I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.
Readit Newsleejoramo commented on Show HN: Vanilla Cookbook – a deceptively simple recipe manager github.com/jt196/vanilla-... · Posted by u/jt196
This resonated with me, having such a passion for computers, yet sad at what this industry has brought us.
> There’s a good chance this page wouldn’t exist had I not read Timothy Snyder’s powerful little book, On Tyranny
This is such a great book. https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny
leejoramo commented on Switching from Pyenv to Uv bluesock.org/~willkg/blog... · Posted by u/harryvederci
That feature's in preview now. You can run it like:
uv python install --preview --default 3.13
This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview
leejoramo commented on Ask HN: Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84? · Posted by u/idatum
The HP Prime, though pricy, supports a decent RPN mode. Definitely for a higher level of education (CAS, programs, all that fun stuff), but approved for a decent amount of US based exams.
Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230)
As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic math
Original Price $235 which is close to what I paid. Adjusted for inflation $657
I think it was worth it.
Assume that inheritance taxes were raised: Why would anyone be incentivized to work more since their kids won't get any of it.
Destroys all incentives to work more. People will just move to countries/states with less tax.
There is a long distance between a 0% and 100% rise in a tax.
It sounds like you are saying the only reason to work is so that your children will never have to work.
leejoramo commented on Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment github.com/directvt/vtm... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
Revenge of DESQview
I used DESQview for a number of years, and always think about it when see new TUI systems
My first job was with plone. I hated it. Then I learned the twisted ecosystem and had a moment of crisis.
Those are the devil pits of the python world.
Thank god for django and asyncio.
Python programming Plone was painful.
However, I learned so much from the entire system.
* The CSS of the Plone theme was a Masterpiece. There is a very good reason why Wikipedia used a near direct copy Plone’s CSS for most of the 2000s. Using just a layer of CSS and minor changes to the templates, I could radically re-theme an entire site in a short amount of time.
* Plone enforced semantic HTML and used XHTML. Regardless of what you think of the value of semantics and XHTML, it thought me how to create well structured HTML at a time when the web was full of very broken HTML4
* While programming was painful, Plone’s UX for content managers was first rate. I was invoked in testing Plone, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. Plone got top marks by a large margin
* Again too marks for Accessibility. In 2005, I built a Plone site for a nonprofit that worked with the blind. I remember users saying they could not believe how easy Plone was to use using the Jaws screen reader
* Multi-lingual sites with workflows for translators. Last year I ran into a translator who used a Plone site I build 20 years ago. They lamented that none of the sites the work on today are as good as that old Plone site.
* etc
I worked with Zope/Plone for about 10 years in the 2000s. Without reading the story, I loaded the larger version of the graph and looked for a cluster for Plone.
On my third click, I found it.
Then I read the article which actually stated that Plone is one of distinct clusters. Pretty amazing for a 20+ year old technology
leejoramo commented on Cobalt Networks CobaltOS: Proxmox Port archive.org/details/Cobal... · Posted by u/CursedSilicon
I ran a single Cobolt RaQ for years for a client. I think it was the RaQ 2. It was dedicated hosted at RackSpace back in the late 90s to about 2002
At the time, RackSpace was an excellent customer service company even for smaller accounts. To this day it was the best customer service I ever worked with.
When I decommissioned the RaQ, my RackSpace rep called me and asked if they could ship the system to me. Apparently, it was the last Colbalt system they had running by years.
https://provue.com/