phil294

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by phil294 17d ago
Tangentially, I built something similar a few years back, at link-archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220127233707/https://link-arch... 3B existing URLs extracted from CommonCrawl, with instant se
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ReFrame – The EPaper Camera(reframe.camera)
224 points by phil294 2mo ago|49 comments
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by phil294 2mo ago
...performance-wise. Not in general. It obviously does more than just opening a file. Also, you don't get to choose your competitors. SQLite is single-writer focused and an embedded library, but it's a sophisticated database engin
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by phil294 5mo ago
I would say it mirrors common behavior in the Web, which in turn was largely influenced by old desktop software: Enter in a `<textarea>` inserts a line break, while enter in an `<input>` submits the surrounding form (or does not
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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)(essays.johnloeber.com)
694 points by phil294 5mo ago|371 comments
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by phil294 9mo ago
Things that definitely need interactive prompts before running or fail out of ambiguity otherwise. Let's not pretend these are impossible problems to overcome design-wise.
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by phil294 9mo ago
I like it and would like to see an entire Linux OS being done in a similar manner. Or shell / wrapper / whatever. A sane homogeneous cli for once, that treats its user as a human instead of forcing them to remember the incompatibl
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by phil294 9mo ago
Depends on your definition of "using" JavaScript. The main difference between common TypeScript and TS-based JSDoc is the need for an additional build step. Being able to ftp-upload your `.js` files and then be done with it is a r
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by phil294 9mo ago
> So (TS)JSDoc support is a relic from when Microsoft was trying to get market share from Google. > Today in 2025, TS offers so much more than the (TS)JSDoc implementation. Generics, Enums, Utility types, Type Testing in Vitest, typeg
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DAVx⁵, Open Source CalDAV / CardDAV / WebDAV for Android(davx5.com)
3 points by phil294 11mo ago|0 comments
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by phil294 1y ago
I see where you're coming from, but "on a phone" hasn't been a valid qualifier for performance benchmarks for a long time. Phones and their GPUs are ridiculously powerful nowadays. We've been smoothly running 3D app
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by phil294 1y ago
Neither are humans, so this argument doesn't really stand.
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by phil294 1y ago
This is a nice idea, but looking back at how not only documentation, but also UX in general has not improved the slightest over the last decades, it's fair to say the only way we'll ever get close to anything like this is by lever
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by phil294 1y ago
What about complex SPAs? Database drivers? Polyfills? TypeScript?
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by phil294 1y ago
I ran some of these in comparison with Chrome, and Chrome was consistently faster, but only marginally (1-20%). I'm actually quite impressed, an integrated Intel HD 620 / 4x2.4 GHz (!) rendering 10,000 fishes at 30 FPS in a webbro
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Super Fast Reader Mode for the Entire Web, with Dillo Plus(duncanlock.net)
3 points by phil294 1y ago|0 comments
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by phil294 1y ago
Great game idea. I'd suggest you limit the questions top international topics though. I got a suggestion for "name a hurricane" - this probably wouldn't generate very interesting responses outside of America.
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by phil294 1y ago
Pinta *IS* Paint.net, just forked at an earlier stage before the latter became closed source software. Also, is "washed and bleak" really that big of a problem for an image editor? It just doesn't matter what it looks like as
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by phil294 2y ago
In other words, a fork? Or how does the semantics of patch/changes/update differ in any way from maintaining a fork? The packaging has nothing to do with this. It may not be a well-maintained fork, the maintainers might not see
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by phil294 2y ago
I agree with this - you need to change a few settings unless you're an absolute purist - but once you have done that, it's basically a nicer, well-maintained professional Firefox fork
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Spoken Wikipedia Podcast RSS Feeds(wcast.me)
1 points by phil294 2y ago|0 comments
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Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible(meyerweb.com)
33 points by phil294 2y ago|14 comments
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by phil294 2y ago
It can have severe performance implications in some areas with very bad internet bandwidth. Also it makes instantiating a global cache more difficult. See: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07&
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Versionfeeds – Custom RSS Feeds for Releases of Your Favorite Software(versionfeeds.com)
1 points by phil294 2y ago|0 comments
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by phil294 2y ago
Linking to my own comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040629#31043115
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by phil294 2y ago
I've been working on an extension https://github.com/phil294/search-plus-plus-vscode-extension for instant search results in gigantic repos like this one because it's a recurring pattern that bothers me. And
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by phil294 2y ago
I like it, it's surprisingly fun to play. When played in groups (with changing words), this game would be well suited for non-natives learning English.
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by phil294 2y ago
Because it's infinitely less work than starting from scratch. It's a valid argument.
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by phil294 2y ago
That doesn't contradict the parent comment though. Engaged users should have an option somewhere to enable it, barely affecting the overall rollout.
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by phil294 3y ago
> apparently the same people The only thing these two groups of people have in common is that you don't like them. I fail to see any correlation here whatsoever.

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