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tregoningon Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>

Why? Those are completely different skillsets

tregoningon Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

Javascript from 30 years ago, still works today.

I went to that exact spot a while ago, here is my photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnniewalker/7870318918

Little known fact... this images are actually backed by Flickr.com and in there you get to download the original size vs "large" which seems to only be available on the nasa.gov site

Just search in flickr for the image id and you will get the relevant image in Flickr. e.g. https://flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55208327975

tregoningon Show HN: Monchromate – Smart greyscale browser extension

I use the built in accessibility "Color Filters" in Mac with the Menu Bar shortcut to toggle it on/off

* https://support.apple.com/en-jo/guide/mac-help/mchlp2975/mac

* https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252274205?sortBy=rank

tregoningon Robots That Learn – OpenAI

The logo in the hoodie is what made me realized it was old

tregoningon -2000 Lines of code (2004)

There are still companies asking for # of lines of code written https://x.com/tregoning/status/1286329086176976896

tregoningon 3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model

Seems very cool but all of the photos and videos I could find is about how to build it not the most important thing.. how good it is as an actual telescope how does the moon/stars etc look though it

tregoningon Microsoft Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986)

I have a brand new still shrink-wrapped box of Windows 1.0.0 My local museum (https://computerhistory.org) has one on loan, this remind me to go there and offer them mine

tregoningon Readme.so – Easy way to create a README

It would be nice if the app would allow us to save templates (no need to get fancy just via URL params e.g. for the above it would be something like:`?sections=title&Desc,installation,runLocally,Support,Authors,Ack,usageExamples`

That way we could just generate a 'template' that we can share/save etc

tregoningon Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

It's surprising how Google have shot themselves in the foot with their short term thinking. Nobody trust them for anything that involves long term support on any new services/products(and several already existing products).

tregoningon Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS

Yes: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver (at least on Mac OS)

tregoningon There oughta be a bullet time video booth

My poor man version of this (using web tech) https://jt.io/posts/bullet-time/

tregoningon Ask HN: Looking for a great tool to archive websites

Thanks!

tregoningon Ask HN: Looking for a great tool to archive websites

Thanks!

tregoningon Apple Introduces the New HomePod

Yeah mine one died by itself (one day was working, next just didn't turn on anymore)

tregoningon Swiss Railway Clock

Still remember when iPads used this clock face. I wish that was still the case.

tregoningon SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System

tregoningon Amid chip shortages, companies bet on RISC-V

"Yeah. RISC is good" .... https://twitter.com/Hackers_bot/status/1547829853231075331

tregoningon Crumb Circuit Simulator

Looks like it's coming from the website:

"There is also a Desktop Based version in development which offers a much wider range of tools, deeper analysis and extras such as schematic views and PCB layouts"

tregoningon Show HN: I made CSS Scan 3.0, a fast way to check and copy CSS

If somebody with this app feels charitable, could they please try it on the page below and perhaps share the output via a gist or something?

https://www.warp.dev ("Download Now" or "Watch Demo" button)

There is no trial period, so it is hard to evaluate this tool. This is a really complex button, multiple SVGs, etc, so it might produce some insight into how capable the tool is.

tregoningon [dead]

Looks like the video/page are now gone: Here is the link (while it last) to the video for those who missed it:

https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/home/2021/ff297fe3-f6a6-4...

tregoningon -2000 Lines of Code

tregoningon Is anybody still using Windows 95?

Surprised nobody has mentioned the main advantages of web-based apps:

* Collaboration (including real-time collaboration)

* Ease (or more like lack of it) installation process

* Always up to date

tregoningon Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails

If I understand this correctly:

(Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20300008

I think their startup will stop working soon, given that they only support GMail.

tregoningon Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

Doesn't this mean that SuperHuman is screwed?

tregoningon Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

flickr.com ?

tregoningon Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues

Yes, Google can change the logic for auth, analytics, etc at any time and your local outdated copy will be useless, further I believe it's possible that Google returns different JS depending on the browser that's requesting it in order to keep payloads down and performance high.

tregoningon Semantic UI

Unfortunately there are some severe limitations of using native select, in particular in relation to list item (i.e. option element)

- Can't have anything but plain text: (e.g. no images, bold text etc)

- Can't have a line-break, or somehow wrap text into a 2nd line if entry is too long