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So, this is about popups inside of browser windows, is it? And not about popups in Windows/Mac/Linux desktops? Because I couldn't start making up my mind until close to the end of …

So, I take it that the "decentralized" aspect of all this stuff really comes into play when all of the server hardware is surgically implanted into our limbs!

Very well. Our civilization is absolutely ripping apart at the seams ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-her... ) but we can all rest assured that the "safet…

I think I'll take this opportunity to introduce "HackerNotify" ( https://lotw.site/net/HackerNotify.app ), which is a different kind of interface into the Hacker News backend (via …

Does anybody know what the first popular "Against Something" was? My guess is it was Feyerabend's Against Method ...

Among other things, Linux on the Web can be used to usher in a new paradigm for accessing online resources. The current document-centric approach has an intensely graphical (attent…

This is true motivation to keep me working out the ideal desktop environment for Linux on the Web. The idea of "a message passing facility enabling client programs to rendezvous an…

Nevermind, I see the demo is the Eliza widget on the main page. So, I can do Eliza with it then... I'll keep that in mind for the next time that I need to get an Eliza widget worki…

No demo. I was wondering what kinds of things I could be doing here that I couldn't do before (with websockets, webrtc, etc) but demo.connect.build just redirects to connect.build.…

>Lighten up on the philosophy of a topic before you understand it But philosophy is an activity that must necessarily be done in order for there to even be a topic that can at all …

>they're space-time shapes with a singularity at the middle Upon googling "black hole singularity", the first "People also ask" is "Does black hole contain singularity" and the ans…

At a certain point of abstraction, theoretical physics almost never has any direct correlation with empirical reality. It is most often used as a way to give the paradigm lenses th…

I've actually managed to make nano look even simpler, by getting rid of all the interface elements except for a vim-like cursor position indicator in the bottom right. The notes to…

Isn't the reason why people gravitate to standard utilities such as emacs and vim largely because they simply can't cope with all of the shiny graphical bloat while they are trying…

Funny, that, seeing how M$ themselves are perhaps the biggest contributors to the current browser codebase monoculture issue. Anytime a software project develops enough complexity,…

As I child of the 80's, I can still feel the theme for Full House reverberating through my bones: Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening tv? Ho…

If I would have continued my original approach, I probably would have been able to get something like that working pretty well, but since it is pretty hard to beat Virtual DOM type…

Yeah, I don't personally mess with anything but Chrome, and I consider supporting browsers that are not Chromium-based to be a fork of the entire project. Per the Disclaimer in the…

One of my proudest moments during the development of "Linux on the Web" had to be the creation of a Terminal application (try it at https://lotw.site/shell ) that can render its ou…

In my own experience developing a new kind of system from the ground up, I can only say that you have to talk to yourself , but as an extended conversation over a good number of ye…

I've been hacking on this thing, pretty much nonstop, for the last decade of my life. I have no need for more attention that I already have. I am something of a local celebrity (ca…

You can obviously do soooo much with it, that my mind boggles. As an example of how much more you can do versus some other things, I can only contribute a very boring example (invo…

Cast of Characters: - Ezekiel as the Old Man with the Grey Beard - Assorted youths off the street, aged 16-25, as the Whippersnappers [Old Man, bent over and walking with a cane, e…

One of the greatest joys of my life is going on gleeful rampages of Ctrl+w tab annihilation! Lots of times, I'll end up with just two open tabs: devdocs.io and the local developmen…