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New comment by 4926394057 in "Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?"

4926394057 — Wed, 29 May 2024 06:40:05 +0000

I haven’t seen or thought of this game in at least a decade and I can still hear this perfectly in my head. Shows what a lasting effect it had.

New comment by 4926394057 in "Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI"

4926394057 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:51:52 +0000

They’re clearly missing an opportunity here. My TV probably spends a whopping 20 hours a day turned off. Why settle for pumping out ads for the few moments it spends paused when there’s all that available screen time going wasted? How long before turning the TV “off” switches it to Billboard Mode?

New comment by 4926394057 in "The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)"

4926394057 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:48:45 +0000

1. Hey Duggee 2. Bluey

Generally I’ve found anything selected by CBeebies (the BBC channel for young children) to be pretty good.

New comment by 4926394057 in "On keeping sketchbooks"

4926394057 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:50:07 +0000

The date format and imperial/metric examples seem to me to be objectively better. Is driving on the right objectively better, or is it just a case of "more people do it that way"? Otherwise, why shouldn't everyone drive on the left?

New comment by 4926394057 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

4926394057 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:04:33 +0000

https://ides.dev/notes/

There aren’t many articles on there at the moment, as I tend to get imposter syndrome part way through writing and never finish, but I have a couple in the works that I’d like to post soon.

GitHub Copilot: Thoughts on an Alternative Workflow

4926394057 — Fri, 12 May 2023 09:17:51 +0000

Article URL: https://ides.dev/notes/github-copilot-alternative-workflow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35913801

Points: 2

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New comment by 4926394057 in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

4926394057 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:08:41 +0000

https://bigfishquiz.com/

This one was released around a year and half ago. To begin with I was advertising on Google Ads, but stopped about half a year ago when it didn't seem to be getting anywhere. The money I spent on ads up until this point, combined with the low number of sales, means this one is still solidly in the red.

https://easyfleet.app/

This one only went live a few weeks ago and is _very_ much still a work in progress. However; I find it easier to keep my motivation to work on someting when it's in the wild. I haven't done any advertising on this one so far, as it isn't really ready for that yet, I want to add more features first, but I'll probably advertise it at some point. I also don't love the domain name, so I'm hoping to find something better (preferrably a .com) before I start advertising.

New comment by 4926394057 in "This is the year of the RSS reader?"

4926394057 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:08:42 +0000

Ah, it's hard to see those 15 unread items from Aaron Swartz. What an optimistic time that was for the internet.

New comment by 4926394057 in "Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages"

4926394057 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:28:47 +0000

I seem to recall it being an incentive to upgrade to the paid plan. If you were a free user you couldn't choose which song on an album to listen to, you could only kick off shuffling and hope the song you wanted to hear came up. If you had a paid account you could play the album through in order or any particular song of your choosing. I've been paying long enough now though that I could very well be mis-remembering it...

New comment by 4926394057 in "Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident"

4926394057 — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 08:06:07 +0000

On a similar note there's also the wonderfully named Westward Ho! [1], exclamation mark included.

On looking up the link for the above I learned it also shares an exclamation mark with the incredible Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! [2] in Quebec.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho! [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!

New comment by 4926394057 in "I Still Use RSS"

4926394057 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:03:18 +0000

Here's what I use to do exactly that; https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

New comment by 4926394057 in "Good Books for a Lousy Year"

4926394057 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:26:33 +0000

The fact it was banned for a while is also a fairly good indicator that there's something in there worth reading.

New comment by 4926394057 in "Good Books for a Lousy Year"

4926394057 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:24:28 +0000

I think a couple of Macintyre's other works even top The Spy and the Traitor in terms of "craziness". Particularly Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat (out of those I've read). They're both thoroughly worth a read if you enjoyed this one.

New comment by 4926394057 in "Digital Tools I Wish Existed"

4926394057 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:09:54 +0000

If you remove the duplicate jon.bo/ then it seems to work; https://jon.bo/posts/index.xml

New comment by 4926394057 in "Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’"

4926394057 — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:06:54 +0000

Sounds like Telegram needs to implement a "message canary" where every message has a note attached saying something to the effect of; "Apple hasn't asked us to remove this message".

New comment by 4926394057 in "Stuck at Fucking Home. I got bored and started compiling lists"

4926394057 — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:51:52 +0000

Thanks for this! The "Chill EDM" playlist on Spotify page links to the same playlist as "Synthwave Sounds".

New comment by 4926394057 in "Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)"

4926394057 — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:43:45 +0000

I’m so fed up of going to settings for exactly this reason, can you explain how you created these widgets please?