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by donbrae 4y ago
No; it was run by a guy called Martyn Sherwood. I found a page about it online[0], which I see includes a reference to my ‘company’, Micro Spec Software! [0] https://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/jmg7/groups/prismpd
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by donbrae 4y ago
Loved my ZX Spectrums (+2A/B then +3). Used them to make games and other software, which I sold via mail order and then through a public domain library called Prism PD. I also made a monthly wrestling fanzine on it; and it was my intro
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by donbrae 4y ago
I’ve found Boxy SVG ( https://boxy-svg.com ) to be a good visual SVG editor. You can edit the SVG markup or use the visual tools. The markup is preserved on save.
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by donbrae 4y ago
I much prefer Kagi to Google (and DuckDuckGo et al). Often the first page of Google consists solely of SEO rubbish. Being able to block and rank domains is also useful.
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by donbrae 4y ago
Wrestling Observer Newsletter[0]. Covers the pro wrestling (and MMA) business. Been going since the 1980s. The writer and publisher Dave Meltzer was featured in the New York Times a while back[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by donbrae 5y ago
https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/ Made with Eleventy.
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by donbrae 5y ago
Author here. Programmer notation: I just mean it more or less as ‘whichever key’.
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by donbrae 5y ago
That is infuriating. On my work Mac I’m only signed into the App Store (not iCloud) and have not had this problem. Maybe it’s the corporate malware your company installs that’s doing it?
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My macOS keyboard shortcuts(jamieonkeys.dev)
213 points by donbrae 5y ago|195 comments
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by donbrae 5y ago
Not in the UK. Only those earning self-employed income over a certain threshold (£1,000, I think) need to complete a return.
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Review: The Mac Studio shows us why Apple left Intel behind(arstechnica.com)
6 points by donbrae 5y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 5y ago
You need to enable it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204434 > ‘Use your keyboard like a mouse’.
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by donbrae 5y ago
Great work. Will bookmark. I built something similarly no-nonsense and text-based for pro wrestling news: https://www.wrestle.buzz .
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by donbrae 5y ago
Made an HTML5/JS puzzle game: https://www.tripodsgame.com . No expectation of it making any money. (That said I do daydream of the NYT buying it lol.)
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DataGridXL v2: ‘Excel-Like Experience for Web Apps’(datagridxl.com)
1 points by donbrae 5y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 5y ago
Indeed: the current Queen is Elizabeth II of England, but Elizabeth I of Scots as well as the United Kingdom.
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by donbrae 5y ago
I sit with a hot water bottle all day at my desk during the winter months. Really works well and is cheaper than running the heating all the time.
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by donbrae 5y ago
Looks like it’s using Tone.js[0] with a sample library called ‘Salamander Grand Piano V3’[1]. Tone.js is great. I’m using it to convert MIDI files and sync visuals on a jazz piano tutorial website I’m building[2]. [0] https://ton
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‘Understanding JavaScript Promises’ (new e-book by Nicholas C. Zakas)(ebooks.humanwhocodes.com)
9 points by donbrae 5y ago|0 comments
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Tripods, an HTML5 puzzle game I built during lockdown(jamieonkeys.dev)
4 points by donbrae 5y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 5y ago
Is BuzzFeed actually clickbait, though? If you mean that the headline makes you want to click to read the article, then I guess it is. But that’s no different to any website. Looking at the home page just now, BuzzFeed doesn’t seem to make
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Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments(valhalladsp.com)
77 points by donbrae 5y ago|17 comments
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by donbrae 5y ago
Is your phone muted? I assume this is using the Web Audio API, which doesn’t sound on iOS if the iDevice is muted (requires a hack of playing silent HTML5 Audio in the background).
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by donbrae 5y ago
I bought a few cool domains over the past couple of years for side projects: wrestle.buzz, scots.app, jazzkeys.fyi and jamieonkeys.dev. My favourite (joke) domain is Marco Arment’s bad.coffee :D
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by donbrae 5y ago
That is simply incorrect. I personally know people whose first language is Scots. It was the first language they learned and they use it every day.
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by donbrae 5y ago
Not a book but I run a blog written in Scots: https://makforrit.scot .
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by donbrae 5y ago
As a Scots speaker I would object vehemently to my language being classified as a dialect of ‘British’, or any other language for that matter.
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by donbrae 5y ago
Scottish English != Scots. The former is just English with a Scottish accent; the latter is a closely related (to English) but distinct language with its own vocabulary and grammar, not dissimilar to the relationship between Norwegian and D
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by donbrae 5y ago
Looks like it does: “Students from Scotland are again the most positive, but there has been a statistically significant (6%) fall this year.”[1] However fees are only paid by the government if a Scottish student (including those from elsewh
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by donbrae 5y ago
I did similar in Mac Mail a few years ago: it caused an out-of-office reply to be sent to every email I’d ever sent going back years. I was surprised Mail allowed for this scenario. Needless to say, my holiday got off to a stressful start!

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