This is beautiful, thank you!
Readit NewsCockbrand commented on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine byte.tsundoku.io... · Posted by u/chromy
Or just use caddy as a reverse proxy [0]. This 1 line will do it all for you:
myawesomedomain.com {
respond "You just loaded this on https"
}
I only recently got into Caddy after using Apache and later Nginx for decades, and it's almost disappointing how little configuration it needs. It's very refreshing that we finally have a web server that needs hardly any fiddling with b/c it has nicely sane and comprehensive defaults.
Cockbrand commented on The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath fontsinuse.com/uses/35835... · Posted by u/speckx
Great post. Would love to see a similar treatment of the fonts used on Led Zeppelin covers and concert posters.
While not in such a very nicely compact, single article, there are indeed discussions on the fonts used on Led Zep covers on the site, see https://fontsinuse.com/tags/8960/led-zeppelin
Cockbrand commented on The History of F1 Design espn.com/espn/feature/sto... · Posted by u/anonyonoor
I opened it, got some coffee, and then tried opening it again in a new window. Somehow it worked perfectly on the second attempt after being broken.
Maybe give it another try? I'm on Safari as well.
Sucks that you even have to consider this though.
Well, I guess it's not a coincidence that the F1 race car on the initial view bears Chrome sponsoring
Cockbrand commented on Time Theft at the Terminal marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/paulpauper
You might be interested in the book "The Cuckoo's Egg"!
It describes how in 1986 the compute time accounting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was off by 75 cents - literal theft of compute time, in other words. Long story short: it was a hacker in Germany, compromising a large number of US government computer systems in order to spy for the KGB.
This is an excellent recommendation for an excellent book. As the hackers were German, the hackers' perspective is somewhat well-known in Germany, and it's interesting to learn about both sides.
I just learned that a documentary on this topic with Cliff Stoll exists: The KGB, the Computer and Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHNVNRQTJg - I haven't watched it yet, though.
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This genre was called ‘desktop toys’ 30 years ago.
Here is an example from 1995. https://archive.org/details/desktoptoys_201911
Further nice early examples are xroach and xeyes.
Cockbrand commented on Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App andrewshaw.nl/blog/revivi... · Posted by u/shawa_a_a
The author's discussion of Duolingo makes the app seem outright dangerous for naïve users. It's well known that it's a criminal offence in Germany to not talk to the apple on Tuesdays.
Cockbrand commented on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020) gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut... · Posted by u/90s_dev