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codazoda
4,739karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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I was printing two things... 1. A plain text "progress report" that tells me some personal stats about my week last week. 2. Full designs created in Affinity Designer, which print with the s…
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I was surprised by this, but you can install a driver and simply print to these printers. Or, at least, the one I purchased is that way. You can also use lp, lpr, or nc to send text and codes to it. M…
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Inspired by other receipt printer projects on HN, I just purchased a MUNBYN P075 printer last week. I thought it was going to be a lot more complex than it was. I thought I'd have to write ESC&#x…
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Vine was a massive hit at first. The stewards screwed it up.
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Is this related to "Oh Shit, git?" by Julia Evans? https://wizardzines.com/zines/oh-shit-git/ Perhaps not and the authors just named it the same because it rolls o…
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That’s what I used to do but now I think it is a major handicap. I haven’t perfected it yet, but I’ve had good luck letting AI write entire (smallish) programs and do major updates to those.
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Why would they require these hours? In the U.S. I think they would need to pay time and a half for anything north of 40-hours. Seems like it would be cheaper to hire more workers and not force the ove…
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I wish I could make this work without the mess though. Maybe an AI moderator could throw some of these away. Not that we need AI for everything, but I don’t have time to edit comments on my blog.
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This is fantastic. Does anyone have any book references that help you do writing in some of these formats.
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Weird timing. I dunno why this works but I've been using it to see mice. You see, I noticed that I have a mouse problem in my garage. I figure if I've seen one mouse, there are probably more…
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I’ve tried lots of different coffee’s and I keep going back to (don’t laugh) Folgers Instant. Maybe it’s because it’s what my parents had when I was a kid. Nothing else is quite like it. Unfortunately…
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I got one of these a couple days ago. I thought it was a well timed scam at first.
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I worked at Iomega (Zip Drive) from 1994 to 1998. The VP was rumored to fire people on the spot for the smallest thing. One day we worked an all nighter. The entire department. The next day we were st…
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You can add PWAs to the Home Screen on iOS; Share, Add to Home Screen. This is how I build apps to scratch my own itches. Edit: Err, sorry to pile on. I see others have already mentioned this.
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I don’t believe they argued that the 13th amendment says prisoners are slaves. They only asked you to imagine that you are and they pointed out that it’s allowed “according to the Thirteenth amendment…
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> What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation I have these features on (more or less) and I still use grep, ag (the silver searcher), and GitHub search. I often need to…
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> Did they read Matthew Walther's The One Hundred Pages Strategy and not understand it? Maybe. I can't remember if that was linked from something else I read or was that something else in…
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It's quite buggy. Any minor change from the norm (config directory, txt file directory) seemed to break it. Finally I went with the standards and it still had trouble. `twtxt following` gives you…
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Young Lust is the song where this operator is heard. Not being an audiophile, it took me some time to figure out the specific song. My brother had The Wall album, and I enjoyed it, but I never listene…
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I also let my computer read it aloud. You can catch things you don't notice when reading it yourself. I think it's because our brains "fill in the blanks". Listening to the compute…
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I’ve been feeling this same way but didn’t want to articulate it, possibly out of fear. I also wrote a little book based on “old school” or “pure JavaScript”. I’m sure you could make some of the same …
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I’m not so sure. It’s a layman’s interpretation, but I think any “forum” would be multi-risk. That means you need to do CSAM scanning if you accept images, CSAM URL scanning if you accept links, and t…
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Vale.sh looks pretty good, thanks for the reference. I’m currently editing the third edition of my book and a bunch of articles for my website. This will come in handy.
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Yeah, I don’t understand system backups anymore. I keep everything I care about in a single directory and clone that to the cloud. I no longer need to worry about backups outside of this. It’s easy en…
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Why the down-votes? Are people specifically opposed to gambling or is it something else I said? I'm just wanting to write a hobby slot machine because they fascinate me but the mechanics of a slo…
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Would Game Programming Patterns help someone who wants to build a slot machine? I’ve built a wall mounted machine for my home but I never got the software side done. I think a book could help but most…
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> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found…
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I have several that I’ve kept, some in pretty bad shape including one that I used so much I put it in a big 3-ring binder. - Learn Extended Color Basic (Coco days) - The Handbook of BASIC Third Editio…
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I wrote a small book called How to Code that teaches JavaScript and was partially inspired by the Getting Started with Color Basic book from my youth. https://amzn.to/4g5lQgi I tried …