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microflash

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A software engineer, avid reader and fellow web wanderer

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Inkterface, an e-ink faceplate for your Steam Machine

gitlab.steamos.cloud
3 points·by microflash·8 days ago·1 comments

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer

thenextweb.com
2 points·by microflash·15 days ago·0 comments

Apple collects every tap to deliver App Store personalized recommendations

xcancel.com
2 points·by microflash·24 days ago·1 comments

Fallback Font Generator

screenspan.net
3 points·by microflash·27 days ago·0 comments

Bubbles – community-ranked feed of blog posts

bubbles.town
3 points·by microflash·28 days ago·0 comments

Dimidium – terminal color scheme crafted with science

github.com
2 points·by microflash·last month·0 comments

How Safari search engine extensions work

lapcatsoftware.com
9 points·by microflash·last month·0 comments

Mellum2 Goes Open Source: A Fast Model for AI Workflows

blog.jetbrains.com
13 points·by microflash·last month·1 comments

Designing Firefox for the Future

blog.mozilla.org
14 points·by microflash·2 months ago·3 comments

Liquid Radius – standardize the corner radius of every app on macOS Tahoe

liquidradius.com
1 points·by microflash·2 months ago·0 comments

Logseq is splitting into two versions

logseq.io
7 points·by microflash·2 months ago·0 comments

Aube – a fast Node.js package manager

aube.en.dev
3 points·by microflash·3 months ago·0 comments

Datatype – variable font that turns text into charts

franktisellano.github.io
4 points·by microflash·3 months ago·0 comments

Surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids – and adults – to screens

npr.org
2 points·by microflash·3 months ago·0 comments

Am I a Tech Bro?

amiatechbro.com
4 points·by microflash·3 months ago·1 comments

Dangerzone – Take potentially dangerous documents and convert them to safe PDFs

dangerzone.rocks
2 points·by microflash·3 months ago·1 comments

Simple English Wikipedia

simple.wikipedia.org
5 points·by microflash·4 months ago·1 comments

Koog – open-source framework for building production-ready AI agents

jetbrains.com
1 points·by microflash·4 months ago·0 comments

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

arnika.org
104 points·by microflash·4 months ago·77 comments

Malus – Clean Room as a Service

malus.sh
1,433 points·by microflash·4 months ago·531 comments

comments

microflash
·4 days ago·discuss
Unfortunately, I've also come across .astro files that I'm not allowed to touch and yet have to work with them (some internal corporate dinosaur which has not been updated for a while).

For my personal site, it was a 5 minute work, as usual :)
microflash
·4 days ago·discuss
It's Nokia all over again: Having all ingredients for success and yet stubbornly not succeeding.
microflash
·4 days ago·discuss
The switch to strict HTML compilation is just not cool, and actively prevents upgrading sites which need to deal with remote content that is not written in strict HTML.

I also wish there could be a general purpose content processing API so I can plug a different format than markdown (such as typst)
microflash
·5 days ago·discuss
IntelliJ has free open-source distribution so you don’t need to pay anything for using it. To each their own, I guess.
microflash
·6 days ago·discuss
https://www.zardui.com
microflash
·6 days ago·discuss
Or PERIBOARD-413 if you need steeper angle. Perixx keyboards are cheap (and you’ll feel this cheapness every time you use them) but that’s why they are so good: a low-barrier entry to try out ergonomic keyboards before moving on to something more premium.
microflash
·13 days ago·discuss
Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.
microflash
·13 days ago·discuss
Out of all the things listed, dependency tree and compile times are the most problematic things I face in Rust projects. As stated at the very end of the article, if you need tighter feedback loop, you might be happier with other languages.

I do feel weird about a major chunk of this article dedicated to ORMs; I guess people think they are still worthwhile, somehow.
microflash
·13 days ago·discuss
It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.
microflash
·14 days ago·discuss
Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.
microflash
·17 days ago·discuss
Looks interesting.

> The Licensee may not modify, translate, adapt, alter, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer, change or alter the embedding bits, the font name, legal notices contained in the font software, nor seek to discover the source code of the font data, convert into another font format, create bitmaps, add or subtract any glyphs, symbols or accents, or any other derivative works based on the electronic data in this product.

This is why I haven’t bought it. I like to subset fonts to reduce the size. Any font license that prohibits this just gets ignored by me, no matter how good it is.
microflash
·19 days ago·discuss
This is something that can bring me back to Deno. Binary size is still pretty big IMO. If they can trim down runtime based on the specific uses of standard library (sort of treeshake Deno runtime itself), it would be revolutionary. Java promised this with `jlink` but sadly failed to deliver for wider adoption.
microflash
·25 days ago·discuss
What a time! A browser was supposed to be the "user agent".

Regardless of what people say about Firefox, I've been using it for uBlock Origin and containers for ages, and won't be trading it for whatever performance, battery life, compatibility gains people continue to use Chrome for. Choose whatever is important for you, though.
microflash
·25 days ago·discuss
At some point and scale, engineering (and "other" people, really) become a liability than resource. This is where the rot within surfaces through the tainted skin and there's no stopping it. It just gushes and scorches everything—people, goodwill, cultural relevance, and all.
microflash
·25 days ago·discuss
It requires you to always keep your Wifi radios on. What I meant was that the hotspot option should toggle Wifi radios when needed (and not always). This is possible through Shortcuts but is a bit finnicky.
microflash
·26 days ago·discuss
Many ePub readers allow you to ignore formatting. And that’s exactly what I do.
microflash
·last month·discuss
Waiting for the day when I can set my own Search Engine in Safari, set Wifi hotspot as default (it defaults to USB / bluetooth), and use iPhone hotspot to update my iPad (iPad refuses to download updates when connected to iPhone hotspot even when Low-Data mode is disabled).
microflash
·last month·discuss
Not launching in EU feels like a smell. It does look interesting enough for me to try it out before disabling Apple Intelligence again.
microflash
·last month·discuss
Since I don't care about Apple Music at all, I just lock the ~Music/Music folder. It prevents the app to launch while still keeping the key functional in other apps.
microflash
·last month·discuss
Might as well report all users of internet to authorities for using internet because internet can also be used to commit fraud.