doodpants

After installing bash via MacPorts, it works for me. All except #3 cutesaver, which gives an infinite loop of:

  cutesaver.sh: line 55: shuf: command not found

> ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE.

Zed is the new emacs?

I've been using Dvorak for 24 years. 99% of the time I'm using my own machines, so it's fine. For the other 1% I can hunt-and-peck QWERTY well enough.

"By clicking on the image, an interactive demonstration of the Tcl/Tk application is launched using CloudTk."

No it isn't; I just get an empty frame with a close button. This is consistent on multiple browsers/platforms.

Though it would be pronounced vehrt-while.

It made me feel dumb when I couldn't even understand the tl;dr at the top.

Sure, I'd accept that for now.

Yes, I understand that. Let me play the game as much as I want without enforced delays, without having to pay a recurring subscription price. I'll gladly pay a one-time cost for that.

Wow, the original DropZap was one of my favorite iOS games ever! I was able to keep playing it for years after the final release, because I didn't upgrade my phone for a long time. By the time I stopped playing I was #1 or #2 on most of the leaderboards. I definitely have to check this new one out...

[Announcer: Thirty minutes later]

...subscription pricing only? Automatic delete. :-( If there were a one-time purchase option of, say, $10, I'd be willing to pay it.

My favorite Asteroids clone was a game for the Macintosh in the 90s that featured hemispherical rocks, titled "HemiRoids".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Llp_jHv1c

I miss the days of Kaleidoscope. I even created a couple of themes myself; the one I'm proudest of is Crayon OS: https://macthemes.garden/themes/a83c1d81e770-crayon-os/

> Flowcode is a visual programming platform that tries to combine the best of both worlds (code and visual). Over the years I found myself repeatedly drawing architectures and logic. It was always my dream to just press “run” instead of having to write them in code afterwards. But none of the visual tools I found were flexible and transparent enough for building real products.

Sounds intriguing! ...so why doesn't the website actually say any of this?

When a person visits the site, the only things they can do are log in, sign up, or "get started", without any indication of what they're even getting started with. Can I please know what the product/service is before I have to decide whether I want to try it out?

From the last paragraph of the article, it's availabile in Microsoft Office. It seems that they're not distributing it separately.

Agreed; needs a tutorial.

Off topic, but now I want a screen saver of the animation at the top of the article...

How come after you roll but before you move, the Strokes value at the top shows the current roll value instead of the stroke count? Is this a bug?

To be fair, the curl license doesn't mention "curl" anywhere in it. It seems reasonable for someone to interpret "this software" as referring to the software product that includes the license.

Link?

Neat, but the "Diffictulty" slider is a bit of a misnomer, IMHO. Puzzles with more pieces just take longer. I'm not sure what would be a better label, though. (If I were feeling uncharitable, I would propose "Tedium", or perhaps "Carpal Tunnel Risk" :-)

I wonder if there might be a way of changing the difficulty without changing the number of pieces? Like maybe putting gridlines between the pieces, so that you can't actually see the seamless connection between two correctly-oriented pieces?

This article contains links to https://ss64.com/ , which is an amazing resource that I wish I'd known about sooner!

Peeve of mine: blog posts that lack a date stamp. The only date appearing anywhere in the article is at the bottom, where it says "Last modified: August 29, 2024." So for all I knew it was a brand new post, until this comment. How old is it actually?

It seems that the Clay website (https://www.nicbarker.com/clay) can't be scrolled via keyboard.

Interesting choice; I would have expected Ode to Joy, or Hallelujah Chorus.

Genuinely curious as to why this was submitted to HN, and even more so why it made it to the front page. Was it written by an AI, and is being showcased as an example of such? As a good example, or a poor one, in terms of resulting quality?

Apparently so.

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/airpods-caused-permanent-hea...

As is the "numerology and astrology" quote by Stan Kelly-Bootle.

"But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned."

...except by every single dog or cat owner ever.

Seriously, I've never understood how anyone could interact with or observe animals for any length of time and not perceive obvious signs of conciousness.

I assume that those are placeholders for characters not yet present in the font?

As someone who first learned to program in the early 80's, C# is far from my first language. But it is my favorite as well!

Well, it's not really about the UX. My purpose for using a feed aggregator is to keep up with blogs that I want to read, not to replace the sites on which I read them.