Lars Jansen

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[Lars Jansen @oldstackjournal]

@bradaisa The link? its running locally at the moment:)

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I've been working on a website that judges other websites.

Somehow it's ended up with an absurdly over-engineered, futuristic interface that looks like it should be controlling a nuclear reactor.

All that technology just to tell somebody their website looks like shit😆

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@lessing_systems 🤷‍♂️😂

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A dev has managed to get USB 3 and experimental USB4/Thunderbolt support to Windows 98 SE.

Windows. Ninety. Eight.

The project is called xHCI98, and there's a wonderfully detailed write-up of how it was done.

I have no practical use for this whatsoever, but I'm very glad somebody decided it needed to exist 😂

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@tecstoic 😂😂

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@AshwiniNK21 I know! and the last thing I needed was another project haha

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@GrandpaCodes Still working on it on my dev box my friend:) Will post the link when I get it live! It's a stupid thing though, dont hold your breath😂

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@adityaarsharma Hell yeah man, I was so happy:)

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Went to put an end to the bad bot traffic hitting Beyond the News today and found something I wasn't expecting: we'd been linked in the TLDR email newsletter. 500 visitors later...😮

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@CarrieVanOrnum 🤣🤣

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@WarrenLNaida If it was you would be wearing a t-shirt😆😆

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https://t.co/Zl1Yx81Cdk

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@JessePeplinski Love your work Jesse🙌

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I'm looking for more people on X who actually make things.

AI tools, little SaaS projects, WordPress plugins, PHP, JavaScript, whatever. Doesn't matter if you're learning or you've been at it for 20 years.

I'd rather follow someone showing off a scrappy weekend project than another account dispensing startup wisdom.

What are you working on?

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@DanielSmidstrup Tried it. Nice tool mate!

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There's a special kind of developer maths where paying $8 a month for a useful tool is outrageous, but spending an entire weekend building your own version is perfectly reasonable.

I don't think we're always trying to save money. Sometimes we just want an excuse to have fun building something 😂

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@attacomsian The BEST Mac apps💪

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@MacdevM @spaceship is awesome

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@SpaceActivist88 Love that mate!

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@boilermanc I spent 30 years miking my cows brother😍

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@HecksArtificers Furiously trying to keep up with replies to this post tbh mate. Love me some 3d printing :) This was a few years ago:)

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Good question! Unfortunately most of that is still a black box. You might see referral traffic from Perplexity or Gemini, but not what people actually asked. SearchTriage works with Google Search Console data for now. AI search visibility is definitely something I'd like to look at though.