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If anyone's in need of a hexadecimal version... https://jamesl.me/hexle/ I similarly made a binary one before this version, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people said they found it t…

Very neat — been looking for something like this! I've just signed up. Feels great to be part of this little social space! Just a few questions: 1. Have you thought about adding an…

When faced with a similar situation and come up with multiple potential solutions — such as settling for older Adobe software versus creating your own resource-efficient graphics a…

Potato (which uses Uxn) is even more similar to Picotron in that it's like a little desktop environment: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/potato.html

True, but any competing operating system could just falsely report that it is running x86-64 and therefore trick YouTube into serving high-res content. Disclosure: currently (as a …

Such an excellent coincidence that it happens to be on my birthday! In fact to celebrate, I did set up the only livestream in existence on YouTube (afaik) to capture this: https://…

With mentioning that while I was still interested in programming and even had a Pi before I got my micro:bit, I'd say that the micro:bit did introduce me to microcontroller develop…

As much as the Raspberry Pi is really great for computing education, in my personal opinion, I think the micro:bit does well in terms of setting it up and getting started with it, …

[Disclaimer: I work at the BBC.] ...later on, the BBC made[0] the micro:bit[1], another £15 (well, around £15 back then for the V1) computer to inspire young programmers. Funny to …

Of course, yeah Discord is a bit of a closed-source walled garden, but we're considering setting up a Matrix.org server some point soon as an open replacement for our current commu…

We don't have Telegram, but we do have a Discord community — the link to it is at the bottom of the website at https://liveg.tech !

This is what I've been working on with LiveG OS, whose desktop environment, gShell, is written in HTML/CSS/JS: https://liveg.tech/os The OS is also designed to run on mobile device…

Not to mention Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724236 - July 2021 (71 comments) (shameless plug ;D)

Yeah I understand, there are certainly a lot of interfaces out there that are built on the web and because of all the JS they use, they can feel really clunky. The reason why using…

Oh wow, didn't know that dahliaOS had this! The only barrier that I can see would prevent this from happening for gShell is that web browsers don't support the `webview` element th…

Ahh yeah I can see how people might think that with the name "LiveG"! The previous name was historically "LiveseyGadget" (my surname + "gadget") a long time ago when I came up with…

Firefox OS inspired me to build my own Debian-based operating system that uses web technologies for its UI and apps. It uses Electron as the runtime[0] and works both on desktop (A…

Wouldn't it be better for Google to have a "mark as spam and delete future emails" option? That way, your inbox stays clean, spammers have wasted some credit for whatever email mar…

"Tax-payers' money" is often used in the UK as an equivalent

The SerenityOS browser has tabs (they're hidden when only one tab is open). Ladybird doesn't seem to have them yet (considering it also doesn't have all the other buttons), but I s…

This is something I used for the "tweet your BASIC code" functionality in atto ( https://jamesl.me/atto )... Trying to fit an advanced BASIC program in a single Tweet isn't too eas…

It's only a requirement for content served inside the UK though; international content (such as BBC.com) is allowed to (and sometimes does) show ads because it's technically not co…

Same, but with PowerPoint! It's amazing how versatile the Microsoft Office suite is for purposes other than productivity...

That's handy, thanks for letting me know! I assume that applications that are resumed from suspension can then continue checking for incoming phone calls and alert the user when ne…