James-Livesey

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by James-Livesey 1y ago
If anyone's in need of a hexadecimal version... https://jamesl.me/hexle/ I similarly made a binary one before this version, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people said they found it too easy!
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by James-Livesey 2y ago
Very neat — been looking for something like this! I've just signed up. Feels great to be part of this little social space! Just a few questions: 1. Have you thought about adding an API? I can see myself submitting things to this site m
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by James-Livesey 2y ago
When faced with a similar situation and come up with multiple potential solutions — such as settling for older Adobe software versus creating your own resource-efficient graphics application, I'd definitely take the more creative and f
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
Potato (which uses Uxn) is even more similar to Picotron in that it's like a little desktop environment: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/potato.html
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
True, but any competing operating system could just falsely report that it is running x86-64 and therefore trick YouTube into serving high-res content. Disclosure: currently (as a personal project) slowly building an alternative to Android
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
Such an excellent coincidence that it happens to be on my birthday! In fact to celebrate, I did set up the only livestream in existence on YouTube (afaik) to capture this: https://www.youtube.com/live/DN1SZ6X7Vfo
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
With mentioning that while I was still interested in programming and even had a Pi before I got my micro:bit, I'd say that the micro:bit did introduce me to microcontroller development.
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
As much as the Raspberry Pi is really great for computing education, in my personal opinion, I think the micro:bit does well in terms of setting it up and getting started with it, especially in a school environment when there'll be aro
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
[Disclaimer: I work at the BBC.] ...later on, the BBC made[0] the micro:bit[1], another £15 (well, around £15 back then for the V1) computer to inspire young programmers. Funny to think that little did the BBC know that they'd be creat
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
Of course, yeah Discord is a bit of a closed-source walled garden, but we're considering setting up a Matrix.org server some point soon as an open replacement for our current community. We currently release all Alpha versions onto our
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
We don't have Telegram, but we do have a Discord community — the link to it is at the bottom of the website at https://liveg.tech !
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by James-Livesey 3y ago
This is what I've been working on with LiveG OS, whose desktop environment, gShell, is written in HTML/CSS/JS: https://liveg.tech/os The OS is also designed to run on mobile devices, so there's some cros
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
Not to mention Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724236 - July 2021 (71 comments) (shameless plug ;D)
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
Yeah I understand, there are certainly a lot of interfaces out there that are built on the web and because of all the JS they use, they can feel really clunky. The reason why using the web as a platform for this system is because it is — in
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
Oh wow, didn't know that dahliaOS had this! The only barrier that I can see would prevent this from happening for gShell is that web browsers don't support the `webview` element that Electron lets you use (it's basically an i
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
Ahh yeah I can see how people might think that with the name "LiveG"! The previous name was historically "LiveseyGadget" (my surname + "gadget") a long time ago when I came up with some of the ideas, but for al
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
 Firefox OS inspired me to build my own Debian-based operating system that uses web technologies for its UI and apps. It uses Electron as the runtime[0] and works both on
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
Wouldn't it be better for Google to have a "mark as spam and delete future emails" option? That way, your inbox stays clean, spammers have wasted some credit for whatever email marketing service they use on an email that will
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
"Tax-payers' money" is often used in the UK as an equivalent
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
The SerenityOS browser has tabs (they're hidden when only one tab is open). Ladybird doesn't seem to have them yet (considering it also doesn't have all the other buttons), but I should imagine it's something that would
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Assembling a Commodore 64 Program's Machine Code, One Byte at a Time(jamesl.me)
3 points by James-Livesey 4y ago|0 comments
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
This is something I used for the "tweet your BASIC code" functionality in atto ( https://jamesl.me/atto )... Trying to fit an advanced BASIC program in a single Tweet isn't too easy, but at least encoding it in
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by James-Livesey 4y ago
It's only a requirement for content served inside the UK though; international content (such as BBC.com) is allowed to (and sometimes does) show ads because it's technically not covered by the licensing agreement for the UK.
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
Same, but with PowerPoint! It's amazing how versatile the Microsoft Office suite is for purposes other than productivity...
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
That's handy, thanks for letting me know! I assume that applications that are resumed from suspension can then continue checking for incoming phone calls and alert the user when necessary, much like how (from my 'experiments'
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
How can one make the PinePhone detect incoming calls on a regular basis using this method? It looks like the code sleeps for minutes at a time, which is ideal for fetching notifications for IM apps etc. but not for detecting incoming calls
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
math/other/idk exactly tbh : - [bytle]( https://jamesl.me/bytle ) - [hexle]( https://jamesl.me/hexle )
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Show HN: Hexle - A Wordle-like game where you guess a 16-bit hex int(jamesl.me)
4 points by James-Livesey 5y ago|0 comments
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
Try tapping on the area where it says "Enter a number" — typically your browser should focus the input there on first load, but if you click off, the placeholder text will be shown instead.
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by James-Livesey 5y ago
Thanks! That's partly one of my ideas for the target audience, but of course to get the game's popularity rolling, it's not as easy pitching to CS educators/students as it is posting on Hacker News; so to get the game ou

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