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leejoramo··on A History of Microwave Ovens
Look at the commercial microwaves I linked to in an adjacent comment. For easy of cleaning, these typically do not have the spinning plates.
leejoramo··on A History of Microwave Ovens
If you want some better options for microwave ovens, try checking out you local food service suppliers or websites like Webstaurant They will be a bit more expensive, but often have better controls and are easier to clean.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/14351/commercial-microwaves...

leejoramo··on Scripting News: 30 years of Dave Winer's blog
I have read Dave’s blog since nearly the beginning. I remember working with Clay Basket and Frontier back in the early days.
leejoramo··on There Are 89,004 Local Governments in the United States (2012)
This doesn’t include the apparently over 350,000 Home Owner Associations in the USA that are effectively another layer of local government with the powers to tax and regulate like other special districts
leejoramo··on Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?
The podcast Imaginary Worlds has often covered Science Fiction and Fantasy from around the world and different cultures. Just reading the show notes will give you authors to check out and other links. Even the episodes that are more focused on standard USA/UK works often bring in wider view points than we typically get. Just a few example shows: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/african-sci-... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/creating-hin... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/octavia-butl... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/postcolonial...
leejoramo··on How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works
Thanks for that link.

“Circuit Cellar” reminded me of something, and led me to find this is the descendant of Steve Ciarcia’s 1980s BYTE magazine column. After several iterations, it looks like Steve sold it to an employee.

leejoramo··on Chipotle adds automation, 'autocado' robot helps make guacamole
Interesting story. A couple of points.

26 seconds per avocado is slow compared to a trained employee at a properly setup work station

Employee training is CRITICAL for this task. Improperly cutting avocados is the is one of the top kitchen related reasons for Emergency Room visits in the USA. (This includes people in their homes)

So I expect Chipotle is looking at worker’s compensation claims as much as wage increases.

Source: I own a coffee house and we serve lots of avocado toast. We are very careful about how we train and handle avocados. The task is easy to make safe, but without training and oversight people strongly tend to do it in a dangerous way.

leejoramo··on Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client?
I find the GitHub Desktop tool to be rather clunky.

I use git in various ways;

* CLI for most small tasks

* GUI for big tasks and getting an overview

* Editor UI for small things if I am currently in the editor.

* GitHub’s website for collaboration and GH specific tasks

The GUI’s I use are:

Git-Fork on macOS, Windows. Visually my favorite UI of all. https://git-fork.com

Sublime Merge on macOS, Windows and Linux. I use this the most since my main development system is Linux. It is more powerful. https://www.sublimemerge.com

I prefer those two to Tower, but Tower is much better than GitHub’s tools. Tower is probably the most powerful tool out there.

Many editors have good Git support. I tend to use these tools first smaller git tasks.

VSCode had a wealth of built-in and add on tools that can do nearly anything. I generally find these to be rather inelegant UI designs. But again better than GitHub’s own client.

I have been VERY pleased with the Zed Editor’s current git integration and expect it will improve. I have only recently started to use Zed as my primary editor on an experimental basis.

Finally, I haven’t really reviewed all of this in a few years. Always interested in learning new ways.

leejoramo··on Beekeeper Studio: Lightweight DataGrip Alternative
I use Beekeeper and like it very much for a simple GUI that works with a number of sql databases.

It should be noted that the link here is a comparison page specifically for DataGrip. There are similar comparison pages for other tools. Or go to Beekeepers home page for an overview of the product.

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io

leejoramo··on Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf]
Our burro loved our dogs and would come up to them to exchange greetings. I think she was far more interested in them than the horses.

I suspect the burros you encountered had been themselves harassed by dogs in the past.

leejoramo··on Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf]
She was mostly a pet, and was very gentle and easy to lead.

We also had horses. The burro was useful for training the horses to behave in a herd because she while she enjoyed being in the group she held herself outside of the horse’s hierarchy and would not be bullied

She was very adapt at wading into thorny blackberry bushes and eating only the ripest berries

leejoramo··on Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf]
It is interesting all the different ways we have to encode data adapted to specific purposes.

As a child in the late 1970s, my family adopted a wild burro in California. My parents had her for over 30 years. I remember she had these freeze marks although you would have needed to shave it to read it. Burros are much shaggier than horses.

leejoramo··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Last couple of times I have done this, I used Apple’s online system to schedule the battery replace at a locally owned Apple dealer or at the nearest Best Buy. Same price and warranty as at the Apple Store. Turn around time was 2 hours.
leejoramo··on Ask HN: A list of all specialty coffee?
Sprudge coffee news has a maps listing for specialty coffee houses. I don’t think it has had much work done on it in a while. (And I see my shops listing is out of date. That is on me, not them)

https://sprudge.com/

https://www.sprudgemaps.com

leejoramo··on Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
I am a big fan of WebDAV. DUFS is new to me, I will check it out.
leejoramo··on Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
Does dufs have the auto reload feature of this project?
leejoramo··on Zed AI
In my case this pointed out a problem with my NVIDA drivers that I didn’t know about. Once I fixed that issue my whole KDE system ran much faster and allowed Zed to run
leejoramo··on Zed AI
BBEdit Doesn’t Suck!
leejoramo··on Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
If you love Kinto, you need to really look at the Toshy project. It is a fork of Kinto for Linux. The developer of Toshy is super active and responsive, and has moved the Kinto code to more modern technology. They have refactored the scripts to be much easier to customize and while allowing upgrade to new versions of Toshy.

https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy

leejoramo··on Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
I had to clean up the code a bit and move it to a public GitHub repository.

https://github.com/leejoramo/macOS-plus-AHK

As others have mentioned it is probably worth looking at Kinto to add macOS keyboard shortcuts to Windows. I started this project years before I learned about Kinto, plus I have most of my other system customizations in here.

Currently my main workstation is KDE/Ubuntu where I use Toshy for the macOS shortcuts, and have customized the rest via KDE shortcut management and my hardware keyboard.

leejoramo··on Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
I miss these macOS shortcuts when I am other platforms. For Windows, I wrote my own extensive AHK scripts to duplicate most Mac shortcuts I regularly use, including cursor movement

On Linux I now use Toshy

https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy

leejoramo··on Ask HN: What note taking app do you use and why?
I personally find the polished UI across macOS/iOS/ipadOS and web well worth the expense. I encourage you to watch the videos to see how the UI is both fully GUI tailored to the platform AND is also Text based, so almost all operations can be done while typing inline.

Yes I use Apple to sync the files between the NotePlan apps.

And I use my own tools to keep my NotePlan text files sync'ed to my KDE Linux Workstation where I can edit them in VSCode.

I won't say $100 is cheep, but then again I paid over $150 a year (more like $400 today)for a MSDOS Word Process in the 1980s.

leejoramo··on Ask HN: What note taking app do you use and why?
I start by using plain text Markdown files so that I can use many different programs, workflows, and it is future proof.

What do I consider Notes? Documentation, reference materials, ideas, journaling, and task management.

For documentation I use a programmers text editor. Mostly VSCode, but I still use BBEdit, Sublime and others

For the past couple of years the primary application I use for everything else is NotePlan

https://noteplan.co

NotePlan stores its data as markdown files, offers a very polished GUI for Mac, iPhone and iPad and is tailored to each. A web version was recently released and is still feature incomplete but very usable.

The developer has created an app that appears deceptively simple, but has a great deal of depth and flexibility for you to create your own systems.

If you want Tasks and Calendars as part of your note system, NotePlan is well worth a deep review. Check out the videos on their site to get an understanding. NotePlan also integrated with Apple’s Reminders and Calendar. It also can sync with Google Calendar.

Hashtags and @Mentions are available. Templates for meetings, journaling and more are provided or you can make your own.

Sync works flawlessly via Apple’s ICloud and the developer never sees your data. (I was skeptical of this but found it to be true). It is not recommended, but you can also sync via Dropbox or git.

NotePlan is extendable via JavaScript plugins many of which are provided by the community. These include simple shortcuts to complex new dashboard views.

Do you have your own additions to Markdown syntax? NotePlan made it easy for me to add my own syntax.

Since this is Markdown, you can use other tools. The NotePlan documentation explains how to use Obsidian

I mention the Web version is not yet full featured. However, it is VERY functional. My primary workstation is KDE/Ubuntu, and I use the web version all day long.

Finally, yes NotePlan is a subscription. I am hesitant to recommend subscriptions. But let me strongly state, I feel it is a fair deal. The subscription covers 4 native platforms. This is a highly responsive Developer on Discord and elsewhere, new features arrive constantly. I am on the BETA and get updated several times per month. The Developer has gone out of their way to not lockup your data in a proprietary format. The only lock in they have is providing an excellent UI and nurturing a great community.

leejoramo··on 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
Great to see these UserLand Radio Blogs are still hosted all these years later. Dave Winer (and I am sure others) obviously worked to see that happen.
leejoramo··on How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?
Exactly this. I have to use Chrome (or one of its non-Google flavors) to easily create dedicated Desktop apps for websites. I would prefer to use Firefox but they killed this feature long ago.

Glad Firefox is revisiting PWA/WebApps

leejoramo··on The Saucer – A DIY trackpad attachment for the Voyager
Also check out Handheld Scientific's BT-600

http://handheldsci.com/kb/

Be sure to read their documentation which includes a fair amount of macro programming.

leejoramo··on Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit
Indeed this is an excellent quality site. If you want deep dives into macOS and M-series CPU technical details, there are few other sites as good.
leejoramo··on Railroading the Pascal Language
I immediately remember the Apple Pascal poster from the late 1970s:

https://archive.org/details/pascal-poster-v-3-a-1

leejoramo··on Show HN: DIY solution to enable hotspot, when your eSIM does not support it
At least for me on AT&T, using my phone as hotspot is part of my service plan with the carrier. Given that I pay for it, it works as you describe.

The hacks described here are if you don’t have hotspot usage enabled with the carrier.

leejoramo··on Ask HN: Home monitoring solution without subscription
Their cheaper tags are not for freezers, at least for commercial low temp applications. But the more expensive ones work in freezers

I have really only used these for refrigeration and monitoring access to liquor cabinets in a commercial environment. I user their apps and have some notifications via Pushover.

https://pushover.net

I have a back burner project to integrate their open/close switches with our Hue Lighting. But have only researched the possibilities. But their website describes how to setup lots of automations and integrations

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