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New comment by DaanDL in "The lost joy of music piracy"

DaanDL — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:31:57 +0000

Yes, this is the way. Also, everything is still connected with last.fm too, so once a while I'll also take a look at my neighbours there.

New comment by DaanDL in "The lost joy of music piracy"

DaanDL — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:44:45 +0000

Biggest thing I miss about all of this was the gatekeeping and curation really. There's so much garbage on Spotify, it's hard to find good music, and the recommendations I get always safely stay in what I already listened to.

New comment by DaanDL in "The lost joy of music piracy"

DaanDL — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:40:21 +0000

DC++

I loved that place, being able to browse people's hard drives was ingenious.

New comment by DaanDL in "The lost joy of music piracy"

DaanDL — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:23:53 +0000

What I also miss on Spotify: live mixes.

New comment by DaanDL in "Winamp Skin Museum"

DaanDL — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:36:57 +0000

Correct, nowadays it's accidental and boring inconsistencies, because they're all trying to be more minimal than the other app.

New comment by DaanDL in "Winamp Skin Museum"

DaanDL — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Correct, and the same goes for webpages, they were built for 15" and/or 17".

New comment by DaanDL in "Winamp Skin Museum"

DaanDL — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:21:13 +0000

It was really wild, out of the box you would get: sound themes, color themes, icon themes, startup sounds, wallpaper themes, different loading animations, am I forgetting something? :-D

New comment by DaanDL in "Winamp Skin Museum"

DaanDL — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:15:52 +0000

The thing is, back then, it worked, because every app looked completely different from each other, and so it was a clusterfuck anyway :-D

New comment by DaanDL in "Deno Desktop"

DaanDL — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:19:01 +0000

I swear we're just going to end up with Java again.

New comment by DaanDL in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

DaanDL — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:40:38 +0000

Optimism in general has gone down the drain, and understandably so.

New comment by DaanDL in "Dopamine Fracking"

DaanDL — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:30:05 +0000

Same here, I enjoyed it too. A lot of people are nitpicking on the strawberry analogy, but there is certainly something to be said about the commodification of everything.

New comment by DaanDL in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

DaanDL — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:49:39 +0000

I never really understood what exactly is so readable about python. I've been developing in Python for 8 years now, and before that I was a C# developer, and I don't find Python to be that more readable.

Sure there's less ceremony, and yes, you can have your project going with just a single file, but other than that...?

New comment by DaanDL in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

DaanDL — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:54:42 +0000

But that's costly. Speaking of my own experience: going from a webapp fully hosted on an EC2 instance to a railway and vercel setup reduced my costs 10x.

New comment by DaanDL in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

DaanDL — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:37:11 +0000

Okay, but not all results on there are valid, ForgeCode for instance has been cheating in the past:

https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/#sneaking-the-answ...

New comment by DaanDL in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

DaanDL — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:47:08 +0000

Hi Rod,

I know nothing about astrophotography, but while reading your article I wondered: what happens when a truck passes your house while you're taking these shots, don't the vibrations mess up with the results?

New comment by DaanDL in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

DaanDL — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:25:00 +0000

Today, we proudly announce, the Meta Rayban 365

New comment by DaanDL in "The MacBook Neo"

DaanDL — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:23:21 +0000

Why couldn't they just've called it Macbook, instead of Macbook Neo?

New comment by DaanDL in "The MacBook Neo"

DaanDL — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:21:18 +0000

Especially with things like: will my pencil work with this iPad.

New comment by DaanDL in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

DaanDL — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:04:11 +0000

Was about to comment the same. It's a common mistake/gotcha.

New comment by DaanDL in "Simple screw counter"

DaanDL — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:07:51 +0000

Then just use a small cup to scoop out some screws.