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Re:Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:31AM (#22684314)
Why not use borg? With fusemount i can mount a snapshot and navigate/restore the files. It's very convenient.
Emacs all the way. With orgmode, org-tables.

It will take a while, especially if you start out with emacs, but it is very rewarding. Some day I'll try ledger-mode and maybe up my level even further.

TLDR: Try Emacs/Orgmode with dynamic tables

Re:The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:06AM (#19190120)
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by "Daniel Kahneman" is a great book on these topics. There is a lot of info on how the mind can be tricked. I really recommend it.
I also thougth about this problem. Current playlist implementations are seriously lacking when you move your library. I have some shell scripts here that just replace parts of the path in the playlists.

I looked at your playlist format specs, why do you use floats? I'm currently coding on a GO audioserver and save time intervals as Nanoseconds (time.Duration). This makes more sense to me, as floats may behave badly in some contexts.

It is a great book I'd say.
Re:Show HN: 10 Best Web Animations on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:40PM (#14948856)
I also tried to get my feet wet in SVG animation. Made with inkscape and animated in GSAP.

https://happy-halloween.alfred-eichenseher.de/ (Halloween animation - click on the ghost button in the middle of the page)

Re:The Future of the Word Processor (2016) on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:44PM (#14517049)
If only we had a decent way to print those html pages to pdf. But It seems like the print-css is kind of neglected. The stuff barely is doing what it should(page-break and friends).

Neither can you really use min-height=20mm. A pity. And the nicer pdf creators (weasyprint) don't understand the new css rules like flexbox or grid.

So we are still stuck. No easy way to force a footer to the end of a printed page via css.

Re:Piskel – A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:00AM (#13540349)
So nice, when you just made a mistake and a simple ctrl+z just works right out of the box. And great UI. Gonna look more into it later.
Re:RogueBots on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:13AM (#13035037)
how is this not considered spam? Serious question. This is just a marketing website trying to sell stuff.
Re:Post Virtual Reality Sadness on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:39AM (#12964996)
do you know why? Because you were there too. So was I.