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by jhoh 1y ago
In a few places, Microsoft sneaks in clever references to Clippy in the Azure LLM documentation[0]. Nice to see they're still letting a bit of humor shine through here and there. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us&#
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by jhoh 2y ago
https://kagi.com is by far the best out there IMO.
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by jhoh 2y ago
Reminds me of https://vim-adventures.com/ . Playing that game made me become very proficient with VIM. I can recommend it to anyone who wants to get started with it.
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by jhoh 4y ago
That‘s simply not correct. Instead of founding as a GmbH you can start with an UG. A UG is legally virtually the same thing as a GmbH and you only need 1€ Stammkapital. Once you start generating money with it, you can transform it to a GmbH
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by jhoh 4y ago
I asked: "AITA for using REGEX to parse HTML?" And got: "NTA. That's what regex is for" Nice.
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by jhoh 5y ago
It's the framework I'm most familiar with. As it was intended to be a personal project I just chose it because it was the easiest way for me to build it.
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by jhoh 5y ago
I've been using and working on my custom hacker news frontend for a few years now. As the name suggests, it only has minor "improvements" compared to the official website. It has a dark theme, (IMO) better layout and typograp
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Show HN: Slightly Better Hacker News – alternative web front end for HN(sbhn.g1b.me)
12 points by jhoh 5y ago|2 comments
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by jhoh 5y ago
After trying many HTML2PDF libraries we're doing the same thing and are quite happy with this approach. I've tried using "professional" solutions like iText pdfHTML[0]. They all seem to be based on flyingsaucer[1] which
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by jhoh 5y ago
They do. You can use something like puppeteer to use a headless Chrome or Firefox to generate PDFs from HTML for you. https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v5.3.1/docs/api....
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by jhoh 6y ago
https://sbhn.netlify.app/ Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It features some layout improvements over the original and has a d
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by jhoh 7y ago
DaVinci Resolve. Also available for GNU/Linux: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
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by jhoh 7y ago
Maybe those "INSTALL OUR APP NOW!!!" banners, floating action buttons, popups and bottom/top fixed bars caused too much traffic.
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Logitech keyboards and mice vulnerable to extensive cyber attacks(heise.de)
43 points by jhoh 7y ago|9 comments
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by jhoh 7y ago
> Web development frameworks seem to have a half-life of about 12 months. Initial realeases of the most popular JS-frameworks: Angular – 2010 React – 2013 Vue – 2014
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by jhoh 7y ago
Long time Notion and vim user here. Just set up Inkdrop and tried the vim-plugin and all basic features work great. For things like switching files or navigation in general it seems like you'll need to use the software's standard
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by jhoh 7y ago
IntelliJ Idea Ultimate with IdeaVIM
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by jhoh 7y ago
This website just makes me angry: - Fixed social media share buttons that cover the text on mobile - It auto-translates to German even though my system language is set to English (seems like they use geolocation for this which is bad practi
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by jhoh 7y ago
If you ask any competent engineer outside the US to work with imperial units, they will go whaaat.
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Economics journal that only publishes results that are no big deal(vox.com)
3 points by jhoh 7y ago|0 comments
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by jhoh 7y ago
Didn't know about this app but it looks great! Here's the F-Droid link for anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps
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by jhoh 7y ago
I was going to sign up for the beta but then was asked to log in with a Microsoft account. Thanks but nope.
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by jhoh 7y ago
Wow, just two years after Chrome, Firefox, Opera and even Edge added it! https://caniuse.com/#feat=intersectionobserver
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by jhoh 7y ago
That's just Apple not implementing modern web standards. Just wait a couple months or years and they might implement the IntersectionObserver. Until then you'll have to use polyfills to support Safari which Google obviously didn&#
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by jhoh 7y ago
Great article! The features you showed were some of the ones I've had my first "Oh, now I get why vim is so great"-moments and that really boost your productivity. > Tip: Generally after you’ve inserted some text, you want
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by jhoh 7y ago
Have you tried using a vim emulator in your IDE? I've been using IdeaVim for IntelliJ for a few months now and it feels like having the best of both worlds. You get the power of vim combined with all the typical IDE features without ha
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by jhoh 8y ago
I've been Google-free for about a year now. Already posted my "clean" setup in another thread[0]: 1. Replaced my Google G-Suite with Proton Mail and a self hosted Nextcloud The process was fairly easy: Just export all your ma
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by jhoh 8y ago
It also would have been a better deal if I bought it from the official MS-Store for 145€ because it wouldn't have had all the Lenovo bloatware on it. I personally don't want to support what Microsoft is doing with Windows so that&
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by jhoh 8y ago
I recently was asked by my girlfriends sister to help her choose a laptop. After finding a model that looked good spec-wise I searched for that same model but without Windows pre-installed. It was 150€ cheaper. Then I got a 10€ Windows 10 k
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by jhoh 8y ago
Entertainment sites like blogs or image boards, todo apps, note taking apps, recipe websites etc. Basically PWAs allow you to build features that were only possible in native apps before.

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