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I just created another command called "hnitemkids" that waits for the kids property of an item (ie comments) to be updated. So far, here is the only output I see... 0 kids found Oh…

I found out there was a Hacker News Firebase API like one hour (or so) ago, and decided to see if I could integrate it into Linux on the Web . Of course, there are many more possib…

This is a wiki that only serves user-agents that are capable of executing JavaScript. Weird.

Get into developing web technology. The web is the crucial "space of freedom" within which all other modes of freedom (political or otherwise) currently depend. I want to start tac…

The idea of creating cross platform desktop applications is why I created Linux on the Web . First of all, it is merely a website, so there is no concept of downloading anything, a…

> One of my weaknesses as a grad student is a tendency to want to multi task and take on many side projects (as evidenced by the above youtube video and the text you are reading no…

In my web-based shell implementation [0], I use a library concept, such that you have to "import" commands into the current execution environment. You can either do this kind of th…

What about websites that have good, solid text editors (like vim) integrated into them, and are able to store files locally, and access them via CLI [0]? Could that be seen as part…

My Unix philosophy to showing people what a web-based 'ls' command looks like is this: $ import fs && import util && comstr --nowrap ls | pretty | less (Works here: https://dev.lot…

You can use all the fancy terms for the mangling and intentional obfuscation of crappy code that you want. Sure, you might think that minification is a valid use for such tools, bu…

Believe it or not: I have to deal with issues just like this over in webdev-land! (See the Terminal app in https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os or skip right to it, go to https://dev.lotw.…

> Javascript should innovate at higher levels Until that level takes the problem of in-browser, persistent file/blob storage seriously, the JS ecosystem will not be able to truly p…

You can't compile the code of scripting languages, so please stop using that term. You may be doing something to the "source code", but it is not compiling! And I would argue that …

I think the underlying motivation in this comment is that there are very many technical application development challenges which can be solved simply by web developers paying close…

> No bs web ui here. You ain't seen nothing yet: https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os

Hint: "Bootstepper mode" is always fun... https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os?bootstepper=1

Haha, I can't imagine even one file anywhere in the world that I own that anyone would find immediate value in possessing. We can continue this conversation in the LOTW desktop... …

That's meant to be a throwback to the look and feel of the 90's when you saw so many bare bones Apache index.html listings that were something like that. What you are seeing there …

My theory on safety: there's more safety in a world where things just work better. I think that LOTW can crank that idea of "things working better" into overdrive!

1) It's served over https. 2) All the files in the local file system are completely the property of the user. The js makes no attempt to do any snooping or uploading. You can verif…

I've been hacking on this thing in form or another since 2011!