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TechSquidTVon Ask HN: Share your personal website

I have so many things to write about but I rarely ever finish a post.

This would also be a great time to share my RSS app. https://tuvix.app/

TechSquidTVon Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text

Absolutely, but usually when working with a bespoke format for optimization, it's paired with an LLM specifically trained on that format.

TechSquidTVon “Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders

Has to be a condition of some kind

TechSquidTVon Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

Government enacted shut down due to protests. I'd like to hear more about how they actually do this. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-cutting-internet-amid-dead...

TechSquidTVon Vietnam bans unskippable ads

When crypto was genuinely new, and I was young, I had hope that one day we might actually embrace micropayments. Turns out I was not only young, but stupid.

TechSquidTVon All Delisted Steam Games

Idk how common it is anymore, but one game (which seems to be missing from this list) I know was removed from Steam after the early access launch from a Kickstarter campaign. The developers essentially quickly ghosted the game after the EA, considering the Kickstarter complete and taking their money. It was seen as a pretty big scandal in the early days when we had some standards.

TechSquidTVon All Delisted Steam Games

It's missing The Stomping Land

TechSquidTVon GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

The unfortunate or fortunate reality of network effects also means Steam is usually best suited to preserve content that might otherwise be lost. Both in terms of literally holding the data for longer than the general public (including workshop files), but also by keeping communities active and alive.

TechSquidTVon Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature

Summarizing text can very easily be done by local AI. Low powered, and free. for this type of task, there is essentially no reason to pay.

TechSquidTVon The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

I remember when the video came out. What, 2-3 years ago? What an event.

TechSquidTVon Backing up Spotify

The metadata is gold, but I was immediately curious why why wouldnt go for Tidal first. Though what ever they have on Spotify I think is unique.

TechSquidTVon Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?

I hadn't considered sub organization directories. Smart. I may implment that.

TechSquidTVon Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

I recently had a great time developing on ESP-32 directly in VSCode/Cursor and using the Arduino CLI. I believe very similar in concept to Platformio. I've always hated being limited to the Arduino IDE.

TechSquidTVon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

An RSS aggregator app. Open source, self-hostable, and I'm running a free hosted instance at the moment. This is the first time I have ever gotten to the stage of having live users in a prod environment for my own apps. Pretty cool stuff.

https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Tuvix-RSS

TechSquidTVon Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

No one wants HDMI. No one.

TechSquidTVon Making RSS More Fun

I had just shared my new RSS app the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134023

I didn't get any traction here, but on Lemmy there was a decent discussion about the issues with discovering RSS feeds. They would surely love this.

TechSquidTVon SmartTube Compromised

Happy YouTube Premium customer here

TechSquidTVon After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline

2011 was a huge year for tech/devops. I feel like so much of what we do now started right then for some reason.

TechSquidTVon After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline

I can not believe blogspot is still alive. I just went there and it auto-signed me in via my Google account to "Blogger" where there are some posts from Google's blogspot. The last post was in 2020 https://blogger.googleblog.com/

TechSquidTVon Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

It's definitely already true for me, personally.

TechSquidTVon Blender 5.0

Last time I checked, CAD Sketcher appeared to be a little dead.

TechSquidTVon Hermes – A self-hosted video downloader for 1000 sites

Hey I'm the maintainer of this. Thanks for sharing! How did you find it?

TechSquidTVon Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

Nothing about your response changes the fact you appear to just be upset that you can't get anything you want for free and that content creators deserve to be paid.

TechSquidTVon Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

adblocking "users" are not Youtube's users. What do you mean blocking ads has no bearing on their service? It sounds like you are saying user experience is "I should get this for free".

TechSquidTVon Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck

check out my Steam Deck, so portable.

TechSquidTVon How I use every Claude Code feature

I just started developing self-hosted services largely with AI.

It wasn't possible before for me to do any of this at this kind of scale. Before, getting stuck on a bug could mean hours, days, or maybe even weeks of debugging. I never made the kind of progress I wanted before.

Many of the things I want, do already exist, but are often older, not as efficient or flexible as they could be, or just plain _look_ dated.

But now I can pump out react/shadcn frontends easily, generate apis, and get going relatively quickly. It's still not pure magic. I'm still hitting issues and such, but they are not these demotivating, project-ending, roadblocks anymore.

I can now move at a speed that matches the ideas I have.

I am giving up something to achieve that, by allowing AI to take control so much, but it's a trade that seems worth it.

TechSquidTVon Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands

Ya you know the answer to that. Remember there are between 1 and 3 MILLION Muslim detainees in the Xinjiang internment camps in China.

TechSquidTVon Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games

I have been hunting for a lost ROM for years. I even may have spoken to someone who has a copy.

https://lostpixellore.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-static-...

TechSquidTVon Affinity Studio now free

OH. I was very confused. Ya that is maybe a lawsuit.

TechSquidTVon The human only public license

This was my favorite fallacy of Web3. "But look I have proof the government stole from me!", man you think they care?