ivan

ViewSonic VP2788-5K thoughts:

• The stand is very solid, but not really usable if you don't want the bottom of your 27" monitor to be at minimum 6 cm above your desk.
• It's far too bright at 0% brightness. Like a VX2475Smhl-4K at 35% brightness. Feels like I'm looking at a TV.
• It ships with defaults that apply sharpening to the input ("Ultra Clear"), but it's easy to turn off.
• The OSD is operated via a usable joystick button, but it's in the wrong place, below the bezel.
• The power button—with a very similar shape—is right next to the OSD button.
• There's no G-SYNC or FreeSync.
• When run at 75 Hz, the frame pacing in 60 Hz games is (of course) a mess. Tested: The Witness.
• Maybe it is good for doing photography or video work if you run it at 60 Hz and don't mind the lumens and the backlight bleed?

ivan

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"userChrome.css" is a custom CSS file that can be used to specify CSS style rules for Floorp's interface (NOT internal site) using "chrome" privileges.
For instance, if you want to hide the tab bar, you can use the following CSS rule:

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#TabsToolbar {                       *
    display: none !important;        *
}                                    *

ivan

Useful extensions

• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig will read .editorconfig files so that your per-project indentation settings are respected
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rebornix.toggle will let you toggle settings (or several) with a keystroke
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.even-better-toml
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jamesmaj.easy-icons
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=earshinov.permute-lines will let you sort and uniq lines
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sysoev.vscode-open-in-github

getaaron

• Call 1-800-829-1040
• Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
• Press 2 for personal tax
• Press 1 for form / tax history
• Press 3 for other
• Press 2 for other
• Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
• Press 2 for personal tax
• Press 3 for other
• Wait for agent!

ivan

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# We use zsh instead of bash so that decimals work in $(( ))

set -eu -o pipefail

ha="http://192.168.10.2:8123"

# Expires 2034
token="..."

schacon

#!/bin/bash

# Colors
RED='\033[0;31m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
NO_COLOR='\033[0m'
BLUE='\033[0;34m'
YELLOW='\033[0;33m'
NO_COLOR='\033[0m'

ivan

Things I might read in 2024.

Now extended into 2025.

• CSS for JavaScript Developers^{/ just the things I don't know and which would be used frequently}
• Jamie Brandon - Reflections of a decade of coding
• John Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
• Will Larson - the starred posts on https://lethain.com/
• https://notes.andymatuschak.org/
• The Tailwind documentation (even before updated for Tailwind 4 - see changes)

ivan

It has been interesting to witness the rise of a kind of perma-ignorant peanut gallery both on Twitter and Hacker News - a new class of user who seems to only weakly (meaningfully) interact with the legacy users who desired to not look like fools all the time. They do not appear to read or look things up when confused, exuding a desire for spoonfeeding: "but you're wrong because you haven't explained this to me". Prior to 2023 there would of course be a lot of ignorant posting, but it was less likely to go unchecked. Some hypotheses as to why this might be happening:

• a more universal demand for profilicity, in text form, even from people who are not any good at it
• a decreased demand for profilicity from the old posters who have mostly exhausted its possibilities
• increased information hoarding in the post-ZIRP economy; reduced desire to correct the ignorance of apparent outsiders
• reduced resources to moderate posts in the post-ZIRP e

ivan

ivan

html {
	background-color:
		var(--LIGHT, #eee)
		var(--DARK, #111);
	color:
		var(--LIGHT, #000)
		var(--DARK, #ccc);
}

html {