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by tholman 5mo ago
Tried to visit the first domain, baydailymedia, but doesn't seem to exist... I know its unsurprising and not against the rules or even spirit of showing off your new toy, but some humor in the aria tag "Video of user creating a pr
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by tholman 8mo ago
For those out of the know, Nova Launcher is an Android home screen replacement... so hits home when the root of your phone existence gets shook piece by piece.
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by tholman 2y ago
Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a mistake, hope we can keep this going.
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by tholman 2y ago
Fun hypothetical, or can someone solve? How long, would this regex prime check [1] (via hn 2009) take to run on this on todays average machine? Hitchhiker's Guide's Deep Thought "42" was 7.5 million years, just for a gui
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by tholman 2y ago
I love a good useless program, I may have written more useless ones than useful. Here's a few of my faves from the last 10 years! - A password strength page that insults you based on strength https://trypap.com/ - Mine
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by tholman 2y ago
Here's the HN conversation from 2020 [1], a little closer to when this came out. - [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942
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by tholman 3y ago
We've come a long way from console.frog [2016] - https://tholman.com/console-dot-frog/
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by tholman 3y ago
I've got maybe 4 extensions that are manifest V2 that just purely don't seem worth upgrading/fixing up (my largest with 5-10k installs) due to the time/5+ year old code that has been working fine on the old apis... Has c
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by tholman 3y ago
As someone that works in media/advertising, the first thing I check when I see something like this is their ads.txt [1] -- It looks like they're managed by ezoic whom you forward your entire dns and they inject ads in the middle (
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by tholman 3y ago
Ahh, this is super nice! One thing I'd love to know or see is common mistakes I make or the type of mistake/trap I fall into in the pivotal moments of games (some kind of fork/pin combo for me I suspect) ... and/or repea
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by tholman 3y ago
I'd noticed some strange changes at our veterinary office, where they'd usually give my dog a full round of shots once a year, suddenly they decided to break it up into multiple different rounds, meaning I'd pay 3 times inste
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by tholman 3y ago
- [1] Bloomberg Article https://archive.is/eTpi5 - [2] NYT Article https://archive.is/fUtnl
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by tholman 3y ago
https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.
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by tholman 4y ago
Have been on the feedly train ever since google axed reader, was able to transfer all feeds via import ++ will help you get some kinda feed (can break with big site redesigns but has been pretty solid) from sites without RSS. Haven't n
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by tholman 4y ago
Four days in a row at GitHub with different outages, someone's definitely having a difficult on-call. - https://www.githubstatus.com/history
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by tholman 4y ago
Am thinking that a few of the domains on the list expired and were snapped up by malware/scammer sites causing the spreadsheet to seem super sus to a machine scanning/checking urls.
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by tholman 4y ago
Am I missing something, or is "kwon-artist" a racism-style play on words much like say, "kung-flu"? Cmon... _edit_ ~ Sounds like I'm wrong here by the general sentiment, was taught not to use name's as puns :(
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by tholman 4y ago
As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D [1] http://wowenwilson
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by tholman 5y ago
Lots of people saying "You can improve costs here!" without factoring in the developer time/learning/upkeep dollars it would take to do that. Sometimes the best solution is the one you know that will be easiest for you.
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by tholman 5y ago
Amazingly the source code for the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 expansions was lost for years, so they've not often been included in the HD ports. Someone has (apparently) dug it up on an old hard drive [1] though a few screenshots isn&#
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by tholman 5y ago
If you've been following these two products for the last few years it's definitely clear to see that Lichess is slowly eating chess.com's lunch ... They're not fast at development, but slowly and surely improving and inn
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by tholman 5y ago
All for extra tools to help in emergency situations, that said I would also like it if I could see street names without zooming to a microscopic level which could be helpful in these situations especially.
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by tholman 5y ago
Oddly am hitting a paywall, is there a summary for this?
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by tholman 5y ago
Somehow, trying to find specific graphql/apollo solutions I run into 3 blocked medium articles before I can find something open. A little niche of course, but not something that should be served up by google... I suspect (and hope) the
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by tholman 6y ago
It's fiction, but I really enjoyed the chapters of World War Z [1] from the perspective of the nuclear submarine, and their "oh it seems like the world is ending, we have to wait this out" perspective. Really something that j
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by tholman 6y ago
If I'm understanding L958+ [1] There's a hyper specific css class browser quirk because the login button for gizmodo/kotaku/etc's CMS's svg icon click event wasn't firing... and here I am fixing my day-to-
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by tholman 6y ago
Feedly. Switched when google reader died, and honestly it's filled the hole perfectly, does all it needs to do, has premium options to support them. Fast, and clean.
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by tholman 6y ago
One of the creators here! Always happy to be mentioned and glad to answer any questions. A true love of mine, and something I'm loving see slowly grow and appear in our tech and programming community is interactive tutorials and blogs,
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by tholman 6y ago
I've been loving this boom for a ton of reasons. Hikaru does an amazing job of sharing his knowledge and skill without spilling over the top with information about why certain moves are theoretically better than others 30 moves down th
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by tholman 6y ago
The glitch.com "this is the free tier and you need to upgrade" is uncharacteristically brutal considering how chill they are as a company. You can see the source here https://glitch.com/~multiuser-sketchpad ... an

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