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Love Httpie! Such an awesome cli with easy to remember, natural syntax. When installing on new boxes I wish it wasn't depending on python though.

I have had the Kaby Lake XPS 13" for about a year. Linux is nice in many ways and it's a decent laptop. The small formfactor/screen might be the best thing about it hardwarewise. Here's my rant:

- I had to research and create a bashscript with these cmds to get better defaults / fix stuff:

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# Longer timeout for backlit keyboard

echo 5m > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/stop_timeout

echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/brightness

# This is to stop touchpad from beeing to sensitive while typing

syndaemon -t -k -i 1.0 -d

# Fix headphone hissing

amixer -c PCH cset 'name=Headphone Mic Boost Volume' 1

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- Wireless networking performs way worse then on my macbook pro 2015.

- Bad palm rejection on the touchpad bites me all the time, even though I tweaked it with above script.

- Power supply stopped working after ~6 months. Dell sent me a new one though.

- Feels more sluggish then the older MacBook Pro 2015 even though the specs are better.

- Battery-life already feels ... bad.

- When I close screen and opens it back up it's very slow to re-connect to the WLAN. Again, my older MacBook Pro is so much faster.

- Ubuntu have some bad defaults for how certain things work. For example, when I connect to a bluetooth-speaker the default isn't that the volume-buttons on the keyboard controls the bluetooths-speakers volume.

I really wanted to like this laptop, but I'll most likely go latest MacBook Prop for my next. Even though I enjoy the power of pure linux.. and the keyboardlayout better then on a Mac.

Worked! Thanks man :).

Still have odd random crackles and noise when I for example stop/start a youtubevideo. Not a showstopper as the hissing though. Tried some tips on URL you pasted but no deal.

I've had Dell XPS 13 DE for about a month now. Overall I'm very happy with it. It's great to have the power of linux right on the computer, not a SSH-session away. I got the 1080p version cause the battery will last longer. Too bad it also ment I only got 8 gigs or ram.

There's also some rough edges, some of them I could solve.

Touchpad is supersensitive. If you're typing a longer sentence suddenly you could jump out of the input/text-field cause your thumbs touched it. Tweakable, got better with "syndaemon -t -k -i 1.0 -d".

I think the keyboard backlight turned off too quick, tweakable with "echo 5m > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/stop_timeout"

The WLAN doesn't come online as fast as I would like it to after closed screen and sleepmode. Way quicker on my MacBook Pro (2015). Also feels like I have more net-problems when the WLAN-signal is weak when compared to my MacBook Pro. Mosh in a terminal is great for keeping connections from a laptop to servers though.

Bluetooth syncing to wireless speakers and similar isn't as fluid and automatic as from Win 10.

The worst part is a constant lowlevel hissing when using headphones. I haven't been able to solve that yet :/.

But overall I really like the keyboard, the screen, the formfactor and Ubuntu 16.

Great work! Any plans to get keyboard-shortcuts (or something similar) working? I use them heavily in vscode.

I think something simple would add alot of value and separate you from other similar services :). Wouldn't be wrong with icons from os/browsers but just he 2 biggest would add value too.

For example if I see the icon from the most common IOS-version looks bad I won't be using that particular charcode.

Nice! I've been using other similar services but this looks lightweight and fast with decent search.

Would it be possible to show ios/android-icons (how they look or even exists) for each code?

That question always comes up when I use utf8-chars instead of classic image-icons in webprojects.

Nice idea/tool :). I mainly use httpie now, does it have any clear advantages over httpie?

It's nice with urls without "&" when curl'ing from bash.

Pretty short pixel perfect collision HTML5 platformer/puzzle, the theme "10 seconds" is pretty important when solving them.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Made with http://jawsjs.com/

Source code? The JavaScript isn't minified.

One of the reasons I never started blogged seriously is something like this. It's a very silly reason, I dev alot, I have ideas for blogposts.. but I just never could decide on a platform.

I don't like the idea of a hosted blogplatform, for some of the reasons Kenneth didn't.

I refuse to run Wordpress due to it's security history and upgrade hell. I know, there's security issues with everything.. except for maybe a static site with jekyll or something :). It's just that ages ago I thought that Wordpress was a silver bullet making various sites and I got bitten by it.

I never found a polished ruby/rails blog app. I've searched, maybe not lately. Has this changed?

A static site generator writing blog posts with git never excited me much, I like a kickass RTE.

The idea of doing my own blog comes up now and then but I haven't acted on it yet.

What options are there out there besides PHP? Preferable ruby/sinatra/rails over django.

Nice to see they're working on rendering-performance. I bought the prev Nexus 7 but returned it some days later. The jittery scrolling and constant microlag drove me crazy.

I switched from FF -> Chrome some years ago. Sometimes I try to switch back. Maybe FF is fast.. but it feels clunky, I wish they would copy Chromes GUI right off :). Also the "screen" flickers when I scroll, in Chrome it doesn't. And that's on a high-end windows PC.

I like what Mozilla is doing with regards to privacy and so on though...

Been waiting for raid5 with btrfs!

dns back, now I get bad gateway instead, progress :P

His suggestion for better preallocate APIs made me think of this ruby patch from Charles Nutter: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/173802

4 years later and they still discuss it, heh.

No I didn't, maybe I should have. Chrome is so good otherwise so it felt improbable that any other browser would be better.

With that said.. I don't understand how google could ship chrome in that state. Or how the reviews (I've read) seems to fail to mention it. Maybe it's just crystalclear when directly compared to an ipad.

Bought two nexus 7 over christmas, one for me and one as a present. I've only read good things about them.

Ended up returning them both due to the bad surfing experience. Laggy, bad scrolling. Sometimes it felt like it missed my swipe as a whole and just got stuck. Switched back to my ipad1 which is much better in that regard.

I liked the rest... but surfing is what I do most on a pad, so that has to be perfect.

This looks super-useful. I've yet to look into Scala, does anyoneone know if something similar exists for Ruby?

I've been bitten by googles non-existent customer support too while dealing with my adword account(s). Somehow I had two accounts, but one of them was transferred to my friend by changing all the info + have him verify the new bank account. Sure, I probably messed up somehow.. but it should be easy to fix but it's impossible to get in contact with them. I mailed multiple times over 1-2 months.. with details what I had done. Never got a single reply. Extremely frustrating. I want to put their ads on multiple sites, but they wont let me :).

When I needed to get my rails-update-fix I usually checked from my ipad where I haven't logged in to my github account.. then I used the railslink on top. Now it's gone :/ First world probblem :P.

I think the new one is too clean/generic.

love the detailed writeup, thanks for this.

I miss ruby :)

IKEA ftw, came for the furniture, stayed for the meatballs.

Right. When I first tested it.. it kind of worked. It was probably slow then too, but I didn't have much to compare with at the time. As I started using it more regularly later on it became more clear it was slow and that sometimes it didn't work at all. There was tons of talk about this on various forums... there was some fixes released and I always assumed this would get fixed in an later update. But time and updates went by and it never got good. Then it was too late to return the phone. If they even would have accepted a "sometimes very slow GPS" as a return-argument in the first place.

Amen to this. I also got the first Samsung Galaxy when it was hyped on engadget and other techblogs, especially for the amoled screen. The screen was always pretty good I guess. But aside from that, no more Samsung. GPS has always been ultra-slow, if working at all. The home button started glitching after 1-2 years. Micro-lag. The crap that is KIES. Kind of cheap plastic build. Each android update I hoped for things to get better, but they never did.

I'll probably never trust Samsung with my smartphone-money again. Might just test out Windows Phone just to get the ungodly build quality of a Nokia :).

While NaCL is exciting tech I wonder how user-friendly (load times, performance etc) and how easy to develop on top of it, it will be in reality.

I'll just drop a little tool I put together here some time ago: http://ippa.se/base64-image-encoder/

HTML5 audio is kind of weaksauce atm yes. To support all major browsers I need to ship both oggs and mp3s for example.

Jaws creates instances of Audio() for each sound, loading them by setting the src-attribute and listening for the canplay event before making the asset as fully loaded.

Just google the Audio-tag, you have play(), pause() etc.

Ye, github, the source and the examples is where it's at. The homepage has become less relevant. Thanks for reminding me to remove that line.