I was expecting to see that, I ended up looking up some old LiteStep themes [1][2] for my fix

[1] https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/litestep/6/

[2] https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/litestep/292/

Oooooh, that's a blast from the past! I used to use LiteStep for about 6-9 months in 2000, before I started using GNU/Linux.

At the end, I had really beautiful (to my eyes, back then) and very functional desktop, but something went wrong when I made backup before installing SuSE Linux 7.0, so months of vigorous customizing were lost. :-(

But it was fun while it lasted. There were a number of alternative desktop shells in the Windows 95/98 era.

Reminds me of HaikuOS.

I love having to hit Resolve Conversation umpteen times before I can merge because somebody added Copilot and it added that many dumb questions/suggestions

See also "Why did you do X?" → Flurry of new commits → Conversation marked as resolved

And not just from juniors

I'm selling browser extensions on the App Store, but the main money-maker is currently https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter

When Twitter killed off third-party apps, the browser extension I'd been developing ever since "New Twitter" launched in 2019 suddenly became one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use, and the number of users of the Chrome version tripled from 30k to 90k in a fortnight (mostly in Japan).

When they confirmed third-party apps had been killed on purpose and jacked up the price of the API to discourage new ones, I started selling it on the App Store the next week and it's made more than $500 per month ever since.

Before the end of the year I'm hoping to roll out a single paid subscription which works across all my extensions when you sign up for it, which enables syncing settings across all your browsers and devices, unlocks additional subscriber-only features, and will enable creation of extension-specific APIs if there are future features which require one. Between Control Panel for Twitter and https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube I have ~390,000 users, so, y'know, please like and subscribe.

That will _eventually_ include my free Hacker News extension ( https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news ) so things like new comment counts, user notes and muted users can sync across every browser and device you use Hacker News on.

If that takes off, I hope to make the App Store versions free and figure out how to give anyone who bought it 3 months of the subscription per extension they bought as a thank-you. If anyone's done something like that before, I'd be happy to hear about it via any communication method in my HN profile!

I do Clues by Sam every day when I'm walking my dog before I start work, and I was particularly glad to have the daily mental workout this month, as I didn't have time for Advent of Code. Just bought both puzzle packs to support your great work!

I don't know how you're able to focus while walking the dog, but good job! And thank you!

If people could get into the habit of using "AI*" when they explicitly mean "LLM" but they have to say "AI" because hype, that would be nice.

It gets complicated. The * leads to

"* The asterisk acknowledges that “AI” has become a catch-all term. Machine learning tools like local translation engines (Bergamot) are valuable and transparent. Large language models, in their current black-box form, are neither."

And Bergamot is also a transformer based language model.

You can also, more conveniently, plug an extension's URL into this viewer:

https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/

Now I have to trust that viewer doesn't hide the malicious code, nor that my browser does (presumably from an existing untrustworthy extension)

It'd have to be adept at spotting it in all its forms first in order to hide it, which seems expensive for a free viewer

They do, and it takes longer for updates to Recommended extensions to be reviewed as a result.

This is what the Firefox add-ons team sent to me when one of my extensions was invited to the Recommended program:

> If you’re interested in Control Panel for Twitter becoming a Firefox Recommended Extension there are a couple of conditions to consider:

> 1) Mozilla staff security experts manually review every new submission of all Recommended extensions; this ensures all Recommended extensions remain compliant with AMO’s privacy and security standards. Due to this rigorous monitoring you can expect slightly longer review wait times for new version submissions (up to two weeks in some cases, though it’s usually just a few days).

> 2) Developers agree to actively maintain their Recommended extension (i.e. make timely bug fixes and/or generally tend to its ongoing maintenance). Basically we don't want to include abandoned or otherwise decaying content, so if the day arrives you intend to no longer maintain Control Panel for Twitter, we simply ask you to communicate that to us so we can plan for its removal from the program.

That's great! They should put that on the website.

git-gui can do that too

For all the others, that is the built-in GUI.

tig can do that too

Makes me wish there was a cross-platform equivalent to HTML Applications [1]. They were hell to develop at the time, but being able to create single-text-file tools with a browser UI, file system and network access, and app automation via COM was amazing

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

That would be neat. So instead of having to write a whole Electron or Tauri app and package it, you just target some shell program.

You could definitely build such a shell with Electron or Tauri, it punches a big hole in their security model, but you could do it.