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xojocon Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

Maybe it's done like that for performance reasons?

xojocon Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

You may like my Mastodon or Twitter bot:

- https://twitter.com/IndieRandWeb

- https://mastodon.social/web/@FunRandWeb

They post every two hours a link to an indie website.

Source code for the curious: https://github.com/xojoc/randomwebsitebot

The websites are taken from https://stumblingon.com/ at the moment, but I'll add more sources in the future.

xojocon Ask HN: Looking for a Tool to Search for Comments

It actually should be near time, at most some days old posts. You can also lookup by url and search for whole domain or "subfolder", see https://discu.eu/search/

P.s. I'm the creator of discu.eu

xojocon Weekly newsletter about various topics (Rust, Zig, Compsci, etc.)

Hi!

in the last few months I've been working on a semi-automatic weekly newsletter for various topics, mainly about programming.

Each week a recap is sent with a link to relevant discussions (on Lobsters, HN, Reddit, etc.).

Sample issue for Rust: https://discu.eu/weekly/rust/2022/24/

Sample issue for Compsci: https://discu.eu/weekly/compsci/2022/24/

Beside the newsletter, there's also a browser extension which shows the presence of discussions for the page you're currently viewing: https://discu.eu/extension and a series of bots for Mastodon and Twitter which post regular updates: https://discu.eu/social

Developed with Django: https://github.com/xojoc/discussions

Any feedback is welcome! Especially about the landing page :)

xojocon German police used contact tracing app to track down crime scene witnesses

duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903733

xojocon DuckDuckGo Traffic

Due to the HN interest in search engines, you may find useful the "Search Engines" entry on Curlie: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En...

And the "Specialized Search Engines" one: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En...

xojocon DuckDuckGo Traffic

Here's the help page: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sp...

On Firefox on desktop I see the "feedback" menu in the lower right corner.

xojocon Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

How many new young customers do they have? Maybe more people than before think about getting a life insurance and for whatever reason the more "fragile" ones are getting one.

xojocon Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)

Previous discussion on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99etq/ten_ques... (215 comments)

PS: found with https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.or...

xojocon Understanding Python through its builtins

In a similar vein you may like "WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets":

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097732 (163 comments)

PS: found with a site I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?q=Understanding+Python+through...

xojocon Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

Previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496043 [22/7/2019] (103 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cjcwmu [29/7/2019] (46 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cfz8q0 [21/7/2019] (94 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/cfz8lo [21/7/2019] (49 comments)

P.S.: discussions found with a site I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A//overreacted.io/a...

xojocon EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

And there was some talk about that previously:

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 (703 comments)

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/jzj4q9 (25 comments)

And Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/luq9oz (1022 comments)

P.S. these threads where found with a site I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnee.lv%2F202...

xojocon You can't tell people anything (2004)

Thank you all for the honest feedback. Yes, the idea was to show the usefulness of the tool "by example" using it for popular stories. I should have put more effort into it (and I'll write to dang to ask for permission).

I'll also buy a custom, less spammy looking, domain. The .pw extension is what I use for my main website which I have chosen at the time because it was cheap.

xojocon You can't tell people anything (2004)

It's a site I'm building to search for discussions online. I thought it would be interesting to people to read some previous discussions on this topic. I got downvoted so it doesn't seem to be so useful to people as I thought it would...

xojocon Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

It loads fine for me.

xojocon Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

Previous leaks can be downloaded from here: https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database So probably the Pandora Papers will be downloadable in the near future too.

xojocon Show HN: Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on

Hey! I built https://discussions.xojoc.pw/ just for that. It also has a bookmarklet to search for Reddit threads for the page you're visiting.

xojocon Show HN: Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on

Shameless plug. I've built something similar at https://discussions.xojoc.pw/ It returns the discussions on Hacker News, Reddit and Lobsters. In the future I'll also add Lambda The Ultimate and Less Wrong. But intead of an extension you can use a bookmarklet.

xojocon Show HN: Find Discussions Around the Web

Hi! I'm building a site that finds discussions for a given URL. For example: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortran.io%2...

Soon I'll add support for title search and similar stories search. With an API which I'd like to sell.

Any kind of feedback is welcome :)

xojocon OpenBSD's Pledge and Unveil from Python

Other discussions: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnullprogram....

xojocon Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why It Matters (2015)

You may be interested in this form I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhamidreza-s....

which searches for discussions on HN, Reddit, Lobsters, etc for a given url.

It also has a bookmarklet so it can be used on any page very easly.

xojocon Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

Shameless plug: I also made some games built with TypeScript/Phaser: https://xojoc.pw/games2d/

The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d

It's a PWA[1] too, so it can be installed on some OSes. I wrote about the experience here: https://xojoc.pw/blog/experience-pwa

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

xojocon Why I'm focusing only on some programming languages

There's some interesting discussion on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/acqfdw/why_i_m_focusing_only_on_some_pro...

xojocon Why I'm focusing only on some programming languages

There's some interesting discussion on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/acqfdw/why_i_m_focusing_only_on_some_pro...

xojocon Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

I just released my first product (https://www.keepmeon.top). It fetches and filters content from Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, etc. and generates a RSS feed or sends a periodic email summary.

There are a lot of things to improve, but it's a start...

I also made a little game using TypeScript: https://xojoc.pw/games2d/4snakes/

xojocon Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes

Ops, there's a bug with Safari: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d/issues/10

Sorry for the confusion!

xojocon Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes

Hi riffraff, 4 directions always felt "artificial" to me, maybe with 8 it could work!

Thank you for trying the game :)