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butz··on Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent
Yeah, there are better names out there, try Unity or Proton.
butz··on Why don't more developers "use the platform"?
Some developers are locked in to using some in house UI solution that is slow to implement any new features from evergreen browsers and even is still shipping hacks for IE11, although it was depreceted company wide years ago.
butz··on MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
There is "Prefer WebGPU" toggle (on by default), but it does nothing. How hard would it be to add simple support test to check if browser has all required capabilities to run your application? I think at least allowing to browse models does not require WebGPU, right?
butz··on Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor
The worst thing is when browsers are adding rounded corners to viewport and covering part of website. This is breaking design and in some cases might even hide crucial information.
butz··on A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Very worrying trend is thin scrollbars on websites, or in some rare cases - scrollbar just hidden. Fortunately Firefox has a setting in about:config: layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled=true .
butz··on Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
Are there any similar projects that do recompilation for old DOS games? I am mainly interested in games written in Borland Turbo C, as I am trying to work out how one of them works. Some resources like tutorials would be great too.
butz··on From 2027 you must be at least 18 to use Dropbox
Also, period of inactivity for free accounts will be reduced.
butz··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
Default apps in GrapheneOS are really outdated. Especially "Gallery" where on standard "compact" device top navbar is still too small and requires very precise touch. Hopefully, little by little, all stock applications will be updated to more modern variants. I personally had plans to build some open source stock Android applications, but after whole nonsense with platform being locked down I do not see the point in investing my time, just for google to block my apps.
butz··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Would be neat if Fairphone would build a real compact smartphone, something with 4" or 5" screen. Current device is too large for human pockets and all those protruding camera bumps and buttons are really uncomfortable.
butz··on Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer
Galaxium can't run in this browser
butz··on Tim Curry has died
Here's an obsure one: Tim Curry voiced the main antagonist of Brütal Legend, Doviculus.
butz··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
We get the message alright - everyone move over to alternative platforms. Biggest issue to get local government socials moved to something more open and accessible without an account.
butz··on Nextcloud Native client – independent and community-driven
I cannot believe it is not an Electron app.
butz··on Banned Words List
This is ungood.
butz··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Cloudflare's "Verify you are human" captcha is the new cookie banner.
butz··on We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
Next they are going to round of the corners of your website, either you like it or not.
butz··on CodePen 2.0
I wonder why styles.css editor is missing scrollbar? index.html has one, though.
butz··on Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland
Very timely post. I wonder, is it possible to clone one single mouse cursor, to duplicate exactly same actions on two windows placed side by side?
butz··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
We need a follow up, how this change panned out, how much did performance improve?
butz··on Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
Considering the size of current smartphones, using laptop as more compact alternative is quite clever idea.
butz··on HMD Touch 4G
Neat. Even with all that padding it is smaller than current "compact" devices.
butz··on Light Flip
Everything I ever wanted from a phone. And unlike latest HMD Nokia phones, this one has SDK - https://github.com/lightphone/light-sdk .

Shipping dates will definitely test my patience, though.

butz··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
Someone clearly had a lot of fun making all of those components. Adorable and whimsy. One nitpick - when writing uppercase letters in text field they should make larger ripples than lowercase.
butz··on HMD Touch 4G
There is a severe lack of compact smartphones in the market. Are there any devices available with regular OS updates, that fit into normal sized pocket?
butz··on Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive
It is not "your account", it is literrally called "Microsoft account".
butz··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
Your app should've been a website.
butz··on Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon
And at the 2026 wea are in a very sad state, where only choice for new smartphone is a huge rectangle with varying sizes of camera bumps on the back.
butz··on Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues
Someone probably pushed to prod on Friday.
butz··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
This is actually a really great feature for everyone else trying to reduce their phone use without switching to different "dumbphone". But why mandatory lock by passcode? I agree, that adding more friction would prevent user to switch back to standard UI, but still - it should be optional.
butz··on Maestral open-source Dropbox client no longer actively supported
Sad news. I wonder what project maintainer is using now instead of Dropbox?
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