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colinprince

43,137 karma · joined May 15, 2009

topcolor is ffcc00

Contact me in Toronto: col@colinprince.com

My store: https://store.sickflat.com/shop-all/

https://www.instagram.com/sickflatdesigns/

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colinprince··on Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments
https://archive.is/wYHx2
colinprince··on Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I
https://archive.is/CZqBB
colinprince··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
"The Gospel" has wider connotations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_gospel

probably from the Greek

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/εὐαγγέλιον

colinprince··on Cocoa Tops $9k Mark for First Time on Global Supply Crunch
https://archive.is/vaAOd
colinprince··on The Dark Country (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120917055940/http://www.walrus...
colinprince··on Justice Minister defends house arrest for people feared for hate crime in future
https://archive.is/W8Qpz
colinprince··on Kagi Small Web
I've started making a list of "small web" discovery sites

https://wiby.me/surprise/

https://search.marginalia.nu/

https://ooh.directory/

https://curlie.org/

and now this one too!

colinprince··on Our entire solar system may exist inside a giant magnetic tunnel
Text version https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6215150
colinprince··on Deer are beta-testing a nightmare disease
https://archive.is/ryj69
colinprince··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023
I bought this wooden utility cart for about $200 Canadian:

http://winsomewood.com/products/89933

it has helped me immensely in the kitchen in the last few months

colinprince··on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
I have not seen youtube's warning on iphone safari (not logged in, firefox focus and 1blocker legacy content blockers)

but that could be because i am using vinegar[0] to replace youtube's player with a <video> tag

0. https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegar

colinprince··on Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
I use this one on my phone to boost text size when my eyes are tired

javascript:var%20p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i%3Cp.length;i++)%7Bif(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize)%7Bvar%20s=parseInt(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize.replace(%22px%22,%22%22));%7Delse%7Bvar%20s=12;%7Ds+=8;p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize=s+%22px%22%7D

colinprince··on Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
ya, same, I don't know where I got this one but I modified it to include sticky

javascript:var ni%3Ddocument.createNodeIterator(document.documentElement,NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT,function(node)%7Breturn document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(node,null).getPropertyValue("position").match(/sticky|fixed/) %3F NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT : NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT%3B%7D)%3Bwhile(currentNode%3Dni.nextNode())%7Bconsole.log(currentNode.remove())%3B%7D

colinprince··on Einstein, in 1949, Predicted How and Why Society Would Go Sideways
https://archive.ph/2023.09.29-193242/https://glenhendrix50.m...
colinprince··on It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning (Fiction)
https://archive.ph/pFkFu
colinprince··on How to Avoid Media Manipulation Attempts
This is from Aotearoa New Zealand, but applies very well here in Canada too.

Direct link to the pdf: https://factaotearoa.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FACT-Aote...

colinprince··on Fatigue Is So Much More Than Being Tired
https://archive.is/lbXyn
colinprince··on Community effort to preserve flash games and animations from the web
omg QWOP https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/?d0dee3fc-6bce-49c8-8408-06c763...
colinprince··on Wavelight Technology Sets Runners on a World-Record Pace
https://archive.is/8XAqV
colinprince··on A Lab Experiment Replicated One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments
https://archive.is/nWUjA
colinprince··on Who is the $279mn whistleblower
https://archive.is/9tiXl
colinprince··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
SVB sought - and received! - reduced scrutiny of the institution, alluding to the “low risk profile of our activities and business model”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-val...

https://archive.is/aSx6E

colinprince··on Ooh.directory
see also Today's Guardian:

https://guardian.gyford.com/

colinprince··on Paul Ford: What Is Code? (2015)
https://archive.ph/K1D8D
colinprince··on Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser
And, previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17583997
colinprince··on Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
I am reading and cheering your openness and vulnerability -- it seems to have sparked vulnerability in your commenters.

I'm a man, 53 now and 5 years divorced with one wonderful daughter 15.

There have been a lot of pitfalls along the way and one of the deepest, for me, was not being able to be honest with myself about my goals. So hearing about your life and choices honestly has me scratching my head here, since you are nothing if not clear eyed.

I guess I'd have to say that the pool you are fishing in is overfished maybe? Any chance you could change the pool perhaps? Differently educated, differently abled, different culture perhaps?

Anyhow I am inspired to reach out more myself. I admire your candour.

colinprince··on Fetching Weather Forecasts with WeatherKit
For the beta period, Apple has a table (free iff you are a paid developer):

https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/

For me, it will be about half the price of the Dark Sky API it will presumably replace.

(My usage is 80000 to 120000 calls per month)

colinprince··on On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on
See also http://planetvermont.com/v9n2/machine.html
colinprince··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
ok trying
colinprince··on ChaChaCha
https://archive.ph/iTlDL
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