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jsejcksn··on Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
Ryan: The style of your blog is easy to read except for the pixelated monospace font. Thanks for sharing this post!
jsejcksn··on We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
When I search for "duck shaped trampoline", I see mostly fidget spinners…
jsejcksn··on An exploration of playing three generations of windows games on macOS
I presume this has already been happening for some time
jsejcksn··on Building a better online editor for TypeScript
The title doesn't make it clear that it's actually about TypeScript plus Deno-specific syntax — and Deno's LSP doesn't run in a worker [1].

[1]: https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/515

jsejcksn··on Aglet: A game about tying knots
The developer also posted a short video in which he explains how some of the game’s concepts were implemented: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NeXDCGQ77rI
jsejcksn··on XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again
Google’s past use of XMPP in an older iteration of its integrated Chat product (it was called Google Talk back then) is what first put this technology on my radar. In recent years I’ve been using Matrix instead — which has been covered often on HN [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=matrix.org

jsejcksn··on Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
Is there a public API (or a plan for one)? I'd be interested to see each WOTD in my custom new tab page.
jsejcksn··on Show HN: Counting Tap Toy
Consider adding a configurable setting that skips "14" when counting in order to memorialize the cited reason for your effort. It might also help others empathize with your child. :)
jsejcksn··on The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
Paragraph five:

> This post can be thought of as an introduction to a really interesting problem space, and as a resource for people interesting in making use of some aspects of Vector Networks for future applications. I hope it succeeds in providing value to both developers being introduced to new concepts and ideas, and to designers interesting in learning more about the tool they know and love.

jsejcksn··on Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
> When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue.

You can customize your repository notifications in a granular way, including subscribing to issues (Watch > Custom > Issues), discussions, releases, etc.

This is the primary method I use to track OSS releases. More in the GitHub docs:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subs...

jsejcksn··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Image capture isn't the only fingerprinting technique: there are much simpler signals like patterns related to content navigation (just one example: tap vs swipe for advancing paginated content), and the combination of such signals can create a strong fingerprint
jsejcksn··on Using Super Glue
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/hands-stuck-laptop-computer-...

Mirror: https://imgur.com/sdexq42

jsejcksn··on Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
A blog might also simply be a contribution to readers — distilling insights which required considerably more time to acquire than might be spent consuming their documentation.
jsejcksn··on Manage like an engineer
Ben’s continuous mantra of observability has resonated strongly with me. I have learned so much more from researching and reflecting on the indexed artifacts of others’ public discourse than from any ephemeral meeting.
jsejcksn··on A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps
It's nice to see aggregation and curation efforts like this!

It would be useful if the site offered a more compact view and an option for more items per page or "infinite scrolling" (the loading of more results after scrolling past a threshold). Within experiences like these where browsing is the primary mechanism of discovery, it's a positive UX feature to decrease the need for repeatedly clicking/tapping/etc. in order to continue to browse.

jsejcksn··on Show HN: CodeLink: create links to blocks of code in your IDE
Is Slack the only integration? How about support for other platforms? (e.g. Discord is more popular than Slack) Will you support standardized formats like oembed (https://oembed.com/) so that any platform/service which supports such a format can render the code?