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news_to_me commented on Melonking Website melonking.net/... · Posted by u/thecsw

Rendello · a month ago

I ran into one of these neo-geocities-style websites in the wild when telling my friend about a trendy pizza place I liked. Even the EN-FR switch is animated:

https://pizzabouquet.ca/

news_to_me · a month ago

Here's Seattle's version of that: https://www.dinostomatopie.com

news_to_me commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

news_to_me · 4 months ago

SEEKING WORK / Seattle / Remote

I'm a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects ranging from geography-based census data analytics to processing state COVID test results. I've also have experience with Node.js, Django, and React.

In 2023, as a side project, I created a small functional language called Cassette <https://cassette-lang.com>. Now I’m developing an S3 app for a classic Macintosh.

https://zjm.me | z@zjm.me

news_to_me commented on I bought a Mac loganius.org/2025/04/i-bo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

foobar1962 · 5 months ago

You'll need a case cracker and a tool specifically to de-energise the CRT: that's the killer part.

news_to_me · 5 months ago

Yeah it’s good general advice to always discharge the CRT. Although… the flyback transformer on most of these Macs has a bleeder resistor, so I skip it when I’m lazy now.

news_to_me commented on I bought a Mac loganius.org/2025/04/i-bo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Gracana · 5 months ago

Nice. Among the things other folks have mentioned, you'll probably want to figure out a different cooling fan. My recollection is that the stock fan is annoyingly loud.

Oh hey, I figured I would take a look on thingiverse for a solution, and I found this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4666475

news_to_me · 5 months ago

Ooh this looks great

news_to_me commented on I bought a Mac loganius.org/2025/04/i-bo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

classichasclass · 5 months ago

Congrats. Recap first - they're probably already shot. Once it's in working order, they're great little workhorses. In undergraduate, the local Mac fileserver was a very hardworking SE/30. I managed to loot its entire contents before they decommissioned it.

news_to_me · 5 months ago

Yeah, I’ve done it once already, hopefully this time I can do it a little cleaner.

Nice, any goodies you remember from that hoard?

news_to_me commented on I bought a Mac loganius.org/2025/04/i-bo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

news_to_me · 5 months ago

Funny timing, I also bought a Mac today - an SE/30. Looking forward to fixing it up.

news_to_me commented on Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner bernsteinbear.com/blog/ro... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

news_to_me · a year ago

I'm loving this series, it's one of the best I've found for explaining HM typing in an approachable way. Looking forward to more!

news_to_me commented on Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers github.com/hunterirving/m... · Posted by u/hunterirving

news_to_me · a year ago

Oh this looks perfect! I kind of intended to make something like this, but now I don't have to. Looking forward to replacing my macproxy with this to try it out :)

news_to_me commented on What you learn by making a new programming language ntietz.com/blog/you-shoul... · Posted by u/kaycebasques

news_to_me · a year ago

This is so true. I feel like I've learned more about programming in the last two years making Cassette[1] than in the past decade of professional software development.

Every developer should make a language at some point. I want to see everyone's weird, half-baked languages! I want to hear about what other people struggled with, and the tradeoffs they've made!

[1]: https://cassette-lang.com

news_to_me commented on Can the moon influence human health? New research nationalgeographic.com/sc... · Posted by u/sabrina_ramonov

lolinder · a year ago

> was a similar reduction in sleep on those nights in many of the undergraduates in Seattle, a large city where artificial light drowns out moonlight and students often have no idea when the full moon even is.

Can someone who actually lives in Seattle weigh in on whether the article was right to so quickly dismiss moonlight as the explanation?

I live in a suburban neighborhood near a sports stadium where the lights are on either all night or at least as late as I ever stay up. Between street lights, the stadium, and bright LEDs from my neighbors, light pollution is high enough that I can't see most constellations, just a scattering of a few dozen stars at most on a good night.

And yet I can always tell when the full moon is out because it shines like a beacon around the edges of my blackout curtains in a way that none of the artificial light in the neighborhood does.

I've never lived in downtown Seattle (or any large downtown), but I'm having a hard time imagining light pollution so bad that a full moon would be completely imperceptible at even an unconscious level. It seems to me that even subtle changes in light levels are a much more likely explanation than humans having gravitational senses.

news_to_me · a year ago

There's also a lot less visible sky in a lot of places in a city—it only takes four or five stories to limit your view and block the moon a lot of the time. And in my experience, it's less the brightness of lights than the sheer volume of light from a city that reduces the apparent brightness of the moon and stars. I'm always amazed how you can see the halo of a city over the horizon at night just from its lights.