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by jordsta 4y ago
It might have to be setup by an Airbnb host but the past few places I've stayed at had the ability to press a button inside the Airbnb app to automatically connect to their WiFi. Definitely saves some of the less tech-savvy hosts from
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by jordsta 5y ago
If you so happen to have a Google Home you can also now ask the Google Assistant to find your iPhone too: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/14/google-assistant-locate...
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by jordsta 8y ago
There's a really nice icon used as the favicon on their website, shame it's seemingly not used anywhere on the web page itself.
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by jordsta 8y ago
Google cache of the page, since we've given the site the hug of death: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by jordsta 8y ago
@foone is very quickly becoming my favourite account to follow on Twitter. He posts at least one super insightful Twitter thread every day or two about some fascinating quirk about computing history. Beats hitting Wikipedia:Special:Random f
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by jordsta 8y ago
What a waste of a paid Medium article. I could've read more detail on a free blog post elsewhere.
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by jordsta 8y ago
This is why I can't take any of this reasoning from SQLite seriously at all. The feeling I gather from this webpage is 'Hey, I made something I think is better than a popular thing, therefore every project I author from now on mus
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by jordsta 9y ago
I personally think this framework is pretty cool, however unlike an earlier version of it that featured here on HN[1], the Docs and Tutorials section of the site no longer appear to work with Javascript disabled. [1] https://news
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by jordsta 10y ago
I read the title of this article wrong, thinking it was 'Why I Moved to Angular 2 from Vue.js' before reading it a second time. It's given me a thought though: has anyone ever moved from Vue.js back to the controversial Angul
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by jordsta 10y ago
The year after I finished at Griffith, they implemented a 'Unlimited free internet downloads during off-peak hours' policy. Just reading up on it though, it's not as good value as I first thought: the first 5GB are full-speed
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by jordsta 10y ago
I'm not one to defend Chrome, but the functionality of uBlock Origin you get on Firefox is the exact same as what you get on Chrome. Same filters available and everything. If you still see an ad in Chrome with uBlock Origin installed,
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by jordsta 10y ago
I can't seem to play any of the example MIDI files from the homepage on my Mac, using either VLC or Quicktime. Are there any special tricks I need to do in order to get these playing?
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by jordsta 10y ago
Uh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sky_plc_logo.png
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by jordsta 10y ago
It's a welcome upgrade from version 2, but I think Workflows and Snippets really could've done with a central hub for developers to upload and share their workflows/snippets, alongside a panel in Alfred to search and install