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kowlo··on Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece
Ancient Iran is correct
kowlo··on Apache ECharts
> you can always just take an observable notebook and ask AI to convert it to a set of vanilla files for you.

D3.js docs used to be fine. Now you need to "ask AI" to untangle them?

kowlo··on Apache ECharts
It's a shame - and I'm not sure why they did it other than to use D3.js' popularity promote Observable.
kowlo··on Apache ECharts
Not touching D3.js since Observable.
kowlo··on Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
What a game. Lost hours to QTE Title (one of the games within the game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drdFhBKDvIQ
kowlo··on I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
I hadn't heard about this - terrible.
kowlo··on Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
books are missing
kowlo··on Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
Beautiful and inspiring. Can you share the specific e-picture frame you mentioned?
kowlo··on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
For most (nowadays), the journey is about becoming a competent researcher.
kowlo··on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
I would show this to all prospective PhD students, and then again on their first day if they were selected.
kowlo··on How to print your Guild Wars 2 character
Phantasy Star Online - what a dream!
kowlo··on Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic
Is there a way to use this with a simple docker-compose, no Kubernetes?
kowlo··on I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)
It's a shame that's their only post (https://nee.lv/)
kowlo··on Hexcodle
good fun

I got Hexcodle #140 in 3 guesses!

kowlo··on Tell HN: Twillio immediately closes accounts with the word Palestine in them?
Why?
kowlo··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
Perhaps they are talking about Homebrew the package manager [1].

[1] https://brew.sh

kowlo··on Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative
Looks like they do more than just email too [1], including SMS.

[1] https://listmonk.app/docs/messengers/

kowlo··on Terminal Support for Emoji
I quite like them in GitHub release descriptions, e.g. those by Ghost CMS https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v5.52.0
kowlo··on Is “do the needful” correct?
Indian students would often sign-off their emails with variations of "Please do the needful".
kowlo··on Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?
Shenmue, my first experience of full reactive eyes entertainment.
kowlo··on Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
- multithreading

- better design collected from our Web components https://componentator.com

- without third party dependencies (in the core)

- online chat support with authors and contributors (https://t.me/totaljs)

A lot of (open source) helpers like

- UI Builder https://uibuilder.totaljs.com (released soon),

- Total DB https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb (released soon),

- OpenMail, OpenTemplates, OpenAuth, etc..

kowlo··on Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
https://imgur.com/a/HAKSFZV
kowlo··on Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
https://imgur.com/a/HAKSFZV
kowlo··on The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
Well done
kowlo··on Chronophoto
It said Clinton Shaking Kennedy's hand was 1962... thought it was 63
kowlo··on Realistic computer-generated handwriting
At worst, this produces better output than some university students sitting a written assessment!
kowlo··on Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
I had this article left on my screen to read after making a cup of tea. Wife was a bit confused, she'd only read "8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid"...
kowlo··on Stripe is wrongly suspending accounts
This is terrible. I'm going to start looking into alternatives, which is shame, because we initially built around the Stripe API.

We recently had one customer forget to cancel their subscription, and then without contacting us first they filed a dispute for 6 months of charges. That's 6 individual disputes, each with a $15 ($90) dispute fee. We got in touch and mentioned we'd have investigated, found the license unused, and refunded for those months. They contacted their bank to withdraw, but the bank and Stripe are just pushing ahead.

kowlo··on Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
No surprise. Need to ride the funding train for as long as they can.
kowlo··on D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source
I use Blockdiag - how come I never see it mentioned?
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