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asaibx commented on Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines markwhen.com... · Posted by u/koch

asaibx · 3 years ago

For all those who are requesting ISO8601 dates -- according to the GitHub repo [0] these are already supported:

> Dates: A date can be expressed in a few forms. Human readable dates are supported, like 1665, 03/2222, or 09/11/2001, as well as IO8601 dates, like 2031-11-19T01:35:10Z.

[0]: https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen

asaibx commented on What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS mattmower.com/2021/08/02/... · Posted by u/sandbags

extra88 · 4 years ago

Craigslist has RSS feeds.

asaibx · 4 years ago

Not anymore, unfortunately [0] :(

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310

asaibx commented on GitHub now showing releases from starred repos in main activity dashboard github.community/t/why-i-... · Posted by u/asaibx

ezekg · 4 years ago

This was so incredibly annoying that I added this uBlock Origin filter:

    github.com##div.release > .body > .border-bottom.py-3.color-border-secondary.flex-items-baseline.d-flex

Also, I unstarred pretty much everything.

asaibx · 4 years ago

You beat me to it. :) Yes, blocking ##div.release in uBlock Origin did the trick for me as well.

> Also, I unstarred pretty much everything.

Unfortunately, this seems to be a common theme in all of the discussions I have read so far. It's really an unfortunate outcome for projects that have nothing to do with this, but perhaps a wave of "unstarring" across the site will cause GitHub to reconsider this change.

asaibx commented on GitHub now showing releases from starred repos in main activity dashboard github.community/t/why-i-... · Posted by u/asaibx

asaibx · 4 years ago

Like many others it seems (for example here [0], or this issue [1] that amusingly seems to think it's a problem caused deliberately by the VSCode developers), I have been wondering why this recent change has occurred in GitHub's activity feed and whether there was a way to disable it.

The linked thread provides both some insight into the first question (from a GH product manager who explains the dubious case for including unwanted information in the main feed), as well as a number of hacks and workarounds to resolve the second one (using Block element in uBlock Origin with ##div.release as suggested by ozon2 seems to work perfectly).

I would be interested to hear what others here think about the proposed change in direction for the activity feed (i.e., to make it more about "news from your wider network" rather than "notifications you have intentionally signed up for").

[0]: https://github.community/t/release-notifications-from-starre...

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/125951

asaibx commented on Show HN: PDFs from HTML pdf.math.dev... · Posted by u/abhinav22

asaibx · 4 years ago

This looks great -- well done! I'd love to be able to use it (the CSS in particular) in a number of different projects where creating such nice readable output is a hassle. However I couldn't find a license mentioned anywhere -- either for the associated repo as a whole [0] or the CSS specifically.

Would it be possible to add a license so it's possible to know whether others can use this in other projects without rewriting the CSS from scratch?

[0]: https://github.com/ashok-khanna/pdf

asaibx commented on Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem github.com/c9fe/sirdb... · Posted by u/graderjs

yodon · 5 years ago

I've often looked for a simple human readable file-based DB-like system like this. Are there other competing packages like this?

asaibx · 5 years ago

There's always recutils [0] which uses a plain text database format stored in files called recfiles.

[0] https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

asaibx commented on Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live facebook.com/legal/music_... · Posted by u/craigmcnamara

TekMol · 5 years ago

Is it possible for a musician to publish their music in a way so that everybody else can do with it whatever they like?

If so, are there already websites that deal with only this type of music? Like there is pexels.com for images?

asaibx · 5 years ago

Glad to see a few people have brought up Jamendo already, but I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned ccMixter [0]. This is one of the really early sites to try and address this exact need. They have an enormous back catalog of open-licensed music designed specifically for mixing and reuse, and a still quite active community of dedicated users (though the site design needs a bit of a refresh).

[0] http://ccmixter.org/