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by ropeladder 6y ago
Thanks for posting this and for everyone else adding similar suggestions. I dove into web extension development earlier this year and couldn't find anything at all on automating testing. It was hard to Google testing for web extensions
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by ropeladder 6y ago
They should mention the excellent Orgzly (org mobile app) on the install page. I don't even use org files but it was the best touch GUI for plaintext lists I could find for android.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
I used this one for years: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/83447bc283821369d0887e3ee38c19... I still think it's an incredible piece of art/design.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
I use vim bindings with everything and am a full convert to modal editing. But... Vim bindings also feel like they have accumulated 40 years of cruft and evolved into some severely localized maxima. I'd be really interested in other at
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by ropeladder 6y ago
I've used DroidCam with mostly good results. (I think the last time I tried it out wouldn't work but previously it had worked well)
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by ropeladder 6y ago
The technical discussion was a ways over my head but maybe you'll indulge a more basic question: I'd like hook my linux machine up to a (music) keyboard with minimal latency. What do I need to know/understand/possess for
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by ropeladder 6y ago
<rant>I've been trying out orgzly as a note dump replacement for Trello on mobile. It works ok but I tried setting up actual emacs the other day in order to convert the Trello json output to .org, and the experience was horrible.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
It works in Firefox for Android.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
SingleFile is a really great extension, but I wanted something a bit more pared down that I could easily use on both mobile and desktop and sync between them using Syncthing. So I'm trying to copy some of SingleFile's UI and graft
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by ropeladder 6y ago
It's too bad browsers don't have an easy way to print to browser-page-sized PDF. Standard 8.5x11/A4 paper sized PDFs of webpages tend to look pretty terrible. I used to use the Scrapbook plugin for Firefox but I realized for
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by ropeladder 6y ago
I've been learning the web extensions API and trying to make some improvements to an existing extension that exports a webpage directly to a markdown file (markdown-clipper). I haven't touched JavaScript in a while so it's be
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Lots of good Zsh tips, thanks for this writeup!
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by ropeladder 6y ago
> the offline reading list I've wanted a feature like this for years but I had no idea it already existed! Thank you for this info. And yes, please don't break it, Mozilla.
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by ropeladder 7y ago
The article is an interview with a worker at a warehouse. I found it quite informative. Also, Jacobin is quite upfront about its politics and is not making any pretentions toward "news".
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by ropeladder 7y ago
Due to limitations in Firefox's add-on API you have to set up web server to actually browse your saved pages, which is a big step backwards in functionality. Although I haven't tried it recently; maybe it's gotten easier to s
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by ropeladder 7y ago
It's gotten to the point where I assume that the top comment on every story about privacy by a news outlet will be about their hypocrisy. It's pretty disappointing. (Almost like tech workers feel defensive and want to change the s
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by ropeladder 7y ago
(FYI: Get 7+TaskbarTweaker if you want to change the volume by scrolling anywhere on the taskbar.)
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Ask HN: What are your most compellingly useful Bash examples?
3 points by ropeladder 7y ago|1 comments
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by ropeladder 8y ago
You are missing the key pay of the question: reduce costs for whom ? Since railroads are effectively a (regulated) monopoly reducing costs for Norfolk Southern or CSX can mean Wall Street profits combined with worse service for customers a
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Old-fashioned? Union busting has never gone out of style.
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Obligatory note that the word "meritocracy" was coined by a sociologist in mid-century England as a distopian ideal, distopian because it was used as a bad excuse for privilege and the withholding of social services. https:/
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Isn't a big difference that all of this is running your code on the front end? (Or am I misunderstanding how these work?)
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by ropeladder 8y ago
A year or two ago I tried basically all of the free video editing software available on Linux and Kdenlive was definitely the best (factoring that I couldn't be bothered to learn Blender in the time I had). Others were buggy or clunky
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Yeah it seems ridiculous in hindsight. I think what enabled the mergers though was less someone with a brilliant idea that they could just recombine, and more the drastic change in the government's conception and enforcement of antcomp
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by ropeladder 8y ago
The legislation mentioned in the article probably would help, but the real untold sorry here is that the blame for the recent increase in robocalls lies with Paj's FCC (and thus Trump). Previous FCC rulings kept robocalls from getting
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by ropeladder 8y ago
I ended up booking two flights recently because Kayak sent me a "booking failed" email after I tried once, it failed, then tried again, and it worked. Then an hour later I got an email from Kayak saying my flight booking had faile
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by ropeladder 8y ago
"...because the Charity-status ( 501(c)(3) ) of Colleges in America depends on more-than-half of their students being unable to afford the education (read: “receiving financial aid”)" I wasn't aware of this at all. Do you hav
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Thicket is a platform for rigorous thinking about policy. What should you think about a what that politician is saying? On Thicket you can browse argument maps that others have created--and backed up with direct links to research papers. Th
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Show HN: Thicket – Back up your policy arguments with research(thicket.io)
2 points by ropeladder 8y ago|1 comments
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by ropeladder 8y ago
Weatherspark. It's still around but a mere shadow of its former (flash-based) glory. Using every other weather site is agony.

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