fiatjaf

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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   What happened to Dat?
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   See also https://stevecat.net/table-magic/ for quickly editing and translating tables between CSV/TSV/HTML/Markdown/SQL.
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   Some time ago I made https://github.com/fiatjaf/classless , a framework for making themes for simple websites (like blogs) using the same basic HTML structure. The idea is: you write HTML that conforms to the structure,
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   It's ridiculous to imagine governments are doing the best thing possible and then try to decode their actions from our inferior standpoint, like if they were full of wisdom we just don't understand -- more likely doing the worst t
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   Shameless plug: my Telegram bots that run arbitrary Lua[1] and jq[2] code. [1]: https://t.me/runluabot [2]: https://t.me/runjqbot
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   DDG is not good for local stuff. That's in the linked article.
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   You can't get direct links to images when using Google Image Search, but you can when using DuckDuckGo Image Search. That should be enough for you to switch.
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   Great, iredis --url will save my life, thank you!
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   by fiatjaf 7y ago

   Many commenters here still think CouchDB is the same thing it was many years ago. CouchDB was a simple but very powerful idea (that still needed improvements), but it was coopted into something not very nice nor good nor useful. See my old
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I installed it with the only hope it would recognize Redis URIs like redis://name:password@host:port/db, unlike redis-cli, which requires me to type each part of the URI separated in different flags I never remember. Turns ou
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I wrote this many years ago: https://sheets.alhur.es/ The source code is somewhere on GitHub, but I don't remember where exactly, I tried so many times to write a good spreadsheet. My final goal was to use them to powe
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    Added that to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless . The company behind it apparently specializes in making these loginless useful apps, they also have TinySheet.com and TinyMonth.com
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    > Every time I use the ln command, it puzzles me not knowing whether any of the arguments is source_file or target_file. I had that problem too. Then I realized the syntax is the same for `cp` and `mv`, but instead of copying or moving t
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    What will it do with my environment variables? I've just tried with an Heroku app and I get nothing, Firefox cannot find the myherokuappname.fly.dev address.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    You basically listed all features ever invented. There's not a single "hosted" chat app that has all the features you want.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    There's a protocol for this and it's called remoteStorage[0]. It has a JavaScript implementation that just works and different compatible servers, plus anyone can run its own. [0]: https://remotestorage.io/
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    This. Please search engine, listen to this: it's ok if you don't have any results for what I'm searching. I want to know fast when there are no results, so I can try other queries. I don't want to open a dozen of pages b
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    So this is only for people with depression? Not a single word for people who don't think they're depressed but still want to write? Why is it better than any other text editor?
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    The jq manual is very very good.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I expected to see people complaining that a government spend tons of money buying licenses when there are hundreds of other languages that you can use for free out there, but instead I saw people saying Delphi is good, Delphi is bad, Pascal
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I've tried both extensively. Both suck. And they're not really comparable, except on their problems.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I once fell for this talk about "content-addressing". You know what? Saying stuff is addressed by their content doesn't change the fact that the internet is "location-addressed" and you still have to know where peer
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    The point no one is making in these comments is: How is search so good? I've tried to implement search on small websites and always failed miserably. Results were always terrible no matter what library/database/indexer I used
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    I think there are a ton of services that could be more easily built (at least as proof-of-concept) if this kind of UI existed and developers didn't have to worry about pretty flashy GUIs. Also something like this could have more access
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    By this I mean actually a way for people to publish standardized web interfaces that can all be accessed from the same local terminal, with built-in identity, text-editing and JSON filtering with jq, who knows what else.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    This makes me think we might need a terminal for web apps.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    Shameless plug to my list of interesting `jq` stuff: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq It even features a complete rewrite of the actual jq in Go.
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    Why is everybody acting as if this is some kind of solution to password-based auth? Can you even imagine a world in which a big chunk of the population carry these tokens around and never ever lose them?
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    SQRL used to be a nice protocol, now it's a completely unusable monster with more than 100 pages of technical documentation. If you're interested in something similar that actually works and is very simple, take a look at https:&
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    by fiatjaf 7y ago

    Why not use opentimestamps.org for this extension instead?