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The thing that killed them for me was the evolution from this simple style that hn still uses to every post being a mini bio for the poster, with tagline and links. But even this o…

I had my final pebble hardware failure just before they stopped trading. I'll give it a miss.

I definitely do for something I want to write myself, that behaves like an app, but has zero entry barrier. I am adding PWA best practices to everything I do now "just in case", st…

what3words has appeared twice recently as a news story on bbc.co.uk I'd not heard of plus.codes even though now I realise I'd seen them on google maps listings

agreed, nephew got his pebble steel replaced no questions for serious screen issues. I have minor screen issues occasionally though have had mine for a couple of years. Might try f…

package.json makes so much sense to me, npm has spoiled me also

even simpler open your browser console and just start typing, I've found new ideas by letting the autocomplete there guide me

I use Lightwaverf in the UK, replacing the switches with their dimmers. They do have limitations (can't query the state and mostly doesn't work with led bulbs) but the form factor …

they're ramping up the availability at the moment, adafruit has them I think http://whereismypizero.com/ - some places only have them as part of a kit admittedly, but I managed to …

pretty negative, reminds me of fuckedcompany.com back in about 2000 - that made it into a game, you could bet on which dotcom bubble companies were going to fail.

looks like it supports standard watch straps so knock yourself out (steel 1 owner)

after the initial batch all manufacturing resource was supposedly moved to the pi 3 so they're still tricky to come by. I'm sure they'll be back though. There's an interview in htt…

Ed Wood or Plan 9 From Outer Space?

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I have exactly the same! I understood it to be down to network issues, maybe that'll be solved with on board wifi?

I have them running home automation, energy usage, security cameras, and temperature monitoring (outdoor, and indoor home brew). Plus streaming audio and an inevitible xbmc http://…

previously you'd have had a wifi dongle in one slot, plus then maybe mouse and keyboard... likely to be fine with the same power supply for the same use cases as before. Don't try …

been doing this for a long time with various facebook related domains - upsets people if they borrow my laptop though.

I thought I had similar, we use Junos Pulse and it rewrites your /etc/hosts file. I think it takes a backup at some point and rebuilds the file from that when it needs to. This mea…

I don't think any "physical web" scanners do right now unfortunately, for example https://github.com/dermike/physical-web-scan (or search for mobile apps called "physical web"). Th…

yeah this is not new was a recommendation from https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ which I thought was now depracated, so must have been around for a while. I t…

--save adds the fairly loose ^ version number, so any major version should match, so less conflicts than if you'd added an exact version match, or a ~ match

where is the "under construction" digging man animation?

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I did have that originally, but worked in my browser so i ran with it... I'm sure card[suit=$] with a unicode character is not super widely supported css anyway...