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drwicked··on I Tried JetBrains' “New UI” and I Liked It
> If I could leave them in a mostly static position I would.

If you haven't you should try a thumb trackball mouse like the Logitech MX Ergo, just move your thumb to move the cursor, significantly easier on the wrist. I've been using it as my only mouse for years.

drwicked··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Clipboard History a la CopyClip for Mac

I'm honestly surprised it's not more widely adopted, the ability to have a shortcut key to access the last X things I've copied to the clipboard has made a huge difference in my dev work.

drwicked··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
Yep, saves a lot of annoyance having to keep track of a bunch of logins across SaaSs especially when you need to revoke access when someone leaves, so instead of having to go to all the various services individually to deactivate the accounts, you can just deactivate their Google account or revoke its access to those services.
drwicked··on Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
The first screen has a bit of a typo, it says "beaconed" when it should say "beckoned". Looks like a fun game!
drwicked··on HyperCard Zine
More comments on this earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16548508
drwicked··on Why do we care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

Commonly misattributed

drwicked··on Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
I like Tab Scissors: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-scissors/cdoch...

Splits your many-tabbed Chrome window into two windows at your current tab. Useful for when I open up a bunch of tangential research pages and want them in their own window.

drwicked··on Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
I too like OneTab though I find it problematic. I'm trying out Tabs Backup & Restore suggested farther up this thread as a potential replacement. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-backup-restor...
drwicked··on Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
Any reason why Ghostery over PrivacyBadger and Adguard over Ublock? I switched from ghostery once they added user accounts and there was some suspicion about them logging user data.
drwicked··on Ask HN: Do you write code on the train? What's your setup?
This makes me want to write a geofencing phone app that vibrates when you get within ~1 mile of your station.
drwicked··on ‘I lost everything:’ Homelessness surges in Silicon Valley
Adding to the problem, the NIMBYs everywhere mean that no one builds new RV parks anywhere and the extant RV parks ramp up rents and regulations (your RV has to less than 10 years old) to push out the lower income people. This exact thing happened to me in Austin.
drwicked··on Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head
Chrome latest
drwicked··on Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head
Your signup form is behaving strangely. Seems like a state management issue. Text input gets narrow onmousedown.
drwicked··on Ask HN: Is Vagrant dead or dated? Do people still use it?
I was wondering the same thing. There are very few Vagrant tutorials later than 2013-14.

Apparently it has been succeeded (2015) by Otto (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/otto/), though I'd never heard of Otto until just now.

drwicked··on Twitter Axes Vine Video Service
I couldn't find the main thread either at first, had to search.
drwicked··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
Presumably so you can "dock" your USB-C device near your TV/Monitor, output your device through HDMI and be able to use peripherals all with just one plug.
drwicked··on Japanese writing system basics
I'm kindof fascinated by the idea of livestreaming the pageview statistics. I had a surreal moment realizing the weird recursion. Is this something people do now?
drwicked··on I've made Dayta free
I'd love to see an iPad version. I will definitely use this as so far all the dedicated weight tracking apps are crap.