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joewrong··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
I like using neocities for goofy sites like these

- Loading indicator that never finishes loading https://loading.neocities.org/

- Scrolling marquee tribute site https://marquee.neocities.org/

- DVD logo bounce via `<marquee>` https://dvdmarquee.neocities.org/

- A form that lies about detecting image alterations https://isthisreal.neocities.org

joewrong··on Confluent Deletes/Hides Librdkafka
I haven't been able to find any forks of it either

edit - found an older one https://github.com/weeclemans/librdkafka

joewrong··on An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
I wonder if you could have similar results from licking a 9v battery
joewrong··on Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?
we use Notion for anything that doesn't fit in one of the code repos, like process docs and platform architecture notes.
joewrong··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
I’d be interested in that stat as well, and love imagining a person sitting in front of dozens of screens showing video of automated cars
joewrong··on How will ATSC 3.0 transform TV advertising?
I'd like to see open source solutions for blocking OTA TV ads
joewrong··on Weekend hacking: wireless charging for a HP-25 calculator
time for a calculator -> bluetooth keyboard project
joewrong··on Ask HN: Year old CS student. Should I continue?
do what sounds the most fun to you. there's no clear pre-planned path with all of the answers, so enjoy what you can
joewrong··on Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
+1 request for an import feature

An import from Pocket would be cool

joewrong··on DVD Bouncing Logo
love it. I remember seeing this pulled off with 2 scrolling <marquee> HTML tags https://dvdmarquee.neocities.org/
joewrong··on Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
+1, their documentation has improved so much in the last couple of years https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/index.html
joewrong··on Aphrodite: ORM designed for Local-First applications and P2P data transfer
you may find qbittorrent interesting https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent

they've been a popular p2p app for a few years

joewrong··on Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
I've been seeing some amazing skating on tiktok
joewrong··on TikTok Remix Culture
Been doing this in addition to blocking any users sharing cable news clips. Really enjoying my silly feed.
joewrong··on TikTok and the network effects of creativity
they have an account @afvofficial
joewrong··on Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod
I wonder if I could lick a 9 volt battery and play back some high frequency tones through my headphones to get a similar effect?
joewrong··on Arcosanti
pretty cool! we learned about this in a utopias class I took. one of the interesting books in that class was "Two Hundred Years of American Communes" by Yaacov Oved.
joewrong··on Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
This may help https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
joewrong··on Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
reminds me of this entertaining article https://thehardtimes.net/culture/jeff-bezos-announces-plan-j...
joewrong··on Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
the only thing stopping me from uninstalling google maps is setting the map view to north-up during turn by turn navigation. I can't handle the map turning while I am for some reason.
joewrong··on Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file
" ORDER BY tweet.time DESC "

sign me up

joewrong··on Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
reminds me of couchdb apps where you'd use document attachments to store html/public files and serve them directly from couch.

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/couchapp/

joewrong··on Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society
give them a call
joewrong··on JavaScript: The Modern Parts
Sounds like Make
joewrong··on Learning Synths
They have a reasonable trial on their site. I'd recommend taking it for a spin.
joewrong··on Micro Frontends
I wonder if multiple focused software products would negate the need to have independent front end teams improve and maintain a single giant product?
joewrong··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
some sites prevent mailinator accounts on signup
joewrong··on What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
Elisabeth Rosenthal's "An American Sickness" is one of the best overviews of the many aspects and incentives for pricing in healthcare.

https://www.anamericansickness.com/

joewrong··on Ask HN: I'm looking for examples of one-person startups that scaled big
Distrokid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DistroKid
joewrong··on Python in Visual Studio Code
Any tips to share on debugging python in a docker container using vscode?

I've tried their instructions for ptvsd before and after this update but still haven't been able to use the debugger with docker.

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