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by rickcarlino 8d ago
Server side image maps are a fun one also: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/what-were-server-side-image-map...
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by rickcarlino 9d ago
“When is it useful to be small?” I like this question. Some projects will sacrifice usefulness in the name of simplicity.
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by rickcarlino 10d ago
This is a honey pot, right? For LLMs that are not allowed to POST due to guard rails.
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Exploiting food embeddings for ingredient substitution(github.com)
1 points by rickcarlino 13d ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 15d ago
I was a naysayer before I had kids, too. I now am able to get a first person view of Scratch usage through my child who likes the platform very much. What's missing in a lot of these discussions about Scratch efficacy is the community
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Transitous – Community-run public transport routing service(transitous.org)
2 points by rickcarlino 17d ago|0 comments
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Mothbox Insect Monitor(mothbox.org)
1 points by rickcarlino 17d ago|0 comments
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Mechanical Panda's Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)(github.com)
10 points by rickcarlino 17d ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 17d ago
Illinois residents should consider forwarding this to their representatives.
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by rickcarlino 19d ago
HN often recommends Brother printers for their lack of innovation and good-enough design. Printer companies are sleazy, you’re not wrong.
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Number of Open Tech Jobs(trueup.io)
1 points by rickcarlino 21d ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 21d ago
Wishing you the best of luck on the road ahead ;-)
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by rickcarlino 23d ago
Is Tesseract still the best choice for local OCR in 2026? I was always underwhelmed with its real-world performance.
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Shark MX Gameboy Modem(forums.nesdev.org)
2 points by rickcarlino 24d ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 26d ago
A cookie consent modal being covered by an ad is peak modern web.
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by rickcarlino 27d ago
Concise output mode only helps a little bit. Tools like this still have a reason to exist.
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by rickcarlino 28d ago
I was surprised to see it uses CR2016 batteries and still manages to get two years of advertised battery life.
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
Have you tried Alpine?
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
You may prefer a site like Lobste.rs, which has tags and the ability to hide certain tags.
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Morse Code Trainer(perry.qa)
2 points by rickcarlino 1mo ago|0 comments
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Claudish-to-English makes Claude output comprehensible(github.com)
3 points by rickcarlino 1mo ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
People add dramatic carriage returns because it forces you to click the "Expand content" button, and the algorithm rewards that as a positive signal.
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IRCLab – IRC Network Statistics and Monitoring(irclab.org)
1 points by rickcarlino 1mo ago|0 comments
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
I’ve been using LLMs to create readable rewrites of RFCs and specs that interest me. It is not precise enough for implementation use, but it has increased my understanding of the underlying RFC. Another useful approach has been asking Codex
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
The website explicitly states a lack of networking. Any interest in pursuing that in a future version? I have a Pocket 8086 - I would love to give this a try next weekend.
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by rickcarlino 1mo ago
“URLs are bad” sometimes does feel like an underhanded way to say “stay in our app at all times”.
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by rickcarlino 2mo ago
I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.
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Browser-Based QBasic Environment(kavak.run)
6 points by rickcarlino 2mo ago|7 comments
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8086 Emulator Inside Scratch(turbowarp.org)
45 points by rickcarlino 2mo ago|1 comments
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Layoffs.FYI Adds new AI attribution layoff chart(layoffs.fyi)
3 points by rickcarlino 2mo ago|0 comments

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