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jollyjerry

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About jollyjerry

ex-Github, now making software I want. Interested in cars and personal finance. Writes at https://jch.github.io

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    It's frustrating not being able to send email for my hobby projects even if I follow all the rules and have the correct headers. I enjoyed reading jeremyevan's post on self hosting…

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    It changed the cost/benefits for papercuts. Instead of thinking, that's annoying, but not annoying enough to fix, I can spend a few minutes running things specific to my configurat…

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    Comment #47628244

    https://sfbay.craigslist.org/ My last use case for it was selling a car and giving away some free stuff. Sadly, those have been replaced by fb marketplace.

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    Comment #47628218

    Love rockauto, in the same vein, but not used daily is https://www.mcmaster.com/

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    Comment #47342505

    This won’t happen, but I would love an Apple implementation of the Samsung Dex - phone soc that can dock into a laptop or desktop enclosure.

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    Comment #46177642

    Lot of nostalgia today. This brings me back to compiling Camino, a gecko based browser, on my iBook G4.

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    I used to have a floppy and a mini-cd boot version of these. The mini-cd looks like a credit card and fit into a standard size cd drive. Reading the history of the project is a bit…

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    Comment #45870689

    Correct and performant way to calculate historical value of a portfolio. I want a pure function, but taking a date as input is insufficient because users can edit holdings, and sec…

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    I was just chatting with a friend how it hadn't changed in years, but there's a new beta when I opened it up. - dark mode - 3-column responsive layout, interesting it hides the wat…

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    Comment #45564520

    I like reading to my kids and try to read to them in English and Mandarin. My Chinese is conversational, but I have a hard time finding books for them because I’m not good at writi…

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    Like the layout tiles you have for the photo thumbnails. Will dig through and learn some css. Have struggled with different size content to create a compact masonry layout.

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    Comment #45564164

    Living in hongkong for a few months, and absolutely love exploring the different neighborhoods. I’d love something like this or walkscore but for local guides to contribute.

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    Radio is so much fun to learn. It’s liberating to learn for curiosity and joy rather than commercialization. The community is welcoming, and while not directly translatable for mos…

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    Financial independence tracker. https://jch.app Redesigning investment holdings for wider screens and leaning on hotwired turbo frames. Thankful for once-campfire as a reference fo…

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    Comment #45362411

    From a PWA, I'd prefer a push notification, but you'd get a different answer from each person you ask.

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    Looks good! Appreciate that it’s a pwa instead of an app because it’d be something I use rarely. My issue isnt with the app, it’s that I’d have to remember to upload a receipt and …

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    3 years. Left work because I felt comfortable with finances and family life, but wanted to try something different. It’s been fun working on personal projects and sharpening old to…

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    Ya, no need comments or updates to it either. But thought it was an interesting piece of web development that's come up in every web framework and server, but has not been pushed i…

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    Thanks for touching on accessibility. I believe that good accessibility leads to a better design. The nice thing about starting with HTML is there are good defaults. I wrote anothe…