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tlhunter

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About tlhunter

I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

https://thomashunter.name

https://mastodon.social/@tlhunter

https://github.com/tlhunter

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49042099

    I had a similar idea for take-home tests for software interviews. Run a bash script to commit all changes in a repo every 5 seconds. The candidate then submits a tarball of the git…

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    Comment #48999250

    I want something like this in a keyboard: a completely hidden drive that the OS cannot see until I type in a certain string of characters (password) to activate it with a separate …

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    Comment #48929634

    I just want icons that I can click from my home screen (eg PWA).

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    Comment #48618770

    Title should read "Web Browsers on PDAs", in case you're confused like I was.

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    Comment #48342481

    I'm a fan of Manuskript on Linux. It's similar but has more features and, IMO, looks better: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/

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    Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

    https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-... https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/memos/PM-... [pdf] https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/205781723320…

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    Comment #48104048

    My personal tagline, "I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum." came from this movie.

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    Comment #47898168

    I hate how these tools ask me to type in some long prompt and then once I finish they tell me that I need to make an account.

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    Comment #47808468

    I actually found the LLM-generated image more annoying than the LLM-generated prose.

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    Comment #47722567

    https://archive.is/jHfOe

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    Comment #47442063

    > No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New …

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    Comment #47304274

    Mine is pretty cool looking: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-02-26-alpaka-elements-t...

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    Comment #47173176

    Jack couldn't be bothered to use capital letters in his last layoff email either.

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    Comment #47004868

    Hopefully this will get momentum scrolling working.

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    Comment #46999009

    It's definitely neither sensible nor convenient. I expect it to trigger the scrollbar, not move the whole window. The only way one should be able to move the window is to drag the …

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    Comment #46998300

    What drives me nuts is if I slam my cursor against the right side of the window with the intent to click and drag the scroll bar of a maximized window up and down then the 1px wide…

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    Comment #46865281

    About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

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    Comment #46833065

    It's likely LLM generated

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    Comment #46688053

    The homescreen may one day contain ads.