranilon HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

> The runtime and the tooling go together. The reason why tooling doesn't exist for HTML5, SVG, and Javascript is it's just so damn complex and fiddly that it's impossible to paper-over and abstract with a robust authoring tool.

Indeed. The fact that Flash is proprietary meant that all browsers had to use the same software (up to versioning and OS API implementations) to run SWF files. Now with HTML5, developers now have to deal with differences between different browsers (Chromium/Safari/Firefox are the most popular ones).

auroranilon Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

You can also use org-roam-bibtex: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-bibtex

auroranilon Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ is a good place to review continuous maths.

auroranilon We deleted the production database by accident

Tom Scott made a mistake with a similar outcome as this article, but with an SQL query that is much more subtle than DROP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk

By all means, find ways to fool-proof the architecture. But be prepared for scenarios where some destructive action happens to a production database.

auroranilon Proving that 1 and 1 = 2 in Rust

Then why not use word "plus" instead? "Proving that 1 plus 1 = 2 in Rust" is a more suitable title that does not use symbol +.