As someone who's tried several keyboards, a key feature I've found myself unable to go without is contouring of the keyboard. Keyboards like Kinesis Advantage 2, Kinesis Advantage 360 and the Glove 80 essentially. I've personally found it the biggest gain to reducing strain on my left hand.
Not exactly. OPTIONS lets servers tell you that QUERY is supported if the client requests it and Status Code 405 lets servers tell you that QUERY is not supported. That's very different from the current landscape where several proxy servers and web servers simply ignore the Body of a GET request.
Using GET with a Body doesn't work if you try using it in the browser with JS fetch for example[1]. Additionally, a lot of existing web servers by default ignore GET requests with a body.
The use case of QUERY is because POST conveys non-safe, non-idempotent requests which can potentially modify stuff according to the REST spec. GET requests on the other hand convey retrieval of a resource. However, due to GET requests not having a body, there's a limit to the amount of data you can put in the URL and you also cannot put sensitive data in it.
Additionally, GET requests are meant to be highly cacheable by default while a lot of the QUERY type requests are usually meant more for one-shot access.
I have an ancient Windows 98 computer which I used to use at my grandparents' home until a few years ago. All the problems you mentioned did exist. However, the machine still felt more responsive than today's laptops. Something being objectively slow is very different from it feeling slow when you use it. As an example, I never had Word autosave turned on. It was always explicit (even if this meant I'd usually lose what I was working on when the computer lost power)
It's fun to see the Treedix tester come up on HN. I got one a few months back and have quite enjoyed using it. One thing which I did find interesting was that one of the cables had the emarker data lie. IIRC, the emarker data would suggested it supported much higher speeds and wattage than it did. Fortunately, the other testing screens successfully detected it only had USB 2.0 wires even though it claimed to support 40 GB/s.
People say this but I really don't consider it to be as true as it once was. I can't even move my taskbar to the side in windows 11 without installing a third-party program to patch explorer.
This is off-tangent but I find it a bit odd that the blog uses a URL fragment to load different articles when it's usually used to navigate within a page.
A consequence of this seems to be that clicking the link to a different article leaves you at the bottom of the page even though the article itself has changed.
This seems to be using JS to fetch the markdown and then render it but I do feel that it may be better off to simply pre-convert the markdown as part of the deployment process and serve the static page.