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timw4mailon KDE is now my favorite desktop

KDE has been my preferred desktop environment since I started playing with linux sometime in the KDE 3 days.

I'm glad the wobbly windows desktop effect has stuck around too: absolutely unnecessary, but it's silly and fun.

My biggest complaint has nothing to do with KDE itself, but the fact that GTK apps are so ugly by default. QT apps look fine in GTK desktop environments though. (At least KDE has easy built-in settings for handling GTK theming these days...I remember it being more of an issue a while back)

timw4mailon Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

Of these options, I'd recommend the SV08, provided you are okay with some mods essentially being required for consistent, reliable use.

These being:

- Eddy sensor (for faster bed meshing, eddy-ng addon for Klipper adds auto z-offset)

- Mainline Klipper/Kalico (required for eddy functionality)

- Some motherboard fan replacement mod (the default is tiny, noisy, and always-on)

Of the others listed:

- Bambu printers and the Elegoo Centauri Carbon have locked-down firmware (possibly with hidden license violations).

- I think the only Prusa machine with that build volume is the XL, which is out of the price range

- The Creality Ender 3 V3 KE is okay, but the build volume is 220x220x240mm

timw4mailon The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)

Automation, and ease of skimming articles for one.

timw4mailon I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)

PHP package management actually works, for one thing :P

timw4mailon No adblocker detected

Ugghh, gas stations. I remember being able to use a pump without ads :(

timw4mailon Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Maybe they can finally make Jira responsive /s

timw4mailon Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

Yes, that is correct.

timw4mailon We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

Jira is a horrible tool I only use because I am forced to.

timw4mailon We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

And those native web widgets generally match the OS theme

timw4mailon We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

And yet 90+% of those SPA-apps have worse performance.

timw4mailon We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

It's all the buzzwords to justify the overcomplexity of web frontends.

timw4mailon Software Rot

I dislike Python for that reason. I don't love the offside-rule syntax, but compared to how often I have an issue with software written in Python due to some old/deprecated/broken packaging issue...

I've lately been pretty deep into 3d printing, and basically all the software has Python...and breaks quite easily. Whether because of a new version of Pip with some new packaging rule, forced venvs...I really don't like dealing with Python software.

timw4mailon Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

You can? I haven't seen them.

timw4mailon The Toyota Corolla of programming

A John Deere tractor used by mega farms.

timw4mailon Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

They moved my cheese, they removed my cheese, they replaced my cheese with worse cheese.

timw4mailon The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

Mumbles about annoyances at hanging commas

I bet JSON would allow hanging commas if not for Jscript.

timw4mailon I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It

It's like the (usually) interpreted equivalent to C/C++. There are lots of 'standard' package management choices.

And it seems like the package resolution is finally local by default, although that requires a 'virtualenv', which seems to be a legacy of the global packaging system.

timw4mailon How does a screen work?

Mostly. But multi-scanning to different resolutions is something I'll miss.

timw4mailon Interview with Google's Android leader Sameer Samat

It doesn't help that OS support is time-bombed either.

timw4mailon The story of Max, a real programmer

I disagree. I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend, and fashion/hype. PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs. You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP.

I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default.

timw4mailon What We Lost with PHP and jQuery

There's a generation of developers who have never used bare-metal hardware, and have never built a simple server-generated website.

timw4mailon Is It JavaScript?

Ewwww...

timw4mailon The Decline of Battery Life (2021)

Did you always play with a light? 4-6 hours is closer to GameGear territory.

The Gameboy Pocket certainly had the shortest battery life of the GB/Pocket/Color trio due to using 2 AAA batteries. My experience with the original is that the batteries last a long time.

timw4mailon Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search

This is one of my favorite moderate-level projects for playing with different programming languages.

The original in C: https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo

Go: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo

Rust: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo

And the more rusty tutorial version (Hecto): https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto

PHP: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo

...and Typescript: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll

timw4mailon Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political"

I lean conservative in many respects, and voted for a 3rd party.

timw4mailon Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political"

I don't like the state of the Republican party, but I'm also sick of this stereotyping and strawmen.

I think many, if not most, Americans agree that the tariffs are excessive and are going to cause issues.

timw4mailon JSX over the Wire

The hypermedia constraint is crazy magic itself. It's not like HATEOAS is fewer steps on the application and server side.

timw4mailon Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today

My late 2011 Macbook Pro's keyboard is certainly way nicer than my M1 Air's keyboard.

timw4mailon Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today

The real pain with the (well at least the earlier) plastic Macbooks (especially along with their short support life) is the 32bit EFI, and some even had 32bit-only Intel CPUs.

timw4mailon Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

Funny you should mention SNES carts...the only way I can use a Super Game Boy portably is with a Supaboy, which looks very silly :D

I realize you don't have the resolution needed for such a thing on your project, but it would be interesting to see a full SGB setup via FPGA.