i wonder if this includes sites that do auto-redirect: A -> B (auto-redirect) -> C

if i'm on page C and go back, page B will take me to page C again. i think this is more about techincal incompetence rather than malicious intent, but still annoying.

i could not beat it, and i can't read that chess notation

The letter is the piece to move, and the number is the index to move to, starting from 1 on the left. The first alphanumeric pair is your move, then the computer's move. Comma. Your move, computer's move...

There's a coordinate-based solution in the source code issues. I couldn't elucidate that notation either.

https://github.com/Rowan441/1d-chess/issues/1

Edit: There's a second solution where instead of moving the rook back 2, move the king forward one and the take the black knight with the rook as the checkmate move.

The first move after the comma is yours (open with kNight to 4), and the second move is apparently predetermined or always chosen.

the notation is just an array of move tuples, each tuple contains 1 move for white and 1 move for black, where each move is written as <1st letter of piece name><destination square>

i love that they posted a snippet of Swift code showing other developers how to detect this themselves!

similar situation here, but i used it because i thought it was funny... then kept it because it grew on me haha. had it for a few years, might give it a spin again

the website design is cool as h*ck

Thanks!

when you click away to another tab, the title and favicon of the page changes to something weird, but really legit looking.

a couple of my favorites: "rust programming socks - Google", "Amazon.com: waifu pillow", "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up", "censorship on hacker news - Google"

It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"

Went to try it out myself and the very first one I got was the HN icon and "The internet used to be fun".

i worked with SwiftUI for about two years, and i think it's a really nice language. the compiler is very slow though.

but i think it's too coupled to Apple still. when i tried getting anything running on non-Apple, i had so much trouble i decided then to not even bother.

skip.dev helps

my parking space company has a variant that if you call in, you can choose to be called back at a later point.

what they don't tell you is that they will call you back after 4pm.

you don't keep your place in the queue. the first time around i expected to be called back within an hour, and ended up expecting a call "any minute now" the whole day.

one of my favorite stack overflow questions: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that early browser developers must have really been on quite a lot of drugs.

No, it was just there were no PM filters.

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. — from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

Some recent discussion on that one a couple Advents ago:

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318)

CGI has a lot of consultants in both government and municipal places (i've worked at both), and some of our main tools like time reporting was built as a addon to our personnel system by consultants at CGI. half my team are consultants from CGI, 4 out of 7 people.

also: hi tavro! it's been a few years, how have you been :D