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This reminds me of Alan Kay's OOPSLA 1997 presentation "The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet" when he describes the Air Force / Burroughs 220 file format from 1961 where the…

With Red Hat's UBI Micro: microcontainer=$(buildah from registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-micro) micromount=$(buildah mount $microcontainer) yum install \ --installroot $micromou…

Speaking about high agency workers, this Company as Code framework reminds me a lot of SaaSiroth introduced in https://youtu.be/dLTUqPue9sQ?si=OIxmP5_D-YZZD2UO&t=200 (KRAZAM: High …

> I was completely struck by how elegant its codebase is. Well... I like Clojure but I bet you will reconsider that sentiment if you scroll through https://github.com/clojure/cloju…

There's a nice Manning book from 2014 about this way of working named The Mikado Method.

Adding product location would be great! As a resident of the European Union I'm unlikely to order one of these mini PCs from the USA due to import taxes and additional shipping cos…

Looks like it: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...

> aching for some higher level abstraction CI/CD components (GA since 17.0) improve the situation a notch: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/components/

Reminds me of this previous effort to build upon Go but add a more flexible type system: https://github.com/oden-lang/oden

> […] they have 4 lines of code in Wing, but the long Pulumi example sets up permissions. So how did the permissions get set up in Wing? As it says on the page: "Wing allows develo…

May 23, 2019: "Dependabot has been acquired by GitHub and we couldn't be more excited!" https://web.archive.org/web/20190601064131/https://dependabo...

Your comment reminded me of this wonderful demo of NeXTSTEP 3 by Steve Jobs himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UiGnpmwAJk

For the record; you were observing the behavior of Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy

> I simply can not imagine even a whole fortune 500 company supporting their own business logic written on top of Spring, which includes log4j and a whole host of other open source…

> […] Airfoil software does all this & more […] Not quite; Airfoil Satellite does not implement an AirPlay 2 receiver which is what this is all about. See https://weblog.rogueamoeb…

FWIW: Minecraft: Pi Edition is discontinued. It only saw a single release (0.1.1 alpha) in 2013. More info over at https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pi_Edition .

You don't even have to buy the songs on iTunes to have Apple stream them to all your devices. With iTunes Match (included with Apple Music subscriptions or available stand-alone) y…

It would be nice if GitHub allowed comments on commit messages and not only the changes so that they could be discussed for the benefit of learning and improvement. Squash merge co…

3D acceleration is not enabled by default for macOS Big Sur in VMware Fusion because it's not considered stable yet. It's possible to activate by tweaking the vmx file: https://kb.…

I don't think they deprecated shared folders, only shared VMs (a function that enables Workstation to act as a virtualization server). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_…

That strategy did not work out well for WSL, so in WSL2 they chose to virtualize Linux instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...

Debian testing doesn't get timely security updates so it's inappropriate to use on production servers. Source: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

> It's proof of the downsides to the IBM acquisition, [...] I think the movement to this outcome already started in January 2014 with this event: https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-…

> […] but for the past several years they default to a scaled display mode. For anyone not familiar, the frame buffer is a higher resolution, and scaled down for the display, tradi…