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Very cool! I will be playing with this. The only thing that jumped out to me is a lack of a panic button that stops all sound.

You are right. However, it is my work and I do have an emotional connection to my work and my frustrations with certain technologies are very real.

They absolutely do. But I usually don't have to explain the config language and it's widely supported, that is an absolute upside of .ini files.

I'll use what I'll have to use, it's a tool like you said. But I don't have to love it. Configuration is a necessary evil and whatever I end up using, I'm never fully satisfied wit…

I'll just come out and say that I hate every single configuration language. All of them suck in their own unique way and every time a new one comes out it fixes some issues of the …

I actually really like the fact that my Garmin Instinct is not really a smart watch, it makes connecting it to your phone optional. Mine has never connected to a phone because I do…

That probably doesn't work either unless they work in an automated fashion. Did the chef put two or three dashes (official SI unit) of this or that on your meal? A a "dash" or "spl…

I'll second the recommendation of fiction (I love the classics) and add a recommendation for reading philosophy and specifically the history of philosophy. Learning how our frame t…

This is actually what I do most of the time. I feel like that anecdote of RMS where he says he wgets web pages and e-mails them to himself.

And they were caught and received 30 year prison sentences. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-sentenced-to-prison-for-...

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to their cats' behaviour when another pet dies. I remember when one of our four cats didn't come home, there were…

I would have done that if the venue were closer to me, but it's just a little too far away for that. There might be tickets available just before the show, but I'm not willing to r…

Recently I attempted to buy concert tickets from a well known ticket seller. It insisted I was a bot, even after disabling my uMatrix and uBlock Origin. There was no way to prove t…

Not where I live (ace-K and sucralose). Maybe it differs per region.

I have yet to encounter a soda that uses sugar alcohols, most use aspartame, ace-K, sucralose, or stevia. Those don't bother me at all. But the side-effects of sugar alcohols are p…

Sugar alcohols will never be as popular as more obvious choices like aspartame and sucralose. Most people have at least some adverse reaction to sugar alcohols. Personally, all of …

Well call me a heathen, but I've never even considered React. Instead I always generate HTML server side and spruce it up using a little JavaScript if necessary (I even use jQuery …

Nothing is the way forward. It's programming, we make stuff that does stuff. Preferably with stuff that makes making stuff that does stuff easier and with stuff that will be suppor…

Just the fact that Yarn seems to be the dominant package manager now when it seems like last week it was npm. What will it be next week? I truly wonder, do people use this stuff fo…

It seems that https://www.startpage.com also uses Bing for its images.

If you need guard rails to keep you from performing database manipulations in your views you have other problems to worry about. And if anything people are cutting corners on SOC i…

1. I've seen enough terrible things in my time, but you can make a mess in any language using any number of frameworks. And it's been a hot minute since I've seen one of those 1000…

Why is it a "bad idea"? I'm genuinely curious. It works great, it's fast and you don't have to learn a new templating language or dialect every 2-3 years. Or try to figure out how …

The bad good old days, I sure don't miss writing pages with byzantine structures of tables within tables. I do miss web pages that weren't +10MB that load hundreds of JS and CSS fi…

When in doubt, blame your customers for not wanting your product. He's a true libertarian free speech absolutist alright.