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bluespiceon Passwords, Backups and a false sense of security

That they are being delivered in the context of one person's utter incompetence.

bluespiceon This is how I work - Apps and tools for productivity

IMHO this does not belong on the frontpage.

bluespiceon Show HN: DeadMouse – Surf the web with just your keyboard.

That's pretty clever, I think this should be implemented natively in browsers. It's nice that it's bound only to the visible part of the page too.

But let's face it, if web devs were conscious about keyboard usability we'd at least see tabindex html property used sometimes, and it's been around for a while.

bluespiceon Retina graphics for your website

"Retina" is just as ambiguous as "High". Apple didn't invent anything with "Retina" screens so branding is pretentious, pixel density is just that: a number.

bluespiceon Retina graphics for your website

Thank you for saying "High DPI", I'm sick of that Retina quasi branding BS.

bluespiceon Last.fm passwords leaked

Yeah, date. Old news :-X

bluespiceon Last.fm passwords leaked

Again?

Here's an useful link for current users, so you don't have to look too deep: https://www.last.fm/settings/account (Hint: "Delete account")

bluespiceon I built my blog on websockets

Unfortunately this isn't working for me in latest versions of Chrome or Firefox, looks like an error related to the way socket.io library is delivered.

But I love the idea and you should definitely keep it up. People asking "why?" don't really understand what passion for coding means :-)

bluespiceon New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage

Depends on browser and mouse settings (smooth scrolling on/off).

However the animation and rendering is just very slow for me on Chrome + quad, about 5-10 FPS. I won't even try on Android.

This could have been greatly improved by using CSS3 animations, there's even a drop-in jquery library that makes this an easy fix: http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/

With that said, the effect is overused and tacky. Message could have been delivered more quickly and elegantly.

I felt as if visiting that link was just a waste of time, like watching an old movie I've seen and looking for changes in subtitles.

bluespiceon New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage

One of the worst cases of overusing parallax scrolling I've ever seen.

Edit: parallax/tacky, call it what you wish. I was thinking of this while writing the comment: http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/ (note: every great thing can be ruined my misuse, I like that library.)

bluespiceon Why Node.js streams are awesome

Stop it already.

http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html