sodimel

This is a really great article! It show some simple tools calls and is still very small (no long wall of text to read). Thank you!

I'm working on something from a crappy laptop, those numbers from jev can totally be matched:

    Local Latency: 0.1813 seconds

I was in awe when I discovered this, and decided to apply this simple rule to the help text of a small command line tool I was working on: https://git.bitmycode.com/sodimel/n#help

Even the favicon is great!

Thank you for this tool!

We've just used it to embed the entire django doc + our private knowledge base, allowing us to search in the 2 sources instantly!

(I may also add that I'm using synthwave 84' in vscode, which adds neon effects on my code using text-shadow)

My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...

If I understood it right, the app allows you to group links by categories (shelves), and share those categories pages?

I haven't found any information about search, tagging, descriptions, saving content. Are those also available features?

Here's something I wrote in 2021:

> Today, there's ~30 times more js than html on homepages of websites (from a list of websites from 5 years ago).

It seems that this number only go up.

That's a nice project!

I searched a few comments I agreed using the "Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719253) and I'm pleased to see some green comments here and there :)

I also made 2 QoL [fire|grease]monkey extensions for hn:

- display favicons of sites next to links: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/6d9dc3a032c17ebcd94d...

- display karma next to usernames: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/289503b4033a788df91f...

Didn't knew that sudo had a website with a... somewhat interesting logo: https://www.sudo.ws/

That's a nice project, I'm interested to take a look at the source code if you publish it!

https://l3m.in - Main website, (for now) in french

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ - Small rants in txt (fr & english content)

https://links.l3m.in/en/ - List of saved interesting links

Trying to rebuild my website (php mvc built a decade ago) using Django. I want to be able to update any page content, upload and display images, have multiple blog instances. I do a lot of django-cms by day, but it's too much for a small personal website, so I started to create a (tiny, foss) CMS based on Django, django-prose-editor for the content, and some new apps (for now, Page & Blog).

The site isn't even online, but for now I'm starting to think about the next steps (seo-related things to implement, generalize app functions to handle not only blog but other (hypothetical) apps as well, improve code quality and repo readability, separate apps from the website so anyone can add them to their django website if they want to). It's a lot of work for something no one will ever use, but I must at least try to make it clean and discoverable :)

I, too, am selfhosting some projects on an old computer. And the fact that you can "hear internet" (with the fans going on) is really cool (unless you're trying to sleep while being scrapped).

There is in fact an effort to make a desktop application!

Source (& releases): https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop

Topic on penpot forum: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-desktop-road-to-1-0/72...

Oh I suscribed to a bot on the fediverse that posts screenshots from this live!

Here's the url: https://puntarella.party/@NamibDesertBot

+1 - Weasyprint is an excellent tool to make pdf from html content, and we're using it at work (with django) to export various documents.

There are already a lot of initiatives following this logic (like the small web movement, the indieweb, gemini/gopher protocols...), but the problem here is that people are using the web, not those projects. Even the fediverse is growing slowly, while it's using the web.

Yeah the AI solve a problem created by the company that made the AI because their algorithms are biased to display websites containing content written for them instead of content written for humans :/

> Personal experience however shows me that when I look at a recipe site I will first have to skip through the entire backstory to the recipe and then try to parse it inbetween annoying ads in a bloated wordpress page

That's when money comes into view. People were putting time and effort to offer something for free, then some companies told them they could actually earn money from their content. So they put on ads because who don't like some money for already-done work?

Then the same companies told them that they will make less money, and if they wanted to still earn the same amount as before, they will need to put more ads, and to have more visits (so invest heavily in seo).

Those people had already organized themselves (or stopped updating their websites), and had created companies to handle money generated from their websites. In order to keep the companies sustainable, they needed to add more ads on the websites.

Then some people thought that maybe they could buy the companies making the recipes website, and put a bunch more ads to earn even more money.

I think you're thinking about those websites owned by big companies whose only goal is to make money, but author is writing about real websites made by real people who don't show ads on websites they made because they care about their visitors, and not about making money.

It seems to send the data to google's servers.

> Note: On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

You can learn more about weasyprint on their website (https://weasyprint.org/ ). It's an open source Python package that can be launched using cli or from Python code. It uses pypdf, which is "pydyf is a low-level PDF generator written in Python and based on PDF specification 1.7" (from their README at https://github.com/CourtBouillon/pydyf ).

We generate pdf files using weasyprint (convert html+css into cool pdf files), I think tools like this are very valuable and practical for building higher-level pdf-generators tools.

Very surprised to learn that Guido van Rossum worked on Amoeba!

How sad, this project seemed very interesting, and their blog posts explaining what they did were incredible.

I had the same idea a few years ago. Would be really great.

Absolutely, I created this txt blog to prove a point to a friend that you can get started to blogging in seconds instead of minutes if you really wanted to.

Yes, although no link points to it :)

Here's the file:

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/createfile.sh

I use it like this:

    ./createfile.sh file_name  # without the extension!

I then edit the file using vim, save it, and it's published :)

(the three first bytes the bash script write to the txt file is the BOM, used by the browser to know that it's dealing with utf-8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)

You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description).

I posted a txt "blog" post just a few hours ago just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt

And here's a list of all the blog posts: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/