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floydnoel

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Creator of Routerino, Logbook Ed, and https://bongo.to. Please reach me at floyd__at__nerdswithkeyboards.com
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floydnoel··on Pi 1.0
Pi is very minimal. That's the main difference between it and OpenCode. Although OpenCode has a new version called OpenCode Mini... which reminds me I told Dax I'd give it a whirl- so thanks for the reminder, stranger!

I wrote my own minimal coding harness last year because I hate software bloat, but Pi scratches that itch for me now.

floydnoel··on Pirating the Pirates
that scene is in the radio drama version as well (along with many others that aren't in the movie)
floydnoel··on People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
I did this type of work for a while when I was between jobs earlier this year. Using Ai to write the evaluations was immediate criteria for being removed from the project. Seems obvious
floydnoel··on Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers
I had to subscribe to keep my developer account working for Bongo.to so that's one of them!
floydnoel··on Cloudflare Drop
I think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha
floydnoel··on Writing your own static website generator
I wrote my own because there wasn't one that did what I wanted. And why shouldn't I? We are hackers, yes?
floydnoel··on Librepods: AirPods liberated
I also missed the window, Apple didn't send any communication about it. I saw it mentioned in a comment online and when I contacted support they told me to pound sand.
floydnoel··on Librepods: AirPods liberated
I had the original AirPods Pro and they were really great until Apple nerfed them. Apparently the noise cancelling was too strong in some cases so they worsened everybody's. After that they started making ear-piercing squelching noises, rendering them useless. I guess they make a good paperweight and reminder to never buy noise-cancelling products from Apple.
floydnoel··on The AI Agent in the Billing Department of Verizon Is a Mentally Handicapped Thug
I had a very similar story with T-Mobile! I couldn't get the account cancelled without going to the store and presenting ID in order to prove I was the customer because I had forgotten a made-up PIN. This was years ago and even this month they sent me a bill (for zero dollars, but still- why?!)
floydnoel··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
might want to check a history book, you may be surprised what the answer usually was.
floydnoel··on Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Sounds like a home made Tailwind of your own
floydnoel··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
ever heard of The Black Swan? might be worth a read
floydnoel··on Netflix Open Content
Wouldn’t that be handled on your TV and/or streaming box? That’s how I control it, at least.
floydnoel··on Why are static site generators so complicated to use?
I built myself a SSG for React based on Vite as a build plugin. It is very simple, fits in one file, and the dev experience is almost exactly like having React Router but with SSG built in. Once a user configures the build plugin there's nothing left to worry about besides building a classic React website.
floydnoel··on Obsidian's support app offloads 2FA ticket to namesake
It absolutely cracks me up that this could've been easily avoided by choosing a unique name. Seems it is impossible for us to name a software after anything but an already-taken word! I am certainly guilty ha
floydnoel··on You already have a Git server
wouldn't it be cool to have an open source (maybe even p2p/federated) version of GitHub?
floydnoel··on The European Accessibility Act Will Make the Web Better for Everyone
I wonder how many centuries it will take before humans widely understand second-order effects. Mark my words, like the GDPR before it this will make the web worse for everyone.
floydnoel··on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
The “engineers” live in another country and are paid fifty cents an hour.
floydnoel··on Birth of Prettier
this 100% is why it isn't mentioned. StandardJS is just a scam that nobody uses except new devs who get tricked by its pervasive marketing.
floydnoel··on Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
I really enjoy how that phrase is also an example of itself- such a great term!
floydnoel··on How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
Why? Are they insufferable otherwise? Or is it more that you find it unbearable to tolerate a different opinion? I'm so curious, about both of you. What part does he think was a hoax?
floydnoel··on Forking Styled Components
> Tailwind. I see it as CSS in HTML/JSX class attributes.

In React, the HTML/JSX is embedded in JS. So I think it could be viewed as both!

floydnoel··on Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please
i might be autistic, but i freakin loved CloudFormation templates. i replaced all the ad-hoc infrastructure in my company with it in less than a year, giving me the ability to spin up production-identical staging environments at-will! never really liked the CDK tho. dunno why
floydnoel··on Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door
Unfortunately not, I used that advice for three brand-new purchased Honda’s: a Fit, a Cr-V, and an Odyssey Touring Elite Minivan. The CRV was the last Honda I will ever buy. Honda stuffed too many computers into the car and it would kill the battery after one day. This is when I was traveling for work, making the vehicle useless. Honda dealer said “that’s how they all are now, because of the electronics the battery dies every few days” and they even claimed that they go around charging up all the vehicles on the lot with a portable battery charger every day because of it! Absolutely a lemon brand now. These companies just have a huge disrespect for software and quality in technology.
floydnoel··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
NPM does require 2FA to publish. I would love a workaround! Isn't it funny that even here on HN, misinformation is constantly being spread?
floydnoel··on API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]
OpenRouter works great! I wrote a coding agent CLI that uses it, new models get added all the time. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/flite/blob/main/bin/...
floydnoel··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
I think clamshell mode was a killer of those models especially. I never ran mine closed and still use them for gaming to this day (since they still run Wintel). Not even a single key failed yet
floydnoel··on Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
Last week I built my own CLI coding agent tool using just nodejs and zero dependencies! It is a lot of fun to build, really, I think everyone should try it out
floydnoel··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
i guess we can all tell who works for ad-tech!

seriously though, some of us have been using the web longer than JS has existed, and it works fine without it.

i personally just updated my purpose-built (for SEO and other non-JS contexts) router for React, which now lets one curl a page and you can see all the text contents you want and even has low quality image placeholders. so you can view the whole page with no-JS. it really isn't very hard to support!

floydnoel··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
that's a great observation. previously to (finally) trying Tailwind for the first time, I would write utility CSS classes to handle those cases like a stack or grid and it worked great building alone. Unfortunately, CSS is really hard to do with others, especially in a big team. Classes always added instead of using the existing one, nothing ever cleaned up. Tailwind is nice in that you get all the power of CSS, just a bit more ergonomic of an API. Plus using it really is just using CSS, just with all the possible utility classes already made for you!

that said i do like to still use classes like "btn" to consolidate a bunch of styles. I think it was a mistake for TW devs to discourage that pattern for so long.

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