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Re:Regex visualized as 3D marble run on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:19AM (#50140867)
Now I have 3 problems
Re:Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:25PM (#50108929)
We ain't wealthy
Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:02PM (#50045965)
I hope optimization comes back into fashion
Re:Google Playground: Create and play custom games on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:06PM (#49998795)
Reloads the same page for me
Re:System-level ad-blocking in Android on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:01PM (#49984740)
Blockada old version.

And then add lists.

And add your own constantly when they miss

I had no idea what an enlarger was.
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:31PM (#49958616)
Intellisense?

Was that there?

They need to remove that one frame
Re:Commit description as a thinking tool on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:11PM (#49913032)
BDD. Absolutely changed my world
Unrelated.

But if you have a spare phone with your account on, e.g. kids or whatever

You can install Authenticator and get codes, even if the other phones need biometrics.

"But it's not really relevant" correct
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:40PM (#49484559)
I worked in hotel industry, same deal.

Power users would complain within hours

Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:16PM (#49484342)
I used to do loads of accessibility testing with my sites.

I was fired because I did too much once

Make it work, make it fast, refactor
Re:What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:42PM (#49304933)
Bollocks.

Probably is doing heavy lifting here

First unicode hostname I've seen?
Re:GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:49PM (#48563344)
Google Authenticator works?
I would never dare put that in production
Re:What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:47AM (#48334823)
I had my Tools disk and my MSDOS gaming boot disk, tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Those were the best of times.

Little me didn't know that was the gateway drug to coding.

"Only OS" is the caveat here.
Re:Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:45PM (#48329741)
Exactly but writing to serve his audience
Is this European Union related?
Re:DOS Zone on Thursday May 21, 2026 @04:46PM (#48228685)
You may be in the wrong place
In a previous life, I would have loved this.
Re:ASCII by Jason Scott on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:33PM (#48164723)
Met Jason Scott.

Absolutely uniquely good person.

Re:Why scientists are nervous about fungi on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:20PM (#47820383)
The last of us
Re:The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:12PM (#47786552)
My wife is a journalist and has always loved them.

Now she's been accused of using AI for her pieces.

Oh well.

Re:How do Wake-On-LAN works on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:56PM (#47784393)
Don't be Reddit

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