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dickiedyce··on Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)
Also, and I guess this may be another common feature request, it would be great to have a newest at the bottom of the page rather than the top ;-) although I’m guessing that this is to do with performance given it's a single file?
dickiedyce··on Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)
Cracking ! :-)
dickiedyce··on Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)
I really like the app, it’s a nice idea, I’m actually started using it for journalling! One thing that would be great – when I stick a hashtag in, it would be really good if it gave me the last five or the most common in a pop-up menu, just to make sure I spell them correctly.
dickiedyce··on Try Switching to Kagi
I jumped to Kagi early on. I was on a friend's machine the other day, and without thinking, ran a default search ... in Google, and wow. Just, wow.

What an appalling waste of electrons. First, non-advert (labelled, and non-labelled) on page 3.

dickiedyce··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
Ah ha. Is this the start of MAIA - "Make America Irrelevant Again"? Do they really need the help? Seems like their about to do a great job on that already... ;-)
dickiedyce··on Affixes: The Building Blocks of English
you mean the anglo-saxon one that connotes large, frightening, extraordinary, shocking, pleasurable or depressing?
dickiedyce··on The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model
Actually, according to Anne Elk, it's a test "dinosaur"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-t4OiEHCiA (at 5:25)

... which seems appropriate.

dickiedyce··on The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child
LOL. Pubs in the UK tend to fall into roughly 2 camps... with TV, and without. And the with TV ones can be quite extreme, and conversation can be difficult when people are distracted by a TV visible whichever way you look. During the European football championships, lots of pubs have wall-to-wall football coverage (as in soccer, not Rugby in drag) which serious drinkers might want to avoid ;-) (And for the more sports obsessed, it also makes, avoiding seeing the scores before you get home and watch it properly on catch-up much easier...)
dickiedyce··on The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child
Pretty sure that The Maypole (https://maypolefreehouse.co.uk), which is round the back of the Baron, is safe... thank goodness.
dickiedyce··on CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them
> "Every news site has advertising sections"

Ahem, bbc.co.uk/news * *?

* Note, not bbc.com ;-)

* Also, editorially, BBC News has also gone a little downhill in recent times. But it's all relative.

dickiedyce··on Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
Hi Liam - can't seem to see a call graph. I've sent a report, but wasn't sure what to expect, as your site has a nice preview of the architectuer graph, but not the call graph functionality. Perhaps add a second preview? $19 does seem a little steep. Would it be possible to have a lower cost with a user supplied 3rd party LLM service key?
dickiedyce··on Losing the magic
Yes. Who doesn't secretly love a magic number ;-)
dickiedyce··on The Simple Art of Murder (1944)
Someone really screwed up the OCR on that ;-)

Apart from the typos, I suspect that there's at least one paragraph in the body (the summary introduction?), that wasn't written by Mr Chandler.

dickiedyce··on Losing the magic
Missed opportunity dept.: the title should have been "The Magic Goes Away", in reference to the Larry Niven novel.
dickiedyce··on Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]
My first programs were in Basic on punch tape sent down an acoustic coupler to Imperial College in 1981. I get that it was the end of an era. But just after leaving school, I ran a Linotype photo-setter in the late 1980's - with different spinning optical discs for different fonts, and Hot wax rollers, and Letraset lines. And after university, I worked on computer magazines in W1, which went from photo-setting to Desktop Publish. So I remember an entire era, from start to finish. Boy, do I feel old.
dickiedyce··on MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker
I'm pretty sure I saw some technology like this in the UK in the late '90s? With prints (pictures) in frames being used as wall-mounted speakers?
dickiedyce··on Magnetic Turd
... and active retrieval of cadmium batteries from infant digestive tracts is not something to joke about.
dickiedyce··on Magnetic Turd
Apparently, this is NOT an April Fool's joke, just a classic case of poor timing?
dickiedyce··on Hermit Programmers Are Dead
Only 3?
dickiedyce··on Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
https://eclecticlight.co/ - Howard Oakley is always worth a read, on art or Macs.
dickiedyce··on This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
Actually(tm), an older definition of a quine can be found here: https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/fou...

So a parthenogenic Scotswoman would be a double quine.

dickiedyce··on How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
... and the methodology seems poor too. I had a sideline in magazine journalism for a while... I'd be interested in the correlation between article bias (pro / anti) versus age of writer (or target readership)
dickiedyce··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2020)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Scotland / European Union

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not in the immediate future

Technologies: JavaScript, FileMaker, React, Express, Postgres, MySQL, FileMaker, Shell Scripting, PHP, Python, Documentation & Training (Technical Writing, Markdown, CMS design/use, Sketch, Screenflow, Hype)

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjdyce

Email: jobs [at] dyce.com

I’ve just had a short extension to cover a handover, but I'm in the two months of a full-stack React project (React front end + Express API backend -> FileMaker -> SAP), contract in the medical devices / language translation space. Interested in something new with a suitably steep learning curve. Up for a challenge. I'm a great all-rounder, and can architect systems, re-write SQL queries, design UIs, document processes, create training materials AND WRITE CODE ;-)

dickiedyce··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)
Location: Scotland / European Union

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not in the immediate future

Technologies: JavaScript, FileMaker, React, Express, Postgres, MySQL, FileMaker, Shell Scripting, PHP, Python, Documentation & Training (Technical Writing, Markdown, CMS design/use, Sketch, Screenflow, Hype)

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjdyce

Email: jobs [at] dyce.com

I’ve just had a short extension to cover a handover, but I'm in the two months of a full-stack React project (React front end + Express API backend -> FileMaker -> SAP), contract in the medical devices / language translation space. Interested in something new with a suitably steep learning curve. Up for a challenge. I'm a great all-rounder, and can architect systems, re-write SQL queries, design UIs, document processes, create training materials AND WRITE CODE ;-)

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