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Comment · 7 months ago
You thinking like Good Looking Records stuff like Artemis? Love it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you writing the solutions / compiling / running all with Emacs? I wanted to try Swift this year as well but feels sort of silly spinning up XCode for this.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was doing it daily for a while. For some reason the acquisition news made me stop, or maybe it was just the timing. Maybe it's time to get back into the zone.
Comment · 4 years ago
Between this, Elden Ring, and my rediscovery of FFXIV, I now firmly believe there's a global conspiracy to stop me from doing a single minute of work.
Comment · 4 years ago
Another pro-therapy comment. CBT saved my life after I "discovered" I have OCD in college. Such a scary feeling to not understand the cause of my thoughts and behaviors. Using one's own knowledge as a toolset for self-improvement could work sometimes, but I don't consider therapy an "alternative" to that.

As an aside, therapy and psychiatry is expensive partly because insurance doesn't cover things that don't definitively 'treat' or 'cure' a diagnosed illness. Maybe times are changing, but my holistic psychiatrist explained this to me years ago. Psychiatry is more often covered, but psychology almost never. This is also why a search for 'in-network' therapists often leads you to pill-pusher types.

Comment · 4 years ago
Ooh another good find. Like I mentioned above Clementine doesn't open at all for me, so maybe this is worth a shot.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was excited by Clementine but it doesn't even open for me on this version of OS X unfortunately.
Comment · 4 years ago
Finally a chance to remind a captive music-piracy-nostalgic audience that Soulseek is still alive and well!
Comment · 4 years ago
THANK YOU for this recommendation. I've been trying numerous iTunes/"Music" alternatives but none have stuck, or their price point doesn't make sense for the offering. This looks perfect!
Comment · 5 years ago
I'll be honest. I really like projects like these (Spacemacs is another one that comes to mind), I've been a Vim user for a decade or so. Now I use IntelliJ since I primarily work with Spring, but for other side projects or one-off tasks these setups are really cool.

That being said, if this is intended to be widely adopted/viewed like Spacemacs, the marketing and presentation need a bit of work. Between the 'Chad' signifier and the screenshots sharing a color scheme with a tricked-out desktop and other terminal tabs, it's hard to tell if this is a serious standalone project or, to be frank, someone just showing off.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I honestly can't believe all the praise for HTML and web on HN in the face of this awesome critique. I hugely appreciate the love for actual files.

>• PDFs are decentralised. You may have obtained this PDF from a website, or maybe not! Self-contained static files are liberating! They stand alone and are not dependent on being hosted by any particular web server or under any particular domain. You can publish to one host or to a thousand hosts or to none, and it maintains its identity through content-addressing, not through the blessing of a distributor.

This seems to have gotten lost in the offense everyone has taken over the choice to not use 'simple HTML', despite the document's clear reasoning that to do even that would embed the content deep in the 'urban web'. All of these simple-complex propositions about making some subset language or automating document flows are missing the point entirely.

Comment · 5 years ago
Oh for sure, and to clarify I'm not against the design changes! Tab groups are the logical next step in organizing thoughts-as-tabs and Firefox is sorely lacking in this capability in 2021.
Comment · 5 years ago
The author links out to a writeup on Safari 15 which I found interesting: https://morrick.me/archives/9368

One of the main bizarre design choices was making the address bar shrink as you add more tabs. It made me wonder if these designs reflect the diminution of sites visited in a modern internet user's session. Seems like we are moving from a mode of research-and-explore to residing in one of a few home bases (reddit, twitter, etc) and everything else is reached via Google search -> first result. Since information delivery is now so heavily tailored to a person's filter bubble, there's not as much need to stray. I'd love to read more about something like this.

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