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by cxr 2y ago
Wirth's book does not implement a "real" programming language. Whatever your thoughts on Oberon and Pascal-like SHOUTCASE languages, it's largely irrelevant. Oberon is arguably a "real" language (and operatin
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by cxr 2y ago
WriteFreely - is AGPL-licensed - supports themes - requires JS (to post) - supports ActivityPub Bearblog: - is MIT-licensed - doesn't support themes - doesn't require JS - uses RSS/Atom for syndication
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by cxr 2y ago
I'm not sure you're grokking what I'm saying. The answer to your question is "yes, of course". The class attribute has _nothing_ to do with CSS (or JS). The CSS people didn't give us the class attribute (and
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by cxr 2y ago
> I do not think of my Obsidian or Notion instances as "wikis" Because they're not. There's a weird thing that happened with the word "wiki" where wikis appeared, and then a project came along with the purpo
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by cxr 2y ago
The class attribute from HTML has about as much to do with CSS as the id attribute. Those "CSS class names" are just HTML classes. They were invented for HTML, you write them in HTML, and they're part of the HTML spec. It&#x
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by cxr 2y ago
Digitizing spines is a lot less labor intensive than bookscanning; getting photos of spines is basically just taking photos of shelves, so maybe just go to the library and spend about 5 minutes taking photos.
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by cxr 2y ago
The Web is widely understood to refer to interconnected resources* with links between them. Aside from that, you're on pretty shaky ground here. The person on the street has no idea what HTML or HTTP(S) are. It's not unlikely
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by cxr 2y ago
> we’ve replaced the horizontal tabs (Info, Tags, Notes, etc.) with collapsible vertical sections and a side navigation bar for quick access to specific sections I haven't used Zotero 7 yet, but this is great. I love this. Ditto h
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by cxr 2y ago
Zotero and, previously, the UI updates to MonoDevelop (Xamarin Studio) are both proof that in order to get the best UI for all platforms, you should work on making it look decent-to-good (if not perfectly suited) for Mac OS and then just us
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by cxr 2y ago
Yes. I recommend Zotero as an alternative to Calibre frequently, and while reading your comment I was going to make a comparison before I even got to the part that mentions Calibre by name. I started out using using Zotero during lockdowns
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by cxr 2y ago
> Something like npm So an inferior version control system that works at odds with the main one that you're using to manage your repo (probably Git) and that works against anyone who's interested in what the version control sys
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by cxr 2y ago
True right now in 2024 (and so long as you're using an up-to-date browser). But not always true.
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by cxr 2y ago
I suspect Justine will eventually do what the Cloudflare Workers team did, which is after having originally only supported Lua, to start supporting JS (albeit via quickjs in the redbean case, rather than V8) and then see wild uptake.
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by cxr 2y ago
> it is somewhat rubbish for user experience with the friction of getting files in and out of your app It's not worse, generally, than the average experience of using a NodeJS program that won't run because the dependencies did
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by cxr 2y ago
When I say "the Web", what I mean is the Web. > Usually you would say HTML and HTTP(S) is "The Web" No. The Web is the Web, for all the reasons I already gave. "The Web doesn't mean "browser technologi
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by cxr 2y ago
You could literally run the Golang compiler in your browser if you wanted to (emphasis on in your browser—not deferring to a server to do the heavy lifting) without any of that stuff. A lot of the stuff that people think they need Chrome&
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by cxr 2y ago
> you could also consider a wider definition That's an understatement, which is sort of the whole point of what I wrote: > I encourage everybody to read TBL's book Weaving The Web and his other expository writing People wh
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by cxr 2y ago
gemini:// and spartan:// resources are part of the Web. (So is Gopherspace, for that matter.) They're not mutually exclusive; the Web is not HTML over HTTP. To focus on one example: Gopher space is a subset of th
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by cxr 2y ago
> clicking a link to a .m file triggers a download Firefox can be convinced to simply show you any resource that you know is some flavor of plain text if you open it in View Source mode, i.e. by constructing a view-source: URI out of the
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by cxr 2y ago
> You said “the dumbest stance anyone can take on the planet” Wrong. Again.
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by cxr 2y ago
Your key is leaked the moment you leak it. It's thinking of posted-publicly-but-unclear-if-exploited as "possibly leaked" (rather than "definitely leaked") that's the problem here, not GitHub's totally rea
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by cxr 2y ago
So true. Another example: I would say I murder less than 1% of the people I meet, but do I meet a lot of people compared to the average person? Let's say we tallied up the total number of people I murdered this year and it came out t
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by cxr 2y ago
For emphasis: > You can't assume that someone who paid $5 for a year will keep their subscription for 12 months when there's a way to cancel after a month > I also just don't want to give Stripe that big a cut (It&#
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by cxr 2y ago
... Huh? $7.20 > $4.85
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by cxr 2y ago
Huh? $12 × 0.60 = $7.20 $ 5 × 0.97 = $4.85
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by cxr 2y ago
I remember this story and chuckled the first time I heard it. But if you were comfortable charging $5 per year, what's wrong with $1 per month (billed monthly)?
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by cxr 2y ago
Grocery stores figured this out years ago. It's by giving that secondary number a subordinate position on the price tag. Not by redesigning the price tag to list the actual options in a misleading way (and then making the customer do
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by cxr 2y ago
> $6.67/user/month billed annually or $8 billed monthly I like this project. But please stop putting dumb shit like this on the pricing page. There is no such thing. The options are $80 a year, or $8 a month. That's it.
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by cxr 2y ago
You both described the same thing, but fabian2k better.
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by cxr 2y ago
Is how you find out that your company's IT department is just a bunch of bozos in a trenchcoat. Sucks, but it's the norm for any company who's payroll isn't >50% programmers.

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