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Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:05AM (#49726399)
we’ve been using Datadome at work for this because it’s nice to get someone else to think about the constant bot cat and mouse, and we all benefit from rules and fixes created from other client data. Not an ad- that service is eye watering expensive but I think it makes sense as something to offload.
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:27AM (#49535921)
that’s the first example I’ve seen these last year so that makes sense to me about jj having better commit management.

I rebase a lot using Fork (git gui) and it’s really easy to drag and drop reorder commits, rename, apply as fixups or squash in. I can see how jj makes sense if you’re in the command line, though. And splitting changes from commits in git is really annoying, but it only comes up once in a blue moon for me.

Re:Show HN: Ableton Live MCP on Sunday May 03, 2026 @03:36PM (#48000554)
is this using M4L or the LOM ?
In web dev, writing load tests and user journey scripts has become a lot easier and something where the end result is more important than the code flavor, compared to maintainable site feature code.

Turn on persist logs in the dev tools network tab; go through as much as the flow as possible; filter out domains that aren’t your site: google, facebook, external api calls; download the .har for all of whats left; convert har into a k6 script using a library, or dump that into an llm to convert it to their newer browser script and point the llm at their docs; edit it to be dynamic so you can test paths from different product pages/types, and scrape and enter proper guids, etc.

On the flip side we’re seeing a lot more bot traffic likely due to bad actors doing this too, but by writing these tests you begin to see what calls cause load and be proactive.

Re:A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:40PM (#46394852)
it’s usually space dash dash space across most word processors.

I picked up the habit a couple years ago of just undoing the autocorrect to an em dash and leaving it as two dashes to avoid accusations -- now it’s stuck with me

Re:Helm v4.0.0 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:30AM (#45914666)
I was also confused by the title. Off topic but Vital is the newer wavetable synth by the maker of the Helm synth, Matt Tytel. The synth Helm is a really good foss subtractive synth but not wavetable