rickcarlino

On mobile, the only thing we see is a sign in banner. It would be nice to see anything about the game before deciding to sign in.

Illinois also has a Bill in committee right now to mandate operating system level age verification. There are lots of bad ideas to be upset about this year. If you are an Illinois resident, email your representative about HB 5511 today. Stupid legislation like this passes because we don’t speak up. Find out who your representative is, find their email, tell them your opinion.

Imagine being able to connect two computers over the internet using sockets. WebRTC is a marvel, but I miss the whimsical days of running something on a port at home and connecting to it without thinking about NAT.

Does anyone remember this quote by Why the Lucky Stiff: “When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability.”

What is the catch with these real estate auctions? Certainly a $60k house is a deal even if it had a bad roof full of asbestos.

LLMs can produce text information but they cannot have experiences. Writing about authentic experience is still a worth while endeavor. Expression of a preference is also an experience when framed correctly.

I’ve been using SimpleX for a small circle of friends and it has been pretty easy to use. I am surprised it has not seen wider adoption. Writing scripts for it is also straightforward.

I am almost 40 and only now realizing “pent”ium came after “4”86.

A web where text/markdown is prevalent is a win for human readers, too. It would be great if Firefox and Chrome rendered markdown as rich text (eg: real headings/links instead of plaintext).

How has Lobste.rs fared compared to HN in this regard? Lobste.rs is very similar to HN, but has an invite-only membership system.

Nothing says “I’m not AI” like a complete disregard for capitalization and grammar. It’s the ultimate authenticity signal in 2026.

It is going to be quite the ethical dilemma if/when these machines produce text output comparable to a modern LLM...

Please expand this to other states. This is such a fun and creative idea.

It seems to be case sensitive.

Who is actively lobbying against the “war on root access”? Which are the NGOs/PACs/non-profits with the best track record of getting results here? FSF and EFF come to mind, but I can’t think of others and don’t know of track records for any of them.

And while they are at it, I hope they give us our scrollbars back. They seem to shrink by one pixel every year...

Are westerners entering a period of “minimalism fatigue”? Anecdotally it seems like color and texture are slowly taking hold in designs, especially in works targeting a younger demographic.

Example: liquid glass, anything published by Taco Bell, the meme of making sites look like they came from Geocities in 99, etc...

Does it support other languages?

Since it is just markdown files and a tiny bit of JSON meta data, it’s trivial to use Obsidian as the GUI for a static site generator. I have some thin ruby scripts that compile my notebook to HTML and upload to my blog via SSH. I removed my previous static site generator library and just use simple markdown rendering libs now. https://rickcarlino.com/notes/

Recently purchased a Pocket8086 and I can say – these sorts of things are _very_ fun.

I think it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do this. There are so many things now that simply don’t have good non-mobile alternatives, like the maps and authenticators you mention. “Uninstall the apps and turn off data” seems like the most attainable option in this thread.

Do a real project with goals and expectations. Learn exactly what you need to get the task done. Do not buy a ROS book. Do not spend huge amounts of time exploring the ecosystem. Just focus on making it “do the thing”. The experience will come when the goals are met. Source: I built the entire initial software stack for the FarmBot project (minus the gcode handling firmware, thanks Tim) and had zero hardware experience when I started. I can compile embedded Linux kernels from scratch and whatnot now.

I did a search for a nations GDP to compare that to. That’s Chile, I think.

Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?

Consumers have shown a willingness to pay for other types of premium content via NetFlix and similar. Have any of these outlets considered launching a news agency within their platform? Eg: “Hulu Nightly News”.

Yet another case of lawmakers proliferating the “you should not have root access” meme. This is one of the most dangerous ideas in the modern political landscape and a backdoor to much less well intentioned actions (intentional and unintended).

Keeping an issue open is not going to force a maintainer to care. If they want to close the issue it is likely because they don’t care and getting them to care is not a UI/UX problem. Even if the issue is left open, it is likely not getting prioritized on internal roadmaps and discussions.

Similar project I vibe coded a few weeks ago: "Gnutella/Limewire but WebRTC".

https://github.com/RickCarlino/hazelhop

It works, though probably needs some cleanup and security review before being used seriously (thus no running public instance).

I love it! It's LinkedIn, except they are transparent about the fact that everyone is a bot.

It’s a demonstrably difficult problem that, aside from lady bird, has not been easy for independent devs to accomplish.