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by johnmw 4y ago
Another small point that contributes to the poor communication - as of 4th May, the option to connect to Github is still there and the documentation hasn't been updated [1]. If you try to connect you get an obscure error that tells you
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by johnmw 5y ago
You might like this video of Andrew Sorensen demonstrating Extempore (its included in the software list in the sibling comment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGKEy8vHqg
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by johnmw 5y ago
If you are planning on working in India, Hyperjuice[1] is your friend (or similar). [1] https://www.hypershop.com/collections/hyperjuice
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by johnmw 5y ago
Awesome, happy to be educated (despite the subjective questions). But I'd like the next game to train designers how to use tools like Figma properly (by that I mean if they knew how to design using auto layout - flexbox for devs - it w
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by johnmw 5y ago
As an IT "Pro" the only thing I can use "professionally" (apart from testing iPad apps) is the SSH client, and that works fine on my iPad 1. Sheesh, the browser doesn't even have devtools. (only grouchy because I&#x
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by johnmw 6y ago
If you don't mind me asking, which Chromebook do you have and how much coding do you get out of the 1 panel/2.5kg trips between charges? I also use devtools and node. I would love to find a device that focuses on low power consump
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by johnmw 6y ago
Is there a Japanese translation that means "pile up computer games?" I will start using that phase if it exists!
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by johnmw 6y ago
Hi, this is some software a friend in New Zealand wrote. He is trying hard, but his marketing is not so great. I think what he created is (whilst a bit ugly) powerful and might appeal to a subset of people here. Anyway, hoping it appeals to
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Sia – The serious mind mapping tool(sia.planetearthsoftware.com)
3 points by johnmw 6y ago|1 comments
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by johnmw 6y ago
I'll throw in another: For a cool "hacker" (and more powerful in many ways) alternative to spotlight, install iTerm2, and activate a drop down quake style hotkey window. [1] Then install broot, which is a fantastic command li
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by johnmw 6y ago
Thank you! Now I just wonder - did you use some command line magic to do this, or did you compose it manually? (no complaints if you did, but it would be interesting to know how to do that in a line of script). Anyway, thanks again.
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by johnmw 6y ago
Do you (or anyone else) have any other suggestions for good low cost database/data layer services to work with these options? These free services are fantastic but the limitation is that they seem to be only for static sites (static in
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by johnmw 6y ago
I don't know why the sibling reply comment to this by golemiprague was killed. My understanding is that he is correct - in terms of requiring a framework to be bundled with your code. Svelte is not a framework that needs to be bundl
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by johnmw 6y ago
Wow, a live coding web based Smalltalk environment! What a great topic for a tech discussion! And maybe a discussion on how this could sort of thing could be the future - the original dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee of a real "read write&
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by johnmw 7y ago
Note - I am in no way affiliated with this project - I just really want one, and they seem a fair way off making their goal. I also think this might really appeal to hackers, biohackers (who aren’t quite ready to have a magnet implant in th
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Xtactor Smart Wrist Band (Uses Morse Code)(indiegogo.com)
1 points by johnmw 7y ago|1 comments
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by johnmw 7y ago
It does seem life is imitating art here [1] [1] https://www.e-coin.com/ [2] https://mrrobot.fandom.com/wiki/E_Corp
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by johnmw 7y ago
And if you just want to give it a try first, you can play the old version online [1] [1]: https://playclassic.games/games/point-n-click-adventure-dos-...
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by johnmw 7y ago
If you have an interest in odd programming languages, the 'spiritual successor' to these games written in the Infocom ZIL language would be Inform7. I think it is quite a fascinating declarative language that reads much like Engli
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by johnmw 8y ago
As a sibling comment pointed out, it seems it does appear to be supported? I have the same machine: Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x8 VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 2048 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x1
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by johnmw 8y ago
This is a great article, it helped clarify my understanding of functional CSS and made some really good points. However, I still don't think it is the complete answer. Mostly, if I'm wearing my developer hat (rather than designer
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by johnmw 8y ago
Furthermore, I see all this anger about this technical decision affecting peoples privacy, but have not yet seen someone provide a good engineering solution to the problem it was trying to solve. Example Use Case: I was contacted by my poor
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by johnmw 8y ago
No further questions, just thanks for the enjoyable stories :-)
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by johnmw 8y ago
Note this was written by Lou Montulli who also wrote the amusing post about "The Origins of the <Blink> Tag" [1] [1] http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag I didn't know about the about:ab
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The short history of the “about:” URL (2013)(montulli.org)
143 points by johnmw 8y ago|21 comments
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by johnmw 9y ago
First, thanks for your work on IPFS. I've been trying to get into IPFS recently. One thing I can't wrap my head around is that IPNS only seems to persist for about 12 hours and then stops working. It seems to defeat the purpose of
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by johnmw 9y ago
Java applets. Back in the mid 90's Java was at the peak of its hype cycle and was the darling language. I thought the idea of writing an app in a 'modern advanced' language, compiling it down to a bytecode, and running it in
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by johnmw 9y ago
This doesn't seem to integrate with my existing bookmarks? Have I done something wrong, or is this not possible right now? If not, are there any plans to do this in the future - any help organising my existing pile of bookmarks would
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by johnmw 10y ago
I hope Datomic does well and Rich easily puts his kids through college. But as a developer I think the current license is a bit of a shame. I've played with Datomic, think it is fantastic, and would love to use it. However: - After the
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by johnmw 10y ago
- Random text editing? Sublime text. Fast, multi platform, native, great plugins, and I've paid for it, else I might have used Atom ;-) - HTML/JS Coding? VS Code - not native but still pretty fast and has many things that make dev

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