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New comment by leejoramo in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"

leejoramo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:18 +0000

Many projectors include remotes that allow you to control a slide presentation. These remotes send the default keystrokes that Microsoft PowerPoint knows (and which other presentation software copied) So when you connect a projector the OS often sees a keyboard and mouse. This triggers macOS’s keyboard recognition tool. Old VGA projectors had separate keyboard/mouse ports. I assume HDMI has a USB channel?

New comment by leejoramo in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

leejoramo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:45:15 +0000

In the late 90s, I leased Cobalt RAQ servers from RackSpace. During this time, RackSpace had exceptional customer service. I could call support and be connected with a skilled Unix SysAdmin within minutes. Even though I was responsible for the entire system, the would happily login to the system and advise me how how to deal with any issues.

After about 5 years, I called to shutdown my last Cobalt server. A week later, they called to ask if they could ship me server. No Cost

Turns out it was the last of the Colbalt RAQs and the oldest server in their fleet

New comment by leejoramo in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

leejoramo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:12:49 +0000

I often use Pico CSS, and a comparison would be nice.

New comment by leejoramo in "Trying Out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait for an Invite"

leejoramo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:41:47 +0000

I am still waiting for Chandler

https://www.chandlerproject.org/

New comment by leejoramo in "Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin"

leejoramo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:01:19 +0000

I remember Le Guin speaking at my university around 1990. She was amazingly open about her writing process. While she did not directly answer questions about the “meaning” of her writing, she did facilitate the discussion about her work’s meaning, and asked the audience challenging questions.

Of all my time at uni, I wish I had a recording of this event.

I understood from students who had attended a writing workshop with her earlier in the day, that she was gifted teacher.

New comment by leejoramo in "Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)"

leejoramo — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:21:34 +0000

My first encounter with Neko was on OS/2 as well.

New comment by leejoramo in "How Markdown took over the world"

leejoramo — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:27:35 +0000

Thanks for finding this post. I did a quick search for it and came up empty.

New comment by leejoramo in "How Markdown took over the world"

leejoramo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:43:07 +0000

This is exactly why.

It is my assumption that Gruber chose ‘.text’ over ‘.txt’ for several reasons. To give it a little difference when searching for files. To be more legible to non-computer people. And finally, while Classic MacOS did not use file extensions, the Resource Fork type code for text files was ‘TEXT’

New comment by leejoramo in "A small collection of text-only websites"

leejoramo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:51:15 +0000

Daring Fireball had the ‘.text’ version since at least the public release of Markdown, if not earlier.

This should be the version Gruber edits in MarsEdit or BBEdit, but it maybe partly rendered by the Moveable Type CMS

The extension is ‘.text’ because that is what he suggested as the Markdown extension, but of course most of us went with ‘.md’

While keyword tags are not used on the website, you can see the one he uses for his personal purposes at the bottom of the Markdown

New comment by leejoramo in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

leejoramo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:42:12 +0000

I do this too. It was a easy sell to my department

New comment by leejoramo in "Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes"

leejoramo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:13:23 +0000

Regardless of if we consider Holmes a drug addict, abuser or merely a controlled user, it is clear from the stories that Watson was very concerned as both a Friend and Medical expert, that Holmes is damaging his mental faculties

New comment by leejoramo in "DOS Days – Laptop Displays"

leejoramo — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:15:22 +0000

My all time favorite laptop was the 1994 Apple PowerBook DUO 280 with active greyscale screen. These screens actually looked the best in direct sunlight with no backlighting

The battery life was listed as 2-4 hours. Normally it was under 3 hours. However, with no backlighting and booting a stripped down Mac OS and apps off a RAM disk, I could get close to 6 hours in BBedit or WriteNow. I would spin up the HD to save data and turn it off again.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/specs/mac_p...

New comment by leejoramo in "Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad"

leejoramo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:04:40 +0000

Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints

TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura

The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio/product

And Lenovo itself offers several usb keyboards with TrackPoint https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3U4TQS

New comment by leejoramo in "Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay""

leejoramo — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:32:17 +0000

The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

New comment by leejoramo in "Show HN: Vanilla Cookbook – a deceptively simple recipe manager"

leejoramo — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:30:14 +0000

I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.

New comment by leejoramo in "I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me"

leejoramo — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:42:54 +0000

This resonated with me, having such a passion for computers, yet sad at what this industry has brought us.

> There’s a good chance this page wouldn’t exist had I not read Timothy Snyder’s powerful little book, On Tyranny

This is such a great book. https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

New comment by leejoramo in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

leejoramo — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:51:23 +0000

This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview

New comment by leejoramo in "Ask HN: Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84?"

leejoramo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:14:15 +0000

Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230)

As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic math

Original Price $235 which is close to what I paid. Adjusted for inflation $657

I think it was worth it.

New comment by leejoramo in "How to get rich in 2025: Forget career. Today inheritance is what matters"

leejoramo — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:51:26 +0000

There is a long distance between a 0% and 100% rise in a tax.

It sounds like you are saying the only reason to work is so that your children will never have to work.

New comment by leejoramo in "Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment"

leejoramo — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:08:19 +0000

I used DESQview for a number of years, and always think about it when see new TUI systems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview