The Magic of Alleyways
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The Magic of Alleyways
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#2Are there equivalents to alleyways in software? Things that were meant as pragmatic ancillary solutions, but have taken on a life of their own?
For me, vi's ! springs to mind.
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#3“Liminal spaces” are another kind of alleyways, through which one ordinarily just passes through:
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Liminal_Space
That kind of space the FTL drive in Event Horizon passes through:
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#4I went wandering the alleyways in my small town in Alberta recently during the summer. And I was pleasantly surprised by how many garages had been turned into makeshift bars and patios. There were myriad garage sales and such but so many people had full on bars for themselves and guests.
It was like discovering a hidden world where the rules that prevent businesses from forming were all tossed out and people could just do as they wanted. In toronto, this style of business led to so many of the street front businesses that are literally impossible to do in any city now.
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#5Came here for a story about my favorite Game Boy launch title.
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#6I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enjoy a longer form item like this and then only run into said longer form item after chewing up most of the time on 10-15 shorter articles (on second thought, we could rename the original feed to normal dump and this new feed to epic dump).
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#7I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enj…
My request would be for a button which saves the article to a form which I can read on a kindle or remarkable at a good time, for example on the commute home.
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#8I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enj…
Product pitch - an app that appends "now wash your hands" to the end of every article linked from HN. Subscribe by spending a penny whilst you, er, spend a penny.
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#9I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enj…
Right. How are your bathroom breaks going anyway? Plumbing all working well, I hope! Drinking enough water?
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#10I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enj…
Out of the box solution: change your diet!