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How I use the notes field in my password manager(alexwlchan.net)
1 points by alexwlchan 2y ago|0 comments
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Using static websites for tiny archives(alexwlchan.net)
2 points by alexwlchan 2y ago|1 comments
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Digital Decluttering(alexwlchan.net)
2 points by alexwlchan 2y ago|1 comments
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by alexwlchan 2y ago
1/ Why not wget? For this project I wanted a consistent file format for my entire collection. I have a bunch of stuff I want to save which is behind paywalls/logins/clickthroughs that are tricky for wget to reach. I know I ca
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by alexwlchan 3y ago
Argh! I knew I was going to make a numerical mistake somewhere, thanks for spotting it. Correction will be up shortly. Thanks for spotting it! :D And thanks for the text example! This looks like what I was trying, but clearly I had a mistak
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Making a PDF that's larger than Germany(alexwlchan.net)
712 points by alexwlchan 3y ago|149 comments
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by alexwlchan 3y ago
Yeah, that was what I thought when I first worked with these APIs! But when you use PhotoKit, you have to explicitly opt-in to downloading files from iCloud. AFAICT, PHAsset is only metadata. When I'm downloading the full-sized images,
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by alexwlchan 3y ago
> I think that all "photos" or "videos" are just a view of the underlying "photo or video object". If you crop a video, the full-size video will remain. Only if you export the video, it will be cropped and t
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Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions(alexwlchan.net)
10 points by alexwlchan 3y ago|0 comments
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by alexwlchan 3y ago
https://alexwlchan.net/writing/ I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the
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Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework(alexwlchan.net)
3 points by alexwlchan 4y ago|2 comments
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by alexwlchan 4y ago
This is a follow-up to Writing JavaScript without a build system ( https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a... ) Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348
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Launching a rocket in the worst possible way(alexwlchan.net)
1 points by alexwlchan 4y ago|0 comments
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by alexwlchan 4y ago
Apparently so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_rejected_by_the_... I’m surprised by how long the list is; I thought it was much rarer and more exceptional. The only time I’d heard of them rejecting a film w
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YAML file will self-destruct in five seconds(alexwlchan.net)
2 points by alexwlchan 7y ago|0 comments
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by alexwlchan 9y ago
For CI systems like Travis, people add it to the cached directories, and it's shared between runs. I know Travis, Circle and AppVeyor all have some way to cache data between runs – nominally for dependencies, but .hypothesis works too.
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by alexwlchan 12y ago
There's a paragraph in the Phase I Audit Report (published a year ago) which includes a checksum: > The iSEC team reviewed the TrueCrypt 7.1a source code, which is publicly available as a zip archive (“truecrypt 7.1a source.zip”) at
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by alexwlchan 12y ago
Stack of pull requests coming your way :-) (I was having some bad dreams, and apparently proofreading healthcare documents was what I needed to shake it. Thanks!)
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by alexwlchan 14y ago
Even if you could raise the money, I doubt that he would do it, or that it would be comparable to his OS X articles. If you listen to Hypercritical (his weekly 5by5 podcast), you'll have heard that he struggles just getting the OS X reviews
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by alexwlchan 14y ago
> I'd love to get a feed of Daring Fireball with just the longer pieces. You’re in luck: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/ > A feed containing only the longer, feature articles (like the “old” DF feed) is available as a less-freque