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New comment by vanadium in "CSS-Tricks has a new owner"

vanadium — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:46:20 +0000

I was at DO at the time, so I can at least validate exactly what you implied about it frustratingly not being a priority. There's a whole story behind that I probably can't get into, but wish I could tell.

I'm glad it's back with someone who loves the craft, cares, can dedicate the time to it, and not just own it to slap a "Powered by" logo on the front page. At least there's that.

Edit: Worth reading Coyier's take some some time back in 2024 to refresh. https://chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/where-im-at-on-the-whole-...

New comment by vanadium in "WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator"

vanadium — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:07:52 +0000

This is impressive.

New comment by vanadium in "WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator"

vanadium — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:08:15 +0000

So many people loved it, The Weather Channel actually put out CDs. One such example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/127083056970

New comment by vanadium in "The Reddits"

vanadium — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:39:24 +0000

After they killed Apollo, my usage after 15 years went from hours a day and tanked to a few minutes a month at present. They showed their hand, and I showed myself the door for the most part.

When the email dropped that I was one of the early users offered entrance into the IPO, I pretty much ignored it.

New comment by vanadium in "Original Prusa MK4"

vanadium — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:17:20 +0000

Not to mention that to a large extent, you can spend the difference between stock unit prices making an Ender-3 v2 nearly as capable as a $799-$1,000 printer. Does it make sense? Overkill? Depends what you want to get out of the hobby. Can’t scoff at those who want to learn the fundamentals of 3D printing through the experience of modding and tuning ad nauseum because it’s _just not quite there yet_. I’m one of those Ender-3 V2 folks who can’t stop tweaking and modding and it’s been a frustratingly awesome and educational ride for the last year and some change. No regrets. I’ve gotten great prints along the way. But now, if I add a printer in the future that promises to “just work” and it doesn’t, I can diagnose/fix pretty quickly. Which I might just do.

New comment by vanadium in "Rotating Sandwiches – That's It"

vanadium — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:44:59 +0000

Need more old-school absurdity like this on the web these days.

New comment by vanadium in "On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class"

vanadium — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:33:34 +0000

Let’s de-escalate it to relative car value to income then, in which case I’d say Warren Buffett is a good candidate. While you might not consider it ratty, it’s still pretty grounded and emblematic of frugality, all things considered.

New comment by vanadium in "Remote workers, how do you stop thinking about work?"

vanadium — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 03:07:52 +0000

Similarly, I have my desk lamp outfitted with Hue lights controlled via HomeKit, which always turn on 15 minutes before work and turn off at the usual time I clock out plus 15 minutes, and for the days I close up in time, I make it an absolute habit to turn them off before heading back upstairs to be with family.

It takes commitment to consistency, but it’s extremely effective for me to associate the light switch to my work day.

New comment by vanadium in "Guest WiFi using a QR code"

vanadium — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:39:18 +0000

I 3D printed a QR code puck for my house wi-fi. It's an easy demonstration of at-home fabrication that elicits some conversation, without having to hand over a password.

New comment by vanadium in "Small actions make great leaders"

vanadium — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:52:04 +0000

This is a brilliant way of framing it; I couldn’t agree more.

New comment by vanadium in "On Twitter, briefly"

vanadium — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:58:33 +0000

Some days, you have to wonder where we’d be if Pownce actually won out against Twitter back in the day. That Twitter won out ended up being more consequential than anyone could have expected.

New comment by vanadium in "Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?"

vanadium — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:19:04 +0000

AS&S is, in a relatively literal sense, next door to me. Fun bunch of folks whenever I stop by.

But as a late 70s Gen Xer, I would never trade living through that transition period from pre-Internet to Internet. You can't pay to have had that experience or perspective, and what transpired through those years from BBSes to pre-Web to Web adoption, from technological and sociological standpoints, was _insane_.

New comment by vanadium in "Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure"

vanadium — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:21:41 +0000

Not only that: "Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer."

Growing up, that was the lens I always saw them through (and I had minor addictions to Laser Blast and River Raid, among others), so to see what they've become, well, you know. Not the same in any way from the David Crane days, just as it is with Atari from the Bushnell days through Warner, then Tramiel, then JTS, Hasbro, etc through present day.

Days long, long gone. The memories are nice.

New comment by vanadium in "Universe BIOS for NeoGeo"

vanadium — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:50:19 +0000

If you have a Neo Geo AES (home), MVS (arcade)or, more recently, Neo Geo CD, this is a table-stakes modification that unlocks quite a few features, including bypassing region restrictions which were prevalent when it came to removing the censorship prevalent in U.S. versions of their games (e.g., blood, et al).

I felt it worthwhile to make sure I ordered it straight from the source for my AES, which enables ongoing support.

New comment by vanadium in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

vanadium — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:51:51 +0000

That would be Palm webOS.

New comment by vanadium in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

vanadium — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:46:57 +0000

The nostalgia I have for 2009-2011's webOS, as a former app dev for the platform and its embrace of the Web Platform, is still very much real to the point that I keep my Palm Pre 2 dev unit behind me in my home office. Still charges and boots just like it did back in 2010. I'd love to see something with the computing power of the present try it again (and I'm aware React Native exists), but my expectations of it ever coming to fruition are rather low.

Aside: Seeing MagSafe chargers for iPhones these days makes me chuckle. Also a webOS innovation from back in...2009.

New comment by vanadium in "Groups never admit failure"

vanadium — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:49:15 +0000

I think what separates the two camps is a positive incentive to admit failure, which is where the rarity comes in, as highlighted by other posters. If the group's incentive is integrity and trust, or loyalty and retention, it makes sense as there's a capital (political, monetary, etc.) incentive in doing so.

That's where I think the insight cleanly falls apart and yet holds up pretty well for the vast majority of situations. Rarely are groups actually positively incentivized to admit failure, and therefore they do not, as a cohesive unit, actually admit failure as there's a greater incentive not to, barring force.

New comment by vanadium in "Intro to cassette recorder operation, maintenance, and repair"

vanadium — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:28:52 +0000

Pretty timely as I'm hunting down an old (practically bulletproof) Sony TC-D5M field recorder for my system here and want to know what I'm getting into since there are some known issues that crop up in due time. I already restore old videogame consoles and try to do my own stunts in repairing and maintaining what I've got, so this is really helpful.

New comment by vanadium in "Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine"

vanadium — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:44:36 +0000

It's worth posting Moderna's research pipeline to understand the breadth and depth of where they plan to take mRNA vaccines: https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline

New comment by vanadium in "Alcohol-free beer is fizzing"

vanadium — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:46:33 +0000

I’ve been seeing a fair groundswell of “all-day” lagers and IPAs between 3-4% as of late, so it feels like there’s a market for lower ABV brews getting tapped.