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by bonthron 1y ago
is it weird they're running TV commercial with Jony Ive even though the product doesn't exist yet?
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by bonthron 1y ago
We have some old devices laying around: iPod, digital camera, CD player... My young daughter loves them. I think we forget how magical an ipod can be. Also, a number of families have gotten land line phones, now the girls are calling each
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by bonthron 1y ago
Check out https://ocapn.org/ https://www.spritely.institute/ https://files.spritely.institute/papers/spritely-core.html
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by bonthron 1y ago
I like utility classes, but not tailwind. It's predecessor, Tachyons is small, simple, and all I've ever needed. https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/
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by bonthron 1y ago
Maybe an acquired taste, but I'm fond of Intel One Mono ... https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono designed for low-vision developers.
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by bonthron 1y ago
Just want to plug: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann I taught my daughter to read at 3. Amazing book.
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by bonthron 2y ago
Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" is a ridiculously fun book. Very short, and stuffed with melodrama. My copy has an excellent introduction to Gothic architecture, literature, and politics by Nick Groom, which goes muc
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by bonthron 3y ago
Affinity is amazing. It's like the old Photoshop you remember, before it became totally over-bloated.
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by bonthron 3y ago
She was 5. Most kids in the US start first grade about 6.
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by bonthron 3y ago
"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is an amazing book. I taught my daughter to read before kindergarten. It works.
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by bonthron 4y ago
I write F# on Linux with both Emacs and VS Code. Works really well. LSP, Iodine, Fantomas greatly improve the IDE experience.
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by bonthron 4y ago
I have Thucydides and Herodotus, both are amazing. I don't know how I would read Thucydides any other way. There are so many place names and directions, you really need the maps these editions provide.
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by bonthron 5y ago
Learn Elisp the Easy Way: M-x info "Emacs Lisp Intro"
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by bonthron 5y ago
With the rise of online streaming and satellite radio, plus the demise of physical record shops, magazines, MTV, and local radio, everything is way more fragmented. The 80s & 90s were probably the last decades of 'common' song
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by bonthron 5y ago
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs taught us the importance of Slack years ago.
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by bonthron 5y ago
When I was a teenager, my music teacher always had a copy of the Real Book around. I went to a local music store and was looking through their music books when one of the employees asked, 'is there something I can help you find?'
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by bonthron 6y ago
I'm not sure the circus ring finale works on its own. It's the denouement of the whole film that has been building to this point. Mastroianni is struggling with all his relationships: his work, his wife, girlfriend, producer, then
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by bonthron 6y ago
Check out Wilson "snowflake" Bentley, he was photographing snowflakes at the turn of the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley
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by bonthron 6y ago
If you're already doing C#, then it's easy to start using F#. You probably are using VS Studio/Code, you already know the standard .NET libraries. etc.. F# is a little weird because there are accommodations to ensure it will