Running the risk of being a dirty reposter and.. reposting. My little Spotify client is for macOS only, mostly only built for my own use, and a lot more minimal, visually. It's also native Swift though, so it's got that nice macOS feel. It's also pretty much 100% keyboard-driven (Vim keys, if that's something you like) and supports regex filters. It's just an open-source thing: https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
I feel a bit bad plugging my own project (sorry not sorry i guess), but i wrote a macOS app to scratch my itch, because for years i've hated the Spotify interface (especially the queueing aspect).
Apologies, the original title is terrible. Matt Stoller writes very interesting pieces about markets and monopolies, and this one concerns Solarwinds specifically, which feels relevant given that's on the front page at the moment. The author gives a compelling narrative on why exactly security practices were so bad at Solarwinds, and how that related to runaway capitalism.
I wish there was an optional field to insert your own description alongside the original one. I have to agree, there is probably a large body of content that didn't make it to the frontpage just because of the title (and God forbid you change it unless the original one is a clickbait). But I can see how such functionality could be abused.
Australia has it's own set of problems too, with distances being so vast between capitals, I imagine if you're not on the east cost you're not going to see any at all.
I did once wonder to myself "Are there non-english language travel youtube channels about Australia", so I searched my home town in Japanese, and sure enough there was! This Japanese guy was hitchiking from all the major cities, he would do so mostly from truck stops.
One thing I noticed was that, whilst a decent amount of people wanted to help, they were rarely going where he wanted to go, and so it could take him a day or two to find a ride.
It's funny this should come up on HN today, because just this week out of nowhere i thought i'd try Mutt again (after having been a Mutt user since mid-2000s, but switching to mu4e for the last ±5 years).
What i used to do back in the day, and appeared to work fine when i tested this weekend, is so-called flowed mode. [1] I think it's a controversial feature, because it's a brittle hack, but anecdotally an email i sent this weekend as a test displayed fine on an iPhone.
And indeed, i'm totally with you on wanting to use/send text email but not look like a freak with weirdly broken 80-char lines in paragraphs.
> this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for the kind words. It really means a lot to us.
> comments through Github is interesting in a brilliant way
Thank you! Honestly we're just cheap/lazy – we really wanted a super low-maintenance blogging platform, and static pages are amazing IMHO. This gave us "all" of both worlds, sort of.
Hey Chris, thanks for visiting. Author here. We actually have several projects we've tried to launch with varying degrees of traction. One of them (https://vistaserv.net) made the rounds here a while ago, actually. We plan to write posts about several of these projects, pick apart what worked and didn't. And, if we come up with resources or techniques that worked well for us, we'll be posting about those, too. Stay tuned :)
My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net.
I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!
Wow, thank you for putting 2 and 2 together! We have been bothered by these weird spacing artefacts, but we never figured out that they correlated to line breaks in our source code! That's insane. This gives us a lead to investigate.
And here i was thinking HTML was a bit like LaTeX – mostly whitespace-agnostic! Just shows you what spending too long in academia will do to you.
Oh wow, i've stumbled on your site before. It's a masterpiece, and was definitely an inspiration for the work we talk about in this blog post.
Super interesting, what you're saying about the OpenType Sanitizer – i'd wondered why it appears you can't use bitmapped fonts in browsers (although another commenter claims you can – i don't know either way).
I'll have a look at Bits'N'Picas, thanks for the heads up!
Thanks, appreciated! I'm planning an update soon - speaking of which, I might take a page from your own site with the custom scrollbars. :)
AFAIK bitmapped fonts can be rendered in-browser, but only if they're installed on the host (aka the 'old' way), not as css webfonts. Embedding bitmap strikes in a TrueType font is a neat trick used by e.g. Terminus, and by many CJK fonts shipped with Windows, etc., but the browser sanitizer thing just strips them - more info here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57930594
