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xz18r··on Tells of a Slop UI
Ironically, your portfolio website gave me some 'slop vibes'. Not saying in any way that it was made with AI, maybe seeing monospace fonts where none are necessary triggers me now.

https://pranavdesai.vercel.app/

xz18r··on Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)
You live up to your username!
xz18r··on Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
I'm Belgian, this has been public knowledge since the guy was born. At least it was dealt with a lot more amicably than the other case (Delphine Boël being the child of King (then Prince) Albert II), which was decades of bad lying and denial.
xz18r··on Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer
Not a 3D printer but really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw
xz18r··on The Raku Foundation is born
The link isn't working for me - anyone else?
xz18r··on The death of the brick and mortar toy store
The blog writer is in Belgium, just like myself. Can confirm that there are almost no brick and mortar toy stores left in my area (which from what I can tell is the opposite side of Flanders).
xz18r··on Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
Given it's built by Matz, how realistic is it that this becomes a core part of Ruby? And if so, how threatening is that for Crystal?
xz18r··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)

https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

xz18r··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
Which will be released in full first, the X-files or the Epstein files?
xz18r··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
I wrote some automation scripts that are not triggered via browser extensions (e.g., open all my sales colleagues’ profiles and like their 4 most recent unliked posts to boost their SSI[1], which is probably the most ‘innocent’ of my use-cases). It has random sleep intervals. I’ve done this for years and never faced a ban hammer.

Wonder if with things like Moltbot taking the scene, a form of “undetectable LinkedIn automation” will start to manifest. At some point they won’t be able to distinguish between a chronically online seller adding 100 people per day with personalized messages, or an AI doing it with the same mannerisms.

[1] https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/social-selling...

xz18r··on Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager
I've been using Aerospace for the past couple of days, and I love it. This will be neat to have if you have a couple of dozen workspaces open at all times (which I don't, but appreciate it nonetheless).
xz18r··on Codeberg is down
I had a few updates failing because parts of it are hosted on Codeberg. If anything, this shows that people are moving there.
xz18r··on Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good
I use git (with Working Copy) for sync for this exact use-case.
xz18r··on First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
Truly a special gem of a channel.
xz18r··on Libghostty is coming
Sorry that one’s on me for not being clear. I actually meant the tty module in Doom Emacs. You can find the packages here: https://docs.doomemacs.org/v21.12/modules/os/tty/
xz18r··on Libghostty is coming
I am not sure i understand your problem 100% but Emacs’ tty package can solve a lot of cursor issues in a terminal emulator.
xz18r··on Vim Macros for Beancount
Also check out beancount-mode for emacs: https://github.com/beancount/beancount-mode
xz18r··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
>I find it a buggy mess where everything works only 80%

I don't want to be mean but calling Emacs a buggy mess sounds like a skill issue.

xz18r··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
This is pretty cool! Is it still in active development?
xz18r··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
There is a format called todo.txt that works follows very readable syntax (like your own example) and has some minimal bells and whistles if you want it to: http://todotxt.org/

As an alternative: I started using org-mode 5 years ago and have never looked back. This is my workflow (https://karelvo.com/blog/orgmode) although I sync it via Git now, and have an iPhone where I use Plain Org (https://xenodium.com/plain-org-for-ios).

xz18r··on Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs
The SaaS internet is so boring! These are like carbon copies of each other.
xz18r··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
I have a 600 and 800 mechanical pencil. Love them, the feel can’t be beat - only by the (significantly cheaper) Pentel Graphgear 1000.
xz18r··on Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing
It doesn't hurt to list alternative products, right? Understanding the competition and lacking features. Mine isn't the only post in this thread mentioning other products that do roughly the same thing.
xz18r··on Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing
I use Numerals(1) in Obsidian for this, and it works great. It's built on mathjs(2) and has things like @total functions which automatically sum all uninterrupted lines above it.

1 https://github.com/gtg922r/obsidian-numerals 2 https://mathjs.org/

xz18r··on Markdown Ninja: markdown-first CMS for bloggers, minimalists and startups.
Also, Nikola Tesla hated nginx and kubernetes!
xz18r··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
I have used Wallabag[0] for read-later articles for many years. Very happy about it. I host it on a VPS but they offer a paid instance[1] themselves for $9/y. And otherwise you can use something like Pikapods[2] which is also dirt cheap.

[0] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag [1] https://www.wallabag.it/en [2] https://www.pikapods.com/apps

xz18r··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
I'll say that I am less offended than some of my fellow commenters in this thread. I can hardly name 5 Belgian movies that I would suggest anyone to watch; Belgium has 1/30th of the US' population, but certainly a much, much smaller percentage of good movies.

Also, none of them are of the same 'appeal' as the American movies you cited, which are mostly action movies. The general populace wants to see big stunts and explosions, which require budget, local movies don't gross because they rely on local audiences, repeat ad infinitum. Most European movies that try to _look American_ in that sense fail horribly imo.

However, the ones I can name all have something in common: they wouldn't appeal to an international audience because there is something inherently 'local' to them. Not only language barriers (imagine reading subtitles) but also a certain 'European film aesthetic/tone' just like American blockbusters have theirs. American movies don't have the same 'local barrier' for Europeans because they are the norm and we're getting them force-fed by the 100bio Hollywood industrial complex: it's a movie, or it's a local movie.

xz18r··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
I live in Belgium. It feels like 95% of all films I ever hear about are American. Opponents counter MAGA with 'America was never great', but here they'll say 'Movies have never left America'?
xz18r··on Presentation Slides with Markdown
This looks cool, but is it still maintained? Changelogs mention iOS 14 only 5 dot releases ago.

https://docs.hyperdeck.io/changelog.html

xz18r··on Development on Apple Silicon with UTM
I work at the company selling Parallels and I let one of the PMs know of your concern; this is his reply:

"Parallels doesn't change the file associations. Parallels registers Windows apps (like Edge) for macOS in case users want to open them/files using macOS interface. macOS then decides what apps to use for this or that file type or protocol. Based on our testing if there is already a file association, then a new app registered in the system doesn't change it. Tip: Parallels provides an option to disable sharing Windows apps with macOS. It is enabled by default as the vast majority of customers like it. File associations can also be changed anytime using "Get Info" in file context menu and then "Open with:" and "Change All..."."

In other words, it looks like .html files were associated to your (in-Windows) Edge, hence it booting up a VM etc. but that can easily be mitigated.

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