“ in a world where I can rent a machine that tries billions of MD5 calls per second.” wouldnt the test for a successful hash operation involve using the hash to decrypt the data on each try? This would make MD5 cracking prohibitively expensive.

This is a fascinating idea. the page itself could really use some more information - how many sites/toots is it considering? (“all posts” is a bold claim, especially for a federated system). A paragraph on the page itself explaining what its doing would be helpful, especially for visitors who are not coming from lobste.rs. A link to a description of the “HN algorithm” would also be nice. And finally, the source code would be a good reference, too. thanks!

This passes on a good opportunity to place the “dynamically-hyped” pun.

Mastodon has working federation today and it continuing to innovate (http://activitypub.rocks/). It needs more original content (and possibly a better way to discover new content) to be a true twitter alternative. Sign up for a mastodon account today, start tooting and follow some people.

A list of open servers is available at https://instances.social/list#lang=en&allowed=&prohibited=&users=

came to learn about writing a desktop window manager in 2018, got rickrolled. robot-window-blinds are still cool. though.

Using a user-provided CSS plugin like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/styl-us/ makes it easy to define:

#emojifundraiser { display: none; }

If only json had allowed trailing commas in lists and maps.

A very nice post on Elm coding in general! Alternate title: Parsing JSON in a strongly typed language means writing the structure of that json in said language. Its a common challenge and I’ve recenly come across some helpful sites to take a blob of json and write the code that matches its structure.

Elm = http://json2elm.com/ Go = https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

I loved using Dvorak for many years but in the end the symbol keys were just too different. A couple years after quitting I learned about Colemak. Today I’d recomment Colemak to someone wanting to get away from qwerty. Colemak has a lot of the home-row advantages of Dvorak and leaves the symbol keys alone! (except semicolon goes up a row because home row is too valuable)

Thank you for this!!!!

After using Colemak (3+ years) and then attempting Workman (slightly better than Colemak at reducing discomfort with reduced horizontal index finger travel for me personally), I’m ready for a keyboard that’s optimized for reduced pinky usage (even on Windows/Linux machines, I’ve swapped Ctrl with Alt/Meta such that keyboard shortcuts primarily use my thumb like Mac OSX’s Cmd) while still reducing the horizontal finger motion that was so common with Colemak.

Time to roll up my sleeves and learn QGMLWY!

For anyone who suffers from typing discomfort, I can’t recommend alternative keyboard layouts enough. It’ll likely take a long while to get used to typing in a different keyboard layout, however (I believe Colemak took me well over 8+ months to get decently proficient at [80+ WPM; my QWERTY baseline is about 95WPM], and I never did get proficient to the level I would have liked with Workman…).

However, if you’re not willing to take the plunge to retrain your muscle memory (not a small undertaking!), there’s two small changes that really helped me out which I would recommend to anyone:

1. Swap Capslock with Backspace. No more reaching the top right side of the keyboard with your right pinky in an awkward motion! Some VIM users have told me they remapped this to Esc… but I’m much more of a Ctrl+C person (plus, after the second tip below, Ctrl+C no longer becomes a torture test on your left pinky!)
2. Swap Left Ctrl and Left Alt so that hotkeys only requires your thumb to hold onto the modifier instead of your pinky! (This is unnecessary if you’re on Mac OSX)