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New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

oneeyedpigeon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:52:51 +0000

SIGINT

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:41:18 +0000

> DO NOT JUST PASS THE SECOND BALL BETWEEN YOUR HANDS. This is a common thing, as people are regularly taught it

People are really regularly taught it? Who's doing that teaching?

I suspect a different cause: cartoons. Especially in older animation, juggling was typically presented in the 'circle' style, which is probably where people tended to pick up the misconception. I guess that animation is a lot easier to produce.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPkX11Bfu8

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:37:22 +0000

> so I press Tab

Now you have a bonus problem: how do you insert a Tab in a multi-line text box?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:32:57 +0000

> Infuriatingly, some apps try to be smart — only one line, return submits

Tbf, this is almost certainly what the vast majority of people want, most of the time, from chat apps like Slack. It would be much more frustrating to have to click a button after each thought.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:29:10 +0000

I just tested this on Slack (macOS) and it's not the case. Pressing Enter in a code block submits the message, just as it does for any message.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:27:36 +0000

We've still yet to reach the "any textbox is just an embedded version of your EDITOR" nirvana.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:25:23 +0000

I also sent a LOT of Slack messages prematurely for the same reason. Used to it now, though. The more an interface emphasises the single-line nature of a text input, the better. Multi-line should never submit on enter, single-line always should.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:15:29 +0000

What about all the free-as-in-beer stuff that doesn't depend on ads? Like, er, this site?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

oneeyedpigeon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:45:49 +0000

I don't think you can add a new paragraph style in Docs. However, 99% of people I've known to use a word processor have never used that feature. Heck, I'd bet the majority of users don't even understand what a 'style' is; people just change the font size directly.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

oneeyedpigeon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:17:15 +0000

I just cannot fathom the thinking behind presenting URLs but not linking to them. The author clearly knows something about all this (unless it's AI-written, but I don't think it is), so how have they made such a glaringly obvious mistake?

I'm half wondering if they're using a very strange CMS to publish this blog. The fact that they seemingly cannot use the correct double-quote character in their code blocks lends a bit of support to this theory.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

oneeyedpigeon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:41 +0000

> how HTML is only a markup language and not a programming language.

This sentence is a great example of why such a pointless debate continues. Don't disparage HTML as "only" a markup language; it's a markup language. That's no 'better' or 'worse' than a programming language, just different.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oneeyedpigeon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:02:00 +0000

"You'll run out of memory eventually" was my point.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oneeyedpigeon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:42:42 +0000

I just wish we could get these settings in nice plain text files so we can version control them and edit them easily.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oneeyedpigeon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:40:15 +0000

TBF, there isn't a computer on earth that will solve that problem perfectly. At some point, "you shouldn't have so many utilities running" is perfectly acceptable advice.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:47:51 +0000

Yeah, "how much is 10% of your energy bill" would be a much more useful question!

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:35:28 +0000

Ironically, that's what probably killed Sourceforge and helped GitHub take off. It remains to be seen whether Codeberg will now repeat the process.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:30:29 +0000

I think we'll see companies increasingly adopting the X approach: charged tiers for 'fewer' ads. With no actual guarantee as to the absolute quantity of ads, just 'fewer, relative to the people who aren't paying as much'. We're basically on a downward slope where not seeing ads is going to get steadily more and more expensive over time.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:28:19 +0000

I mean, this is a very obvious future step. I was imagining this too, although I stopped short at the 'ads in comments' stage, but who knows, they could easily go further.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:25:48 +0000

It's great that they backed down, but they still did it in the first place. GitHub is on borrowed time now; my own repos are insignificant, but I'll definitely look to move somewhere else this year, and I'm sure many others will too.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

oneeyedpigeon — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:29:06 +0000

Fair point! I didn't even notice their username, in case that weren't very obvious.