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In a few places, Microsoft sneaks in clever references to Clippy in the Azure LLM documentation[0]. Nice to see they're still letting a bit of humor shine through here and there.
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/h...
https://kagi.com is by far the best out there IMO.
Reminds me of https://vim-adventures.com/. Playing that game made me become very proficient with VIM. I can recommend it to anyone who wants to get started with it.
That‘s simply not correct. Instead of founding as a GmbH you can start with an UG. A UG is legally virtually the same thing as a GmbH and you only need 1€ Stammkapital.
Once you start generating money with it, you can transform it to a GmbH. The only thing you achieve by that is displaying that your business is at least backed by 25k€.
In addition to that, you could also just start your business as a GbR. Funding this can be done completely for free (without needing any lawyers, paying fees etc.). As a GbR you‘re personally liable as a founder but when starting small that usually isn‘t a problem.
Founding in Germany kind of sucks, but for many different reasons.
I asked: "AITA for using REGEX to parse HTML?" And got: "NTA. That's what regex is for"
Nice.
It's the framework I'm most familiar with. As it was intended to be a personal project I just chose it because it was the easiest way for me to build it.
I've been using and working on my custom hacker news frontend for a few years now. As the name suggests, it only has minor "improvements" compared to the official website. It has a dark theme, (IMO) better layout and typography and it's a SPA with server side rendering.
Currently you cannot login, vote and post comments.
Tech used:
- Angular (Universal)
- https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas (which has been archived as I just noticed)
After trying many HTML2PDF libraries we're doing the same thing and are quite happy with this approach. I've tried using "professional" solutions like iText pdfHTML[0]. They all seem to be based on flyingsaucer[1] which only supports HTML4 and CSS2, and will fail rendering pages that use modern CSS let alone JavaScript.
[0] https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/convert-html-css-to... [1]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
They do. You can use something like puppeteer to use a headless Chrome or Firefox to generate PDFs from HTML for you.
https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v5.3.1/docs/api....
Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It features some layout improvements over the original and has a dark theme.
It is not yet feature complete (missing login, routing is broken in some rare cases) but I plan on improving it on my next "lazy" weekend and get a nice domain for it. I'm also going to publish the source code on GitHub.
DaVinci Resolve.
Also available for GNU/Linux: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
Maybe those "INSTALL OUR APP NOW!!!" banners, floating action buttons, popups and bottom/top fixed bars caused too much traffic.
Web development frameworks seem to have a half-life of about 12 months.
Initial realeases of the most popular JS-frameworks:
Angular – 2010
React – 2013
Vue – 2014
Long time Notion and vim user here. Just set up Inkdrop and tried the vim-plugin and all basic features work great. For things like switching files or navigation in general it seems like you'll need to use the software's standard bindings. But it looks like you can edit them.
If you plan to switch from Notion I recommend using the paste-as-markdown plugin. With this you can just copy a whole document from Notion and paste it into Inkdrop. Works flawlessly!
IntelliJ Idea Ultimate with IdeaVIM
This website just makes me angry:
- Fixed social media share buttons that cover the text on mobile
- It auto-translates to German even though my system language is set to English (seems like they use geolocation for this which is bad practise)
- Center aligned text that is annoying to read
If you ask any competent engineer outside the US to work with imperial units, they will go whaaat.
Didn't know about this app but it looks great!
Here's the F-Droid link for anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps
I was going to sign up for the beta but then was asked to log in with a Microsoft account. Thanks but nope.
Wow, just two years after Chrome, Firefox, Opera and even Edge added it!
That's just Apple not implementing modern web standards. Just wait a couple months or years and they might implement the IntersectionObserver. Until then you'll have to use polyfills to support Safari which Google obviously didn't do here.
Great article! The features you showed were some of the ones I've had my first "Oh, now I get why vim is so great"-moments and that really boost your productivity.
Tip: Generally after you’ve inserted some text, you want to return to command mode so that you’re ready to enter your next command. I’d recommend pressing esc any time you’ve finished typing.
Totally agree with this. What really helped me with getting this into my muscle memory was remapping Capslock to ESC which seems to be what many (most?) vim users do.
Have you tried using a vim emulator in your IDE? I've been using IdeaVim for IntelliJ for a few months now and it feels like having the best of both worlds. You get the power of vim combined with all the typical IDE features without having to spend hours on configuration.
I've been Google-free for about a year now. Already posted my "clean" setup in another thread[0]:
1. Replaced my Google G-Suite with Proton Mail and a self hosted Nextcloud The process was fairly easy: Just export all your mails and import them into Proton Mail. After that I've exported Google Drive data, contacts and calendar and imported everything into Nextcloud. This all took around two hours (including the Nextcloud setup).
The only "issue" was dealing with services where I use my G-Suite account as a login, but most of them allowed you to set a password so you can log in with email.
Nextcloud has amazing one click install apps that offer the same features that Google has (video calls, docs, notes etc.).
2. Removing Google from my Android phone For that I flashed LineageOS for microG. The great thing with this is, that you can install and use all apps you normally have but without having Google Services installed. As a PlayStore alternative you can use F-Droid and Yalp Store. Anyone who installed a custom ROM before will have it running in under an hour.
3. Securing my network with a PI-Hole and Proton VPN For devices like my phone, laptop and desktop I installed Proton VPN. As a browser for mobile and desktop I use Firefox with uBlock origin. For everything else (like "smart" devices etc.) I installed a Pi-Hole (basically Easy-List on network level) to remove ads and tracking scripts.
These were only the major steps that I've taken. So far I don't have any regrets about it and I haven't faced any limitations with the alternatives I use now.
Links: https://protonmail.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ https://lineage.microg.org/ https://protonvpn.com/
Additionally I've setup a self hosted searx[1] instance as a google search replacement.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283889 [1]: https://searx.me/
It also would have been a better deal if I bought it from the official MS-Store for 145€ because it wouldn't have had all the Lenovo bloatware on it.
I personally don't want to support what Microsoft is doing with Windows so that's why I bought it from a shady ebay seller.
Of course, the more ethical solution would have been to talk her into a GNU/Linux machine but I don't have the time and energy to play IT support for the next six months.
I recently was asked by my girlfriends sister to help her choose a laptop. After finding a model that looked good spec-wise I searched for that same model but without Windows pre-installed. It was 150€ cheaper. Then I got a 10€ Windows 10 key from ebay, installed O&O ShutUp and Winaero Tweaker and now it almost feels like a great system that you can actually work with.
Vendor-bloatware has been bad since Windows 7 but now that even Microsoft chose to ship Windows itself with ads, pre-installed garbage like Candy Crush Saga and that annoying Cortana I can't imagine going back to it.
Entertainment sites like blogs or image boards, todo apps, note taking apps, recipe websites etc.
Basically PWAs allow you to build features that were only possible in native apps before.
There's also an animated Ninja Turtle gif in the fixed sidenav. I can't image how someone could think that this was a good idea (especially on a website where all the main content is text).
They still do. Inspect the HTML. They're doing some JavaScript magic and replace the link just when you click on it.
(German) https://blog.fefe.de