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slopdo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Nice goal that your are pursuing with your website but, just in case, are you aware of the rules about .cat domains?

"You do not need to be Catalan to have a .cat; the only requirement is that the website associated with your domain has meaningful content in Catalan or promotes the Catalan language or culture.

The .cat is a domain open to anyone wishing to be part of the Catalan digital community."

"Having a .cat domain is the first step, but to publish your website you need to take four key elements into account:

Content: you need to have your website content ready (text, images, videos). Remember that, in order to comply with the .cat Domain Registration Regulations, the website must have meaningful content in Catalan."

[https://domini.cat/en/faqs]

slopdo··on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM
I also assumed this is for non-fiction books but then I checked the Github page and the first video shows Alice in Wonderland as an example. This is the reason I asked.
slopdo··on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM
Is there any mechanism to prevent the AI from answering with spoilers? For example, when I ask about a character I don't want information coming from pages/chapters I still didn't read.
slopdo··on Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
I'm not able to find the post that OP refers to about how you animated the SVGs. Maybe you could share the link? Thanks!
slopdo··on Ask HN: Did HN change its stylesheet? Horizontal scroll issue
Thanks, will do. Will also try other browsers myself and see if there is any difference.
slopdo··on EpubPress, turn web content into ebooks
This is almost the same aproach I used for Bloxp[0]. I have some common Previous Post link markups and I try to navigate from the last post in a blog, one by one, to the first. I also allow to manually indicate the HTML markup to use for crawling a given blog, in case it is not matching any of the common ones.

I uploaded the site 10 years ago (at first I did it because it was useful to me) and I have made almost no changes since then but many people still use it as a simple way to export a full blog into an ePub.

[0] http://www.bloxp.com

slopdo··on Ask HN: Is there a high level language option for PLC programming
Structured Text is one of the programming languages at Part 3 of the International Standard IEC 61131 for Programmable Logic Controllers [0]. In my (european) experience it is commonly used in production.

Later, IEC 61499 for Distributed Systems [1] extended the IEC 61131 with (among others) event-driven control.

On the open source ecosystem, Eclipse 4diac [2] might be interesting as it provides a full PLC framework including IDE and Runtime Environment.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_61131-3 [1]http://www.iec61499.de/ [2]https://www.eclipse.org/4diac/

slopdo··on Ask HN: What do you use for programmatic drawing?
I'm not using it but just in case it is useful to anybody here I would add Processing to the list. Lots of examples can be found at its website:

https://processing.org/examples

slopdo··on Ask HN: Is there an IDE for computer vision?
While working on my Master Thesis we used MVTec HALCON and its IDE named HDevelop.

https://www.mvtec.com/products/halcon/work-with-halcon/hdeve...