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A personal web application is one that is written by me, hosted by me, and have a grand total of one user, me.

This is exactly Termux's point, to subvert Android into linux cheaply. Same for MinGW or MSYS2. I want to invest as few as possible on Andriod or Windows, while still able to use t…

How is it different from plain old password? 1) User goes to BAD website and enter credentials 2) BAD website use GOOD website to check if credential is valid 3) Pwned It is just M…

My blog is essentially my journal; no one else reads it. However, knowing someone else _might_ read it is making me spend the effort to write in better style, to watch my language,…

I used to use TRAMP but now I just run terminal emacs through mosh. Everything just work and snappy, if you can live without the emacs GUI.

Yes, you can kiss reactivity good-bye and just render the whole page on any state change. No, generating HTML string and setting innerHTML is unsafe and slower than necessary. It i…

You can use shadow-dom without using web-component. web-component and shadow-dom are orthogonal to eachother: * web-component is a way to attache javascript to certain elements. Th…

Me too, but you and I cannot afford a faster horse, or even the same horse we once had. The horse they use to offer was an illusion, a bait for the new Tiktok thing. Sooner or late…

The frontend world gave you many fancy toys; but they all come with hidden cost. It is your choice: do you want to stay on or get off this treadmill? My need is modest, so I got of…

If you are this picky, then write your own. That's what I did: https://airss.roastidio.us/ You are welcome to use but don't complain the lack of functionality. I wrote it to suit m…

_realized_ utility. Also, the article is about fully managed Wordpress vs self-hosted (or PaaS hosted) SSG. If the choice is between self-hosted Wordpress vs self-hosted SSG, I bet…

There is no paradox at all: simplicity is beautiful but complexity sells. The author thinks that value come from realized utility. However, in most market segments, value came from…

I wish more people publish negative testimony like you do. It shows guts.

I feel your pain, but I refuse to cave. Say, 10% of the links fail to load, so what? It is their loss, not mine.

I think "ethical" in the context of social media means not doing surveillance capitalism. ie: don't cash on user data. Moderation is a orthogonal topic.

I doubt an ethical social media will ever work. It is either irrelevant or a money black hole.

Name is misleading. It is not about cookies in general, but 3rd party cookies. Google's own tech doc is here: https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/3pcd/chips you can still…

No. but you can try the search here: https://roastidio.us/search

> If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs... 10 feeds will not give you much recall. I have 50K+ feeds, 1M+ posts, and it just starts to give som…

If I do not want contributor, then I'd just use plain git through SSH on my own VPS.

If you don't want negative feedback, don't publish anything. You need the negative feedback; what you don't want is toxic feedback not aiming at you, but at other readers, and try …

Neat. A simple enhancement could be letting the server to cache the content for a short period of time, and push the cached webpage in the static rendering. This way: * non js enab…

Yes, this is a blatant ad, and an ad for a very unethical service no less. However, they are an enemy of my enemy (Gmail). I don't want to have anything to do with them but I wish …

My point is: the api of of emacs is fairly stable. And your point is? I have ~80 lines outside the customize variable block added by emacs. Nothing too fancy but there are a few ho…