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pkrefta··on Doom Captcha (2021)
Best captcha I've ever seen <3
pkrefta··on Steam Deck: First Anniversary
I'm in love with mine.

• Hardware is good enough and that's perfectly fine • It's repairable and can be easily opened • Software is open which is increasingly rare there days • Ability to play on TV, on couch (with headphones) and on monitor with keyboard/mouse is awesome • Being able to play old games is great (I finally finished Assasin's Creed 2) • It's still a PC where I can switch to Linux Desktop and tinker with stuff • Battery life isn't the best but I almost always have power source near me • Valve did awesome job with handling controls in games with Community layouts etc • I finally found sense in USB-C where I switch between Deck and Macbook with a single cable • Hacker community is vibrant • It's an emulation heaven :)

pkrefta··on FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
I'm using Github to publish my code and seriously I don't care whenever Copilot was trained using it. I published it and in the end somebody can do anything with it without giving a damn about license, copyright etc - that's the truth of open-source.
pkrefta··on Frameworkless Movement
I've started using React.js in 2014 and I'm still using it today. That's probably quite a lot of minutes TBH.

Month ago I've started another project - again React + Redux. I don't think React.js will disappear from the scene anytime soon.

pkrefta··on I just lost 1,400 BTC
With big money comes big responsibility. Storing $16M should be taken very seriously and probably most people have no clue about that.
pkrefta··on Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
I wonder - has Google became with "no-privacy" by default ?
pkrefta··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
Optical zoom and thin form factor doesn't work together too well.
pkrefta··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
Year after year of new iPhone's premieres I wonder for how long I'm going to use my iPhone SE - 3,5years has gone and nothing new for me on the horizon :(

I don't care about missing jack, USB-C, cameras and other things - just make it smaller and it will fine by me.

pkrefta··on Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
This is exactly how it is. You can find confirmation in Postgres docs [1]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-character.html

pkrefta··on "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
The quality of DigitalOcean communications in this case - especially email responses look like worst examples from some pretty terrible corporations. I thought DO was (is?) trying to differ from them.
pkrefta··on New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers
What are viable web-based alternatives to Skype ? (Except for Hangouts)
pkrefta··on Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
Few days ago I've bought previous generation Retina 15,4 with funny faces from sellers at my local Apple store :)

Great keyboard, dependable battery, Magsafe, ESC and other goodies :)

And I couldn't be happier - no crappy keyboard, no donglemagendon and other crap :)

pkrefta··on Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers
Awesome graphics man :-)
pkrefta··on Saying Goodbye to Firebug
I can assure you - you're not the only one who hates Network Panel.
pkrefta··on How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?
Migrate to Switzerland :) Salaries there are much higher than rest of the Europe but living there is more expensive too.
pkrefta··on Documenting the Web together
Hopefully - and thank God :)
pkrefta··on OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
Holy moly O_o.

Those kind of stories are keeping me back from buying any Android devices in nearest future. Somebody might say that I can flash it with clean Android ROM but that's great for people who have too much time :-)

pkrefta··on Sublime Text 3.0
In terms of opening speed at least - it still crushed both VSCode & Atom.
pkrefta··on The End of ProTube 2
You should try also Youtube-dl - amazing piece of kit :)
pkrefta··on MUJI Hut: A 9.1-sqm Minimalist Cabin
Search for "Kip Mazuy" on Youtube :-)
pkrefta··on Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
Are there any plans to support Vim/Neovim ?
pkrefta··on Show HN: Chrome extension to put GitHub's header back to the way it was
New header fits to the whole design like there was some kind of mouring going on :/
pkrefta··on Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
For me that's one of a reasons that as full-time Ruby/RoR developer I've started learning (& loving) Python. Some time ago I've started to realize that too much is happening under-the-hood in many of the libraries I'm using and somewhat in my applications. After few months Python is much more verbose and readable for me and I don't have dilemma whenever I should I implement certain thing this or that way.
pkrefta··on We Hired a Blind Coder
Great and very inspiring story. Made my Saturday 200% better - seriously :)
pkrefta··on Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released
In year 2000 when I was 16 years old 64k fr-08 by farbrausch told me that I know nothing about programming ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3n3c_8Nn2Y

pkrefta··on Resolutions for programmers (2012)
It has been probably posted sometime before but I think this is still very up to date and HN newcomers and veterans (and everobody else) should read this again and put into action.
pkrefta··on Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos
Basic implementation of Reddit's Hot Order or something similar is pretty straightforward :)

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588

pkrefta··on Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos
Right now I'm also unable to move to Bay Area, but I think if your idea/prototype/product is decent and you'll make great progress during Fellowship program you're chances for being accepted into YC W2015 will be much higher :)
pkrefta··on Indie.vc
Would love to see something like this available for European entrepreneurs. Great idea :)
pkrefta··on The Swift Programming Language
I zipped .html + .css from the book - here you go guys :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nuxcbkjp7bpp7uc/swift_book.zip

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