I built an extension for internal company use, using WXT. Fantastic dev experience, great docs, comprehensive examples. Exactly what a framework should do.

Haven't thought of Kuro5hin for years. Man, the memories. What a great site.

`def derridaean_similarity`

Instant classic.

Scratch is part of the same lineage [0]. Seymour Papert (creator of Logo) was one of the doctoral advisors of Mitch Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that maintains Scratch.

[0] https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/histor...

THAT is fantastic and heartwarming. I wish they put that front and center on a History of Scratch page.

Reads exactly like an Onion article.

I would add "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.

Listening to phone calls was trivial back then (early to mid 90s).

Pretty much only rich people owned cellphones where I lived, and my unlocked Kenwood TH-78E handheld transceiver gave me access to their world :)

Well then... spill. Tell us what tidbits you heard please :)

There was actually a musician who incorporated phone scanners into his work (under the appropriate stage name "Scanner"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud https://www.discogs.com/Scanner-Scanner/master/1767734

In the '90's I worked with a bunch of ham operators in a building next to Route 95. Perhaps the most interesting call that we heard was a guy who kept switching between his wife and his girlfriend. IIRC (it was many years ago) neither one was happy with him.

Late 90's, I heard all sorts of stuff. The one that really stands out was a girls basketball coach who was in town for a tournament on the phone with a prostitute, talking to her about the need for discretion.

Cordless phones were pretty common during that era, and they were just as trivial to listen into. Teenage me had a hard time looking the neighbors in the eyes afterwards though...

Oh yeah, I remember when they started advertising with 'encrypted' cordless phones.

You just needed an old analog TV. The UHF tuner would pick up AMPS.

I love Camo. Any ETA for the Android version?

Thank you. We're going to be bringing more people onto the beta this week. We had a bit of a pause whilst we revisited a few bits. Hopefully you're on the list — I don't think we're too far away now!

tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.

[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

Paraphrasing from a tweet that I saw a while ago: "You don't miss Google Reader. You miss your life as it was when you used Google Reader. You miss being young".

I miss how the internet was when I was young. I don't miss being young. I found the internet to get away from being young haha. I do not miss that life.