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by hmans 8y ago
I find articles like this obnoxious because 1) they (implicitly or explicitly) claim that RSS was at some point popular (with "normal users") in some way that it is not today, which is wrong. 2) they completely ignore the fact tha
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by hmans 9y ago
And there's a beautiful little tool named Bridgy that can pull replies/mentions off Twitter and Facebook and turn them into Indieweb-able entities. It's all really quite great, but of course assumes the terrible, terrible inc
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by hmans 9y ago
"It's never happened to me, so it must be that guy's fault!"
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by hmans 9y ago
Hammerspoon
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Adventures of an Ancient Web Developer in JavaScript Land(hmans.io)
5 points by hmans 9y ago|0 comments
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by hmans 9y ago
Focus on HTML and CSS. Those will still be relevant in ~10 years, while most of today's JavaScript hotness will be nothing but a memory long gone.
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by hmans 9y ago
The only app on my phone that's not trying to copycat Snapchat is Termux.
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by hmans 9y ago
No.
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by hmans 10y ago
That's a very American thing to say.
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by hmans 10y ago
Yes, we are; no, it's not just you. Next question.
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Ruby is still great(hmans.io)
4 points by hmans 10y ago|0 comments
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by hmans 10y ago
Always.
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by hmans 10y ago
"brew install" installs executable code on your system
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by hmans 10y ago
Domain squatting as a service.
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by hmans 10y ago
Good.
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by hmans 10y ago
Because the masses will always gravitate towards inferior options.
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by hmans 10y ago
It's been ruined by a generation of developers who believe it a good idea to build stateful applications on top of an inherently stateless document-centric infrastructure.
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by hmans 10y ago
Remember when everyone agreed that there was no point to competing with AOL and CompuServe?
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by hmans 11y ago
How did Amazon approve this?
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by hmans 11y ago
This is the correct answer.
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by hmans 11y ago
The JavaScript framework situation is getting out of hand
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by hmans 11y ago
lol no
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by hmans 11y ago
XMPP (like many other similar protocols) is failing not because it's "not moving fast enough", but because open standards are required to make a commitment to simplicity (in order to be inclusive towards as many devices as po
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by hmans 11y ago
Maybe Mozilla Persona should apply.
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by hmans 11y ago
Spending two years with IndieWeb convinced me that people generally are not interested in sustainable solutions as long as centralized services make it more convenient to post cat pictures. (Also see: Slack vs. IRC)
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by hmans 11y ago
Someone needs a bit of anger management therapy.
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by hmans 11y ago
Posted on Medium.
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by hmans 11y ago
Docker is the industry-accepted standard to run web applications as root.
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by hmans 11y ago
Yes.
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by hmans 11y ago
Claims to improve user input. Website has JavaScript-based smooth scrolling. No.

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