olav

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by olav 1mo ago
Why is everybody so stoked about Markdown? Isn't Asciidoc better in about every aspect?
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by olav 6mo ago
> The traditional Office suite is still good I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions. Have you compared the UI of Word/Powerpoint/Excel with alternatives like Apple
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by olav 7mo ago
The could shut down the company and `rm -rf *` all their assets, no?
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by olav 7mo ago
Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management that lacks mid-term risk management or a vision, you get happy
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by olav 7mo ago
> I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought This is the reason why I find Trilium Notes so liberating, where one note can have many parents.
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by olav 8mo ago
Even more so: The 9P protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol) Maybe the most mainstream incarnation is its use in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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by olav 10mo ago
I love it and use it for personal projects and internal tools. I tend to combine it with https://pocketpages.dev/ which gives me file-based routing and nice templates. Ah, and Pocketbase has automatic database migrations, s
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by olav 1y ago
I'd rather stay in Linux and use Windows if I really must. Can we have an LSW, then?
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by olav 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250518171639/https://amberwill... as long as the original throws a 500 "Internal Server Error".
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by olav 1y ago
For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
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by olav 2y ago
I ported John Earnest's Octo variant to an ESP32 cheap yellow display (CYD) board, loading many of the examples from the archive: https://github.com/codekulturbonn/espocto
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PasswordVault 2025(passwordvault.de)
1 points by olav 2y ago|1 comments
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by olav 2y ago
A password manager for ~20€
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by olav 3y ago
I wonder if the way the author describes it, ie. new memories are just diffs against older experiences, is scientifically grounded. I came up with another explanation: My thought processes have slowed, so the world has sped up, relative to
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by olav 3y ago
As a product manager, I am frequently confronted by UX people who declare something as „standard“, a feature that is supposed to be an absolute „must-have“, or else our organisation would loose even the last of our users. Unfortunately, dev
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by olav 3y ago
My employer forces me to, why else?
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by olav 3y ago
My heart jumped with joy when I saw this post. Fossil is such an ingenious system, and, if you are not aware, has been created by the very D. Richard Hipp who created Sqlite. Here is a technical overview: https://fossil-scm.org&#
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by olav 3y ago
I am a huge fan of Firefox, and have small startup scripts for different profiles. Sadly, together with Microsoft Teams on my work Mac, Firefox causes it to switch on the fan. This does not happen with Safari (which also supports Profiles,
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by olav 3y ago
If you don't mind self-hosting a PHP app, https://webtrees.net/ is a nice option.
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by olav 3y ago
I wonder if there is some programming language that supports combining both styles: - A linear control flow - Named Blocks with explicit, named, typed parameters and return values I understand that one can use anonymous functions, immediate
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by olav 3y ago
The site is curiously broken in Safari browser.
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by olav 3y ago
I use Hypothesis a lot. It works on arbitrary sites by just invoking their javascript bookmarklet which I keep in my bookmarks. It is also very easy to integrate with static sites which is nice.
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by olav 3y ago
And, of course, https://gpblocks.org/
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by olav 4y ago
https://pocketbase.io/ Simple, performant, batteries included
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by olav 4y ago
Ah, "hudli hudli" stands for "Extraordinarily fast guitar playing" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hudli - it's only now that I look this up
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by olav 4y ago
Nice. I vividly remember the days, sometimes in the 80s, in some university cellar, hacking away at our green-lit vt terminals connected to some vaxens, that one of the other regulars in the room and I used temp variables _hudli_ and _trall
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by olav 4y ago
I fell in love with it when I first saw it, but had to return it after discovering that it was barely usable for my eyesight without backlight. On the other hand, I love my Kindle, not for the closed ecosystem, but for the rather slick (com
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by olav 4y ago
Not related to this particular tool: It strikes me as extremely odd that nowadays „modern“ has become a desirable software feature. For me, „modern“ is the opposite of „durable“, which seems to be a rather bad thing.
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by olav 4y ago
Excel is seriously killing humanity. No version control, no debugging, brittle support for automation. Excel, to me, is the single most obvious sign that we must get rid of the giant tech monopolies to re-enable innovation in software.
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by olav 4y ago
This is actually the use case I have in mind when I think of moving my personal knowledge management system knowfox to something more enduring like fossil. It currently is built on php/mysql with laravel with a web ui in bootstrap. Thi

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