André Klein

@andreklein
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Writer, publisher, procrastinator … (will finish bio tomorrow) 🧉
sitehttps://andreklein.net
"No, I don't suffer from SPA-brain." - *spends an hour building a Rube Goldberg state machine so the browser tab can say what page you're on* #react #webdev #htmx
When you find out only two days later that your post was #3 on HackerNews ... server didn't even break a sweat. Guess the caching strategy paid off.
Valid EPUB. Passes epubcheck. Works everywhere. Kobo says: corrupted.
One line of CSS4 is all it takes. Adobe's renderer hasn't left 2013. Post-mortem: https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/ #epub #ebooks #selfpublishing #css
Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

Adobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives,...

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btw: it actually left scars. that one boot left my wireless headset in a crackly state after reboot into linux. the only thing that fixed it was complete PSU/capacitor drain. jfc
POV: rebooting into the Windows partition because of legacy stuff #linux
The Backrooms Movie Shouldn’t Exist

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99% of tech forum/reddt threads:
Q: How can I do X?
A: Why do you even need to do X?
A: Yeah. X is dumb. Do Y instead!
A: Y? Are you for real? Z is the one true way!
[400 comments debating Y vs Z]
First time trying wireless adb on Arch for Android debugging and the connection has been rock solid (unlike on Windoze where it's always been hit-or-miss). Turns out when the OS isn't trying to "optimize" your drivers into oblivion, things actually just work. #archlinux #androiddev
Everyone's building agentic loops so AI can type for them. I tune my scheduler with scx_loader so typing itself feels telepathic. Different priorities. #linux #scx
Just 're-pasted' my PC. Turns out the 'professional' computer store I bought it from years ago left the factory sticker ON the CPU under the cooler. I’ve been running a literal thermal insulator for half a decade.