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Look at Grist. You maybe justly concerned for it being an open source project that is backed by one small company that sells hosted plans. The difference is that Grist is a core pa…

On macOS i use Safari for PWAs. It is just fine. But I use Firefox as my primary browser. PWA support non-existent. They killed their basic PWA support many years ago. There are su…

It has now been decades since I used Eudora. I still feel I lost the best email client due to Qualcomm’s neglect

Very fun. I have used the cli ’playball’ in the past, but this retro 8-bit is delightful This morning I think I found a minor bug is the installable PWA web app. chromium, Brave an…

I too have had a shortcut for “red filter” + “minimal brightness” + “reduced brightness” for years. I trigger it by a Triple back tap. Great for night usage with our eye strain or …

Many projectors include remotes that allow you to control a slide presentation. These remotes send the default keystrokes that Microsoft PowerPoint knows (and which other presentat…

In the late 90s, I leased Cobalt RAQ servers from RackSpace. During this time, RackSpace had exceptional customer service. I could call support and be connected with a skilled Unix…

I often use Pico CSS, and a comparison would be nice.

I am still waiting for Chandler https://www.chandlerproject.org/

I remember Le Guin speaking at my university around 1990. She was amazingly open about her writing process. While she did not directly answer questions about the “meaning” of her w…

My first encounter with Neko was on OS/2 as well.

Thanks for finding this post. I did a quick search for it and came up empty.

This is exactly why. It is my assumption that Gruber chose ‘.text’ over ‘.txt’ for several reasons. To give it a little difference when searching for files. To be more legible to n…

Daring Fireball had the ‘.text’ version since at least the public release of Markdown, if not earlier. This should be the version Gruber edits in MarsEdit or BBEdit, but it maybe p…

I do this too. It was a easy sell to my department

Regardless of if we consider Holmes a drug addict, abuser or merely a controlled user, it is clear from the stories that Watson was very concerned as both a Friend and Medical expe…

My all time favorite laptop was the 1994 Apple PowerBook DUO 280 with active greyscale screen. These screens actually looked the best in direct sunlight with no backlighting The ba…

Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/…

The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS. https://provue.com/

I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.

This resonated with me, having such a passion for computers, yet sad at what this industry has brought us. > There’s a good chance this page wouldn’t exist had I not read Timothy S…

This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview

Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230) As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic m…

There is a long distance between a 0% and 100% rise in a tax. It sounds like you are saying the only reason to work is so that your children will never have to work.

I used DESQview for a number of years, and always think about it when see new TUI systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview