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I wish they were true to the cause, and used black on white, the most brutalist anything could ever be.

Regarding communities, this was one of the strongest features from Orkut. I remember having lots of fun hunting niches/bizares communities (and not so much fun when I found out some communities I was part of got sold/traded, and then got renamed to something completely different, mostly for advertising purposes).

That was my conclusion as well. I didn't get fancy about setting cronjobs. I just run a script every now and then, and it is enough for my case.

I'm still looking for a good player that would behave somewhat like Youtube Kids (auto play, fullscreen, no volume/brightness controls). All players I've tried have controls that kids don't understand and, accidentally or intentionally, end up ruining everything.

If we could restrict the app to just play videos of a single playlist, life would be great. But today it is very easy for kids to exit playlist mode, thus defeating the purpose of curating a playlist.

It is essentially a think wrapper on Firebase:

https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore/blob/master/api/database....

NoScript does wonders. Some might say this isn't easy, as it will break some sites, but in my experience you can get pretty far with it.

Garbage Collector

Not Invented Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

Not self-hostable, but Google Vision API OCR was pretty good when I used last time. AWS also has a offering for that, but I haven't personally tested.

I know you are talking about Desktop OCR, but I had a very good experience with Google Vision API. On my previous gig we were trying to automate receipt scanning, and it gave very good results with no previous image manipulation whatsoever (meaning, no special camera alignment, lighting condition, rotation, skewing, etc).

It was not perfect, but I was very impressed with the quality, speed, and price.

It does work surprisingly well without Javascript, so you might want to try that.

Not sure if the linked extension would work without JS, though.

Github projects are not as important as people might think. They are a plus, for sure, but not the meat -- unless you are a legendary open source contributor, but then you wouldn't have problems finding good work anyway.

I'd say build a non trivial, non toy project, from scratch. No need to be novel or groundbreaking. Something that really works and is not just the fun part. That is, both functionality and design must be professionally looking, it must feel thought-out, polished. It doesn't matter if your code is a masterpiece if the product looks like hacked together over a weekend. _Then_ use that as portfolio, independently if the source code is available at Github or not. People really like to see you can deliver a finished product.

I'll skip the details about resume and interview tips. There are plenty of resources out there.

Not just that, but remember not everybody can afford health care in US, so it's not unfathomable to think some of those bad statistics is due to people not being able to afford proper care, not just that they don't live a healthy life (which can certainly contribute to that).

Unless you are on H-1B visa and your spouse can't work. Now you don't have an option to share a bedroom and have to pay for the whole thing.

It disables scroll but enables GoogleAnalytics tracking: https://github.com/joshbalfour/disable-scroll-jacking/blob/m...

Non Google-AMP link: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/28/new-toronto-inst...

Disabling Javascript has singlehandedly fixed several annoyances I had, even with ad blocking. No more tabs draining my battery (ok, css animations are still a problem), no more things jumping around, no more page popups, no more Intercom chat windows from people eager to talk to me, no more 3rd party crap Javascript tracking me (ublock prevented them already, but it's nice to know there's no way they can bypass adblock). Things load and render fast.

Some pages still require Javascript, and SSO is usually a pain, but for those cases I have a Chrome profile with Javascript enabled and a simple Hammerspoon script that launches that profile in incognito mode for the url I have on my clipboard.

Oh, and Gmail basic html mode is so snappy!

This is golden:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=69...

It's surprisingly not that rare for a website to be usable without Javascript.

I'd argue a text+images website does not need to be modern in any interpretation of modern.

http://archive.is/53Cbd

That's completely true. I think the most revealing thing about being a first-time parent, is that all children are different. The art of being a parent is to learn from your child, and to adapt accordingly. It is also worth mentioning that each kid learn in its own pace, so don't sweat if he/she isn't, say, walking within one year, or speaking phrases with 2.

It's Chrome 56.0.2924.87 on macOS, but the issue is that the form point to an API endpoint, so without Javascript I can only see the JSON response instead of being redirected to the protected page.

It is so refreshing to see slim, fast websites. Only the minimal JS is used. Even though I don't have many repositories, I'll certainly consider supporting gitly.

Please remain true to your current vision.

Just a minor point: although the website uses so little JS, the Signup form is broken without it.

EDIT: by broken I mean it returns a JSON instead of an HTML page or HTTP redirect.

Apparently archive.fo also requires JS via CloudFlare:

  Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page.

  DDoS protection by CloudFlare 
  Ray ID: 326502e238204c96

I don't know in US, but at least where I live when somebody hits you from behind, it's his fault. The idea is that you are supposed to drive cautiously and therefore be prepared if the vehicle in front of you behave erratically -- that is, even if the vehicle's driver is wrong (say, it's not his right of way), you still should be in a safe distance.

I've been using this tool for a month and it's really great. A focused tool that does its job well.

The only caveat I got, and this is completely due to my inexperience with Go, is to not use `daemon: go run foo.go`, but to `prep: go build foo.go; daemon +sigint: ./foo`

Another good use is to restart webpack when a non-hot-replaceable file changes:

  /projects/foo/src/index.js {
      daemon +sigint: npm start
  }