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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
As far as I can ascertain, and as I described in the last section of this article, they never actually supported it meaningfully. I believe that the iTunes client got Atom support, but not the iTunes Music Store, and that was the part tha
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
> Imagine the same title in a list of post titles. Sounds wonderful. I think you aren’t realising that it’s already easy to abuse this stuff, with uppercase and exotic Unicode letters < https://yaytext.com/ > and s
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Here’s an example of <code> in titles being quite valuable: https://chrismorgan.info/blog/make-and-git-diff-test-harness... . Inferior plain text: Using make and git diff for a simple and powerful test harness B
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Consider the title of my article: “Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter ”. That emphasis belongs there, and it’s mildly bad to lose it. (For presentation on my own site, I also control the line break position on larger screens; but
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Do video cassette recorders and players support both VHS and Betamax? Because essentially all feed readers support both Atom and RSS.
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Wait till you see the HTML I had to write to get them!
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
As a concrete example: I have been frustrated by title encoding issues on CSS-Tricks (HTML tag names getting broken) multiple times, which would never have occurred if they just used Atom instead of RSS.
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
> It is hard to read The hilarious thing here is that without JavaScript, the code is white-on-white, because some of the colouring is added on pre[class*="language-"], but the language-css class is only added to the pre el
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
The reason I think it matters is that, because people keep on using the name of the wrong format, people keep on using that wrong format when they want to implement feeds. Where if they had known about Atom, or that podcast feeds are th
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
I hate RSS. It’s a bad format that developed organically in all the worst ways, and it should have died completely in favour of Atom by about twenty years ago. I started a draft describing some of the problems that actually matter (th
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Why would five-digit years have become popular? They seem roundly a bad idea. Years aren’t even four digits by custom: they’re just numbers, with the present idiosyncrasy of eschewing a grouping (thousands) separator. We say the sack of R
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Where I live now (Hyderabad, India), the record low is about 45°F, the temperature will not drop below 50°F more than two or three days in a year, and the daily maximum will not drop below 100°F for at least fifty consecutive days in the su
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
> 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect Citation needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit suggests no such thing, nor have I ever heard the notion.
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Living in Australia and India, I have never encountered such a thermostat. But I do vaguely recall encountering a thermostat somewhere at some point that went up by twos in Fahrenheit. I would guess you would only encounter ½°C steps on u
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
You’ve been led astray by the altered title on this submission. The web does not support the concept described in this article (seats) at all. It supports tracking multiple pointers, but it’s all still single-player, in the terminology of t
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
That’s unrelated. The typical device will only ever have one seat. From Wayland core, that seat may have a pointer, keyboard and touch; and from tablet-v2 < https://wayland.app/protocols/tablet-v2 >, you can add ta
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Wayland seats are sets of inputs, to be handled together, each seat having its own cursor position, focused element, and so forth. That’s not what you want, I believe. … unless you do want the left half of your keyboard to type into one w
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
> There is really _never_ a time when a CAPTCHA will require you to execute code on your machine. Oh yeah? What about Google saying “install the reCAPTCHA app in the App Store” < https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
I don't believe you’re correct. Certainly in Australia the cooling-off period is all about buyer’s remorse; “subject to finance” is a completely unrelated condition commonly added to the contract, and even with pre-approval it’s probab
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
The other approach to killing the cookie banner is simply to declare that such a thing cannot constitute “informed consent”. (Perhaps: “ticking a checkbox and/or clicking a button cannot constitute informed consent”; and see what the
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
It’s funny, I’d genuinely say that Gravatar improved for quite some time. In the old days it was fine, then for quite some time under Automattic when they started fiddling with it it was ridiculously bad and for a while even literally u
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
No blog post, no order, no preorder; I think the only things about it are this sentence and a half: > 192GB coming soon > The most powerful Framework Desktop yet is coming soon with an AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 495 processor and 192GB
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Some review of Jelly UI itself. —⁂— It requires JS to work, which could have been avoided at some arguable ergonomic cost. Personally I’d disqualify it from being considered “native HTML form controls”—it’d need to be just an enhancement to
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
Please never use scroll-snap as is done on this demo page (unrelated to the soft-body physics). It leads to an awful experience for a large fraction of users. It improves things in one or two scenarios, but at the cost of far more common
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
If code is poetry, WordPress was written by William McGonagall < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall >.
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
> Almost all commercial devices need a unique ID, private key, etc Serious question: why?
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
The guy that is making stdx has been doing various shady stuff in his books and code which have resulted in all his stuff being banned on /r/rust. In stdx, he’s been forking good code, violating licenses, completely rewriting stuf
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
They push this message hard : unless you pay us, the bad guys will eat your lunch. The truth is that if you uninstall their software (and hopefully also if you just let the trial lapse, though I don’t actually know whether Defender Ant
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
When preinstalled (as multiple major OEMs do), or when bundled in unrelated installers in these sorts of ways, it matches the definitions of scam excellently, and protection racket not badly. When you uninstall, they give you an opportunity
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by chrismorgan 3mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/ isn’t quite a gallery , but pretty close.

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