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tbolton Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

The b2500 was great. My buddy's dad had one and we would take it to go fishing. This and the 95 or so Ford F-150 are _the_ canonical trucks to me.

tbolton F3

I think we know how this story ends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

tbolton GitHub is sinking

“GitLab - enterprise grade, meaning it’s bloated and confusing but it’ll impress your boss. This could be the choice if you need multiple meetings to make the choice.“

lol!

tbolton I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok

Agree with the article. I’m increasingly jaded by the state of the web.

Something that has been happening for a long time on iOS Safari that I only recently realized: pinch to zoom on sites like Reddit, instagram, shopping sites, and many others cause what I’m calling “website seizures.” Where I try to zoom in and half the time the page reloads completely or triggers a reload but ends up throwing an error.

tbolton NetNewsWire Turns 23

Add pre-enshittification and that covers the trifecta of doom were in.

tbolton App Store web has exposed all its source code

Last I checked it was Ember. That was several years ago though.

tbolton Play snake in the URL address bar

10/10

tbolton Blurry rendering of games on Mac

OBS works fine. StreamLabs could just be bad software.

tbolton Material 3 Expressive

amen. Microsoft has more taste now and that’s saying something.

tbolton Deno's Decline

io.js

tbolton Google is winning on every AI front

Add to this list apps. As in ChatGPT and Anthropic have nice desktop software applications for Mac and Windows.

tbolton Bye, Prime

You can download drm-free music from iTunes, Amazon, etc today.

tbolton Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

> Is bluetooth reliable

Will it ever be?

tbolton Chimes at Midnight (2024)

Only half way through but damn what a good read.

tbolton The Egg, an at Home Nuclear Reactor

Shame <marquee> is deprecated. That's the best use I've ever seen.

<marquee>The World's Leading Company</marquee>

tbolton Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Maybe, but if they strapped these with 64gb+ wouldn’t that be wasted on folks buying it for its intended purpose? Gaming. Though the “intended use” is changing and has been for a bit now.

tbolton Ruby 3.4.0

I haven’t worked in ruby or rails in a few years but both seem like they’re in great spots and I’ll be spinning up a new project with Rails 8 soon. Hype

tbolton Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

Beautiful

tbolton iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

12 mini is so great but I’m going to have to try moving to the pro.

tbolton Ask HN: What killed Usenet?

Mastodon is great and you’re probably right that it’s as close as we will get.

tbolton Ask HN: What killed Usenet?

Good point. Not sure why I thought I was asking some novel question.

tbolton Ask HN: What monitor(s) do you use?

Self illuminating pixels are ideal instead of a backlight illuminating the entire display

tbolton Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021)

I’ll give this a shot. The “new” tabs are awful