killeronthecorner

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Recycling 2: Electric Bugaloo

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

"Fack off I'm full"

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To re-enable the Eight Sleep app, please drink verification can

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

That said, the outcome is the same: don't waste your money on Kickstarter unless you'd be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table

These are actually individual hours of the workday

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That was one of the big 5 in my mind. I never did any BB dev, but I remember looking into it at the time. If I couldn't get a device for cheap or free it was inaccessible. Student life is what it is. By the time I made my webOS money they were already on the decline and considering a move to android so I didn't consider it thereon.

Just watched the Jay Bachurel movie recently and can recommend. It's a bit slow but the nostalgia is top grade.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nothing well known on WP, and I don't want to give names as it'll dox me given reviews are out there somewhere.

One was a different take on a Twitter app and another was a minimalist Instapaper app. I will say no more!

Unrelated fun story: I rewrote a plugin integration for a WP game from a fairly well known studio, 5 minutes before it was demoed live at GDC in SF, back around 2011 (+-1 year). And it went off without a hitch! Good times

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 171 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I developed one of the top ten apps in the webOS App Store. I released it about 6 months before they shuttered Palm and started the transition of webOS in to a vague "embedded and mobile things" open source OS that eventually ended up on, primarily, LG televisions.

It was my first big success as a computer science student. When I started working on my next big app idea it was about 80% complete when the new dropped that they were discontinuing all phones and tablets. Palm used to send me free phones and tablets too, and I spent a lot of time in the community forums, I had reviews on webOS Nation, and so on

I maintain to this day that enyo is one of the greatest app development frameworks ever written and I wonder what the landscape of web development would look like today if they'd moved faster to liberate it from mobile devices. The webOS team were also earlier adopters of nodeJS for their native services. It felt like living in the future using them at a time when the iPhone 4 was barely out.

If you can believe it, after that I moved over to Windows Phone, where history repeated without the afterlife. After that, I felt cursed but, honestly, I chose both platforms because the stores weren't saturated with 100 versions of every app imaginable.

They were great times. Five big mobile platforms, free devices, open APIs to work with - it really was a digital gold rush.

I now have LG TVs in every room and it's so strange to use webOS in it's final(?) form. Wonderfully, there's a homebrew community just as there was back in the day, albeit on a much smaller scale. I've even made a wrapper for some home assistant features.

webOS is dead. Long live webOS

"You need to understand that this is a hostage situation and you're either on one side or the other. Also put your hands behind your back".

Dead sea, Red Sea, Med(iterranean) Sea, Let's Sea, Saw III, La Mer, The sea (the one at the seaside)

 

Peter Hitchens is an author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday. He has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory.


While this isn't technically about atheism, I think it's on topic given Hitchens' widely publicised views on religion. With that in mind, the post-interview section gives a unique insight into how Peter acts when he feels he has been wronged, and how his approach to reason and justification changes in that light.

Further, the interview was supposed to go on to the topic of God but Peter had already decided to storm out prior to reaching the topic (though he doesn't actually storm out for another 15 or so minutes)

You can also follow his ongoing reaction to the interview, and its subsequent release, on his X (formerly known as Twitter) feed: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah

 

Currently when performing a search if you e.g. click through to a result to subscribe, then press back, you end up on the page prior to tapping search. You then have tap the search tab again and enter your search term again if you want to see more results.

I'd like to see it restore the state of the search results modal on returning from a result. This would make it much easier to do things like quickly add multiple subscriptions to related communities

 

For making titles on shared images optional. Now I don't have to delete them by hand.

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