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cwmartin

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Makerspace educator in Ohio

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cwmartin··on Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
That is very similar to the Taskpaper syntax if you end up wanting some additional tooling in the future.

https://www.taskpaper.com

cwmartin··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
Thanks!
cwmartin··on I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack
It looks like the linked post may have been taken down. There is a mirror here https://web.archive.org/web/20210513030656/https://cyberlaw.....
cwmartin··on A URL Lengthener
Related: The longest valid domain name possible http://a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.oo.pp.qqq.rrrr.ssssss.ttt...
cwmartin··on Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
This feels like it’s in the same family as straw.page[1]. Both are a really refreshing break from homogeneous minimalist web design that’s taken hold over the past few years.

[1]: https://straw.page/start / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124581

cwmartin··on Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything
You’re probably thinking about Hey https://www.hey.com. The issue I see with it is that it goes beyond a refreshed interface and breaks IMAP compatibility.
cwmartin··on Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
Archive link since the original appears to be down right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20210510151205/https://www.dprev...
cwmartin··on Version 7.6 for Ida Freeware
> For the first time, IDA Freeware ships with a cloud-based, free decompiler for x64 binaries (the decompiler requires an internet connection, and lacks some of the more advanced features that the commercial decompiler provides.)

It's interesting to see that they are opening up the decompiler to free users. It seems as though competition from Ghidra has pushed them to reconsider some of their previous decisions.

cwmartin··on Ask HN: What should I build with my GPT 3 beta API access?
Gwern has an extremely detailed article that should provide a lot of inspiration. https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3.
cwmartin··on Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
This sounds like it could be an incredibly useful feature in IDEs. It reminds me of the timeline in Fusion 360 [0] which allows you to scroll back through time, make a change to a feature in ‘past’, and then jump back to the present state of the project.

[0]: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/wp-content...

cwmartin··on 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
I believe they mean the lawyer hotlinked [1] their image so that every visitor to the lawyer’s page would result in an image download from their server.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

cwmartin··on Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
I heard about this from another recent HN thread https://www.mobiussync.com however I haven’t had a chance to try it yet so I can’t attest to its quality.
cwmartin··on FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks
> Is the art more interesting to look about than to talk about?

That is an interesting perspective. I have always judged art by its aesthetics and its ability to elicit thought / conversation equally.

In my view art becomes shallow when it is purely visually appealing with no conceptual backing or purely conceptual with uninteresting visual components.

cwmartin··on Show HN: Building Pastebin for text using Nginx and Lua
I found this recently https://topaz.github.io/paste/ where the entirety of the paste is stored base64 encoded in the URL.
cwmartin··on Tiny Tiny RSS
I’ve been using Miniflux for the past couple of months and I’ve been very happy with it so far https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux
cwmartin··on Tiny websites are great
https://glitch.com is also excellent. I’ve been using it to teach a website development workshop to 10-15 year olds and it’s the most intuitive interface I’ve found so far for those with no prior experience with HTML/CSS/JS.
cwmartin··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
That seems like the idea behind the ActivityPub protocol that Mastodon and other similar social media platforms are based around.
cwmartin··on M for Mastodon: A new logo and v1.5
The largest difference to me is Mastodon's 500 character limit. It leads to conversations that feel much more nuanced compared to Twitter.