ggaughan

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1.
Getting Off the Modernization Treadmill(unplannedobsolescence.com)
3 points by ggaughan 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ggaughan 1mo ago
Why are so many government websites unusable for the constituents who need them most?
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Notice of Obsolescence(thebuild.com)
21 points by ggaughan 5mo ago|1 comments
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by ggaughan 7mo ago
Wow
5.
by ggaughan 8mo ago
https://wordloosed.com/
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by ggaughan 11mo ago
Maybe this could help show 64 chars per line: https://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/64-column-print/
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by ggaughan 1y ago
It uses F10 to quit so if you're in GNOME Terminal (e.g. Ubuntu) go to Terminal Preferences|General and uncheck "Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default)", or use Alt-0 to quit instead.
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by ggaughan 1y ago
vhs can also create video files: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs#output
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by ggaughan 2y ago
https://www.justnerd.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ali-G-Sac...
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by ggaughan 2y ago
I gave up fighting Trello's new editor which kept fetching and auto-linking http addresses and I made my own Trello using SQLPage + htmx. It's even better than I expected because it's not shunting megabytes of json around and
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by ggaughan 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
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The First Magic Door(computerenhance.com)
1 points by ggaughan 3y ago|1 comments
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by ggaughan 3y ago
Interview with Brian Moriarty about his life leading up to, and including, the creation of the Infocom classic Trinity
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by ggaughan 4y ago
Two brand new Bosch ovens side by side, both showing different times on their digital clocks. Why don't they auto-adjust with daylight saving or at least synchronise with each other. I'd rather have no clock than two wrong ones.
15.
by ggaughan 6y ago
I think there's an under-appreciated pattern to the distances: https://wordloosed.com/the-planets
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by ggaughan 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-tpiAiiHo
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by ggaughan 8y ago
I found this one very good and easy to read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Database-Management-Systems-Raghu-R...
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by ggaughan 8y ago
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) E. F. CODD https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
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Show HN: FuseOrder – Hack your company dining(wordloosed.com)
1 points by ggaughan 11y ago|0 comments
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by ggaughan 11y ago
I found it painful to watch people collect everyone's orders and then phone them in and then try to work out what was in the delivery bags and who owed what. So I built https://fuseorder.com/ (just add an event for eac
21.
Space Invaders decoded(wordloosed.com)
1 points by ggaughan 12y ago|0 comments
22.
How Your Bank is Tracking Your Phone(wordloosed.com)
11 points by ggaughan 12y ago|12 comments
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ThinkSQL database server source code released(wordloosed.com)
1 points by ggaughan 15y ago|0 comments