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wryunon Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

Depends what you care about. I think there are two main reasons to use Firefox over Chrome:

- better privacy protections

- not wanting to leave web standards entirely to Google/Apple (for-profit corps)

Brave attempts to address the first, but does little about the second as it uses Blink (i.e. Chrome's engine). Personally, I care a lot more about the second.

wryunon Asus Zenfone 9

It's shorter and narrower than a 3a (but deeper).

wryunon Asus Zenfone 9

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Cubot-Pocket-Smartphone-Review...

or https://www.unihertz.com/collections/smartphones/products/je... if you can deal with something a bit older.

wryunon Asus Zenfone 9

And a bit fatter... but for me width is the most important for easier use.

wryunon Asus Zenfone 9

It's only 1mm wider than an iPhone 6 with its 4.7" screen.

wryunon Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with TypeScript inference

Even more minimal one I made years ago:

https://wryun.github.io/yajsonschema/

wryunon Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

If you use a browser as your client, this can be done. No need for electron either :)

wryunon The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting

What often frustrates me is that a lot of doco isn't read: it's "easier" for people to ask (I don't exclude myself from this).

wryunon The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting

I do not usually use diagrams. Therefore... I'm not a person? :)

wryunon Claws Mail

https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php

There are three. Dillo does some crazy embedding thing (and only works in X, not Wayland), litehtml is simpler but can't render everything. Haven't tried 'Fancy' - since it's webkit, it's probably the closest to a real HTML email experience.

wryunon Twelve-factor app anno 2022

One approach I like (tell me if I'm mistaken!) is to pass things in the environment but read and remove them immediately on startup. This prevents leaking your secrets accidentally if you spawn another process etc., and has the advantage that you can use a secret store in production but raw env vars in development.

wryunon A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

Even the one proposed has a six-year timeframe (what's the bet that timeframe isn't met?). Imagine trying to get an SMR reactor up in Australia within 10 years, given the legislative environment and the public opposition to it.

wryunon A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

Sure, I should have said _relatively_ easy. But see how much of a reaction you'd get to a fission power station (regardless of the rights and wrongs of it...).

wryunon A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

Takes too long to build fission plants to replace coal in the short term; easy to spin up lots of wind/solar. We've also got a ridiculous amount of renewable potential.

(I'm a candidate for the Fusion Party; we'd like to remove the ban on nuclear power in Australia because it would enable research)

wryunon Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers

I think what they're implying is that they can restore _everyone's_ data quickly (i.e. 'usual' infra failure), and one Jira instance's data fairly quickly (but some manual steps), but the problem is they nuked a large subset of customers while everything else kept running. This means that they can't do a complete automatic restore, and instead have to deal with it customer at a time.

I'm sure that they're going to make their customer at a time thing properly automatic now... Still a big failure, but a little more subtle than you make out.

(disclaimer - worked for Atlassian years ago)

wryunon Ask HN: Has anyone else gotten the 'Turning Red' ad after Firefox update?

Except it's just another blink repackage. I think the really important thing is web standards, which means supporting gecko or webkit.

wryunon New iPhone SE

Sony Xperia 10 III (same width)

Asus Zenfone 8

wryunon New iPhone SE

Sony Xperia 10 III? (same width)

Asus Zenfone 8

wryunon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

I'm also in the 'anything but Celery' camp:

https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html

If you're backing onto something like SQS or Rabbit (Redis is a bit trickier), it's not the worst thing to hand-roll either. Then you understand exactly what trade-offs you're making.

wryunon OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30396886

wryunon Vile – Vi Like Emacs

Posted because when I originally started using vi clones I didn't look at Vile (why do I want a 'vi like emacs'? Do I really want a 'vile' editor?), but eventually realised:

- it has all the features I want

- it's a lot faster than vim or vis (smooth behaviour with syntax highlighting even on an original RPI)

- it's still maintained (unlike elvis)

wryunon OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems

I've found vile a good option as I'm addicted to syntax highlighting: similar speed to nvi, much faster than vis and vim.

https://invisible-island.net/vile/

wryunon Ask HN: How to deal with AV compliance requirement on small VMs?

Note that if we rearchitected to use Kubernetes or similar, we'd get a lot less burst CPU capacity for the price. And it would be a little depressing to do some much work just to install AV...

wryunon Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS

Well, thanks for this. Now I can have fun running https://www.brow.sh when ssh'd in from by original Raspberry Pi.

Yes, there is no point to this, but if it's free... ?

wryunon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

It's compulsory to submit a vote. If you wish to abstain, you can vote informally.

wryunon Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi

Alternatively, you can use Void Linux and most of the work is done... admittedly, no read only fs by default.

wryunon Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing

I've been reading some of Roald Dahl's Matilda in Scots (scribd subscription). It's fun!

wryunon Blockly: A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors

The NFP I work for has used this extensively - thanks Google!

A few years ago we did a bunch of short free "hour of code" courses with a few different block flavours:

https://groklearning.com/hoc/

(search for blockly)

wryunon Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers [resolved]

Are you sure?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_publish-to-pho...

wryunon Download – Armbian

Submitted this because I find looking for armbian support the easiest way to figure out if an ARM board is worth buying, and their download page is pretty nice.