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rayrag··on Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
Thanks for pointers. I looked how to create a junction and I found this small app: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextens..., it's a GUI for creating symbolic links/junctions/etc. Which for me is great as I'm not an avid user of cli.
rayrag··on Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
Does it support syncing local folders? For example a game put saves in Documents folder and I would to sync it to my Dropbox folder, is such thing possible?
rayrag··on Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
OneTab will do something like this. If you click icon it will send all tabs into one group and if you name that group you can later add current tab, tabs on left or right or all opened tabs to this group.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

rayrag··on The Walkman a.k.a. Vbug 1.5 robot
Mark Tilden explaining Walkman (VBug1.5) at the 1995 BEAM Robot Games part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncDPoa_n-8&t=2s

Mark Tilden explaining Walkman (VBug1.5) at the 1995 BEAM Robot Games part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LjvzjCnv-c

More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncDPoa_n-8&list=PLGrDwNpCsq...

rayrag··on Stripe Payment Links
Payments aside, will you release/open source your colour accessibility tool? Any chance?

https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems

https://videos.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/7GDaCnGLsYrdVIwXIq...

rayrag··on Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams
> So, we’re introducing a new category: Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches.

So in one word - Softporn.

rayrag··on HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor
The CSS still works in the browser so it isn't cleared just ignored. This is enough for me, I could use something like Parcel or Vite to observe folder with notes to reload changes in browser. This way (HTML Notepad + live reload) I can combine WYSWYIG + inline CSS to create good looking single page notes and replace Notion in some cases (it's slow and I don't own files as they are in cloud).
rayrag··on HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor
Looks really cool. I tried to add some CSS (inline/local/from CDN) but it didn't work. If it worked I would use it instead Notion to make some nice looking notes. Some feedback - would be nice to have shortcut to source. Portable version have unnecessary folders (sciter\sciter\sdk\bin\32\files). When I have one note (tilted 'new') opened the title is written vertically as:

N

E

W

If I change title or create another note then it's written horizontally.

rayrag··on Building a personal website in 2021
Two tips:

- don't justify text, it doesn't look good and it makes text harder to (https://designforhackers.com/blog/justify-text-html-css/)

- 'On this page' section is too long. And once I scroll down I don't see it anymore so I can't use it for navigation. Look at https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/getting-started/introducti... or https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation to see how useful can it be.

rayrag··on HTML Tips (2020)
Not linear but I recommend: for HTML read chapter 3 & 4 of HTML spec - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

For CSS I recommend Wes Bos tutorials about flexbox and grid - https://wesbos.com/courses and this blog: https://ishadeed.com/articles/

rayrag··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
Ok, good luck. One thing I'm missing in both sites is lack of some search box, where I could type feature and I would show me which apps have it and which don't.
rayrag··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
Ok, but I wanted inform @sktrdie about Akira.
rayrag··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
Pencil? https://pencil.evolus.vn/
rayrag··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
Why should I use your website over uxtools?

https://uxtools.co/tools/design

rayrag··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
https://github.com/akiraux/Akira
rayrag··on Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android
AudioAnchor
rayrag··on Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
Could you list all those 132 icon sets somewhere - iconduck.com/sets returns 404 and in iconduck.com/licenses you are showing only 1-2 set for each license.
rayrag··on Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)
I highly recommend Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher - they have 90 days trial and you can buy them 50% off[1] - one time payment, you can install it on more than one computer.

1 - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/supporting-the-creative-com...

rayrag··on My Second Brain – Zettelkasten
> I believe the current approaches fail to be 'mainstream friendly'

Maybe Zettelkasten won't be ever 'mainstream friendly'?

I use Obsidian and Notion (before that I've used txt files, Evernote and Joplin) but I don't use Zettelkasten method. And personally I think there is already so many different note taking apps that building another one won't do anything. And there are some good open source apps that would use some extra help. Of course you can do whatever you want.

rayrag··on My Second Brain – Zettelkasten
Maybe instead of building another one, go help improve existing ones.
rayrag··on Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu
Check Taki Udon (https://www.youtube.com/c/TakiUdon/videos), it's a YT channel that reviews all those retro consoles.
rayrag··on Show HN: Listen to any web article in your podcast player
Thanks for the info, Eric. No I haven't build Beaker Browser, I just posted it here. Good luck with your project :)
rayrag··on Show HN: Listen to any web article in your podcast player
Looks nice but your website lacks any information about you and I have problem with trusting "faceless" websites. You should provide some info about who's behind this project. I understand that you might want protect your privacy but at the same time potential users deserve some background info.
rayrag··on JavaScript Rising Stars 2020
Similar summaries:

https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/

https://2020.stateofcss.com/en-US/

https://uxtools.co/survey-2020/

rayrag··on Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scratch in Rust
I've searched for redox in Google and this is the first time I see this layout (https://imgur.com/a/tVoKxBE) in Google search pages. Anyone knows if they planning redesign?
rayrag··on A Brief History of Consumer Culture
It's on YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1LiBedgAciIiHqBAWEo7Q/vid...

Also if you're a fan of his work watch 'The Loving Trap' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

Enjoy.

rayrag··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
No it's not users, it's open source developers are guilty themselves. There is no need to have dozens of Linux distros, multiple packages, few desktop environments (with apps like email clients, music players, etc. created for each environment). Windows doesn't have multiple desktop environments to choose, Microsoft isn't developing multiple email clients and so on. The amount of wasted time (creating multiple solutions for one problem) in Linux world is staggering.
rayrag··on Wikipedia is 20
I've recently installed Wikipedia app on my tablet and I have to admit it's amazing, I prefer it over the web version. Cleaner look, customisable home page, tabs within app and especially ability to create lists of articles and saving them for offline use is something I've always wanted.
rayrag··on Next Gen Static Blogging
Author created static website where he manually links to each page and he claims this is 'next-gen' of blogging. You know what's next gen of blogging? Substack. You know why? It's because for most people rss is "hard" to use (mostly because they aren't familiar with it, thanks Google!), meanwhile everyone is familiar with email clients.

Author says: > Managing this blog is a little more involved than dynamically generating everything.

and

> Simplicity is key.

If he will blog for long enough that simplicity might become a technical debt. Right know this 'next-gen' blog doesn't even have an rss feed.

rayrag··on Next Gen Static Blogging
I bet that blind people can't wait for next 'next-gen' static blogging:

html::after { content: "Welcome to my blog" }

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