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New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today"

bronxpockfabz — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:15:48 +0000

I'll kindly remind people that actual [physical] paper does, in fact, still exist. You may have various feelings about how sustainable and eco friendly it is - sure, but for simple daily notes it is a good alternative, in my opinion.

For more enjoyment, you may even want to invest in a good fountain pen or two, and some fun inks to write with.

In my humble and subjective opinion, it is more tactile, enjoyable, better in terms of focus and forces you to write less / summarise, as my handwriting speed is like 1/10 of my typing speed.

My personal favourite pairing is Pilot Capless + Sailor Jentle Epinard + Clairefontaine Pupitre.

Your experience may vary.

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Makefiles for Web Work (2022)"

bronxpockfabz — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:35:31 +0000

Or https://github.com/sagiegurari/cargo-make

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "From RSS to My Kindle"

bronxpockfabz — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:47:40 +0000

I feel like a new generation of Android powered e-ink tablets / phones is the answer here: https://shop.boox.com/collections/eink-tablet.

Or maybe even that TCL tablet that looks kinda like e-ink, but is actually OLED: https://www.tcl.com/uk/en/tablets/tcl-nxtpaper-10s.

Constantly pushing stuff to Kindle, which is inherently extremely limited device (gotta love walled gardens!) feels like a bit too much friction to me.

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers"

bronxpockfabz — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:16:21 +0000

Please don’t use Chromium based browsers. Support real alternatives like Firefox.

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Don't be clever"

bronxpockfabz — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:24:06 +0000

I've being there (tm)

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "A world where people pay for software"

bronxpockfabz — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:02:33 +0000

> As a developer you sell subscriptions independently; you set the price, handle the money and do all of the interactions with the customer. Then you register the subscription in the system by using a simple API.

What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Arc Browser 1.0"

bronxpockfabz — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:54:20 +0000

Why? Of course so they can have their "registered users" count as high as possible to get another round of VC funding, so that they can drag this thing all the way to the IPO and get a nice and fat exit :)

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Writing Python like Rust (2020)"

bronxpockfabz — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:30:36 +0000

https://github.com/beartype/beartype

I wish more people started using Beartype, it makes Python bearable

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "The Lost Art of System Administration"

bronxpockfabz — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 09:08:58 +0000

Developers deploying static website in 2022 using K8S be like: https://xkcd.com/1319/

New comment by bronxpockfabz in "Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)"

bronxpockfabz — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 09:01:16 +0000

I wonder whether this choice ended up leading to Elementary OS being the least stable Ubuntu-based I’ve ever attempted to use. I really wanted to make it work but neither Luna nor Jólnir were actually stable enough to daily drive, as much as I liked the looks of the DE.