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by acabal 4y ago
Kobo has the best eink renderer and has the best support for modern standards. iBooks is the best renderer on tablet/iOS. Kindle is an ereader made by people who hate books.
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by acabal 5y ago
Doing work for Standard Ebooks has led me to read a lot of Victorian literature, and over time I've grown to appreciate the era in ways I hadn't thought of before. While it's true that, like any era in history, there were rea
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by acabal 5y ago
SE Editor-in-Chief here. We include <i> within <cite> because 1) reading systems often have different default CSS which may not even recognize <cite> and 2) <cite> often contains both a title and an author, and in th
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by acabal 5y ago
This is its most egregious sin, IMHO. Imagine low level system software with such a high opinion of itself that it thinks it deserves a front and center place in your home directory for you to look at every single day. We don't have ~&
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by acabal 5y ago
If a goal of the project is to restrict the network to "book- or paper-like documents", then Markdown is woefully inadequate to represent the richness of the kinds of real-life paper layouts that people have been making over the a
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by acabal 5y ago
That's a pity. Bandcamp is my go-to for getting DRM-free FLAC files straight from the artists. The site was a little crusty but they were a huge benefit as a tech-friendly independent music community.
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by acabal 5y ago
It's all done by hand! Thumbnails are compressed using go-avif when they're created.
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Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS(alexcabal.com)
34 points by acabal 5y ago|6 comments
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by acabal 5y ago
utf8 vs utf8mb4 bit me in one of the most frustrating bugs I've ever had to debug. At Scribophile members can write critiques for people's writing, with comments inserted inline. The underlying software dates back to the PHP5 days
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by acabal 5y ago
Disagree; it was synthetic fertilizers[1], not plastics, that made it possible to feed billions. It is perfectly possible to deliver that food to people without single-use junk plastics, and people have been moving large quantities of food
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by acabal 5y ago
A plastic coke bottle, a plastic burger wrapper, a plastic child's toy, and a plastic shopping bag aren't keeping anyone alive. That's what we're referring to here: single-use junk plastic. In terms of plastic used in th
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by acabal 5y ago
Plastic is necessary ? I think civilization survived just fine for millennia without plastic, actually. Plastic may be beneficial for applications like medicine or non-disposable applications like buildings and machinery, and nobody&#x27
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by acabal 5y ago
I think many people will think this is a joke answer, but IMHO "server-side language of choice + jQuery" is actually the best answer. So much can be accomplished with server-side rendering and some jQuery sprinkled on top. (jQuery
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by acabal 5y ago
I've said to my friends that I think America is in a strange place in history, where bread and circuses have become industrialized enough to truly anesthetize people's political will. People have Netflix, the Internet, and video g
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by acabal 5y ago
The reason for our car dependent lifestyle is that America was specifically and purposefully engineered that way during and after WW2. Pre-war, Americans had a rich urban and small town life much like Europe had and still has to an extent.
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by acabal 5y ago
I completely agree, and I rant about this constantly. But in America at least, cars have infected society to such a degree that for the average person imagining life without them is totally impossible--like asking a fish to imagine life wit
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by acabal 5y ago
Personally I still use a Kobo Aura One from ~2016. IMHO it's a perfect ereader: Larger form factor, eink, amber frontlight, and the 2nd-best renderer on the market. (iBooks being the best, but obviously not an option for eink.) When us
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by acabal 5y ago
The hardware's fine, but software-wise Kindle is still a horrible ereader. It still refuses to read epubs, the de-facto ebook format used by the rest of the world. Its native formats are terrible: mobi is an ancient, horrible proprieta
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by acabal 5y ago
FYI Allen Edmonds no longer makes all of their shoes in the US; since 2006 parts of the shoe, and sometimes the whole shoe, are made in the Dominican Republic. They were also recently bought by a larger shoe conglomerate so IMHO the writi
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by acabal 5y ago
That data is available in the developer tools, under the Storage tab. Individual cookies can be viewed, edited, and deleted. Not very useful for the average user, but the option is there and I doubt the average user even knows what cookies
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by acabal 5y ago
We were working on an edition of News from Nowhere for Standard Ebooks, which unfortunately never saw completion. But in the process we found scans of Morris's own first edition, which is truly an artifact of beauty: https:/&#x2F
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Fears of a Clown (2015)(nymag.com)
1 points by acabal 5y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 5y ago
The large city I live in is now converting its old sodium lights to new LED lights. Instead of a soft yellow glow, the LED lights are a hard blue light, and so bright that you can't even look at the lamps directly. Even a quick glance
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by acabal 5y ago
I think the concept of the WWW as a vast library of accumulating knowledge was a nice vision but it was never a reality, and even less so today. Every time someone stops paying a server bill, a part of that vast library disappears forever.
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by acabal 5y ago
Browsers opening an ftp:// link can simply prompt to open it in a different program, much like they did PDFs in the past. (I also don't think a browser should have to be a great PDF renderer, but here we are.)
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by acabal 5y ago
I don't understand all the negativity around this. People complained when Firefox added Pocket, in part because they took a browser extension and made it a feature that was ostensibly unrelated to web browsing. Now they're taking
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by acabal 5y ago
This is incorrect. In the US new copyright is only awarded for acts of authorship. Minor spelling or punctuation changes, or typo fixes, are not authorship. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
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by acabal 5y ago
The question should be the other way around: Why is there `getElementsByClassName` when you can do `querySelectorAll('.myClass')`? Why have `getElementById` when we have `querySelectorAll('#myId')`? Why have `getElements
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by acabal 5y ago
I still use jQuery even for new projects. Yes, these days it's possible to do everything jQuery does using native JS, but I find the native version to be much more verbose and its naming conventions to be far less clear. For example, n
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by acabal 5y ago
You can get a free high quality ebook of Pym at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/the-narrat... It was one of our first ebooks!

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