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I got one of these a couple of years ago, put Linux on it, and was pleased as punch: https://www.mahnamahna.net/blog/linux-chuwi-minibook-x/ It's actually the keyboard that surpris…

https://www.mahnamahna.net/

For more on this -- and how Sears had everything it needed (and more) to be what Amazon became -- see this comment from a 2007 MetaFilter thread: https://www.metafilter.com/62394/T…

In an alternate timeline, HyperCard was not allowed to wither and die, but instead continued to mature, embraced the web, and inspired an entire genre of software-creating software…

Any link to there from here will only get you JWZ's take on HN.

I would say that HTML/Javascript is not a "tool" in the same sense that HyperCard was. HyperCard's real strength was that it allowed mere users (not programmers) to create their ow…

If you install the django-extensions package and use runserver_plus instead of runserver, when you hit an exception you get a live REPL in your browser where you can poke around an…

Odd title for a piece that is mostly an elegy for the mouse.

Bandcamp had 118 employees total. That doesn't smell bloated to me. (Source: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bandcamp-layoffs-oakland... )

I use Espanso for this; it has worked well on Wayland for some time.

Terribly sad news. Thank you, Bram, for the finest software tool I've ever wielded.

Similar argument from this lengthy but enjoyable essay: https://stopa.io/post/265

Huge HyperCard fan here, this is a very happy discovery indeed! It captures the spirit of HyperCard -- stacks, images/sounds, etc. -- but the icing on the cake is that Python repla…

Would LOVE to see memepool resurrected!

As others have said, Will Vincent's books are excellent. I also like Mastering Django a great deal; it is extremely comprehensive: https://masteringdjango.com/

https://github.com/espanso/espanso/discussions/1178

Thunderbird has been more than "an email client" for so long that people made the exact same kind of complaint when RSS support was added . Thunderbird is a messaging/communication…

There is a new global font size setting in this release: https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird/status/153930732204379750... If you want to target the message list specifically, I'm pr…

I have very fond memories of Music for Hackers ("soundscapes for compromising a remote host"). Have never found anything that fills that particular niche the same way.

Love the design!

https://www.mahnamahna.net/ Originally built as a blosxom-powered blog in 2003, the site grew with a motley collection of perl and php scripts, as sites did back then. Then as soci…

> I actually had to order some 3D printed one from some Japanese guy Thank you for mentioning this alternative! Just found him on Etsy. I have always preferred the old-style concav…

Hello, kindred spirit. I grew up in San Diego but have lived in the Bay for almost 30 years. I still can't enjoy a Mission-style burrito. You've articulated the key reasons why. Th…

In the Gnome 2.x days, you could (in GTK apps) assign a custom keystroke to any item in any pull-down menu by hovering over the item and then pressing the keystroke you wanted to a…