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Why are so many government websites unusable for the constituents who need them most?

Wow

https://wordloosed.com/

Maybe this could help show 64 chars per line: https://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/64-column-print/

It uses F10 to quit so if you're in GNOME Terminal (e.g. Ubuntu) go to Terminal Preferences|General and uncheck "Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default)", or use Alt-0 to …

vhs can also create video files: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs#output

https://www.justnerd.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ali-G-Sac...

I gave up fighting Trello's new editor which kept fetching and auto-linking http addresses and I made my own Trello using SQLPage + htmx. It's even better than I expected because i…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski

Interview with Brian Moriarty about his life leading up to, and including, the creation of the Infocom classic Trinity

Two brand new Bosch ovens side by side, both showing different times on their digital clocks. Why don't they auto-adjust with daylight saving or at least synchronise with each othe…

I think there's an under-appreciated pattern to the distances: https://wordloosed.com/the-planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-tpiAiiHo

I found this one very good and easy to read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Database-Management-Systems-Raghu-R...

A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) E. F. CODD https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

I found it painful to watch people collect everyone's orders and then phone them in and then try to work out what was in the delivery bags and who owed what. So I built https://fus…