jamesbvaughan

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I write things and post them on https://jamesbvaughan.com

You can reach me at [email protected]

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Comment · 2 months ago
That's a great one. It also made me think of Neal Stephenson's _Fall_.
Comment · 5 months ago
I hope this is a good change for last.fm! I love the service but it's been trickier to use since I switched from Spotify to Apple Music.

Does anyone have a setup they're happy with for scrobbling from Apple Music across different types of devices?

Comment · 10 months ago
Aside from the article's content, I really like the inline exercise for the reader with the hidden/expandable answer section. It's fun and it successfully got me to read the proceeding section more closely than I would have otherwise.
Comment · 1 year ago
+1 to the Voyager. I switched to it a few years ago from the Moonlander and have been really happy with it. I like the smaller footprint, and the fact that it has fewer keys. Having fewer keys has forced me to create layers that keep everything within a closer reach so I'm stretching my fingers out to the edge keys less than I did with the Moonlander.

I split my time about 50/50 between the Voyager and my macbook's keyboard and mostly have no problem with the difference in layouts, but I wish I could set up layers on the macbook keyboard the same way I can with the Voyager.

Comment · 1 year ago
> if that wide shelf will mean the phone doesn't wobble when placed on a table, that is a good usability improvement.

That's what I had hoped too, but from the images I've seen it looks like the cameras themselves bump out past the shelf far enough that it will still wobble.

Comment · 1 year ago
They're actually not videos! They're using asciinema: https://asciinema.org/, which is rendering actual text in the webpage - try selecting some while the recording is playing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was surprised by this too! I actually did a search for that character in order to check before posting this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%E2%87%84

I was a bit concerned that HN's algorithm might down-weight posts with non-ASCII characters in titles to discourage people from trying to attract attention with them, but it seems like it's fine?

Comment · 1 year ago
That's cool! I suspected that someone must have done something like this before.
Comment · 1 year ago
I suspect that the strategy I've described in my the post (forwarding a signed email with some modified headers) isn't actually new, and that it's just the first time I've looked closely enough to become interested in how it works.

The whole "put a misleading string in the PayPal name field" thing may be new.

> How would they even validate their new attack vector? I would like to think that there’s scam A/B testing or something similar…

I'm curious about that as well. My guess is that there's nothing as sophisticated as A/B tests with measured results going on, but I'd love to learn more.

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