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by lotwxyz 7y ago
I just created another command called "hnitemkids" that waits for the kids property of an item (ie comments) to be updated. So far, here is the only output I see... 0 kids found Oh well, at least I don't need to keep r
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A CLI Front End for WebSQL and the Hacker News API(lotw.xyz)
2 points by lotwxyz 7y ago|1 comments
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
I found out there was a Hacker News Firebase API like one hour (or so) ago, and decided to see if I could integrate it into Linux on the Web . Of course, there are many more possibilities in terms of applications (both for the desktop and
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Stream the current largest item id in Hacker News(lotw.xyz)
1 points by lotwxyz 7y ago|1 comments
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
This is a wiki that only serves user-agents that are capable of executing JavaScript. Weird.
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
Get into developing web technology. The web is the crucial "space of freedom" within which all other modes of freedom (political or otherwise) currently depend. I want to start tackling these big issues, too... That's why I c
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
The idea of creating cross platform desktop applications is why I created Linux on the Web . First of all, it is merely a website, so there is no concept of downloading anything, and needing to give system-level permissions. But it is a we
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
> One of my weaknesses as a grad student is a tendency to want to multi task and take on many side projects (as evidenced by the above youtube video and the text you are reading now). Yeah, this is my downfall as a human being, which is
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
In my web-based shell implementation [0], I use a library concept, such that you have to "import" commands into the current execution environment. You can either do this kind of thing: $ import fs This imports all the comma
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
What about websites that have good, solid text editors (like vim) integrated into them, and are able to store files locally, and access them via CLI [0]? Could that be seen as part of this text renaissance? Or do you need to have some kind
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
My Unix philosophy to showing people what a web-based 'ls' command looks like is this: $ import fs && import util && comstr --nowrap ls | pretty | less (Works here: https://dev.lotw.xyz/shell
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
You can use all the fancy terms for the mangling and intentional obfuscation of crappy code that you want. Sure, you might think that minification is a valid use for such tools, but really, there is no alternative to just sitting down and w
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
Believe it or not: I have to deal with issues just like this over in webdev-land! (See the Terminal app in https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os or skip right to it, go to https://dev.lotw.xyz/shell.os )
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
> Javascript should innovate at higher levels Until that level takes the problem of in-browser, persistent file/blob storage seriously, the JS ecosystem will not be able to truly progress, particularly when it comes to the questio
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
You can't compile the code of scripting languages, so please stop using that term. You may be doing something to the "source code", but it is not compiling! And I would argue that the thing you are doing to that code is
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
I think the underlying motivation in this comment is that there are very many technical application development challenges which can be solved simply by web developers paying close attention to the fundamentals of their craft rather than re
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
> No bs web ui here. You ain't seen nothing yet: https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
Hint: "Bootstepper mode" is always fun... https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os?bootstepper=1
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
Haha, I can't imagine even one file anywhere in the world that I own that anyone would find immediate value in possessing. We can continue this conversation in the LOTW desktop... either via the Mail or Forum app (you need to create a
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
That's meant to be a throwback to the look and feel of the 90's when you saw so many bare bones Apache index.html listings that were something like that. What you are seeing there is highly controlled, no-nonsense output, ie, what
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
My theory on safety: there's more safety in a world where things just work better. I think that LOTW can crank that idea of "things working better" into overdrive!
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
1) It's served over https. 2) All the files in the local file system are completely the property of the user. The js makes no attempt to do any snooping or uploading. You can verify that by looking at the network activity.
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by lotwxyz 7y ago
I've been hacking on this thing in form or another since 2011!
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Linux on the Web: The “web desktop” concept finally arrives(dev.lotw.xyz)
4 points by lotwxyz 7y ago|11 comments