LarryMade2

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by LarryMade2 1y ago
How about wordle x 8 - Octordle - https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/?mode=daily
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
> I have yet to run into a printer that doesn't just magically work under linux. You haven't used a Canon IP-90 printer. :-)
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
DOGE to Employee: What did you do in the last week? Employee: [lists of tasks] A.I. to DOGE: *I can do that.* DOGE to Employee: You're fired.
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Maybe a check back later message, or a turn on notification for the site? To encourage people to check back maybe have some sort of feature like a fortune cookie or a featured "resource of the day" they will find when the come bac
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
"Enter name and email to join waitlist" - stopped right there. Giving out name and email is one of my anxieties.
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
I had set one (Pi 3B+)up to do both a website as well as a public service announcement slideshow display for a local Community TV. Used PHP/CMSimple for the site and wrote a custom slider. Things I learned: - set the pi to reboot on
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Just about large enterprise data store like an enterprise payroll system, college general ledger (multi-fund accounting - fun!), DMV rebuild, etc.
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Yeah for me OS9 is pretty retro - Classic Mac OS was great with some awesome apps many of which didn't make it into OSX and using the classic emulator in OSX doesn't help the experience. The Mini is a great compact hardware platfo
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
This is something I get (better ways at storing and using information. I like the of a list of ingredients with the quantity in the top and then repeated in the steps (if no quantity is mentioned in the steps its implied the whole ingredien
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
My wife still uses her Chumby as an alarm clock.
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Last time I heard about 211 in our counties - about 20 years ago - they (the agency that got a tri-county grant) had a resource directory website and were looking into doing phone support but funding left for some reason and the site is lon
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
This was a software project for me, wanted something that lets me know what things to do in the area, where are shops, what are their hours, how to contact them, etc. Not only for businesses but for public spaces (say you wanted to rent th
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
For me it was the MiniPET from Tynemouth / TFW8b.com all through hole components and when done you power it up and you have a Commodore PET computer without the bulky case. Made my pandemic shelter-in-place time awesome. Looks like th
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Depends on who makes it and how its perceived. If it is something like an up-front ad banner that is shown on the fly - (Movie premieres in 7 days!) it works, if it is somewhere not visited often people may forget to check. I do event list
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Micro the 6502 Journal was really good. Early issues of BYTE are quite informative Early COMPUTE! were also a bit more technical Creative Computing kinda varied a lot but had some great bits in it.
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Atas obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
CSS can easily be really complicated, you can shovel layer upon layer on it and it still seems to work (a lot of guys just cut and paste in new styles). Most cutting edge CSS I see on sites is just to provide animated transitions and effec
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
Chuck Peddle has claimed credit for the PET's (and later Commodore 8-bit) user friendly screen editor. I have heard it in some interviews with him. The computer History Museum has one interview where he mentions it - https:/&#x
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by LarryMade2 2y ago
These skills are greatly enhanced by your tactile abilities Massage Keyboard/Piano Tactile trinkets like Rubics Cube/Figet Spinners Pottery/Sculpture Construction Climbing, Obstacle Courses Cleaning/Washing Cooking
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Props to LibreOffice Recently I was asked to locate an old form document which I found it was written in WriteNow for Macintosh, libreOffice opened it up easily (even without a filename extension) and except for some font substitutions the
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Some itches that I had scratched in the past - might give you ideas on your own ones to work out: Text Formatter - paste in copied text with hard returns broken paragraphs, bad characters, etc, clean up text, reform to correct sentences, pa
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
correct link - https://gizmodo.com/the-self-checkout-nightmare-may-finally-...
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
When you aren't up to coding do review of what you have written, make notes on corrections needed as well as any ideas for improvement. Good time to review user experience from your diminished perspective.
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
There's Print to PDF printer choice - so far Chrome seems to do the best job of it - if the HTML/CSS is not too responsive it can be not good.
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Phone book is one of my go tos, great for finding museums, bookstores and other shops... This is a problem I've been working on in my area with doplaces.com but even a small area is a lot of work to maintain.
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
For Linux get one of those thick Linux bibles and read through it, digest what you can, note what you can't, bookmark parts that pique your interest. Doing this, I got a much better understanding of what Linux is about and capable of,
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
This was probably the first website I regularly used when I got internet (late 90s) - because it had an awesome Commodore 8-bit archive. That archive is now hosted on another domain ( http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Getting my code to work for the first time (early 2000s.) Starting out with intranet PHP was a daunting task, had to get the system setup (Apache, PHP, MySQL) write the code then mess with permissions, etc. Getting that first response back
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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Yes. I'm definitely old school and it's a great language if you don't want to use frameworks or other cruft, basically powerful. It's very portable, stable, and fun to work with.

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