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username91··on Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
It looks great! :D It's a lovely idea.

Because of the filesize, this would be right at home on the 512KB club: https://512kb.club/

username91··on The Problem with C (2020)
The title doesn't seem to correspond to the article at all; basically it's clickbait.
username91··on 1-Line CSS Layouts
These are great.

I've been using CSS since it first [barely] appeared in IE3, but I've been behind on fully getting to know flex and grid. Didn't know about aspect-ratio at all.

Maybe that says more about the amount of attention I've been paying, but I learned a lot from these examples.

username91··on Show HN: I made a drag and drop website builder that works on mobile
This is so great. I love the chunky grid layout when positioning.

The eyes and other ridiculousness is what made me wanna try it out. Everyone's branding these days is so boring. Great work. :D

username91··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
That's a shame. Sounds like it was great work, just the same!

Lots of my early stuff (late 90s and early 00s) has basically vanished from the 'net as well; I know the feeling.

username91··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
This sounds really cool! What was the app's name?
username91··on Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on
> virtually every other person is radioactive to you.

While you're not wrong, this behaviour is already present - just randomly distributed. Some/many people withdraw, interact with fear, maybe eventually get fed up and take risks, based on guessing-games.

If this research proves fruitful, it will reduce the guesswork a lot, and people can try to find more practical and constructive approaches.

username91··on Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
They have little in common.
username91··on VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry?
Reminder that Sublime Text is constantly being improved and might be worth a look if you haven't tried it in a while ~ https://www.sublimetext.com/
username91··on Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla
This is extremely outdated.
username91··on Work on interesting problems. Not interesting tech
Recommend striving for both.
username91··on Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
I'm not aware of HN doing any predicting at large. If you mean 'will the average person later act like a given segment of HN people do now?' - then it depends on how good you are at selecting your segment, which makes it no better or worse than using any other sample of people for prediction.

Less abstractly, productisation is what takes things from obscurity (e.g. HN) to mainstream audiences, so future trends might grow out of stuff that you see here, but the people who can figure out whether certain tech can become a product (would-be predictors) -hopefully- also have the means to turn it into a product themselves.

username91··on Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
Great info. Surprised to hear Wine gets the job done for some of that stuff. Thankyou. :)
username91··on Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
May I ask what software you use for pro audio production? I'm looking for an alternative to Logic. Thanks!
username91··on Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)
Those photos are great! Thanks for sharing.
username91··on Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs
>The problem with younger developers, he explains, is that they’re usually..

This article reeks of ageism.

username91··on Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
It's a great article - really informative and enjoyable to read. Thanks for making it happen. :)
username91··on DigitalOcean Down?
My London-hosted site stayed up just fine.

DO's uptime has been extremely impressive to me.

username91··on Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code
This is an excellent article with great simple tips, like highlighting most Calculator apps' hex mode and the mile-counter analogy. Great work by the author.
username91··on Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics
Reading this, I would actually tune into Eurosport knowing I can watch with minimal commentary - I know commentary brings some people a lot of structure but I find the events impossible to take in with somebody talking over it.
username91··on Watching Jeff Bezos Go to Space Was More Depressing Than Inspiring
It bothers me that the article makes no reference to Wally Funk, the pilot - she's now the oldest person to have gone to space. Maybe it's cheesy of me to get a kick out of 'records' like that, but I enjoy that a lot more than caring about who commissioned the flight.
username91··on Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
There is nothing "every developer" should do.
username91··on This beach does not exist
The video on the site is very enjoyable to have on in the background at 0.25x speed.
username91··on React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript
That's a fair point!
username91··on React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript
It seems deceptive to me to compare using createElement etc. to JSX, rather than using innerHTML, or a <template>.
username91··on A CSS-Only Clock
> "It’s simply not possible to access the local time with HTML and CSS to automatically set our clock."

Headline is false. I was excited about it, too.

username91··on The Most Dangerous Censorship
"Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter" are not moral highgrounds for free speech - they're engagement-driven platforms that thrive on drama and conflict.

Posting on these platforms is not real human communication.

If you can't calm down and remove yourself from an online argument before posting something that is almost guaranteed to be misunderstood, you're not evading self-censorship, you're feeding an addiction.

I'm probably doing it right now.

username91··on The 88x31 GIF Collection
88x31s were still alive and well on early deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/fractalmbrown/art/Baby-deviantART...
username91··on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
> ..the only way for Gemini to keep that way, is by not becoming popular. Because that's exactly what happened to the web.

I felt like the web's "change" was when it became skewed towards high-bandwidth content like images and videos, more so than popularity alone.

I can't imagine Gemini becoming as popular, but if it does, another new protocol can grow. :)

> it will probably fade away or keep very niche

Sounds nice, actually.

username91··on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
Browsing around the Gemini community is a thousand times more relaxing than reading on the web. I really recommend picking a nice client and enjoying a look around.
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