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sira04··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
From FreeBSD to Windows 2000: Microsoft’s Painful Hotmail Migration

https://archive.md/KZ0sy

sira04··on Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
Love his SM64 videos. Link to the latest one for anyone who's curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5rj80L-pk
sira04··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Pretty happy with Resilio Sync. I use it on Mac, and linux in a docker container.
sira04··on GNU Midnight Commander

  docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):$(pwd)" -w "$(pwd)" nixery.dev/mc mc
sira04··on Blurry rendering of games on Mac
League of Legends in borderless mode renders at the resolution that's set in BetterDisplay instead of the real one which makes it very blurry. In fullscreen it does it correctly so I'm forced to use fullscreen.
sira04··on The forbidden railway: Vienna-Pyongyang (2008)
Is there anyone who has archived this into a PDF or ebook format? I'd love to save and read it in another way.
sira04··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
What was the marketing company called? I'd like to know if they list this service publicly and if so, what it would be called.
sira04··on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS
I think that would become unwieldy very fast. I think it's alright for a lightweight site like this one with very little content.

If you don't want to use a static site generator I think you're better off with just html files for each page/blog entry, or you could use something like htmx and load stuff in that way.

sira04··on Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS
This is quite neat. Every page is a <section id="pageid"> and css is

  section {display:none}
  section:target {display:block}
So they use the target selector which becomes active when #pageid is in the url. But the html for all the pages is outputted, so this won't scale with a big blog. I wonder how SEO is for this, and if there's a way to make this better with something like the <object> element.

I would also make it so the url was example.com/#/pageid, so the id is "/pageid". Looks a bit better I think.

sira04··on DOOM CAPTCHA
One day we'll have the Dark Souls captcha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
sira04··on Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics
Looks great!

I found a small bug, if you click Expand in the Top Pages section, the Time on Page column has NaNs.

Dark mode for the dashboard and showing realtime current visitors in the <title> would be great.

sira04··on The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
It's this in the <head>

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
Remove the maximum-scale property.
sira04··on I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
Could you make a model from your API/docs and let them plug that into their AI stuff? That would be funny.
sira04··on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
I hope one day it'll be easy to make a living doing several different things, and not just one thing for 8 hours a day.
sira04··on How I search in 2024
Similar, on Youtube you can type before:2025 (any future year) and it'll show better results.
sira04··on Doom Captcha (2021)
I'm still waiting for someone to make the Mona Lisa Captcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
sira04··on Show HN: I made Vinlo – Spinning artwork video for your music
Reminds me of Turn https://www.turn.audio
sira04··on Kagi and Wolfram
Google had that and I used it constantly. Then they removed it of course. I can't remember if it included small blogs as well.
sira04··on A Canadian payroll dependency chart
The Faroe Islands have the best one according to this article I read recently https://prospect.org/world/best-tax-system-on-earth-faroe-is...
sira04··on The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse
It's a common myth, but he wasn't drunk, and the deal didn't happen that day. Several meetings later with several more officials and the deal went through 2 years after that negotiation. They basically placed the line in the middle, and the norwegians got lucky.
sira04··on The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
Reminds me of this post where they did the same, but on a cart instead https://ikeahackers.net/2021/08/home-networking-cart.html

Looks pretty good if you don't want to hang it on a wall.

sira04··on The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
I make burner accounts on these platforms for this use case. No profile image, random character usernames. works fine.
sira04··on In praise of blowing up your life
Can you link the blog?