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butz··on Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
In corporate environment you cannot just simply download and run scripts from the internet. npm/npx create/install is allowed though.
butz··on Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
Overengineering aside (which is pretty legitimate way of doing hobby tech), why not build SANE on WASM? And maybe interfacing with airplay scanners could be even easier?
butz··on Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
Sorry, but your app icon is 3.66 MB PNG. A quick optimization to save some network requests.
butz··on Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
Kind of difficult to install, especially in the enterprise business environment. At least they kept it free for everyone.
butz··on Google Declaring War on the Web
Good news, now there is a HUGE space in "classic" web search market. Let google do google things, and if they ever will try to come back, there will be large competition of various sizes.
butz··on DOS Zone
Oh yes, Quake 3 Arena, classic DOS game.
butz··on Vivaldi 8.0
It is always good to have more than one browser.
butz··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Anyone made a LLM model that parses such text and removes ads? Ad blocking is getting more interesting.
butz··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Such thing would never happen on sourceforge.net
butz··on Google changes its search box
Google was still doing search?
butz··on No more JetBrains products for me
If program has time to display startup banner - it is too slow. I was amazed how quickly Zed starts and it already has last project open and ready. Compared to JetBrains IDE, in some recent version they even added a toast informing that IDE is not responding. That tells much about application. And when whole UI keeps loading separate blocks like a website - absolutely annoying. Sometimes I don't even know if UI is actually ready to work, or clicking git branch selector will not yield any results, because something somewhere is still loading. Several GB size on disk with mostly unused plugins is just taking up space and makes loading IDE slower. They lost me as a customer when they dropped community edition of PyCharm. I was paying for PhpStorm for several years, until then, and dabbling with Python on the side. Having mandatory log in for free version is absurd.
butz··on Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
Isn't this just a way to confirm that your email is still active, and few miliseconds later you will be getting a lot of new spam from websites you never knew about?
butz··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
Just hold your horses, I started vibe coding not only Photoshop, but whole Creative Suite with all the utilities. Sorry to say, but I ran out of tokens this month, so it might take a while until I will be able to take on Adobe. Just sit tight and send positive vibes my way.
butz··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
How locked down macOS is these days? Is it still possible to use OS without account and freely "sideload" software applications? Is homebrew still a thing?
butz··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
Those should be defaults in npm.
butz··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Really silly, when you buy "AI PC" with "AI CPU" and still run any "GenAI" related stuff in the cloud.
butz··on Internet Archive Switzerland
Out of the frying pan into the fire?
butz··on Forking the Web
Just use HTML and CSS, ignore javascript.
butz··on YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
How about YouTube RSS feed, where description contains summary from video in text format? Imagine how much time could be saved because TL;DW. Of course, Google would never do such a thing.
butz··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
I would like to see all "desktop" applications that use Electron listed and how big of a Chromium drift is there, especially how many applications are shipping runtimes with unfixed vulnerabilities.
butz··on Breaking up with WordPress after two decades
Allright everyone, back to Drupal and Joomla.
butz··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
Thanks for reminding about missing transparency. I think seeing those games in emulator with transparency support had almost same impression as running Need for Speed III with 3dfx card for the first time :)
butz··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
I see libsteam plugin in archive. Are they planning to release it on Steam?
butz··on Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
While Mastodon client ain't working either, at least there is an alternative available: https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi
butz··on Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
It is a feature. If website does not work in basic HTML, it is probably just a waste of time.
butz··on Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
So, what are you planning to do when you finish all your unfinished hobby projects?
butz··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Are there any "optimized" models, that have lesser hardware requirements and are specialised in single programming language, e.g. C# ?
butz··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
Whole this "GenAI" nonsense just made me appreciate handrafted code more. I really like diving deep into documentation to figure out how things work and actually understand why something does not. YMMW.
butz··on I don't want your PRs anymore
How about creating issues and tagging the ones where PRs are welcome and inform everyone about this way of work? I understand the frustration, when someone comes one day to the project with tens PRs and most of them are missing the point of application or going way out of scope, that will surely make maintenance in the future problematic. Everyone's time will be saved by informing about contribution limits upfront.
butz··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
The squeeze begins.
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