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1. Emojis are perfectly supported in plain text as long as you’re using Unicode.

2. The bloat/ugliness argument could also be applied to websites, but no one is out there advocating for plain text websites.

This sounds great until you realize that, in the real world, people want to have some options to format the text they write (italics, bold, hyperlinks and the like), and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

My thoughts exactly. I loved Tom Bombadil when reading the book as a child!

This is, in my opinion, great advice. I work at a non-profit cultural institution as sole IT admin and I have never been happier with my job. I couldn’t imagine going back to the startup world.

All true. Besides, you could take it off and place it in front of you.

I use macOCR[1] from the terminal for that.

[1]: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

A good enough standard that works for everyone > dozens of cutting-edge amazing technologies competing with each other and no standardization

I live here, I’m not struggling with fuel prices since I don’t own a car, but I’m sure happy to be able to get a Monatskarte for 9€ instead of the usual 89€ (I live in Berlin).

May I ask which Android e-ink reader you switched to?

Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, tildes.net are the aggregators I regularly visit.

I follow a handful of interesting people via Twitter.

All the rest I consume via RSS — I follow about 380 feeds at the moment. I use Miniflux.app as backend (hosted plan), Reeder on my phone and NetNewsWire on my Mac.

Hey man! Been following your blog for years. Always enjoy your writing.

Clicked several times on that button and this is what I've got:

- Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers

- 12 Useful Tools for DevOps

- Simplest alternative IDs with Rails

- How do I update my website using the iPad

- Certified Blockchain Professional - Module 03: Blockchain Mining

- Principles for the Metaverse

- Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5

- Is Agility Related to Commitment? – Money Flows Part II

Is the "IndieWeb" basically just English-written personal blogs from HN folks now? I'd have hoped to find a bit more of a diverse landscape.

I achieve that same consistency with virtually zero configuration by simply setting the colors in my terminal and forgetting about it. Stopped all the fiddling with color schemes quite a while ago.

Good explanation: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

Found out about groups.io today and I'm thrilled. Looks incredibly well-done and feature-rich. Can't wait to try it out, and maybe ditch Slack in the process :)

Thanks for f.lux! I‘ve been using it for years, basically without ever touching it, it just runs in the background on every machine I use. Couldn‘t imagine living without it.

The "Show HN" tag should only be used for showcasing your own projects. I recommend you edit the title to remove the "Show HN" bit.

From the HN submitting guidelines, second paragraph:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. […] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> If not pure coding projects, at least for things like markdown, having a preview could help.

You can use a dedicated app alongside Vim for that. On macOS, Marked2[1] is pretty great.

[1]: https://marked2app.com

That's paywalled... do you mind posting the number here?

Jesus… I'm glad I didn't get my team to switch to Quill when I was evaluating Slack alternatives.

> When the car began replacing the horse, pessimists didn’t treat it like a great new tool. They called it “the devil wagon,” and said its mission was to destroy the world.

They were absolutely right.

After years of disillusion and disappointment, I am so happy to see how things at Apple have apparently taken a turn for the better. With M1 and especially the new MacBooks Pro, they are in the process of fixing their hardware, with incredible results. Now they're taking concrete steps to make repairs more accessible, which was unthinkable just a year ago.

Now, time to fix software and documentation :)

You might be interested in detox:

https://github.com/dharple/detox

Deepl is amazing. I use it several times a day for translating fairly complex sentences, idioms and figures of speech, usually from English (my second language) to German (my third language and the one I currently work with). Every time I'm amazed by how well it works. It really makes my life a lot easier.

Another language tool I love and use daily is https://www.powerthesaurus.org

This brought back memories, thank you :')

> In practice, getting fulltext is rare, and clients for RSS are either POC skeletons of functionality, or they're bloated and include a bunch of shit I'll never use.

You just need the right tools. Miniflux[1], which I will never get tired of recommending at every occasion, has a scraper built-in, so you just need to enter one or two css selectors and it fetches the text for you, ready to be consumed in its excellent, HN-inspired web interface or in your client of choice.

If you can't be bothered to self-host there is a hosted option which is only 15$/year.

Miniflux is the reason I'm a heavy RSS user today (I follow just over 300 feeds at the moment) after years of being intrigued by the possibilities of the standard but ultimately unable to stick to it due to wrong/inadequate tooling. Miniflux was my turning point.

[1]: https://miniflux.app

libreddit is only for passive consumption. You cannot login with your account, so there's no possibility to upvote, downvote, comment, save, subscribe, or otherwise interact in any way.

> CTO as a service

Jesus Christ.

I quickly whipped up a bookmarklet to view any Medium article in scribe.rip for anyone interested:

    javascript:location.hostname.includes("medium.com")?location.assign("https://scribe.rip"+location.pathname+location.search+location.hash):location.assign("https://scribe.rip");

As long as they don't break RSS feed support for releases... I use that feature heavily.