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grimgrin··on HTML-in-Canvas
exactly, we need a standard

https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas

:P

grimgrin··on How to Firefox
firefox on all my devices for the simple pleasure of sending tabs between devices

sometimes i'm reading something on phone and i "send to all devices", i'll sure as shit see it again this way

(even librewolf allows you to continue doing this)

grimgrin··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
debuggers can take it even further if they want that UX. in firefox given a chain of foo().bar().baz() you can set a breakpoint on any of 'em.

https://gist.github.com/user-attachments/assets/3329d736-70f...

grimgrin··on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
well this is simply adorable, down to the neocities hosted website

this already is my stack, tho I need to get over to the immutable variety. i'm on fedora 41 i3-spin, using chicago95. been using it for years, with the plymouth bit that gives you a proper win95 startup background during boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth

grimgrin··on SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
it's right on the page linked:

SignalBot was made by gwillem and is free to use.

grimgrin··on Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition
nice job! particularly glad when you close/open tab it continues where you left off

I am your classic american who would embarrass themselves if publicly tested on this. Never done spaced repetition outside of index card analogs, and I like the idea

I'll have to click more to experience the `spaced repetition` bit, just getting an early comment in to cheers you

grimgrin··on Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
limewire aint touchin soulseek

and it has people building alt.clients

    https://nicotine-plus.org
    https://github.com/slskd/slskd
(though these are not webapps, which was your main shtick i'm sure)
grimgrin··on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts
wrong. where the user is asking for recommended models (for offline use), they’re not saying “yes in fact I will burn $10000 on a computer”, not at all lol
grimgrin··on Show HN: Editable Games
You could try a shallow clone at first, “git clone —depth 1 …”

Later you can pull to get all of it

grimgrin··on Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
I'll jump to the wolfside but I'm going to absolutely miss "send tab to device", where I'm often driving this from mobile firefox, sending to one of a few other devices for Next time I'm sitting at a desk

There are alternative techniques but maybe none with so few clicks, where the outcome is something literally in your face. A new tab opening on a computer elsewhere. It's that "I'm almost forced to see this" that I like

grimgrin··on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
for years i’ve stuck with Chicago95 and I refuse to use windows 95
grimgrin··on Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers
https://github.com/NeverCease/uchu/blob/primary/documentatio...
grimgrin··on I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
Recently Howtown talked about some of the theories:

https://youtu.be/dutpBSKj8JY?t=196

It looks at a couple non-competing (iirc) theories

grimgrin··on Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell
claude isn’t local. the key is providing the image to direct the html and css from the llm
grimgrin··on Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer
redbean!! redbean is so good

https://redbean.dev/

likely a bit outdated but:

https://github.com/shmup/awesome-cosmopolitan?tab=readme-ov-...

grimgrin··on Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
this is the page i’d link to

https://block.github.io/goose/docs/goose-architecture/

grimgrin··on Python 3, Pygame, and Debian Bookworm on the Miyoo A30
aside, cool re: GP32

> Game Park planned their system to be powerful and useful, but they also wanted users to be able to create homebrew software. GP32 users could register the unit on the official website and get a free suite of development tools to create their own programs.

grimgrin··on YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)
took me a while to recognize you can long press on mobile yt to 2x, maybe even more than 2x but I ain’t figured out the finger incantation
grimgrin··on Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
no suggestions in this reply, nor can I speak to if this is a good or bad idea, but you may like to learn about "classless css frameworks", basically just targeting the html5 semantics

https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

also, https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks

others may give you a _real_ recommendation. cheers

grimgrin··on VS Code Pets
yes bvan, but i think we should fork it and use alf

https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/83012/

grimgrin··on Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
A nice origin story http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2009/08/outrun-decompilation...

OutRun on Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/@reassembler68k

grimgrin··on Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
playable for me in firefox and chrome
grimgrin··on Fresh Web Framework by Deno
I did not have fun debugging this stack and switched to the more comfortable mental model for me. I found a reliance on having to use --inspect for the backend w/ devtools. While a convenience, not a flow I am used to.

I think it's neat but just slowed me down

I'm sure I'd have had more fun doing something hobby-adjacent with it, but I was using it for a client. oops

grimgrin··on The DIY Multideck
a lot of fun dice here https://www.mathartfun.com/dSpecial.html

I like the "go first" dice

grimgrin··on The DIY Multideck
I like unusual playing cards.

Here's one I peek at from time to time: http://wiki.decktet.com/introduction-to-the-decktet

grimgrin··on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
I bought in early to typingmind, a great web based frontend. Good for editing context, and switching from say gemini to claude. This is a very normal flow for me, and whatever tool you use should enable this

also nice to interact with an LLM in vim, as the context is the buffer

obviously simon’s llm tool rules. I’ve wrapped it for vim

grimgrin··on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
We call them features
grimgrin··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
what about https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

you use that too right? you better!

grimgrin··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Dunno exactly what my dance is but more than once I’ve found myself getting on the upgrade program, but not upgrading on the 12 month opportunity and instead paying it off over the next 12. If it has a crack I’ll do a last minute applecare swap while I got it. Cool, new old phone for another cycle
grimgrin··on Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
Imagining an `installation` in my space, using both my MT-80S and a display. Can I even reason about this, the timing? I'm not smart here, just interested

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2014/07/roland-mt-80s-midi-playe...

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