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don_searchcrafton eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

Pretty sloppy. Lots of folks updating their cert packages this week because of this.

don_searchcrafton Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important

I love Tattered Cover but to be fair the folks that bought it in 2020 ran it into the ground. It was barely limping along, you'd go in and because of their debt issues they weren't stocking the shelves so you'd be pressed to find what you were there for.

don_searchcrafton Humans welcome (bots must wear name tags)

Good policy IMO. There have been a flood of AI written posts on Reddit

don_searchcrafton Fyrox Game Engine 1.0.0

I have a few game ideas that I've been sitting on, excited to try out Fyrox.

don_searchcrafton Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance

Agree. web components are not a 1 to 1 replacement for a component based framework. There was a lot of promise but the implementation is lacking.

don_searchcrafton Show HN: Context Lens: Devtools for your agent context

Pretty interesting to see how widely the token use differs across the models for the same task.

don_searchcrafton Google Antigravity

If you work in a team there are some pretty good remote collaboration tooling built into Zed.

don_searchcrafton Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript

These TC39 proposals take way too long to get approved and implemented.

don_searchcrafton Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

Glad they reversed but they could have saved themselves those losses if they had an understanding of what their customers wanted. Anyone putting together a NAS will want full control over the drive selection.

don_searchcrafton Tcl-Lang Showcase

I used Tcl a lot early in my career, building sites for the web using Vignette StoryServer as well as AOLServer. It powered a lot of the early 2000s web.

don_searchcrafton Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

This is pretty sweet, nice job. i dig the mapping visualization.

don_searchcrafton The GitHub website is slow on Safari

The diff view on large PRs is pretty much unusable on all browsers.

don_searchcrafton Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

Its certainly beautiful to look at but the search capability itself is not very good.

don_searchcrafton VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]

I wish I never got rid of my VCR and tapes.

don_searchcrafton Introduction to AT Protocol

Would love for more platforms to embrace the AT protocol.

don_searchcrafton Search all text in New York City

There are definitely some mistakes with the OCR, seeing quite a few instances of OPEN being mistranslated as OBEY

don_searchcrafton We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

I love 99% of what Ghostty brings to the table as a terminal replacement but the copy / paste issues with it are incredibly frustrating and I run into them almost daily.

don_searchcrafton The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

100% agree with Carmack. There was a craft in writing software that I feel has been lost with access to inexpensive memory and compute. Programmers can be inefficient because they have all that extra headroom to do so which just contributes to the cycle of needing better hardware.