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by varun_ch 2y ago
Did not get the chance to try much at! We just observed that clocks could be synchronized, but the next time we checked they would no longer be. I agree that this is definitely something that could also be interesting to look into in the fu
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by varun_ch 2y ago
The Media Lab makes so much random fun stuff. I feel like it would be fun to remake this with modern web tech. (doing the alignment photo over email does sounds like fun too hehe)
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Thank you! We haven’t figured out what to play on it yet actually - I think the plan is to build out all the tools so that our school can create and upload their own videos (eg. montages of students work - this is in the Design workshop aft
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Thank you! I didn’t get the chance to mention them in the blog post, but yes we checked out the price tags on the commercial solutions :) It’s crazy! I’ve always wondered how much of the cost is hardware vs software… and I would imagine pro
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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks(varun.ch)
566 points by varun_ch 2y ago|59 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
I like this idea - even for little tips I find along the way when trying to solve challenges. But then the new issue I have is I end up cluttering my blog with these lower effort posts that get in the way of the longer pieces. How do others
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Exactly, a Referer on the web is its own thing now. Referrer should be considered a typo if you’re referring to the Referer header.
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by varun_ch 2y ago
perhaps off topic, but I love your personal site being webb.page… that’s perfect
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by varun_ch 2y ago
This is seriously awesome! I made something extremely similar called Dock'n'Roll, but this looks far more polished. I think we should make our own tools more often. https://varun.ch/projects/dockn
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by varun_ch 2y ago
and on the topic of calculators in high school maths, the NumWorks calculator is so far ahead of the TI-84 despite being allowed on the same tests. It honestly feels like an advantage over my peers… it can literally do more, and faster. It
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by varun_ch 2y ago
High school students taking the digital SAT get near-full access to Desmos throughout the math portion of the test (it’s a modified version, but you get access to practically everything). It’s very powerful, and if you can use it effectivel
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by varun_ch 2y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite web things: https://incr.easrng.net/ It's a little button counter in an iframe that you can embed on your website. It also looks great next to 88x31s.. I have one in my footer htt
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by varun_ch 2y ago
They’re not unreadable! JavaScript can read them (on Chrome you have to interact with the page first, and on Firefox they can be read as soon as the page loads)
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Browsers need to change how autofill works(varun.ch)
4 points by varun_ch 2y ago|3 comments
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“net send * sup”(drew.shoes)
2 points by varun_ch 2y ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
I had so much fun playing with this visualization for the past half an hour.. I found myself ( https://eightyeightthirty.one/#varun.ch ) and found mutuals and some unexpected connections.
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Eightyeightthirty.one: A Graph of the Internet(eightyeightthirty.one)
1 points by varun_ch 2y ago|1 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
I do something similar on my website: https://bini.wales returns 200 for all endpoints and logs all attempts, so it makes for a decent have a honeypot against automated attacks (mostly it just catches people mass scanning for vu
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by varun_ch 2y ago
https://buildingslack.com/we-cant-call-it-slack/ > We made up some goofy ones, including chatly.io – a gentle joke at the expense of startups using alternative TLDs at the time under the .ly and .io suffixes. We eve
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by varun_ch 2y ago
The issue of communicating something in a universal language to an unknown audience reminds me of the cover diagrams on NASA’s Voyager golden records. In that case, the challenge is the density of information that needs to be packed, as opp
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Oh of course! It's so normal to me that I forgot to mention it.
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How to turn Firefox into a usable web browser(varun.ch)
4 points by varun_ch 2y ago|2 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
I did not know Bluesky’s backend ( https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto ) is written in TypeScript/JavaScript.
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by varun_ch 2y ago
https://varun.ch/posts/history/ :)
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by varun_ch 2y ago
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 this certainly put a bad taste in my mouth
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Zen Browser: Fix Backdoor(github.com)
10 points by varun_ch 2y ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Do you ever have to separate work and personal accounts? Or do you use a separate machine altogether?
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Poll: Do you use browser profiles?
25 points by varun_ch 2y ago|57 comments
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by varun_ch 2y ago
No, I do not
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by varun_ch 2y ago
Yes, I do

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