Developing for Old Browsers

This post is still a draft. Come back later. I have a Windows 98 SE virtual machine that I like to tinker with. I have Apache and PHP 5.1.X running on it. I have ansi.sys enabled MS-DOS terminal1, so I can have colors and create cool CLI apps2. I have VIM 7.3 installed in it.3 Surprisingly enough vim-plug and vim-airline work.45 This means we can have a very modern development expierience on Vim. Vim 7.3 has omni-completion (a type of intellisense) and JS syntax highlighting. For editing text files or keeping notes I also have Notepad++. 6 I also have webone installed. So I can connect to https sites. webone is a proxy that runs in a docker container that terminates the TLS connection. 7 ...

July 16, 2025 · 2 min

Damerau-Levenshtein in the browser or: How I almost lost my mind!

Call me lazy, but when I’m prototyping something. I want to just be able to <script src=" a library quickly. I don’t want to npm, webpack or any such nonsense, if I’m just quickly winging it. Now most of the time it’s wonderful, I can just find a url from jsdelivr or some other CDN that has been minified and ready to be sourced. But sometimes you can’t. This is one of those times. ...

February 18, 2025 · 3 min

Speed Reader App

I have been using this great speed reading webapp called Spreeder. It prints out one word at a time to the middle of the screen. It prints them out at 300WPM by default (raising the average reading speed of 200WPM). It is very effective for short bursts at least. Link to Spreeder: https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1 I was wondering if I could dev this in one day (more or less). Here is the result: https://nake89.github.io/speed-reader/ ...

September 16, 2022 · 1 min

Javascript: Cronometer ratio changer

I created a script (with the help of my wife) which can change the ratio of foods. E.g.To make new food in Cronometer such as date paste, export “Dates” JSON from Cronometer. Then import the file. If the date paste is 15% water and 85% dates, then make the multiplier 0.85 and name it as you want. View at JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/nake89/2k78jxpt/

July 21, 2018 · 1 min

My first userscript

Originally posted at: http://nake89.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-first-userscript.html I know I havent posted in a long time. I totally forgot about blogger. Anyway just wanted to add something and now I have a reason. I made a cool userscript. Userscripts are things to change something about a page, to make it more usable or pretty or something. It works with firefox if you have greasemonkey installed. Anyway here is the script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4039 It puts a simple favicon in a forum I post alot. The favicon: Its short for ElxDraco. Well duh. :D ...

May 7, 2006 · Updated: July 16, 2025 · 2 min