Dan-Q

<?php
// half-hearted CSS minification
$css = preg_replace(
  array('/\s*(\w)\s*{\s*/','/\s*(\S*:)(\s*)([^;]*)(\s|\n)*;(\n|\s)*/','/\n/','/\s*}\s*/'), 
  array('$1{ ','$1$3;',"",'} '),
  file_get_contents('linked.css')
);

// embed as a data: uri
$base64css = rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($css), '+/', '-_'), '=');

RobertAKARobin

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

...and obviously we're building a workaround. But I'm absolutely flabbergasted that a standard <input type="date"> HTML field, in a standard browser, from a company that bases its reputation good design, could be so dreadful.

The context

I'm the developer for a startup that sells a genetic test to recommend medications for high blood pressure. For medical reasons we need to know our customers' birth date. Most of our customers are in their 60s or older. We've found that many of them use iPads or iPhones. And they're the ones who complain to our customer support that our site is unusable.

The problem

nathanbuchar

Automatically upload the daily crossword to Supernote

The Problem

Note: For anyone landing on this page from Google looking to automatically upload the NYT crossword to your Supernote or similar e-ink tablet, I'm afraid this solution requires some knowledge of programming.

Update 1/12/22: This can be easily adapted to work for the Wall Street Journal crossword as well. Unlike the NYT crossword, the WSJ crossword does not require a paid membership. Scroll down to the bottom of this page for more info.

slimsag

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

moyix

#!/bin/bash

gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'

huytd

How to use:

./wordle.sh

Or try the unlimit mode:

shawwn

This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.

--

What happened after 2010?

Underknowledge

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# set -x
Git_status=$(curl --silent -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/tags" )
TAR_dl=$( echo "${Git_status}" | jq -r ".[].tarball_url" | head -n1)
TAR_v=$( echo "${Git_status}" | jq -r ".[].name" | head -n1)


build_dir="${build_dir:-/usr/src/v4l2loopback-"${TAR_v}"}"
tmp_dir="${tmp_dir:-/tmp}"
mokutil_out_dir="${mokutil_out_dir:-/root/.ssh/mokutil-module-signing}"

akihikodaki

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

Fortunately, Linux already works on Apple Silicon/M1. But how practical is it?

• Two native ports exist.

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)