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coryk135on A receipt printer cured my procrastination

Instead of crumpling, put a fun sticker on the task to mark it complete!

You could also put the task on a spike like they do in restaurants with signed receipts.

I was thinking about that. It sounds like a great setting for a story but I felt like I’d seen it before and I guess this is why.

coryk135on Steam Networks

This part really caught my attention:

> in 1962, the anthracite seam under Centralia, PA – 25 miles to the west of Lehigh County – caught on fire and is still burning today.)

That’s crazy to think that for over 60 years there’s been an underground coal mine on fire. I wonder how long the mines will burn for. The pictures on Google are quite interesting.

coryk135on I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

I found a way to disable marketing notifications but it was buried in their menus. Settings > Privacy > Notifications. Definitely shouldn't be under privacy, that makes no sense.

coryk135on Those HTML attributes you never use

This is a very useful attribute if you generate base64 encoded images and need to create download links that give the files unique names.

coryk135on Prince of Persia in JavaScript

How do you unpause the game? Hiding the tool bar in Safari on iOS pauses the game but there's no way to unpause...