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Re:A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:45AM (#48817792)
Yes, there is my friend. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
I've learned it a month ago and couldn't be happier.
Re:The Emacsification of Software
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:10PM (#48126109)
Not OP:
- One shotted script that I schedule through cron that sends me a message when a new one piece manga chapter releases.
- Also a simple script that moves my cursor one pixel every 30 seconds. Cannot disclose why I need this.
Re:Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:29AM (#45991906)
This used to happen to me. But there was a time I just had two different drives. With different OS in it and used the bios selector to boot what I wanted
Re:I made a website that makes you cry
on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:52AM (#44757671)
I cry every time I see the movie Coco. I've found that things that have to do with grand parents makes me cry the most. I've losed my grandfather on covid's because they stopped treating him to focus on younger people.
Re:Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:04AM (#44388136)
Oh boy! This reminded me of one of my worst tech leads. He pushed secret tokens to github. When I asked in the team meeting why would we do this instead of using secrets manager, the response was: "These are private respos. Also we signed an NDA before joining the company"
Re:Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @01:00PM (#23908564)
I once read about devs that get bored with long projects and thrill at starting new things, and the other kind that doesn't want to take new projects until the one that she/he is working on is "finished".
Maybe you are the first kind and that's why you are enjoying the unexpected situations you face giving technical support.
You can code locally, push to a repository, and have the changes almost instantly on your server ready to be run.
Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:22AM (#22465098)
Just a little note on using Facebook for the calendar. That was also an excuse for me to not deleting Facebook, but I imported the calendar to Google.
It's been a year and I don't miss any of it.
Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane acti...
on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:38AM (#22347574)
Yup. I did this with a local Android app, that tells you the gps location of a public bus.
I sniffed the http packets, found the requests i needed and made a python script that pinged me at slack when my bus was 5 minutes from my bus stop. Useful when I worked at night.