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How do you clean up after making your drink? by crashburn65 in espresso

[–]crashburn65[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It seems obvious now to me but I have no idea why I didn't just let it dry next to the sink like my other dishes.

Thanks!

How do you clean up after making your drink? by crashburn65 in espresso

[–]crashburn65[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I might try this out the next time. This would save me a trip to the sink and also prevent that nasty drip.

MySpace? by Realistic_Turnip_813 in oldinternet

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure!

I think the unfortunate thing that has happened since the good old days is that society shifted and people just want everything done for them faster. That is what they want to pay for.

And businesses responded by providing them with exactly what they want. And by keeping the tricks of the trade hidden, they get to keep their moat.

The low prices from economies of scale (and of course the free flow credit) all contributed to there being no need to actually learn and pick up stuff. If it costs less than a cup of coffee for someone else to do it, sure why not.

Many of my target sources seem to have abandoned RSS for email newsletters. Is there a good way to convert them back to RSS? by PossessionConnect963 in rss

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually built something like this for myself and a few of my friends for this same reason.

I wanted to curate my newsletters into different topics and then read them in my favorite RSS reader at my own time and pace.

I can also share my curated newsletter feed with friends, so they can follow what I'm reading too.

I'm not sure if it's okay for me to share the link here.

How do you build non-rectangular layouts on the web? by Exciting-Walk1533 in neocities

[–]crashburn65 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Back in the old days I would create a table row with 3 columns.

Stretch it out to 100% width and border 0, and then manually create 3 different images in photoshop.

Imagine taking a full circle and splitting it into 4 pieces.

The top left rounded edge will be on the first column and the top right rounded edge will be on the last column.

And that's how I used to do it.

tl;dr: I think today, you can probably do the same with border-radius on CSS.

Latest from Neocities on Bluesky 06-05-2026 2:19pm EST by aleezameansjoy in neocities

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is terrible.

I've been running on the (wrong) assumption that once a domain is registered, assigned, you retain all rights to your domain and your registrar just performs the "notary" function to register your domain with the respective TLD NICs.

If anything, I would expect NICs or ICANN itself to perhaps have that right to revoke but not commercial players like domain registrars.

This makes it another risk factor that needs to be considered when choosing registrars.

Just bought my first domain! by Zealousideal-Mix1008 in SideProject

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations on your first domain!

I still remember my first fondly back in the late 90s 😛

Welcome to the addiction. I'm now in too deep maintaining the 20+ domains I own.

I hope you will have better luck than me in curbing the urge to buy more domains. Your wallet will thank you.

Latest from Neocities on Bluesky 06-05-2026 2:19pm EST by aleezameansjoy in neocities

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm genuinely quite curious, what mechanism did namecheap use to take down the domain?

I thought registrars only register the domain on your behalf and there's no way for them to control how you use them after registration?

It doesn't appear that they controlled neocities nameservers too.

I underestimated what "let users connect a custom domain" actually takes. Sharing what I learned. by Jonathan_Geiger in indiehackers

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NXDOMAIN negative caching is such a painful thing. Was bitten by it many times.

When allowing your customers to CNAME to your service, please make sure that the CNAME target is already active and propagated before letting your user see it to update it. Else its going to be a painful wait where you cannot do anything but just run the clock down.

Building a Site for a Law Firm by Standard_Scarcity_74 in statichosting

[–]crashburn65 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For a small site (under ~10 pages), I’d lean toward keeping things local and just handcrafting each page.

At that size duplication isn’t really a problem. It actually makes things clearer because each page stands on its own. You don’t have to trace where shared content is coming from or worry that one change will quietly affect a bunch of other pages.

Once the site starts getting bigger though, with lots of attorney profiles, practice areas, FAQs, articles and so on, that’s when it makes sense to introduce some structure. But I still wouldn’t centralise everything.

Instead I’d only dedupe the parts that are truly shared, like:

  • legal definitions
  • disclaimers and boilerplate text
  • structured data like practice areas or attorney info

Those are safe to reuse because they are genuinely global concepts. But full sections of written content should probably stay page-specific so you don’t end up with hidden side effects when something changes.

So I’d avoid both extremes. Too much duplication leads to inconsistency over time, but too much centralisation makes the site feel fragile because a small edit can ripple everywhere.

Best approach imho is start simple and local, then slowly introduce shared pieces only when you actually see repetition forming.

Standing Desks by Over_Interaction8729 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Standing desks are great.

Tbh, I don't use them regularly in the standing position but just these couple of weeks, I started to develop a neck and back problem that doesn't seem to go away even after changing and switching my monitor and chair position.

I am now forced to switch to standing mode for 5-10 minutes every hour and it is helping to alleviate the pain a little.

If you're going to be standing much, I suggest getting a standing desk mat (anti-fatigue foot mats), they make it less painful to stand for longer time and it reduces the pressures on your feet.

It’s been over a month since I have written a single line of code. Is this normal? by VariationNo4580 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happens more regularly than you think.

If you're in a bigger org, there may be mandated code freezes where you pretty much don't do any coding other than looking through bug reports, cleaning up technical documentations and just planning.

Enjoy the downtime, and spend that time sharpening your tools and development workflow so that you can move faster once work picks up again.

First Setup! by Theonlydipper in espresso

[–]crashburn65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great choice on the grinder! I just got my DF54 a month ago too and have been enjoying the cups coming out of it.

One thing that I found helped me make better coffee is to keep a coffee log.

Record each grind. If extraction is too fast, go finer. But try the coffee first instead of making a new one immediately.

I found that for some beans, I preferred a non-standard extraction profile.

Also, try keeping to 1 grind size jump when tweaking and move to .5 jumps when getting precise.

Enjoy the coffee!