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Reading Roundup: doing it ...right?

What if we tried something different?

Use another tool

Revenge of the hot water bottle. I’ve been using hot water bottles all the time this winter; they’re great!

Can you tune a fish? Per this video, yes, but it’s annoying. Have to love the immense effort for a pun.

KiDOOM, using KiCAD to render DOOM.

Hosting a static site on an original Raspberry Pi. I have both of those things, maybe I should give it a go!

Distribute it another way

YoWASP: an FPGA toolchain distributed as WebAssembly, via PyPI and NPM.

Cursed Bundler, (ab)using the Go proxy as a transparently-logged content-addressed cache/proxy…for Ruby gems.

“Package managers keep using git as a database, and it never works out.” Though as a reader at RC points out, all those mentioned did succeed under Git, and then pivoted; hm.

An alternative web

Low-quality image previews in pure CSS, plus preprocessing

You don’t need JavaScript; CSS is extremely powerful nowadays.

And one “doing it wrong”: implementing a radio button with… not HTML.