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ecliptik

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About ecliptik

website: https://www.ecliptik.com capsule: gemini://rawtext.club/~ecliptik/

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    Onigiri [1] - https://github.com/ecliptik/onigiri A calorie tracker for iPhone/Watch/iPad, no subscriptions, no ads, integrates with Apple Health and fully open source. Includes op…

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    That's great they replaced it under warranty. I thought I broke the IDE connector once on the motherboard when re-connecting the cable because a pin was missing. The Gateway suppor…

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    I've am working my way through benchmarking it on a few different CPUS [1]. A Pentium Overdrive 83MHz gets around 30fps, and the 486DX2-66MHz around 20fps. Because the 50MHz will u…

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    The hippie copy mentioned was the ad my dad bought our first PC from. He was coming back from a business trip and asked the company computer guy to help him choose one for our fami…

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    Google Buzz [1] along with Wave you both were too soon for this world. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

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    I have a PicoGUS and have had a lot of fun futzing around with Claude and porting Cave Story to DOS [1] the last couple of months after SDL announced DOS support. Originally I was …

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    Semi-related, since SDL added support for DOS a few weeks ago I've worked with Claude to port Cave Story to DOS [1]. On a Pentium 75 it can get 30fps and with decoupling the frame …

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    Not all of California, but San Diego has Measure A[1] on the upcoming primary to tax non-primary homes. 1. https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/20/2026-primary-e...

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    The Verge has an on-going series Where's the Trump Phone? [1] with updates every week. They even managed to get an interview with one of the execs a few months back. 1. https://www…

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    My favorite Nullsoft software that came out the end of this era was WASTE [1]. Peer-to-peer (back when P2P was all the rage), encrypted, decentralized private networks. Group of fr…

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    This update broke my workflow! I use Netatalk [1] with AFP to share files between my Macintosh 512ke and MacBook via AppleTalk. Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to r…

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    One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. As one o…

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    Absolutely fantastic. As someone who just spent the last month vibe coding System 6 apps and reading through Apple HIG docs I love the look of the IDE.

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    If you're running forgejo you can setup mirrors [1]. Mine syncs a few repos to github to make them public, and planning to add Codeberg in as well ala POSSE [2]. 1. https://forgejo…

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    Comment #47464146

    Fluxbox has tabs and is a stacking window manager. - https://fluxbox.org/features/