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John's Background Switcher mentions (6)

• Microsoft should make it easier to people use other Shells/window managers

  Now it's just a wallpaper changer pointed to a folder of my kids pics This one : Https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Where you get wallpapers for your Mac?

  I used to use https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ and it's cool. But latest years I just stick to Snow Leopard. A bit of nostalgia. :). Source: about 1 year ago

• Do you use your photos as wallpapers?

  I use https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ on my desktop PC. Find it a great way to see our travel photos that would otherwise just sit in a folder and not been seen for ages. Just set it to choose a random image from a defined folder every 10 minutes. Source: almost 2 years ago

• looking for random assorted wallpapers for my dual monitor setup (1 : 2560x1080) (1: 1920x1080)

  I use John's background switcher https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/. It's very customizable for every kind of setup. Source: about 2 years ago

• why can i not have separate background images?

  You need a third party wallpaper manager to do that. Many of them have this feature. I use John’s Background Switcher. It can set a different wallpaper on each monitor, randomized from your collection. Source: over 2 years ago

Textpattern mentions (4)

• Modern WordPress – Yikes

  Checkout https://textpattern.com/ - its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn't reach Wordpress' success, I've always felt that TextPattern is better coded than WordPress. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: For static HTML, what is your go to template?

  Depends on the need...I have a quick LibreOffice HTML template in light or dark. I include metas for mobile use in the document properties. I also have a PHP controller that can easily modify these if I need it to be more dynamic. Otherwise I use https://picocss.com/ for some things. For publishing I either drop the HTML file in a folder with or without a controller, or start a new endpoint by creating a new... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Textile Markup Language

  Textile was the driving markup behind Textpattern (https://textpattern.com/), one of the better publishing/CMS tools out there on PHP. It had a nice object oriented approach that was less painful than Wordpress, and gave great flexibility to design aspects in ways that were easier to work with than Wordpress... But Wordpress won the popular marketshare, and TP was relegated to some diehards. Those diehards still... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• WordPress is 18

  Wordpress made a great impact on the net, and I was happy when clients liked its ease of use and relieved from the burden of making content changes. (Though, I've always felt that https://textpattern.com/ was more secure and better than Wordpress). - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago