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I had a similar experience recently coding a wordle clone on and for a Psion 3a (an early 90s palmtop pc) the screen only shows a few lines of code, and the built in ide is little …

YouTube premium actually has its own version of sponsorblock called skip ahead, it works really well, so they’re not ideologically opposed to skipping sponsored segments

I wonder if this is related to yellowing plastics? Retr0brighting with peroxide and sunbriting (putting yellowed plastics out in the sun) are already common treatments in the retro…

This won’t require companies to keep servers running, just that they have an end of life plan, eg: releasing a version of the server that can be self hosted for multiplayer games

One of my favourite YouTubers, superfastmatt, uses a similar title pattern. Eg: “Insulate Your Camper Van. Or Just Watch Me Do It. Whatever”

Only the mk 5 supra (2020 onwards) has anything to do with BMW. Up until the mk 4 stopped production in 02 there had been 25ish years of purely Toyota Supra/Celica Supra

> The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone. Not the case, I can see…

Anyone else read this title and think of Nine Inch Nails?

I’ve written a PWA that I use daily on my iPhone, and it delivers push notifications when I’m not using the app to the lock screen. Don’t get me wrong, Apple’s PWA implementation i…

This is a common tactic in app stores - app asks if you like using the app, and only asks you to review if you respond positively

My wife and I have a channel on which we restore/fix/modify cars and motorbikes - https://youtube.com/@EnginesandUnfinishedBusiness

I’ve not casually browsed reddit since apollo shut down, occasionally I’ll end up on a post from a search, or my wife will show me something she’s seen, but that’s it. I was a pret…

I’m not 100% on this but I believe the NES has a dedicated graphics chip for sprite manipulation, where as it all had to be done in software on the PC

Unless I’m misunderstanding you can checkout your previous branch with git checkout - (The same way you can use ‘cd -‘ to change to your previous directory)

Damn, of all the different searches I tried I never thought to try “tech blog”

Amazing, thank you! How did you find it?

I’m not 100% that’s the title, but if you’ve read the story I’m pretty sure you’d know it. The premise is a stranger convincing the protagonist to shit themselves. Despite the crud…

Engines and unfinished business: https://youtube.com/@EnginesandUnfinishedBusiness?feature=sh... Car and motorcycle restoration projects - mostly my wife and I restoring a 1993 Toy…

I started doing exactly this at the start of the year. I'm now working 25% less than my full-time colleagues over 4 days (ie: I work one less day a week, and a slightly shorter wor…