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I wrote this a few years ago. I like to re-read/re-listen to it every once in a while to check if my beliefs are still the same, and they pretty much are. I never posted this to HN…

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342382

Neat, I did one of these too :) https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing

If Google's customers are the advertisers, maybe the correct answer is "attention".

This is beautiful man, congratulations. I love how much personality there is in the animations!

It's funny, I was just thinking about this recently. I noticed that a lot of electric cars or PHEVs use cyan accents to signal that they are EVs, yet I also think yellow is the mor…

I've been a Purelymail customer since July 2021. For the most part I have been very satisfied. However, in July 2024 I sent an email to Scott for support because I have been gettin…

This might not be quite as strong a rebuttal as you were hoping for!

Wow, these letters are extremely pathetic and unbecoming for a government agency. I would have expected the BBC to have more self respect than this mafia LARP.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-virgin-wizard

Funny seeing these headlines come back around. Here's something from seven years ago with the same kind of problem: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users https://lists.openstreetmap.org/…

Your comment is phrased as a disagreement, but it's not. The GP post said the IRS can't do everyone's taxes, and you replied that they can do most. I think we're all on the same pa…

I feel like I'm seeing an effect where some people don't want to say the word "AI" because they don't want to look like a normie, so they stick to "LLM" which sounds smarter and mo…

Here's Matthias Wandel doing something like that with his microwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkqpNI7q1Dc

The other video you're referring to is "Games as a service is fraud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

Here's his other video from 2019, "Games as a service is fraud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

> If you want to preserve a game, you have to decide what parts are important to preserve [...] you might be able to do it but you then don’t get the real game experience The autho…

I have been making these generators for my workplace, so the project scope is very narrow. You can follow the idea with any dimensions you need. If you want to use these techniques…

There are way more length units than you'd expect! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length

Wow, great use of the attr function, thank you!

Oh, I see, thanks. I did figure out that thead automatically repeats across pages, but I also had to repeat other stuff outside the table, like letterhead. I also made this sample …

I'm sure there are smarter ways to do some of the things I'm doing. Could you let me know what fancy tricks you're referring to, perhaps ::before and ::after with content propertie…

I realize you're working on the software side rather than the hardware side, and you mentioned you're trying to support existing printers, but your comment reminded me of something…