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by wt__ 8mo ago
Never mind "vibecoding" (whatever it is) - quite a few free, paid or subscription apps can actually be improved for your own purposes by recreating them in a spreadsheet.
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Could it actually be significantly lower than $5? Isn't the real benefit not the money, but that the payment creates a bit of friction plus a paper trail tied to an individual? You could then build a reputation system, much like a sp
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Hmm - that's a point. Thanks.
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by wt__ 8mo ago
> IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it Really wouldn't recommend it though, all sorts of consequences for the food (if present), your hand, the hygiene of the plate and potential damage to underlying surfaces
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by wt__ 8mo ago
It's not just that I haven't upgraded my Mac, but also I'm actively avoiding buying a new or refurbished one until (if) they fix all this stuff, because there will be no way to downgrade to an earlier version…
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Although I don't use iNaturalist that often (because I don't want the hassle of photographing the species I definitely know) I'm always conscious of the fact it has a relatively modern stack (Rails and PostgresSQL) whereas iR
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Firstly, I really liked the way you wrote your blog post. FWIW, I experimented with dark theme extensions (paid and free) and gave up on them after a while: it just all felt a bit too clunky and unreliable, the flashes of unstyled pages wer
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by wt__ 8mo ago
If this really is attributable to ADHD (and I’m sceptical) perhaps the opposite is those of us with (very mild, undiagnosed) OCD who insist on cleaning our tabs up several times a day? I can fully understand “hoarding” for people who don’t
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Some Moleskine cahier notebooks are wrapped in a paper sleeve that has a ruler printed on the back. Inches on one edge; centimetres on the other (a slight improvement for non-American users over Field Notes notebooks, with a ruler on the in
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by wt__ 8mo ago
EDIT: hmm, actually the screenshots on Apple.com show a card with a chip, so how come contactless doesn’t work? Deliberately disabled? —- Wearing my ecology hat, you could argue if barely any of their customers will use it for contactless,
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by wt__ 8mo ago
(UK reader here too). You could well be right, though I have a couple of theories why they Apple haven't rolled it out here: - maybe they think it'll just be too messy, having to market different cashback reward rates and so on fo
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by wt__ 8mo ago
What's also sad about this is all the e-waste; everything is massively over engineered, loads of unnecessary radio chips, having to build it all to handle pairing, wifi logins, firmware upgrades etc.
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by wt__ 8mo ago
Yes.. bought a Miele Complete C3 Auto Comfort Boost getting on for a decade ago. Really nicely designed. The one bit of 'questionable' tech it has is a remote control in the handle for power and controlling the suction level. Howe
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by wt__ 8mo ago
There's a lot of interesting stuff in here – e.g. the Polish trains and the ventilators. Though I wish he'd tone it down a little occasionally. (This is why I'm not an activist.) It's interesting as for the first time I&
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by wt__ 8mo ago
On the one hand, this was a lab based study, so doesn't reflect their diet in the real world. Let's hope nothing further up the food chain eats crickets in large quantities. You know, like birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, inv
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by wt__ 3y ago
As I think I’ve posted previously, they’re one of those companies that have gone to great lengths to made themselves impossible to contact. Try finding a way to get in touch with them. I’ll wait. Except for billing queries, you won’t. Grant
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by wt__ 3y ago
TLDR/advertorial halfway through: “But we at Synaptics think that we’ve met those challenges.”
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by wt__ 3y ago
One addiction to watch out for is the desire to read articles about other people's attempts to conquer their phone addiction. They seemed to start about 2-3 years ago - surely we have passed the peak by now? In my experience you get a
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by wt__ 3y ago
I stopped after a few seconds because I thought will staring at a black circle just give me eye strain (again)?
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by wt__ 3y ago
A lot of people are focusing on the feeds etc, but I think the genius of this is that no-one can start a conversation with anybody else.
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by wt__ 3y ago
How about each time you post it replies with an advertisement? (although that would just increase costs...)
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by wt__ 3y ago
(as a PHP web developer...) This is interesting, though of course it's only a partial picture: it doesn't talk about database optimisation or caching, and most of web development efficiencies for large sites are from things improv
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by wt__ 3y ago
Newton, apparently. But it’s subscription. https://newtonhq.com/
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by wt__ 3y ago
An observation: I switched to mainly reading my email in a text client (vi-cmdg, which is a fork of cmdg, a Gmail client that uses the API rather than IMAP - the fork has vim keybindings). I’m finding I can process email quicker and it’s le
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by wt__ 3y ago
I do a mix of both. Top posting when I’m making a general comment, but if I’m responding to several questions, I pare the original mail back as much as possible and reply underneath each. My logic is there isn’t any benefit to bottom postin
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by wt__ 3y ago
My approximate journey (7,500 notes, 13% markdown, remainder .txt) (pc, circa 2010) notepad > Evernote > notepad > (mac) > vim > Notational Velocity > NVUltra (still in) beta > "The Archive" (Zettelkasten) &gt
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by wt__ 3y ago
In the UK we have the “BirdTrack” app, which is run by the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) and also something called iRecord (actually a massive Drupal database…) which covers everything including mammals.
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by wt__ 3y ago
This piece feels almost like an advertorial, and clearly without any sort of hands on review. Everything I’ve read about attempts to embed a camera in a pair of binoculars suggests previous results have been poor (given the optics are entir
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by wt__ 3y ago
I don't particularly want any appliances that connect to the internet, but it would be quite fun to have a washing machine API that reported sensor data like water temperature, weight of load, drum rotation speed during the spin cycl
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by wt__ 3y ago
I guess it might be quite fun to graph that and overlay the graph of the current cycle over an original benchmark - it might indicate when, for example, the heating element was no longer working as efficiently.

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