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liam_jaon Show HN: Keep track of why you muted someone on X

I knew before even clicking through that there would be a reference to yapcine.

liam_jaon Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job?

I brought it into an aging ~12-year-old system to add a bit of SPA-like functionality to some pages. It works wonderfully with those classic MVC-style web sites.

I can highly recommend it for giving older, jQuery-era sites a new lease of life. I dropped in the CDN built into the view files, tweaked some of the controllers to return content outside of their usual template layouts based on a hx-request header, and I was away.

Didn't have to mess with bundlers and compilers. It was refreshing!

liam_jaon I'm betting on HTML

You might not need JS, but you will need a SCSS transpiler.

liam_jaon “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

I've finally found someone else who's seen this behaviour!

I've noticed this too, and I found (in my case anyway) that Bing/Outlook seems to Rot13 the keys of the query parameters - is this what you're seeing too?

liam_jaon Modern PHP Cheat Sheet

I also find the super slim scrollbar difficult to use.

liam_jaon Show HN: Bezie – Virtual MIDI controller for complex automation

This looks very similar to Xfer LFO Tool - how do they compare?

liam_jaon Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

Hi HN, I'm the creator of this filter list.

If anyone can spare 5-10 minutes a week to help me and a couple of others maintain this list (testing and merging pull requests, closing issues, etc.), I'd be very appreciative!

You can contact me here or send an email to cookies[at]prebake[dot]eu

liam_jaon Show HN: Cloak – Incognito mode for real life

"2) Why does the background & image move around with the mouse? It doesn't have anything to do with the app."

That's what got me. To me it implies that when someone is within proximity of the phone, it will vibrate/notify the user; other than that, I have no idea.

liam_jaon GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

The difference is these countries pride themselves on the freedoms their citizens possess, yet they go behind their backs and surveil everything and anything they can about them, usually using technologies and platforms their own citizens helped devise.

liam_jaon Show HN: Fiddlewax

I was really frustrated when I clicked the link. It looked like something I might enjoy (it looks music related!)

Is it an ear-trainer? Synth? Song-learning tool?

Haven't seen the video yet (which I only found after I managed to hunt down a link to the homepage.)

liam_jaon Speech accent archive (English)

There's also the British Library's archive of Accents & Dialects.

http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects

liam_jaon Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet_encryption

It would be pretty unfeasible to attempt a brute-force, due to the number of encryption rounds.