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New comment by small_scombrus in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

small_scombrus — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:16 +0000

It isn't web based? It's a set of Lua scripts that run locally

New comment by small_scombrus in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

small_scombrus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:06:12 +0000

1Password has really been bugging me recently, all the emails they send have giant link buttons they want you to click without verifying where you're actually going

New comment by small_scombrus in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

small_scombrus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:59:24 +0000

Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers

New comment by small_scombrus in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

small_scombrus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:07:52 +0000

> So the stable state here is all humans eventually being locked out?

Yep. The most easy to implement stable state for any system where you're aiming to prevent misuse is to just prevent use

New comment by small_scombrus in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

small_scombrus — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:02:44 +0000

IIRC Thunderbird is a fork of Firefox, so it can do all of the web things your heart desires

New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

small_scombrus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:12:25 +0000

My local build of helix is 20MB, did you use the suggested flags on the install guide page?

New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

small_scombrus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:10:06 +0000

> Is there some established AI-agnostic protocol/interface?

AFAIK no

New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

small_scombrus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:08:48 +0000

I desperately wish Helix would support virtual text (code folder, markdown links just showing the text when not selected), but the default keybinds and the way that selecting and editing text work just works too well in my brain to go anywhere else

New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

small_scombrus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:34:38 +0000

I know it's not a proper fix, but helix does have `:reload` and `:reload-all` commands

I have reload-all bound to Ctrl-r

New comment by small_scombrus in "Good software knows when to stop"

small_scombrus — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:24:21 +0000

Nano not powerful, but it is friendly, it shows you its keybinds.

Vim is very powerful, but also very unfriendly.

The difference in effort required to pick up Nano vs Vim is HUGE

New comment by small_scombrus in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

small_scombrus — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:26:28 +0000

You can already make steam friend group chats, it was just a bit janky when I last used it like 5 years ago

New comment by small_scombrus in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

small_scombrus — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:25:28 +0000

A LOT of open source software offers features tiers with per user pricing even when self-hosting.

They do need to fund development, but SSO is almost always in the top two level pricings :(

New comment by small_scombrus in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

small_scombrus — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:52:41 +0000

It could very much be confirmation bias, but I do feel like most "please use our app" popups appear after a mobile site breaks or refuses to load something

New comment by small_scombrus in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

small_scombrus — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:09:36 +0000

[Insert survivorship bias aeroplane png here]

New comment by small_scombrus in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

small_scombrus — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:49:24 +0000

> What are the returns for a landowner leasing a solar farm

Depending on what you're doing with your land, you can multi-use solar farm + grazing, or solar farm + some crops which increases it's value.

New comment by small_scombrus in "The lost art of XML"

small_scombrus — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:51:15 +0000

Base JSON not supporting comments is a sometimes annoying 'feature' because without it no-one can use the comments to try and add extra functionality into their JSON file using comment tags so you don't end up with a million JSON+ custom formats.

New comment by small_scombrus in "The lost art of XML"

small_scombrus — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:30:12 +0000

Unfortunately Word documents are XML. Microsoft has a LOT of customisation going on, but at the core it's very ugly, incredibly complex xml :(

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/word/worki...

New comment by small_scombrus in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

small_scombrus — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:16:18 +0000

Using your first text block 'Eponine' skips "we had nothing before us" and doesn't speak the final "that some of its noisiest"

I wonder what's going wrong in there

New comment by small_scombrus in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

small_scombrus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:29:02 +0000

All things done with office must be evil by association.

(Except clippy, he's just a guy)

New comment by small_scombrus in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

small_scombrus — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:56:04 +0000

> Even if the retailer took it back it would still be... trash.

Yes, but making them deal with it would create a massive incentive to either reduce the amount of rubbish they make, or to make it recyclable/processable.