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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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https://joeldare.com
https://github.com/codazoda
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If this resonates, checkout the book Refuse to Choose by the late Barbara Sher. https://a.co/d/emco5Yk
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Unfortunately, this isn’t true. There is at least one organization out there launching privacy suits to extract settlements from small players.
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I think this might come down to… Oracle. Obviously there are alternatives like MariaDB but Postgres is a quality long standing open source solution.
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I am most productive, from day to day, when I’m also reading. It somehow strokes my mind and encourages my creativity.
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Here are a few I enjoyed this year... Walts Way, Andrew Lock
Busy Doing Nothing, Hundred Rabbits
The Art and Business of Online Writing, Nocolas Cole If you want to be a writer and publish your own bo…
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I also read it as “hunt lie” instead of “hunt lee” FWIW.
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My wife makes balloon arches and I've never noticed but this sounds fascinating. Maybe I'll get her to work, for "science". :P Note: Her balloons are not typically helium filled, s…
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I expected this too, so I asked an LLM to write a quick Go program that would tell me how many bytes repeated. I created a 1.44MB file from /dev/random and then ran it through the program. H…
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I love that Rek drew the image on your about page. I knew I recognized their work as soon as I saw it. Based on that and your 1.44MB Club, you might find Neat CSS interesting. :P https://ne…
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Do you have any examples of correctly versioned documents?
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.DS_Store is also a bug. I’m not sure why it hasn’t been fixed. It’s history is quite interesting but I don’t recall where I read about it.
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Shameless plug for my NeatCSS project: https://neat.joeldare.com
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Can you share references for their refusal to fix and their excuses?
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That is not why I didn’t buy Apple Care. My hope is that the machine will work for a long while, like most of them do. In my case it’s a ~$1200 machine so I prefer to self-insure. I’m taking the chanc…
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I’ll check these out. I read and am inspired by a lot of Julia Evans work.
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I’ve been using Obsidian lately. I’m curious to know more about what you did to pull up a prompt. That could be a slick change. I also tried to do this for work, not because I was required to but beca…
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I use GitHub to host my markdown files. A bit more information is in this article I wrote about it. I actually have 4 or 5 similar articles with various thoughts on this. I'm trying to find a way…
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I think it would be fine. I run a little private analytics service for my own websites. That service isn't as busy but handles ~11k requests per month. It logs to a SQLite database. It does this …
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I tried the SuperHTML on a hand-coded site of mine and it reported only one problem and that problem is incorrect as far as I can tell. It tells me that the `</html>` tag is never opened on…
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I want to write a slot machine “game” for a custom slot machine I’ve built using a piece of MDF, a 32” LCD, and a Linux single board computer. I haven’t found much information on how to write a game i…
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There’s just something about the paper rolls. I was thinking dot matrix. I suppose either would work. I might buy one and do something like op did.
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I’m fascinated with printing calculators. Does anyone know of a printer that will print on calculator paper roles and print A-Z numbers and some symbols, like demonstrated here? Edit: Looks like I jus…
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I just looked at this iPhone alarm clock on Gum Road, which I also read about on HN. The page describing the clock is janky. Slowly scroll down the page (with a track pad) and it will jump up and down…
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I wanted to add a progress bar to a markdown file but couldn't get it to work. GitHub strips out much of the HTML you insert, meaning <progress> and <meter> tags won't function. …
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I think one reason is that a subdomain of github.com (like username.github.com) might be able to read and set cookies that are shared with the main github.com domain. There are ways to control this bu…
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That reminded me of a couple “hacks” we did back then… 1. Cover the write protect notch on a 5 1/4” floppy with a sticker to enable writing. 2. Melt an extra hole in a 3.5” floppy with a cheap so…
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It’s not super related but all the talk about how easy the Sierra games were to crack reminded me of that time I built a crack for nearly all shareware of the era. https://joeldare.com/…