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bojle··on Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)
Really like this, thanks for making it!

It appears that rendering for code blocks (```) is still not implemented (see here https://gitclassic.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/100045).

Would love to see this grow

bojle··on Good software knows when to stop
A great example of good software with this definition is bspwm. I've been using it for 7 years now, it's as complete as a software can get.
bojle··on Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
I think the greater issue here is the possibility of the entire article being AI slop and the 'doomed' direction in which we are heading where reputed sources of information are churning out slop.
bojle··on Laptops with Stickers
This one [1] is quite tasteful. I looked at it for a good minute.

[1] https://devlids.com/lids/the-binh

bojle··on This Month in Ladybird – October 2025
I try to read blogs and hackernews on ladybird. Ofcourse it crashes sometimes but at the moment its pretty adequate for basic html+css.
bojle··on Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT
>Oh, and “NEW!” animated GIFs between the three items.

That's gotta be the second most popular web design quirk. Haha

bojle··on Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT
marquee is used religiously by some official Indian websites [1]. It's the primary mechanism they use to deliver news or updates on the websites.

[1] For example: https://www.nagpuruniversity.ac.in/

bojle··on Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
Couldn't find 12 Angry Men on it :(
bojle··on My first contribution to Linux
I am doing the same but with LLVM. For starters, I filtered issues with the "good first issue" label and found something to work on [1]. It took 2 months in review and about a month to research and write the code. Finally got merged yesterday. I am writing about it so that when someone else bumps into the same problem, they hopefully take 1 hour instead of 1 month. Compilers, like the kernel, are a lot of fun!

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/154914

bojle··on Clavier: An FPGA-based mechanical keyboard with USB hub and comms interfaces
Going by the task at hand, registering keystrokes pressed by a human, USB 3 is also not quite needed.
bojle··on Search the Web Before AI
Pretty cool. A drawback of such a hard filter is we also lose all the human generated content posted after Nov 2022. I am no expert in this but a ad-block like list based filter but for AI generated content may work for this or dare I say, an AI-based filter but alas.
bojle··on Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler
Equality saturation (something that luminal uses at its core) is a topic for hardware synthesis and verification too. Something like dynamic hardware generation (instead of kernel generation). For example, see this thesis [1] by Samuel Coward of Imperial.

[1] https://samuelcoward.co.uk/assets/pdf/Thesis_Imperial.pdf

bojle··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I found todo apps to be clunky and bloated. I decided to use github issues (of a private repository) as my notes. I even made a little script around it (via gh-cli) to edit it from the command line [1]. I don't update TODO very often from my phone, but in case I want to, I use the Github mobile app. I am finally content with this solution (although I don't know for how long).

[1] https://github.com/bojle/note.py

bojle··on Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
I like the fact that some words are there from the very beginning.