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The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”(susam.net)
309 points by susam 2y ago|166 comments
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by susam 2y ago
Quoting from the article: 'In 1985, after a year of finding that pretty but unlabeled icons confused customers, the Apple human interface group took on the motto "A word is worth a thousand pictures." This still holds true.&
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The Evolution of the Interface (2000)(asktog.com)
1 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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Links copied from project READMEs now add "?tab=readme-ov-file" query parameter(github.com)
2 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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Git v2.49.0(lore.kernel.org)
2 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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NCSA Mosaic 1.0 Released (1993)(ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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Bitwise Reading Lounge(bitwise.codeberg.page)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
It is unfortunate that modern web development has led to websites so complex that they either break entirely or look terrible in text-based browsers like Lynx. Take Mastodon, for example: $ lynx https://mastodon.social/
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MathB 1.3.0(susam.net)
3 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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by susam 2y ago
> Notice that, when writing html5 by hand, you can use the full power of the language, most notably optional tags (no need to write html, body, etc) and auto-closing tags (no need to close p, li, td, etc). You may get something even cris
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by susam 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, I handcraft all my HTML and CSS. I'm glad you noticed the HTML and liked it. I find great joy in crafting my website by hand. It's like digital gardening. I grow all my HTML and CSS myself. It's all 100% or
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by susam 2y ago
Thank you! Yes, M^* is Stewart's notation. Indeed this notation is "lossy" in the sense that it loses information about what the extension field is. The extension field is usually introduced once for every example or theor
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by susam 2y ago
Hello HN! Thank you for upvoting this post to the front page. I'm quite delighted to see this post about a relatively obscure lemma from Galois theory make it to the front page. This post is primarily intended as notes on the subject
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Lemma for the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory(susam.net)
134 points by susam 2y ago|37 comments
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NCSA Mosaic 1.0 Released (1993)(1997.webhistory.org)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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What Pen Does the President of the US Use?(dayspringpens.com)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
I believe, you and I are talking about the same colour when I say "white" and you say "light grey". Specifically, I mean colour 7, and I believe you do as well. In the CGA and EGA palettes, colour 7 is commonly called
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by susam 2y ago
EDIT.COM and MS-DOS installers too had blue background. In fact, blue (CGA colour 1) was a very popular background colour for many tools. For example, white on blue was a popular colour theme for Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc. Borland dBase
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The contour package (2004) [pdf](ctan.net)
1 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, the background music too is inspired by the four-note loop of the original Space Invaders. Here’s the source code for it: https://github.com/susam/invaders/blob/0.9.0/invaders.html#L...
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by susam 2y ago
This is the game that originally inspired me to computer programming. I first stumbled upon this game in the 1990s in my school’s computer laboratory. I wanted to develop something similar on my own but the little GW-BASIC programming I k
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IBM EGA 8x14(int10h.org)
7 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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Financial Fiasco (2008)(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
While this isn't at all like StumbleUpon, I've been enjoying a similar sense of discovery by adding https://indieblog.page/random as a bookmark to my web browser. Whenever I have some spare time and feel like su
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The end of hot metal printing (2015)(theguardian.com)
1 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf](web.archive.org)
19 points by susam 2y ago|2 comments
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Fountain Pens vs. Rollerball Pens vs. Ballpoint Pens(goldspot.com)
4 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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FXYT Community Demos: Patterns created with a tiny, stack-based postfix language(susam.github.io)
1 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
The phoneme-number assignment is something I learnt from a book. That system was developed by several people over several hundred years. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system for more details abou
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The Color Vowel Chart(colorvowel.com)
3 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments

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