Hacker News: toothbrush

New comment by toothbrush in "Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust"

toothbrush — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:52:22 +0000

Running the risk of being a dirty reposter and.. reposting. My little Spotify client is for macOS only, mostly only built for my own use, and a lot more minimal, visually. It's also native Swift though, so it's got that nice macOS feel. It's also pretty much 100% keyboard-driven (Vim keys, if that's something you like) and supports regex filters. It's just an open-source thing: https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue

Show HN: Spotiqueue, minimalist macOS Spotify client

toothbrush — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28123957

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by toothbrush in "Apps Getting Worse"

toothbrush — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:11:19 +0000

I feel a bit bad plugging my own project (sorry not sorry i guess), but i wrote a macOS app to scratch my itch, because for years i've hated the Spotify interface (especially the queueing aspect).

Curious to know if anyone finds it usable!

https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue

Dial-up pool in 2020 on Raspberry Pi

toothbrush — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial-up_pool

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26150873

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by toothbrush in "How to Get Rich Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Facilities"

toothbrush — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:28:34 +0000

Apologies, the original title is terrible. Matt Stoller writes very interesting pieces about markets and monopolies, and this one concerns Solarwinds specifically, which feels relevant given that's on the front page at the moment. The author gives a compelling narrative on why exactly security practices were so bad at Solarwinds, and how that related to runaway capitalism.

How to Get Rich Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Facilities

toothbrush — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:27:14 +0000

Article URL: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rich-sabotaging-nuclear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25756190

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Allsorts Font Shaping Engine Year in Review

toothbrush — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine-2020-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25463410

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft

toothbrush — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25340953

Points: 140

# Comments: 105

Show HN: Super retro Windows 95 Solitaire for iOS

toothbrush — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:06:15 +0000

This might be something y'all find amusing. My partner and i created a Solitaire clone for iOS, in a weird trippy mishmash of Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 visuals, including a lot of artistic licence for easter eggs. Everything is lovingly pixellated, and the end game animation, well, we find it quite satisfying.

Featuring all the original card backs you know and love, no ads, no analytics, no nasties, and artisanally extracted bitmaps from the original cards.dll! It's perpetually free of charge to play.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sol-exe-retro-solitaire/id1542164345#?platform=iphone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25299183

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by toothbrush in "The Pasta King Trusted Us"

toothbrush — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 04:05:21 +0000

> I would definitely encourage trying it (either picking up hitchhikers, or hitchhiking yourself, once the world gets back to normal.)

Totally agreed. That's one thing I find sad living in Australia: I barely see any (I don't think I recall seeing any in the past 2 years).

New comment by toothbrush in "Mutt email client 25 years old"

toothbrush — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:47:28 +0000

It's funny this should come up on HN today, because just this week out of nowhere i thought i'd try Mutt again (after having been a Mutt user since mid-2000s, but switching to mu4e for the last ±5 years).

What i used to do back in the day, and appeared to work fine when i tested this weekend, is so-called flowed mode. [1] I think it's a controversial feature, because it's a brittle hack, but anecdotally an email i sent this weekend as a test displayed fine on an iPhone.

And indeed, i'm totally with you on wanting to use/send text email but not look like a freak with weirdly broken 80-char lines in paragraphs.

1. https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2017/a-small-trick-for-sending...

New comment by toothbrush in "ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS"

toothbrush — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:38:41 +0000

> this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for the kind words. It really means a lot to us.

> comments through Github is interesting in a brilliant way

Thank you! Honestly we're just cheap/lazy – we really wanted a super low-maintenance blogging platform, and static pages are amazing IMHO. This gave us "all" of both worlds, sort of.

New comment by toothbrush in "ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS"

toothbrush — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:27:07 +0000

Hey Chris, thanks for visiting. Author here. We actually have several projects we've tried to launch with varying degrees of traction. One of them (https://vistaserv.net) made the rounds here a while ago, actually. We plan to write posts about several of these projects, pick apart what worked and didn't. And, if we come up with resources or techniques that worked well for us, we'll be posting about those, too. Stay tuned :)

New comment by toothbrush in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

toothbrush — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:12:46 +0000

My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net.

I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!

New comment by toothbrush in "Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers"

toothbrush — Sun, 10 May 2020 22:49:34 +0000

Wow, thank you for putting 2 and 2 together! We have been bothered by these weird spacing artefacts, but we never figured out that they correlated to line breaks in our source code! That's insane. This gives us a lead to investigate.

And here i was thinking HTML was a bit like LaTeX – mostly whitespace-agnostic! Just shows you what spending too long in academia will do to you.

New comment by toothbrush in "Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers"

toothbrush — Sun, 10 May 2020 08:44:28 +0000

Oh wow, i've stumbled on your site before. It's a masterpiece, and was definitely an inspiration for the work we talk about in this blog post.

Super interesting, what you're saying about the OpenType Sanitizer – i'd wondered why it appears you can't use bitmapped fonts in browsers (although another commenter claims you can – i don't know either way).

I'll have a look at Bits'N'Picas, thanks for the heads up!

New comment by toothbrush in "Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers"

toothbrush — Sun, 10 May 2020 08:41:05 +0000

Wow, that's not great – thanks for the report!

New comment by toothbrush in "Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers"

toothbrush — Sun, 10 May 2020 08:20:32 +0000

We were actually just talking about compiling something like FreeType to JavaScript, but then you'd find yourself re-implementing a browser with layout engine etc...

However, your other idea is great! You might enjoy https://paschke-images-test.s3.amazonaws.com/welcome.html ;)