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I was asking myself the same question and looked it up: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/t... > The most important differences seem to be: * `:` is a buil…

Please continue to blog about the obvious stuff. It happens all of the time that I want to explain to someone what I think is an obvious concept and then I am sometimes surprised t…

I like the Lobsters stance on AI. Also posts are tagged hence you can decide for yourself if the topic may be interesting despite being touched by AI. I haven't found a way to join…

I don't know why you are being downvoted, but I totally thought about that AT protocol first. Apparently, the OP refers to https://atproto.com/ > per the FAQ at https://docs.rocksk…

On Github, there is a way to leave individual comments in the code and in addition give a review a summary. In addition to hitting the "approve" button, I typically spell it out ex…

Where I work I can and am still allowed to push to mainline directly, as are all other developers on the team. Some new colleagues started with PRs and since then it has been a slo…

`set -o vi` is quickly typed in anger...

Another way to make XML awesome (especially for config files and the like) is to completely avoid CDATA i.e. no value value2 but rather: -- simple constructions can then do with ju…

I liked the content of the article enough to read it to the end, but I did have a hard time due to inflation with LLM-isms. Then again I am not a native so how would I know if this…

After some search for programming languages which promise to reduce the number of bugs, I decided to give Ada (2012) a try. I like it better than C and C++ and the compiler is incl…

> - Since maintainers do owe basic human politeness, and they know people will be interacting with them, maintainers do owe this culture some form of communication of their intenti…

My exposure and usage of “AI” has been very limited so far. Hence that is what I am and have been doing all the time: Read the text mostly irrespective of origin. I do note that re…

This is a powerful technique that has helped me a lot in the past as well, especially for those projects where I rarely progressed on (mostly private stuff, the work topics are mor…

UNIX provides the Makefile as go-to tool if a simple pipeline is not enough. GNUmake makes this even more powerful by being able to generate rules on-the-fly. If the tool of intere…

I wonder if this is due to Linux being harder to work on or because it is possible to fix some errors which would be catastrophic on other OSes? Back when I used Windows a lot (Win…

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/293/

https://masysma.net - my site doesn't fulfil the “well received in past HN discussions” requirement, though.

I don't think anybody needs all of the features at once but people have different preferences. E.g. I typically do well without bold formatting (I only need one level of emphasis w…

I don't think that is sufficient for the general case because I would like to be able to use the markdown like _emphasis_ or [hyperlinks]( https://www.example.com ) even inside the…

The original Markdown has fewer features than listed for the more advanced formats in the table. Hence if someone uses reStructuredText it is more precise than just saying “Markdow…

> precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co I am not so much into videos but due to some extended interest in the matter I decided to watch the rec…

Fun to think of it but I think my website actually got removed from that list because it has a logo on top of each page. It is available as “text only” (although not text/plain but…

I do it and it works. The only thing you might be missing: I don't think it helps many people really. I personally still like the feature because I put my website under a free soft…

I don't know of any list, but I know at least of the following “clubs” pages: size-related - https://14kbclub.com/ > - only learned about it today but I am not sure if my site woul…

The signature function of the German ID card (“neuer Personalausweis”). Its 2025 and we still haven't solved secure online identification and we are still not using end-to-end encr…