frou_dh

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by frou_dh 17h ago
Let's call the M6 the 'A20P Max'
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by frou_dh 6d ago
I'm disappointed that it is not influenced by the username ... "You sound like a skateboard kinda person"
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Dash for Windows: Now in Beta(blog.kapeli.com)
3 points by frou_dh 13d ago|0 comments
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by frou_dh 17d ago
Back in the day I used an old laptop sitting in my house running with its lid closed and free dynamic-DNS :)
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by frou_dh 23d ago
(For those unfamiliar with Emacs versioning, 31.1 is what would be called 31.0 in a more typical versioning scheme) There are a large number of changes in Emacs 31: - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tre
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Emacs 31 has been released(lists.gnu.org)
7 points by frou_dh 23d ago|2 comments
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by frou_dh 25d ago
You can't dismiss typography as irrelevant and trivial aesthetics. It's a whole field encompassing many things including legibility to humans. There's nothing more "functional" than principled crafting of legibility
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by frou_dh 25d ago
The typical TUI fan is a nerd with no clue about typography so therefore they don't notice any problem with being shown elements that have no reason to be monospaced in monospace. i.e. ignorance is bliss in the world of typography.
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
I like Fastmail but I'm starting to feel that the subscription cost is a bit overpriced for the way I use it (just IMAP email - not using the app, calendars, contacts, file hosting, ...). I've researched and found some other indep
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
Ideally they'd grandfather in accounts that were created long before the spammer days :)
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
Live preview of what?
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
Completely pointless smug comment, given that there are thousands of subcommunities of wildly varying quality.
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
I'm sure it is a learning exercise in OS development to some extent, just a lightweight exercise compared to doing it 'properly'. FWIW I don't upvote submissions like this though, because it contributes to a climate of c
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
I badgered my parents into getting 64k ISDN installed at home in ~2000. Whatever the pitch was, IIRC my true motivation was to get double-digit ping times for Quake etc. Playing from the north of Scotland on typical UK servers, that went fr
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
I noticed someone has already adapted libghostty for Swift/SwiftUI: https://github.com/Lakr233/libghostty-spm EDIT: Apparently an official version is actually coming soon: https://x.com/mitchellh&#
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
That's neat that she designed their house. When I've seen photos of Wolfram in his house I've always thought it looked an awesome high-class place.
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by frou_dh 1mo ago
We get it, you're really proud that you choose to disable JavaScript, and need to let everyone know about it
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by frou_dh 2mo ago
I've always found it weird when a form admonishes you for writing spaces or dashes in e.g. a phone number or credit card number. Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't
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by frou_dh 2mo ago
Great point. It is simply lame impatient clout-chasing when someone goes out and promotes their project that is approximately as new to them as it is to the people they're promoting it to.
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by frou_dh 2mo ago
Talking of heavy-handed confirmation dialogs, there's a good example of this in Apple's Preview.app (PDF viewer). They made an unconfigurable change a few years ago, such that every single time you click any web link in a PDF, you
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One engine, many tools – Introducing Rubydex(railsatscale.com)
1 points by frou_dh 2mo ago|0 comments
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
IMHO the persistence of Model M (now Unicomp) worship is a meme. Yes a chunky Buckling Spring mechanism is a very unique and "fun" feel, but that doesn't mean it's actually good to do a lot of typing on in terms of ergon
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
Grasping at straws, it's kinda convenient that ( and ) match literally if the text being searched is Elisp code!
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
I remember these guys from the glory days of the CrankyGeeks video podcast. John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley had a great double-act hosting that show.
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing: - https://swiftpackageregistry.com - https://swiftpackageindex.com
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
Even the later JavaFX was a tasteless exercise. I opened some apps and you could tell within 1 second that something was wrong because all the text was using fugly non-platform-native (or somehow screwed up) text rendering.
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
> Any body who saw a Perl programmer do over a weekend, what they would take a year to do in their language(especially Java and Python)- had a deep rooted seething envy at Perl and Perl programmers. So they went around almost on religiou
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Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving(rahuljuliato.com)
471 points by frou_dh 3mo ago|284 comments
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by frou_dh 3mo ago
The tapestry of share buttons were certainly novel and interesting like 20 years ago. They may be lame and 99+% ignored now but it's been a slide to this state of affairs.
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by frou_dh 4mo ago
Real text lovers have an appreciation of typography and don't ignore the whole field and stay in the dirt with crude "monospace everything" approach.

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