Arc users:
Do you get annoyed with tabs “falling asleep” then reloading when you click on them? A reload has potential ramifications. I don’t want a page to reload without my say so.
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Holiday + New Year Sale **50% off** annual subs of A Fine Start Premium. Now through January 12.
A Fine Start is my new tab page browser extension. It transforms your new tab page into a minimalist list of links.
It’s free! You only pay if you want the link syncing service.
I’m just gonna say it. The ask-our-AI features of some support documentation sites are really handy. Stripe and Cloudflare both have these and they can save a ton of time wading through docs.
Just added some more improvements. Thanks, everyone, for the feedback and kind words!
- Better mobile support
- iPhone homescreen app-capable (with icon!)
- Mark paste as listed (shows up on your public pastebin)
- Sort notes alphabetically or by last updated
- Get the note/paste URL in the sidebar
- Restore previous scroll position when deactivating preview
I just added a bit better mobile support to https://write.omg.lol/
Attention omglolers…
You know what the world needs? Yet another note-taking app!
Why? Because I had the address “write.omg.lol” and I wanted to make something fun with it! (This is the way.)
Write is a notepad that saves your notes as unlisted pastes in your omg.lol pastebin. It can preview markdown. It has a distraction free mode. It has color themes. It has bugs (probably). It’s desktop size only right now but mobile is my next priority.
Check it out: https://write.omg.lol/
A Mississippi man sustained multiple mental and emotional injuries after a run in with CORS.
He was heard moments ago yelling, “ACCESS CONTROL ALLOW YOUR MOM,” after which he was seen flipping his computer desk.
Said the man after a calm exhale, “I am now ready for the sweet peace of death.”
This story is developing.
I added @zachleat’s snowfall component to my omg.lol profile page and so can you!
Demo: https://bw.omg.lol/
For example, I tried Raycast. It ended up not working for me for a few reasons. But one of them was that I couldn’t scroll any of its views because there aren’t visible scrollbars for me to grab.
(Yes that’s how I have to scroll and I know that’s weird.)
I don’t know how so many macOS apps are able to hide scrollbars even though I have “Show scrollbars” set to “Always” in macOS settings.
I see it more as time goes on and it makes me wonder if there’s just some SwiftUI scroll view or something that does that by default.
When writing on a computer, I prefer to use:
Sup new followers! If you joined omg.lol because of my Hacker News post, do me favor and add me as a referral here (no pressure tho):
https://home.omg.lol/account/referrals
This is a very generous referral program so if you share omg.lol with anyone, do use your referral link at the bottom of that page!
@zachleat @robb @bobmonsour Presentation went great; thanks for the help, yall!
11ty HELP!
What’s the easiest way to tell every template to use my _includes/base.ejs layout?
I'm listening to @adam talk about passkeys on the @hemisphericviews podcast.
I’ve been scared of passkeys because I can’t easily use a phone (physical disability). But I just went to passkeys.io and discovered that 1Password will totally handle it for me. ❤️
The Hacker News ride was (is) wild. My site usually gets around 700 views per month. In the last couple of days it got almost 30K!
