I think there was actually a “darknet” version of altavista that was called Astalavista too. If you were sailing the high seas back then, or looking for the anarchists cookbook, for research purposes.

Asta la vista

I don’t even think any apps that use the API are allowed to use “Spot” in their name.

It cannot begin with “Spot” or be similar to “Spotify” in sound or spelling.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/design

Here is an otter

Thing is, language is constantly changing, so if enough people say it wrong, it makes it correct over time.

As an example, people have been using nauseous incorrectly for so long, that it’s now correct again.

How do you do the ingredients for a recipe? Does it understand “1tbsp” and things like that?

That’s numberHwang!

Logseq is worth looking into as well. You’d have the same sync conundrum as Obsidian, and can solve it the same way too.

More specifically, what’s the connection to Reddit?

Insert to copy, and then Insert to paste.

As in adult swim time at a pool, as opposed to Adult Swim from Cartoon Network?

A couple of reasons:

1. Who would contribute? Banks are highly regulated and sometimes deal with complex products that most Devs don’t have a background on. Even most Devs in banks rely on a team of business analysts, designers etc to shape the requirements. Add on top of that the general negative perception of banks, I can’t think of a large open-source community forming.
2. Competition. Bank’s primarily compete with each other. They all offer very similar products, and any advantage they can gain by developing proprietary software will be explored.
3. Third-party apps. Banks use a TON of third-party apps behind the scenes. A lot of times they will purchase licenses for existing products and then customise on top of that.
4. Outsourcing. Even when they are building the app “in-house” they may have outsourced the development to another company, and will then just maintain the finished product.
5. Banks move slooooowly. As it’s a highly regulated industry, every deployment needs to go through a ton of red-tape. An exploit found in public might take weeks to be resolved internally.
6. Reward is not worth risk. It simply isn’t a priority and they can’t see any benefit for doing it. It’s more likely to cause a reputation risk than not.

I didn’t realise 12ft.io has gone down but I believe their original slogan was along the lines of, “for every 10ft wall, there’s a 12ft ladder”, hence the name.

This policy was last updated in March, 2023.

Silent, defiant. Loud, disallowed.

You’ll want to create a new firebase project, install the firebase CLI on your computer and then use the CLI to: login to firebase, select the project you created, and then using the CLI run firebase deploy wherever your code is. That should use firebase “hosting” to serve your static files.

I find Google Cloud’s documentation extremely confusing (including firebase), so you’re not alone on that front. Took a lot of searching & troubleshooting to finally get my setup working as I intended.

Can’t comment on square space, but you could maybe try firebase (google), github pages, or netlify as alternatives?

My recommendation would be to go down the web dev route to start because it’s very easy to create things that you can share easily (everyone has a browser, but not everyone has python installed on their machine, or wants to open an executable). That can be a great motivator.

I still think App Academy’s free bootcamp is one of the most comprehensive resources to go from zero to making small web apps. It’s very hands-on and they have over 200hrs of material, discord community, and it was updated about a year ago. However, it can be quite daunting and you need to have good discipline to keep going.

https://www.appacademy.io/course/app-academy-open

Otherwise, as someone else mentioned, freecodeacademy is a good beginner resource.

For IPTVNator, which video player do you use? I tried videojs and html5 and nothing would come up.

Just chiming to say I feel the same sometimes. But at the same time I’m also amazed and excited by the different possibilities. There’s usually never a black or white solution, although there are some best-practices that have established over time.

As you mentioned already, I think it helps to think of all the technologies, languages, frameworks etc. as tools to solve a problem.