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koterpillar··on Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
Are Unicode combining characters (dotted circles) visible on the screenshot by design?
koterpillar··on Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Can't imagine producing and selling this under the current regulations (and not just the crash-worthiness). I with they and C15 move towards each other...
koterpillar··on Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street
No screenshots or videos?
koterpillar··on My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name
git-absorb (https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb) does a bit more, figuring out the exact changes that should be fixed up.
koterpillar··on Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement
My sentiments aside, I'd like to know if it will actually help, and if my ebook reader (which doesn't scroll) is actually okay. So, looks like they could have extracted more knowledge here...
koterpillar··on Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement
I'm not seeing control groups scrolling books and/or using a paginated interface?
koterpillar··on Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
How are cursors stored and drawn on let's say macOS? Honest question, comparing with X is easy but not exactly state of the art.
koterpillar··on The Psychology of Apple Packaging
Work gave me a MacBook computer, the box experience is positive until you need to crush it for recycling (not to take a lot of space in the bin). All the corners are glued together super strongly, the inside mold just doesn't crush, there are boxes just to hold paper booklets... I'm surely a minority but Dell packaging is more delightful when you consider this (and surely the single material - cardboard - is easier to recycle too).
koterpillar··on Idempotency
Reading this article is completely safe even if you already understand idempotency.
koterpillar··on TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt eGPU Dock Review (2022)
Accidentally leet name.
koterpillar··on Are We Sixel Yet
How about the cursor position? The spec talks about "Sixel Scrolling Mode" but I couldn't find any way to display a sixel image inline: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70647549/displaying-a-si...
koterpillar··on Are We Sixel Yet
Does Sixel have a spec? I.e. how large are the pixels, whether there's a newline after the image (couldn't find how to turn that _off_)?

Recently discovered Kitty's graphics protocol (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/) which has more features or at least more documented ones :)

koterpillar··on Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?
https://xkcd.com/405/