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Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021
- MonadIsPronad 5y agoThis was a great read, and very impressive. I hope to one day be as comfortable with these kind of tools to just be able to say "oh let's have a quick look with the decompiler in a VM". The author just exudes competence.
- shakow 5y agoThe article is great. But please Jessica, if you read this, would you consider unfixing the header on mobile? It’s very cute, but it’s also taking a fifth of my screen!
- fredley 5y agoI'm on a laptop and it's taking up a third... But great article!
- agumonkey 5y agooh yeah i didn't expect such a large chunk off
- chrismorgan 5y agoOther meta stylesheet stuff: The maximum font-size of 26.666px is extremely large as well. (I’d say never ever go past 24px for body type, and even 20px is pushing it.) But in reducing that, you’d certainly want to increase the max-width from its extremely narrow 28em, and possibly bump the line-height a bit. (On the other end, the 14.666px cap at 320px is a little on the small side.) And as configured, the superscript footnote references mess up the line-height too, producing a very jarring effect. `.footnote-reference { line-height: 0 }` is a very simple way of roughly fixing it, though I’d probably want to tweak the vertical-align and font-size too (or even instead).
- ihatetech 5y agoI am always fascinated in people that are so distracted that they can't comment on the subject matter but only nitpick. I guess that makes the design not great but we also live in 2021 where you click a button and get a easily readable mode. Or we just insult someone's design choices...the internet will be just black text on a white background with people like you pushing the forefront of mediocrity.
- addingnumbers 5y agoIt was a rather level, dry and solid critique, I don't think any well-adjusted person would consider it insulting.
- marcellus23 5y agoI wonder if this overly sensitive response is because the target of the (level headed, reasonable) criticism is a woman. I have a feeling if the blog’s owner wasn’t named Jessica, a random person wouldn’t be so quick to defend it.
- ihatetech 5y agoA sexism. What a liberal cunt you are
- ihatetech 5y agoKeep on virtue signaling cunt
- Groxx 5y agoWhile sometimes valid (and I make no claims to this particular instance): ehhh.... in bulk I think typography just "gets people going". You can absolutely find this in high density in non-female articles. Any strongly-abnormal typographical choice brings out strong opinions, be it font size, font choice, or (lack of) contrast. This one is clearly abnormal. The content is quite good though, I'm definitely going to read more of their stuff.
- shakow 5y ago
- heyoni 5y agoIt reads pretty well if you have reader mode
- rasz 5y agohttps://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html is great for time trials/expiration dates
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoSoftware archeology is my jam. I try to watch everything on that subject that I can get my hands on. I feel like there isn't a lot of variation in the features available in different open-source implementations of common tools. I wonder if somewhere in some obsolete binary there are dormant treasures of innovation.