wkjagt

20 ms·

331.
by wkjagt 3y ago
What a cool idea! Well done! One feature suggestion: it would be cool if it asked you if you prefer the shade or the sun. I’m in Canada, and during winters I love to sit on the sunny side of the bus.
332.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I'm actually really excited about the direction Rails is going in. It's like it's shedding some of the complexity that was accumulated over the years in favor of things I can finally understand again.
333.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Reminds me of school in The Netherlands. We called it either what’s in the title, or literally “Griekse IJ” (meaning greek y).
334.
2016 Stack Overflow question about macOS Sonoma update error(apple.stackexchange.com)
2 points by wkjagt 3y ago|0 comments
335.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I actually like the act and the ritual of turning all the lights off before sleep. It marks the end of the day and the start of sleepy time.
336.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I don’t see the added value of much of the smart home things. I’m used to turning the lights on with a light switch and never thought “this is too much effort, I wish there was a way to not have to press this switch”. The only smart thing I
337.
by wkjagt 3y ago
It’s not just the materials in the phone itself. It’s the whole production process.
338.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I felt uncomfortable reading this but found it hard to explain why. Weird thing is, I started out enjoying the article, but as I continued, I grew more and more uncomfortable. Curious, I scrolled back up to the link to his twitter. There is
339.
by wkjagt 3y ago
2016-ish feels like the year phones peaked for me. After that it feels like things went in a direction I’m no longer interested in. I’m still using my original iPhone SE from 2016 and it’s still great. I replaced the battery recently and I
340.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I never heard of Meshtastic. Looks very interesting. Going to read up on it for sure, thanks for sharing!
341.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Lovely idea. I’ve been thinking of “small scale web things” a lot recently, as I’ve been growing more and more tired of the planet scale web. I live in a small village in Canada and it would be nice to have something “village scale” that i
342.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I cancelled Netflix, but I'll go back when the new Stranger Things is out at some point. Then catch up on maybe some other stuff I missed, and cancel again.
343.
by wkjagt 3y ago
This is wonderful. Very nice execution, and super addictive. I kind of want to do a Commodore 64 version now.
344.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Beautiful project. Reminds me of Long Pong by Look Mum No Computer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cm83RIhDbwo
345.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Maybe they use their own random number generator. https://xkcd.com/221/
346.
by wkjagt 3y ago
One of the things that really bother me being over 40 is that my body is no longer immune to injuries. I can now throw out my back just my sneezing too enthusiastically.
347.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I just learned that a username in green means it’s a new account. I’d noticed green usernames before but always kinda assumed they were some kind of “higher status” accounts. Like verified accounts on Xitter.
348.
by wkjagt 3y ago
It mentions something like that in the introduction. It's like a choose your own adventure kind of book. There are also Easter eggs that no other chapters point to, so you have to find them in a different way. It also says you'll
349.
by wkjagt 3y ago
There's a sample for Kindle on Amazon.
350.
20 GOTO 10: 10101001 facts about retro computers (book)(unbound.com)
55 points by wkjagt 3y ago|14 comments
351.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I wrote about my thrift store bought toaster almost ten years ago now (1). I wrote about how much I loved it, how it had no features but worked so well. Now almost 10 years later, this is still our toaster and it still works as well as it d
352.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Not sure if you’re joking, but in a way this feels very true to me. After a decade or so of doing OOP, I started doing a lot of 6502 assembly (for a home brew computer) and not applying OOP principles felt dirty at first. Same as not having
353.
by wkjagt 3y ago
It is isn't true until it's science.
354.
by wkjagt 3y ago
We watched Jingle All The Way yesterday, and even the kids noticed it was shorter than most of today’s films. It’s not even 90 minutes.
355.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Another way: taking the 720kb variety floppy, if you lay them side by side it would form a line of 250km in length. Or in other words: driving at highway speed, it would take 2 and a half hours to drive by all the floppies it would take to
356.
by wkjagt 3y ago
If you were to count those at a rate of 1 per second, it would take about half a million years.
357.
by wkjagt 3y ago
Depending on if they are old enough to remember floppy disks, tell them the tiny card holds as much information as almost 1.4 million 3.5 inch floppy disks (assuming 1.44mb each). If you pile those up, it would be about 4.5 km high. Or if y
358.
by wkjagt 3y ago
First time I encountered someone rolling coal was when I was driving next to one in my Miata. I didn’t really know what was going on and thought he had an engine problem or something. I made sure to stay away from him since I was in a Miata
359.
by wkjagt 3y ago
It’s not just the flickering but also the colour. I really hate the colours of RGB LED Christmas light. I feel no warm Christmas feelings when I see them. Technology Connections made a video about this recently. He described it as it lookin
360.
by wkjagt 3y ago
I love reading about implementations like these. I love the technology behind it. But I’ve never read about a project like this and wanted to automate my house in any way. Maybe I’m a weirdo, but I enjoy getting up and turning on the light,

More ›