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> The traditional Office suite is still good I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions. Have you compared the UI of Word/Pow…

The could shut down the company and `rm -rf *` all their assets, no?

Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management tha…

> I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought This is the reason why I find Trilium Notes so liberating, where one note can have many parents…

Even more so: The 9P protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol) Maybe the most mainstream incarnation is its use in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

I love it and use it for personal projects and internal tools. I tend to combine it with https://pocketpages.dev/ which gives me file-based routing and nice templates. Ah, and Pock…

I'd rather stay in Linux and use Windows if I really must. Can we have an LSW, then?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250518171639/https://amberwill... as long as the original throws a 500 "Internal Server Error".

For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future…

I ported John Earnest's Octo variant to an ESP32 cheap yellow display (CYD) board, loading many of the examples from the archive: https://github.com/codekulturbonn/espocto

A password manager for ~20€

I wonder if the way the author describes it, ie. new memories are just diffs against older experiences, is scientifically grounded. I came up with another explanation: My thought p…

As a product manager, I am frequently confronted by UX people who declare something as „standard“, a feature that is supposed to be an absolute „must-have“, or else our organisatio…

My employer forces me to, why else?

My heart jumped with joy when I saw this post. Fossil is such an ingenious system, and, if you are not aware, has been created by the very D. Richard Hipp who created Sqlite. Here …

I am a huge fan of Firefox, and have small startup scripts for different profiles. Sadly, together with Microsoft Teams on my work Mac, Firefox causes it to switch on the fan. This…

If you don't mind self-hosting a PHP app, https://webtrees.net/ is a nice option.

I wonder if there is some programming language that supports combining both styles: - A linear control flow - Named Blocks with explicit, named, typed parameters and return values …

The site is curiously broken in Safari browser.

I use Hypothesis a lot. It works on arbitrary sites by just invoking their javascript bookmarklet which I keep in my bookmarks. It is also very easy to integrate with static sites …

And, of course, https://gpblocks.org/

https://pocketbase.io/ Simple, performant, batteries included

Ah, "hudli hudli" stands for "Extraordinarily fast guitar playing" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hudli - it's only now that I look this up

Nice. I vividly remember the days, sometimes in the 80s, in some university cellar, hacking away at our green-lit vt terminals connected to some vaxens, that one of the other regul…