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New comment by geordieboozer in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

geordieboozer — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:53:47 +0000

To save me 10 mins and $2, is this posted to GitHub somewhere?

New comment by geordieboozer in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

geordieboozer — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:38:16 +0000

Reminds me a bit of the album cover of _Any Minute Now_ by Soulwax

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/AnyMinuteNow....

New comment by geordieboozer in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

geordieboozer — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:02:47 +0000

The think I liked about pocket was the integration with my Kobo ebook reader. I could browse the web on my phone or laptop and "add to pocket" for later, then could fire up my ereader and read the articles formatted nicely on my epaper screen.

Would be nice if Kobo supported some other service, but a bit of a stretch to imagine they'd support something self hosted or an open standard for such things

New comment by geordieboozer in "Toilets of the World"

geordieboozer — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:54:29 +0000

I run a photo blog of pub toilets (UK based) which may be of interest: https://www.pubtoilets.co.uk/

New comment by geordieboozer in "List of stories set in a future now past"

geordieboozer — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:56:29 +0000

Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1491/

New comment by geordieboozer in "MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text"

geordieboozer — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:16:30 +0000

that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title