The post is really interesting. Sorry it didn't work out for you guys. Thanks for open sourcing the code. The world REALLY needs better/faster alternatives to the big payment processors

HTMX creator Carson Gross shows off his latest teaching project, the Montana Mini-Computer, a simulated 16bit teaching computer to Casey Muratori

This is an awesome project

I have to say, this is pretty cool. I was surprised how fast it is. Very nice! To be honest, I didn't realize you could do this amount of manipulation of pdfs in javascript in my browser. I guess I was just ignorant. Nice work, guys!

This was a really good point

It's interesting that it's parallel-computing focused. That focus seems important going forward. I wonder what other languages will continue to innovate on that theme

Janet looks really neat. And this project seems really cool. Windows DESPERATELY needs a more powerful built-in manager. It's ridiculous to use the mouse all the time.

One of the later PowerToys updates makes the first few steps in the right direction with "fancy zones". It's not strictly native windows, but still developed by Microsoft and adds keyboard shortcuts for all its utilities

PowerToys seems to be making two step forward, one step backwards, and then makes a leap in a random off-axis direction. Every time an update comes, I feel both joy and worry - I expect to see some new cool thing (and possibly even useful to me), but I also worry about bloat and random performance degradations. I haven't bothered with measuring and quantifying it properly, but I do feel PowerToys got heavier and slower over the last 2 years.

Ironically, 90% of use I get from them is remapping Caps Lock to CTRL. Which I historically did with AutoHotkey, which was much lighter, but then there's the 10% of the time I need something else from PowerToys...

The even simpler solution to remapping Caps Lock is to use SharpKeys, which applies registry settings to make use of Windows’ built-in remapping functionality.

TIL: SharpKeys

TIL: Windows has a built-in remapping functionality

TIL: That functionality is controlled by registry, meaning I wouldn't even need a tool in the first place (I've learned to write REG files as a kid).

Thanks!

Even lighter than autohotkey is remapping on the hardware of the keyboard. There's a lot of open source firmware options for that now in the custom scene

Yeah I found all the software based remapping to be a bit janky on Windows, ended up just doing it in the keyboard firmware instead to move my ctrl keys beside the spacebar.

I never use the mouse to move windows around, windows key + arrows key meets my needs fine even multi-monitor, breaks the screen up into halves and quarters. Alt-tab to change focus.

> Windows DESPERATELY needs a more powerful built-in manager. It's ridiculous to use the mouse all the time.

And yet, I find Windows window management far more advanced than macOS. It's ridiculous that up until recently, macOS didn't even have basic max-size functionality w/o reaching for 3rd party apps.

The work Oxide is doing is truly amazing

You don't have to "need" it to admire the scope of what they created. Hardware AND software engineering at its finest solving some very hard problems.

I look forward to scoring some beefy Milan boxes with weird rails for cheap on ebay because the firmware only loads OpenSolaris.

OK, this comment was not really helpful. The article described some really interesting tech. Trashing tech or people who are excited by it does not really make things better.

It's ok to have heroes.

Not only is that not really relevant, but I'd argue Tailscale is actually very useful even to many people who don't feel like they currently "need" it.

I can understand Oxide (though current vmware apocalypse might make their appeal bigger than expected), but Tailscale?

Tailscale's biggest proposition is that their VPN software is, arguably, the easiest I've ever managed. There systems that are better integrated in some environments, systems that provide various niche features, etc.

But Tailscale is simplest to use.

I'm assuming that 1% will make their efforts worthwhile. It is impressive regardless of whether or not you're going to use it.

Really cool idea!