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vgr-landon Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

Looks like a good light weight solution to front object storage with a front end and auth. One suggestion is to add the license to the repo. The readme says License: MIT, but there’s no license file.

vgr-landon Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game

Well, I recognize this is a joke. I would enjoy having a simulation where you inherit and hold poorly maintained subway system like the Boston MBTA and have to bring it back to health with all the challenges these systems face

vgr-landon I kissed comment culture goodbye

I’ve been thinking a bit on how to improve discourse between disagreeing people and how the quick response style of comment sections don’t lend themselves to serious debate.

One idea I have is to mimic Lincoln–Douglas debates where two people debate each other in a fixed format and with structured time for rebuttal. The hope being by slowing down rebuttal the response becomes more mindful.

In general though I think its the speed and low quality of response leading to dissatisfaction of comment platforms.

vgr-landon Framework Making Printers

The comparing 2025 with the 2023 and 2024 versions of the article is also an interesting snapshot in the state of tech journalism.

(Also yes my Brother printer is just fine and turning 7 years old)

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024...

vgr-landon A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

LLMs make it much easier. Then you get all the benefits with few of the frustrations

vgr-landon Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45006098

I used LLM (gpt o4-mini) for developing a blog template. Overall it did a good job especially with logic loops

Otherwise xml messes up its outputs sometimes

I had to reset my context window frequently

It would do a bad job troubleshooting large sections of code

vgr-landon Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

Probably abysmal

Since xslt is built dynamically in the DOM most crawlers don’t build the site and pick up the metadata.

Although I’m not convinced chasing SEO is a useful endeavor any more https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

I wonder if AI crawlers would have the same problem and pass over the site

vgr-landon Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

Thanks for the suggestion I’ll dig into this, admittedly I haven’t worked with Atom so I didn’t consider it

A quick glance at Atom though says to me its worth an attempt to refactor.