Hacker News: yldreaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yldreaderHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:37:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by yldreader in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"]]>The entire concept of skeuomorphism on computers is nonsensical. A monitor has a default blank grey or black appearance. EVERYTHING else is skeuomorphic, including the ugly 'modern' color rectangles the people who use this word want to exempt.

]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:08:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111609yldreaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111609https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111609<![CDATA[New comment by yldreader in "Ask HN: How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?"]]>Another vote for LibraryThing.com and a barcode reader or smartphone. I scanned in ~1100 books, and only ran into 15-20 without ISBNs. All but 3-4 of those were easily input by title. But I like it because its very easy to keep up, and isn't a moneygrubbing advertising/tracking site like Goodreads. The phone app is very handy when wandering in bookstores-- easy to check if you own such and such a title.

]]>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:34:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609579yldreaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609579