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Yes! FUTO keyboard, then go into VOICE INPUT → MODELS → Explore Voice Input Models → English-244: “Best for the most accurate results, but more demanding.” The voice recognition is…

Ha! Me too! Exact same. Bought a Pixel 10. Intended to do the default Android for a while. But it was filled with ads for “Wicked” which had me looking at my phone with a sneer on …

I started cdbaby.com in my bedroom, just me, fulfilling orders myself. It got an immediate great reception from a few people, very thankful, happy to pay for the service, and telli…

Here's a newer post from a German who previously was a fan of the Estonian e-business, saying things changed for the worse in 2025: https://denationalize.me/emigrate/goodbye-estoni…

Thanks for this very important point. It often gets lost in the discussion. The big idea with Linux/BSD/fully-open-source is that you can fix whatever you don't like. That was the …

None. Way easier than expected. Even GrapheneOS on an Android phone, which I’d heard was hard to install, was dead easy and so worth it. For Mac to Linux, you can just rsync your /…

No, the difference is trajectory and trust. We all predict the future, consciously or not. We invest our time and effort into a system that we think has a good future. Tahoe made m…

“I don't feel like we own them.” ← Well-put! I was 100% Apple: Mac Mini on the desktop, Macbook Air laptop, iPhone, and two iPads. Then came Tahoe. I hated it so badly and it would…

OFFPUNK sounds like a good name for a punk-like movement to rebel against the entire internet and live offline.

Yeah my first thought on seeing the headline was “Uh-oh. Time to replace Anki.” But finding out there are no VCs, no investors, I’ll stay with Anki for now. But still, these HN com…

And don't miss the Qweremin: https://linusakesson.net/qweremin/ Brilliant.

Yes HUGE props to Void Linux. https://voidlinux.org/ Wonderfully under-rated. Robust as anything and SO FAST. It was my sole desktop OS for years, and while I’m dabbling with Debia…

This post describes the problem. Also see the follow-up that describes a solution: https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hos...

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. The parser for Mustache templates - https://mustache.github.io/ - is in the PostgreSQL functions. See it in practice here in the unit tests: https://git…

Thanks! Robert Kaye - founder of MusicBrainz : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz He is a friend and much smarter than me. He told me to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I'm…

I edit my HTML templates in the templates/ directory. Then I use this little Ruby script to sync them into the database, which is where they're actually used: https://github.com/si…

Thanks! I do often get "YOU IDIOT!" type comments from people that did too many Oracle stored procedures in the 90s, and were burned by it. But PostgreSQL is not Oracle and doing t…

Thanks! And yeah the other inspiration is that in the last 27 years of making web apps, I've gone from PHP to Ruby to JavaScript back to Ruby, considered switching to Go or Elixir,…

Whoa. How weird to see this on the HN front page. It's so not ready yet. I'll write up more about it some day soon. For the big idea, see https://sive.rs/pg I really took Rich Hick…

I had my Parker Fly with me at a gig in NYC, when back stage I met Les Paul. He had never seen one, and he admired its radical choices. So we found a nice big permanent sharpie, an…

It's also a wonderful metaphor for how the opposite can also be true. Japanese addresses that name the blocks, not the streets: https://sive.rs/jadr West African music that uses th…

I love Sinatra, but wanted to see if simple Scheme compiled to C could do the same thing in an equally eloquent way. I thought the answer was no, but this Schematra looks great, so…

Wow. Last year I hired Peter Bex - a lead Chicken Scheme dev - to help me do the same thing! (Sinatra in Chicken Scheme.) It passed the tests but I didn't put it on my Github becau…

to save you a lookup: The Arabic text "رجمة نانسي قنقر" translates to English as: "Nancy Qanqar's translation" or "Translation by Nancy Qanqar" "رجمة" means "translation" and "نانس…

If you don't mind audiobooks, here's one way (well, two ways) to listen to Ulysses: https://sive.rs/ulysses