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Re:Let Me Pay for Firefox
on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:08PM (#44562583)
I willingly pay $5/month for Kagi. I'd willingly pay $5/month for Firefox.
Re:Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @11:52AM (#39885341)
Here's a video that demonstrates it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzNuhgY_9A
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:53PM (#36620035)
https://michaelscepaniak.com
I've been blogging since 2008 (but very inconsistently) about sustainability, software development, diet & exercise, entrepreneurship, travel, finance, and other stuff.
Primitive Warfare Among the Natives of Western Alaska [pdf]
Zapping ‘Zombies’ of Aging
When are expired drugs truly expired?
Celebrate National Moth Week
Re:My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn
on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:48PM (#32112651)
I suppose. But, I would think the charge/debit would just be declined.
My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn
I just saw my (large-ish US-based) bank add the following language to my account agreement:> After your Account is closed, we may temporarily reopen your Account to resolve a dispute concerning the Account, or to accept a debit or credit to your Account, even if doing so results in your Account becoming overdrawn.Feels like a fee-grab.
Workers vote to form first Apple store union in the US
A New Plan for the Strong Towns Movement
Re:I'm retiring from the engineering profession
on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:57PM (#31551180)
> So, less suburbs and more what?
Sprawling, automobile-centric development enforced by exclusionary zoning has been the prevailing land-use model in the US and Canada for so long (starting soon after the close of WWII) that few people alive today know anything different.
Streetcar suburbs (even with the streetcars now long gone) are a model of development that Strong Towns endorses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/27/in-praise-of-s...
Re:Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint
on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:37PM (#31170509)
For a recent personal project, I wanted to format the generated HTML. My first stab at it used Prettier. But, I was very underwhelmed with the processing speed. I then gave js-beautify[1] a try, which I found to be much, much faster.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:59AM (#30990631)
I recently migrated from Evernote to Joplin. This was a concern for me, as well. However, I got past it. This isn't a case of "lock in". Even if Joplin loses mindshare and stops being actively maintained, I know that I'll always have a version available (even if only locally on my desktop, seeing as how I install it manually) that I can use to export to plain, raw Markdown files. And, with them, I can migrate to Obsidian or whatever comes into vogue.
Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately ...
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @06:47PM (#30816043)
I've been drinking raw milk for a little more than a year now. Before then, I had never had a lick of it. In fact, I hadn't drank any milk before that point for years. I haven't experienced any issues. I feel very fortunate that I'm close enough to the Pennsylvania (USA) state line to buy it. I use a lot of it to make fermented milk kefir, which I then add to store-bought heavy cream to make crème fraîche.
Prior to introducing raw milk (and the downstream products) into my diet, I was eating a lot of avocados. But, I wanted to move toward eating more seasonal, local, and ancestral foods. My ancestry is Polish/German. I think this may partly explain why it works well for my system.
When I told a buddy of mine about this change, he asked me why all milk isn't raw. I said "Well, according to the CDC, drinking it will kill you."
Re:Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the ADA
on Saturday March 19, 2022 @11:30AM (#30734553)
In my 20+ years of professional web-based software development, mostly in the commercial space, accessibility was never made a requirement. This spanned more than a half dozen clients/companies and more than a dozen projects/teams. Fast forward to last year when I re-platformed my personal blog [1]. During that effort, I decided to make it accessible. It was my first time every really delving into the a11y space.
Despite the time warranted, I found that effort to be interesting, challenging, and worthwhile. And I think it was/is the right thing to do. This despite my blog getting a low amount of traffic and nobody ever requesting that I make it accessible.
As an online creator, I have the ability and privilege to make my (small) online corner of the world a better place. For me to simply ignore the needs of those who are less able seems wrong.
Ask HN: First TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL?
What was the first mainstream TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL? For me, I think it was a commercial for Oracle during a (NFL) Superbowl. I don't remember the year.
The Long Long Covid Post
Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:45PM (#30306781)
While the study appears to be based on VA data, I don't see anything about it being based on 60-year-olds.
Giving to Freely Given Software – The How
Giving to Freely Given Software – The Why
Re:High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching
on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:57AM (#29796942)
If you are interested in taking action, consider donating to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund - https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/
Buying directly from farmers is also good. But, those farmers are constantly being unfairly harassed by regulators.
Re:The gift of it's your problem now
on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:05AM (#29757973)
> Paying for gifts... does not work.
When the context is friends/family exchanging gifts, I agree. But, given the context of the author's argument (open-source software), I disagree. When I pay for (sponsor) open-source software, I'm doing so because I want to encourage the relevant author(s) to continue applying their talents for the betterment of both myself and the world at large. I'm not paying for something I requested of them, nor am I telling them what to build going forward. If I knew a person who spent some of their free time helping relieve homelessness in some way, I'd be inclined to sponsor them in the same fashion.