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It has now been decades since I used Eudora. I still feel I lost the best email client due to Qualcomm’s neglect

Very fun. I have used the cli ’playball’ in the past, but this retro 8-bit is delightful

This morning I think I found a minor bug is the installable PWA web app. chromium, Brave and I expect other browsers show a white bar with the URL at the top of the PWA

I believe this is due to the manifest specifying the path ‘/watch/‘ with a trailing slash and not the path we get redirected to without ‘/watch’

I too have had a shortcut for “red filter” + “minimal brightness” + “reduced brightness” for years.

I trigger it by a Triple back tap.

Great for night usage with our eye strain or bothering your spouse

Many projectors include remotes that allow you to control a slide presentation. These remotes send the default keystrokes that Microsoft PowerPoint knows (and which other presentation software copied) So when you connect a projector the OS often sees a keyboard and mouse. This triggers macOS’s keyboard recognition tool. Old VGA projectors had separate keyboard/mouse ports. I assume HDMI has a USB channel?

In the late 90s, I leased Cobalt RAQ servers from RackSpace. During this time, RackSpace had exceptional customer service. I could call support and be connected with a skilled Unix SysAdmin within minutes. Even though I was responsible for the entire system, the would happily login to the system and advise me how how to deal with any issues.

After about 5 years, I called to shutdown my last Cobalt server. A week later, they called to ask if they could ship me server. No Cost

Turns out it was the last of the Colbalt RAQs and the oldest server in their fleet

I often use Pico CSS, and a comparison would be nice.

I am still waiting for Chandler

https://www.chandlerproject.org/

I remember Le Guin speaking at my university around 1990. She was amazingly open about her writing process. While she did not directly answer questions about the “meaning” of her writing, she did facilitate the discussion about her work’s meaning, and asked the audience challenging questions.

Of all my time at uni, I wish I had a recording of this event.

I understood from students who had attended a writing workshop with her earlier in the day, that she was gifted teacher.

My first encounter with Neko was on OS/2 as well.

Thanks for finding this post. I did a quick search for it and came up empty.

This is exactly why.

It is my assumption that Gruber chose ‘.text’ over ‘.txt’ for several reasons. To give it a little difference when searching for files. To be more legible to non-computer people. And finally, while Classic MacOS did not use file extensions, the Resource Fork type code for text files was ‘TEXT’

Daring Fireball had the ‘.text’ version since at least the public release of Markdown, if not earlier.

This should be the version Gruber edits in MarsEdit or BBEdit, but it maybe partly rendered by the Moveable Type CMS

The extension is ‘.text’ because that is what he suggested as the Markdown extension, but of course most of us went with ‘.md’

While keyword tags are not used on the website, you can see the one he uses for his personal purposes at the bottom of the Markdown

I do this too. It was a easy sell to my department

Regardless of if we consider Holmes a drug addict, abuser or merely a controlled user, it is clear from the stories that Watson was very concerned as both a Friend and Medical expert, that Holmes is damaging his mental faculties

My all time favorite laptop was the 1994 Apple PowerBook DUO 280 with active greyscale screen. These screens actually looked the best in direct sunlight with no backlighting

The battery life was listed as 2-4 hours. Normally it was under 3 hours. However, with no backlighting and booting a stripped down Mac OS and apps off a RAM disk, I could get close to 6 hours in BBedit or WriteNow. I would spin up the HD to save data and turn it off again.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/specs/mac_p...

Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints

TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura

The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio/product

And Lenovo itself offers several usb keyboards with TrackPoint https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3U4TQS

The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.

This resonated with me, having such a passion for computers, yet sad at what this industry has brought us.

There’s a good chance this page wouldn’t exist had I not read Timothy Snyder’s powerful little book, On Tyranny

This is such a great book. https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview

Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230)

As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic math

Original Price $235 which is close to what I paid. Adjusted for inflation $657

I think it was worth it.

There is a long distance between a 0% and 100% rise in a tax.

It sounds like you are saying the only reason to work is so that your children will never have to work.

I used DESQview for a number of years, and always think about it when see new TUI systems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

Python programming Plone was painful.

However, I learned so much from the entire system.

* The CSS of the Plone theme was a Masterpiece. There is a very good reason why Wikipedia used a near direct copy Plone’s CSS for most of the 2000s. Using just a layer of CSS and minor changes to the templates, I could radically re-theme an entire site in a short amount of time.

* Plone enforced semantic HTML and used XHTML. Regardless of what you think of the value of semantics and XHTML, it thought me how to create well structured HTML at a time when the web was full of very broken HTML4

* While programming was painful, Plone’s UX for content managers was first rate. I was invoked in testing Plone, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. Plone got top marks by a large margin

* Again too marks for Accessibility. In 2005, I built a Plone site for a nonprofit that worked with the blind. I remember users saying they could not believe how easy Plone was to use using the Jaws screen reader

* Multi-lingual sites with workflows for translators. Last year I ran into a translator who used a Plone site I build 20 years ago. They lamented that none of the sites the work on today are as good as that old Plone site.

* etc

I worked with Zope/Plone for about 10 years in the 2000s. Without reading the story, I loaded the larger version of the graph and looked for a cluster for Plone.

On my third click, I found it.

Then I read the article which actually stated that Plone is one of distinct clusters. Pretty amazing for a 20+ year old technology

I ran a single Cobolt RaQ for years for a client. I think it was the RaQ 2. It was dedicated hosted at RackSpace back in the late 90s to about 2002

At the time, RackSpace was an excellent customer service company even for smaller accounts. To this day it was the best customer service I ever worked with.

When I decommissioned the RaQ, my RackSpace rep called me and asked if they could ship the system to me. Apparently, it was the last Colbalt system they had running by years.

Thanks for the link. I am sure I listen to this ping ago. It will be interesting to re-play the episode

And before that, used VisiCalc and MultiPlan

Look at the commercial microwaves I linked to in an adjacent comment. For easy of cleaning, these typically do not have the spinning plates.

If you want some better options for microwave ovens, try checking out you local food service suppliers or websites like Webstaurant They will be a bit more expensive, but often have better controls and are easier to clean.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/14351/commercial-microwaves...