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BSewardon Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

See also the official blog post ( http://blog.reddit.com/2008/06/reddit-goes-open-source.html ) and code repository ( http://code.reddit.com/ )

BSewardon vNES FAQ

The author pooh-poohs CSS, and pooh-poohs bulky sites, but the table-heavy pages on the site have many repeated, wasteful inline styling tags. Some trivial, cross-compatible CSS would streamline the site further (admittedly, down from almost never more than 40kB HTML, but streamlining is streamlining).

That said, I was jonesing for Zelda seriously less than 10 minutes ago, so he can do whatever he wants for so long as he makes getting my fix possible.

BSewardon Ask HN: Most Useful Bookmarklet?

I find http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Design Design to be really handy when I'm making sure text line cadence is right. It's handy all around for design: powerful grid, rulers, measuring, and targeting tools.

http://westciv.com/xray/ XRAY keeps a spot on my bookmark bar. It's an HTML-traversing bookmarklet that lets me figure what's going on with underlying HTML and positioning CSS without leaving the page. It's been somewhat marginalized since Safari's Web Inspector started rocking so hard.

They; InstaPaper (also great); and Delicious/Facebook/Yahoo Bookmarks share/post bookmarklets are what currently dominate my bookmark bar.

BSewardon Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

I've put together a Yahoo Pipes mashup that filters TechCrunch stories. It's accessible at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1ML... ; you should be trivially able to look at its source and modify it to filter whatever sites you don't need. Easy and fun.

You should be able to subscribe to the RSS directly at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1MLe...

BSewardon Ask YC: domain name suffixes? (e.g. fooapp, foohq, getfoo)

They bought delicious.com a while ago, and their new version will eschew their trademark dots entirely (another good example of a company moving to a 'better' domain once they've established themselves).

BSewardon SQL Buddy - Attractive, in-progress, just-released PHPMyAdmin alternative

I'm not affiliated with this project, just caught my eye.

It's not a full-fledged PHPMyAdmin alternative (yet). Interface seems non-intimidating and immediately usable, so for that it might be handy for basic MySQL needs.

Not open source. But free for non-commercial use, $25 otherwise. If it inspires an open source MySQL GUI to think critically about UX then that would be just great.

BSewardon Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

I didn't downmod you (nor can I, heh), but...

PDFs don't bother me at all. Years ago I would occasionally accidentally click on one and be filled with dread and loathing as the Adobe Reader plugin slugged to life, but that was a long time ago. I use Safari's PDF reader now, which does what and (more importantly) behaves like I expect it to.

Scribd documents don't behave like I expect them to. Pressing down arrow scrolls further than I expect it to, mousescroll is cadenced differently (and jumps around), and I can't press space to page down.

Scribd is definitely a solution to some problems, but—for me—reading PDFs is not one of them.