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forgotmypw77··on Ask HN: Do you have a personal wiki?
store in text files

hash tags for organizing

web based simple interface

sqlite for quick querying

generate static html for sharing

forgotmypw77··on Always Be Quitting
Anything comes to mind i find interesting, especially tech things. I try for knowing their stack and internals and methodology well by the time i,m leaving.
forgotmypw77··on Always Be Quitting
I've learned a lot from asking questions at interviews. My approach is to ask as many questions as them.
forgotmypw77··on “Stories” Don’t Tell a Story: Good Sprint Planning Uses Milestones
>A team of even adequate--not great, just adequate--people working together will have these conversations independently.

And nobody else will know about them.

forgotmypw77··on Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover
Yes, it does make me think of a child sitting in a sandbox, claiming it as ,,mine,, without knowing the first thing about how it came to be.
forgotmypw77··on Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
out of many places i,ve worked which practiced agile, only one did it well. we spent entire day on planning, another entire day on retro. we broke down tasks to no more than three points. we did not try to squeeze out more than possible. our software turned out robust and reliable, and our estimates were spot on. everyone was happy. the key was the manager.
forgotmypw77··on Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
only an ignorant fool would drink tap water from anything epa regulated today.

if you care about your family and loved ones, find them alternatives.

the standards are a joke even when followed.

even the safety of showering with tap water is questionable.

if you care to research, of course... there,s always sticking your head in the sand.

forgotmypw77··on Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
actually, i,m gifting without asking for anything in return. when i need something, it is offered or i ask.
forgotmypw77··on Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
i don,t think it is a myth, i do it all the time, living almost entirely without currency.

digital technology only makes barter more easy and accessible.

converting every trade into numbers and back is an outmoded method, which i think will become less used with time.

forgotmypw77··on Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
i think it is an intermediate step before direct data-assisted barter.

now that we have databases, the number values will slowly become less relevant, and direct information references will come into play.

forgotmypw77··on One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected
i think we,re kidding ourselves about human space exploration. machines are taking over and soon they,ll be able to do it autonomously or near so. we,ll be stuck on earth for a good while... with this biome we,re so intent on wiping out right now
forgotmypw77··on Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the internet with?
one of the reasons i insist on http support, anything post-95 with a network card is barely a challenge to get online, and it,s nice to browse my own site from whatever device i want to use.
forgotmypw77··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
are you planning to add nojs support or is that not an option for your tech?
forgotmypw77··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
please test your site with nojs.

js is not an option with many devices and useragents.

thank you for doing what you do.

forgotmypw77··on Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer
thank you for sharing your work.

please consider accessibility to nojs users, perhaps by sharing plaintext website or screenshots.

i am using device where enabling js is not an option, and feel left out by current presentation.

good luck to you in your work, sounds very exciting!

twitter recently changed their accessibility policy to not allow nojs clients at all, whereas before one only had to click through a dialog each tweet.

forgotmypw77··on Knolling
so... what is knolling?

it is not explained, only youtube link, cannot access

forgotmypw77··on Chibicc: A Small C Compiler
>Each commit of this project corresponds to a section of the book. For this purpose, not only the final state of the project but each commit was carefully written with readability in mind. Readers should be able to learn how a C language feature can be implemented just by reading one or a few commits of this project. For example, this is how while, [], ?:, and thread-local variable are implemented. If you have plenty of spare time, it might be fun to read it from the first commit.

nice

forgotmypw77··on Ask HN: Linux Alternative to macOS?
after abandoning apple, i tried a few different distros, and i think i,ll probably try a few more. none have brought me the cohesiveness of osx of years past, but keyboard accessibility is generally better. i,ve mostly stuck to the more lightweighr distros, and have been pretty happy with fedora lxde and mint xfce.

make regular backups, sometimes an update will just wreck my whole environment. happens less frequently than windows, but more often than mac for me. i generally do not update once i,m done installing, because i browse without js and carefully.

forgotmypw77··on Weboob
it,s also good to make website data easier to liberate by exporting easy to import formats like zipped txt or even ascii.

i ensure that entire web forum is exportable by any user as txt in such a way that cloned forum retains all relationships and even same credentials can be used.

using pgp libraries allows me compatibility with existing libraries and infrastructure, e.g. using existing ,,stable,, key to validate ownership of forum account, but also to generate user keys on the spot for in.forum use only.

this may seem like a tradeoff between security and convenience, and it is. additional verifiability can be accomplished by later signing blocks of hashes with more secure signing method.

forgotmypw77··on Productivity tips
Could you please substantiate your loud comment?
forgotmypw77··on Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
mods are still allowed to opt out of front page. i encourage mods to do this.
forgotmypw77··on Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google
is this part of seo strategy?

if you are result #11 on google, but you dmca the first ten...

forgotmypw77··on Transpiling between any programming languages (2019)
First we,ll figure out translating Java to Ruby, then English to Japanese, and only then we,ll be ready to translate Perl :D
forgotmypw77··on Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
quality assurance, either straight up manual testing or automation. in my experience, way less stressful than any other hat i,ve worn: sysadmin, netadmin, coder. salary will be about 80% of a dev, still decent.
forgotmypw77··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
this is why perl, txt, and static html are the top-level languages and formats for my project.

with some tweaking, it can be viewed in just about any browser, down to ie3, lynx, mosaic, netscape, and opera3.