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by ttepasse 4y ago
As usual a lot of discussions about AppleScript are about the english-like syntax, adopted for inexperienced users, less than the - in theory - amazing object based App scripting. Fun fact: Apple in 1991 in fact planned to have alternative
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> Stephenson’s worlds are not populated predominantly by Heinleinian larger-than-life characters than can do anything … Funnily enough I have in Stephenson’s more recent books the contrary impression. The last near future books read more
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by ttepasse 4y ago
If you just want to adjust your keyboard layout, MacOS has historically a rather flexible and adjustable keyboard layout and key binding systems. For custom keyboard layouts there is the app Ukulele which is slightly more easier than writin
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by ttepasse 4y ago
One of my all-time favorite Mac apps is also a timer, input via mouse instead of typing: http://maddin.io/gestimer/
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by ttepasse 4y ago
My most used bookmarklets are two: both find the last number in the URI path and increment or decrement that number. Perfect for paged websites. I'm using these for almost twenty years. If sometimes Safari removes the function to activ
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by ttepasse 4y ago
I do sometimes, but I'm rather sensitive for the ẞ issue: My last name contains an ß and uppercasing would either mean keeping the ß lowercase – the Personalausweis does that (†) and it looks ugly — or doing the ß → SS transformation w
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Designing a Better Language Selector(smashingmagazine.com)
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by ttepasse 5y ago
Very early blogs often had more of a Twitter/Tumblr feel in single-sentence posts. The style of longer articles/essays with titles only developed a little bit later. Take a look at one of the earliest weblogs, kottke.org in 2000.
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by ttepasse 5y ago
Apple for a long time had WebObjects, a server-side Web Framework in ObjC, later Java, inherited from Next. Judging by URL structure a lot of Apple infrastructure likes the stores and iTunes Connect were build on Webobjects and possible sti
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by ttepasse 5y ago
The announcement letter on https://abc.xyz/ (still) has a hidden link to Hooli, in one of the full stops.
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> Sure, that could work. But that standardized API does not exist, or if it does, it's clearly not being adopted, so it's a moot point. Where is the Indie Web in terms of adoption? The same argument could simply made forward: t
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by ttepasse 5y ago
> In essence, your crypto wallet(s) can serve as a "digital backpack" for you to store digital goods (NFTs) that you've acquired from apps, games, websites, or other people. I got vaccinated this summer, there is this vi
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by ttepasse 5y ago
Safari did something in that regard in 2018 and proposed a passwordrules attribute with a mini description language: • https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 • https://developer.apple.com&#x2
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by ttepasse 5y ago
> At the top we have a crown, who's crown, the (imported) House of Windsor? I don't know? It's not a crown but a coronet. Coronet are a heraldic device to symbolise noble ranks, including those of the royal family. In Br
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And RSS 1.0 was a RDF-based reformulation of the XML-based RSS 0.91 from Scripting News/Dave Winer. That in turn was a fork of the XML-based RSS 0.91 from Netscape, which itself was a reformulation of the RDF-based RSS 0.9 from Netscap
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> Monastics live in windowless rooms I have visited dozens of european monasteries – I can't remember ever seeing a windowless cell or a dormitorium. Even anchorites’ cells have windows. Which makes sense given the medieval times: a
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by ttepasse 5y ago
These past years Safari gets two releases per year, the big one with the release of MacOS in fall and a .1 spring release, adapting web technologies and sometimes extra releases tied to other Apple events and Apple proprietary APIs I'm
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by ttepasse 5y ago
> To name those I use in my daily work: WebRTC, img srcset, the video element, WebASM, media queries, CSS animations. The majority of these things are not from Google/Chrome and not from this past decade. <img srcset> was fi
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macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies(corbinstreehouse.com)
60 points by ttepasse 5y ago|16 comments
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I found the photography on the Guardian article not so great; thankfully the manufacturer has better pictures: https://berliner-seilfabrik.com/en/product/triitopia-02/ I'm a little envious. On my german
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Youtube still has feeds; instead of using Youtube's subscriptions I simply have a folder in my Feedreader. Some Feedreader services also to have a Twitter integration but I found that overwhelming. Also some have a Newsletter-to-RSS ga
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by ttepasse 5y ago
Repeating myself: There is a spec for feed pagination. But it depends on opt-in and small work by the feed publisher. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5005
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In theory there is a spec which would enable full feeds via paging, enabling RSS clients to go back in time until the beginning of the feed. In praxis … well … specifications in RSS-land … https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc&#x
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I took another look. In one way yes … > The dimensions of the Street are fixed by a protocol, hammered out by the computer-graphics ninja overlords of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Global Multimedia Protocol Group. > In or
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> The metaverse stuff is really, really embarrassing. Tangentially: If I remember Snow Crash correctly, the Metaverse/Internet in that novel belonged to only one person – who was the villain of the piece. He wanted to use the metav
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Someone did a semi-dramatic reading of that preface, making him sound even more like a prick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nez2BdCqVA
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If you mean ⌘1, ⌘2 for activating the bookmarks in the favourites bar, you can still do that in Safari by “Use ⌘1 through ⌘2 to switch tabs” in Safari‘s preferences. Im still using this daily for bookmarklets – remember those?
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That the collision happened close to port is weird in itself. France has its SSBNs stationed south of Brest; the UK to the west of Glasgow. One would assume the individual routes to the patrol areas would be rather different. What would the
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by ttepasse 5y ago
Panic for years is rather open how they can't operate profitable on iOS and as a result discontinued many of their great iOS apps. The fear is that the Mac app market goes the same way like the iOS App Store.
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It's even worse when media apps are coupled with a store and the cloud. I'm using Apple's iBooks/Books.app as an ePub reader on Mac OS. Searching the library always lands you in the Store portion of the app. The app alwa

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