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ycuser2··on Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
I would have used the hell out of it 8 years ago! VBA IDE was a pain.

Great work!

ycuser2··on Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab
My problem with old hardware is the higher power consumption.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: Where should I host my email
I use MXroute since 2 years and only once an email landed in spam of a small company.

https://mxroute.com/

ycuser2··on Liquid War – A multiplayer game from 1995
You control particles and have to "eat" the particles of your opponent.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
Does Joppin has a server? Or do you simply have a place for the mark down files? That's what I do.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
Home Gallery[1] for my photo collection. It has (local) face and object detection.

AdGuard for ad blocking

OctoPrint for 3d printing

[1]https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery

ycuser2··on Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption
Threema, but it's not free.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?
No, just curious and want to improve my coding style.
ycuser2··on 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
An important nuance for me in "classic" 3D styles is wether the font in a button get sunken when I click it. It adds much "feel" for me.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?
> Today, I type "npm install json2csv" and I'm done.

You have to do a little bit more: You have to search for it and decide which of the n converters you will use (licence, other dependecies, ..)

But I get your point.

ycuser2··on Written in Heraldry
My favorite coat of arms is from Austria-Hungary: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Au...
ycuser2··on Dear Chess World
You could put a Pi Zero with WiFi in your shoe and do the calculations somewhere else.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: How do you discover music?
In my experience I can tell that music is discovering me. I don't look for music actively. Sometimes I stumble upon new music I like on YouTube or I hear a song on the radio in a cafe.
ycuser2··on Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
How was Hans able to cheat? Seriously curios.
ycuser2··on Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)
Wow! It feels like the native app.
ycuser2··on “I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
Isn't Youtube using UDP to transfer their video data?
ycuser2··on How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device
Most secure/private chat application I know of is tinfoil chat: https://github.com/maqp/tfc
ycuser2··on Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
The Settlers 2.5

https://www.siedler25.org/index.php?com=dynamic&mod=1&lang=e...

ycuser2··on Terminal.Gui – Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET
Windows Terminal is just a "UI" for Command Prompt, or PowerShell, or other Shells.
ycuser2··on Simple software things that are actually very complicated
Unrelated to the content:

What is the reason to link to external websites like this: https://www.construct.net/out?u=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.o...

Why not set a link to wikipedia directly?

ycuser2··on C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
What's wrong with DateTime? Seriously curious
ycuser2··on Please Stop Using Grey Text
Not only that. Why the text submited in the starting post is grey? That's a strange decision to me.

E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31418908

ycuser2··on Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
What do you mean by TOR for TV? Watching foreign TV thorugh Tor network?
ycuser2··on What does code readability mean? (2018)
The most readable code is mine.
ycuser2··on FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
Same, I get a security error on mobile.
ycuser2··on Short URLs: Why and How
I don't want anybody between me and the website to be able to read/monitor the stuff I read.
ycuser2··on RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
Microsoft does not develop VB.NET further.
ycuser2··on Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?
- In Visual Studio (not VSCode) I want to be able to go through all changed lines like I can go through all bookmarks.

- In Visual Studio I want a tool that shows me show many "hops (calls)" a C# method is away from another method.

ycuser2··on GitHub: Private Profiles beta
How about separate accounts for personal and business use?
ycuser2··on UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
Tin foil chat!

https://github.com/maqp/tfc

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