varun_ch

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1. 61.▲
   by varun_ch 4mo ago

   this looks like it's set by your org? https://varun.ch/posts/your-company/
2. 62.▲
   by varun_ch 4mo ago

   I wonder what people think about session replay, ethically. Is it okay to do? Do you think visitors should be informed about it? Would you use a website differently if there was a big red banner saying your cursor movements and viewport are
3. 63.▲
   by varun_ch 4mo ago

   it's a beautiful website, if ain't broke don't fix it, right?
4. 64.▲
   by varun_ch 4mo ago

   Isn’t practically all simple software like this?
5. 65.▲
   by varun_ch 5mo ago

   Forgejo is fantastic. I do think it could use a fresh coat of paint from a designer but it’s otherwise really good. Gitea (what Forgejo forked from) recently stole the sidebar on repos from GitHub and I think that would be great for Forgejo
6. 66.▲
   by varun_ch 5mo ago

   TIL the creator of Python worked at Dropbox for 6 years.
7. 67.▲
   by varun_ch 5mo ago

   This is unbelievable!! At a certain point surely doing things the right way would be easier or more clearly correct? Like, if you were implementing this you’d obviously know that it’s insecure right??
8. 68.▲
   by varun_ch 5mo ago

   That’s fair. I can see a lot of reasons to stay in Canada over the US for long term plans. Although it feels like all of the desirable jobs (in terms of technical interestingness and pay) are in the US. At least for internships.
9. 69.▲
   by varun_ch 5mo ago

   As a current Waterloo student (who is not particularly tied to any specific place). I’m curious about this and I’d like to know more. Why US for 5 years and why back?
10. 70.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I simultaneously don’t believe this and fully believe this is something they would do. Do you have any sources on this?
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    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    Electron was invented to build an IDE on.
12. 72.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I genuinely wonder if consulting LLMs for naming advice could be an explanation. They certainly wouldn’t be great at coming up with new words for a product name.
13. 73.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I noticed the WebKit quirks file even has rules for new websites, like claude.ai. That feels like a bad idea in my opinion… in my mind it would make sense to wait for Anthropic to address any browser compatibility issues, especially since c
14. 74.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    Obviously this wouldn’t be compatible with existing plugins, so I’d separate legacy plugins and new plugins, and add a lot of friction to install the legacy plugins, which will be deprecated at some point.
15. 75.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I’m not convinced that automated checks will be able to reliably assess whether a plugin is malicious. I think the best (only?) way to solve the plugin security problem would be to properly sandbox them with an explicit API and permission s
16. 76.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I think it’s a very fair analogy. The _only_ way to stop them is to make your stuff secure. That’s literally the only way.
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    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I'm yet to see a good example of the title stripping, at least for "how" and "how to" (although perhaps this is survivorship bias).
18. 78.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    even the plain text version’s subheading gets under my skin for some reason https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii > You chose the quiet version. No animations. No scroll effects. Just words.
19. 79.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    Notepad++ for Mac was renamed to Nextpad++ (“a small nod to Mac history”) Personally I think NextPad would’ve been a perfectly acceptable (and subjectively better) name
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    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    > migrated to Java I want to know more about this
21. 81.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    This reminds me of some ways Microsoft used to try catching/dissuading leakers. If someone could find a source for these.. The Xbox 360's dashboard used to have 'aesthetic' rings that actually encoded your serial number,
22. 82.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I’m shocked at the 25M line part! That is a completely unfathomable amount of code for one codebase. I really want to know more about that.
23. 83.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    oh of course. But I meant being able to select a result or equation from 10 minutes ago in the calculator history without re-typing it!
24. 84.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I took Math AA HL in M25
25. 85.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    Oh that’s neat! Probably should’ve checked your link. Not sure what the advantage of the Ti-84 would be for highschool math, but the UX on NumWorks calculators is completely a game changer, especially with stats and graphing questions. Mayb
26. 86.▲
    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    International Baccalaureate math has some stats questions that require a calculator that can do stats questions. Not really possible by hand in exam conditions!
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    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    I wonder if it makes sense for browser vendors to agree upon and ship various ‘standard models’ that are released into the public domain or something, and the API lets you pick between them. The models themselves would be standardized and t
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    by varun_ch 5mo ago

    There’s a lot more to GitHub than just the git part. Issues, PRs, etc.
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    by varun_ch 6mo ago

    I don’t know if it’s production ready yet, but tangled.org is a really interesting take on a forge and I’ve been watching it for a while. It decentralizes the centralized parts of GitHub in a pretty neat way. The biggest problem with forges
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    by varun_ch 6mo ago

    The way linked SVGs render from within img tags is basically perfect for SVG images (which as I understand is not standardized but is largely the same across browsers). External resources and scripting are blocked while still rendering near