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A master volume control would be nice (only because my browser doesn't have per-tab controls).

My mental model of a website that replaces the content with some 'sign up now' stuff while I'm trying to read it is that it deserves to get closed and never looked-at again.

http://www.nuke24.net/ Most interesting pages are probably `music/` and `plog/`. Optionally HTTPS, though some of the features don't work right due to links to files on personal se…

I have never really grokked Ruby on Rails and I passionately hate all the frameworks that try to adapt it to some other language. That said, I suspect that Ruby on Rails itself occ…

> inadvertently leaky I think this is the main problem. I don't mind layers of abstraction when they work well and their components compose nicely . Like a well-designed programmin…

I'd return my Framework laptop if that was still an option. First they sent me bad RAM, and left me on my own to sort it out with Crucial, which never went anywhere. The mainboard …

> I thought this would bring some space savings, because files that are not binary code should be largely the same. Those ternary blobs tend to be cross-platform, I hear.

An example of an OpenSCAD design written this way: https://github.com/TOGoS/OpenSCADDesigns/blob/master/2023/ex... I wrote about the approach a little bit in this Reddit post: http…

> The awful thing about OpenSCAD is that what one can model in 3D is limited by one's ability to mathematically stretch, rotate, and/or arrange spheres, cylinders, and cubes in 3D.…

Maybe, and I would definitely prefer this to the random-generic-word practice. "illuminate" is some part of Laravel, but I can't remember what it is, just that "that's not even a n…

1900s MPEG compression was pretty intense.

`5.times` is not so outlandish, though it would seem better for that to be in a `Loop` library or something (`Loop.times(5) { do some stuff }`). The `5.days` example that was poste…

> adding a queen to the Borg destroyed the Borg Agreed. The Borg used to be scary because they seemed unbeatable. They were like grey goo that could adapt to whatever you threw at …

I had about as much luck trying to find a countersinking router bit for 5/16" holes on this site as I did elsewhere. There are results, but they don't look like they'd work very we…

Same "easy to run" benefit, but Deno has the advantage that it caches everything and won't mess screw your computer unless you `--allow-write` or whatever.

Being a good programmer requires thinking about things that, whether you realize it or not, are math problems. Things like managing complexity, or analyzing a program to understand…

I'm a fan of Deno's deno run http://uri.of.the/dang.program.ts

The demo video doesn't seem to have any audio in it! At least none that either ffmpeg or whatever Firefox uses can recognize.

As per the 'special parsing rules for script tags', browsers don't actually treat it as what you'd expect it means. console.log(" "); Results in this being output to the console: B…

> Not so fast, things are about to get messy That ship sailed several paragraphs ago, when got special treatment by the HTML parser. Too bad we couldn't all agree to parse consiste…

> We have but why not add other doc types as time goes on We do have older ones! and Unfortunately the "be liberal in what you accept" principle, in combination with general incomp…

> At best we’re implicitly rewarding obfuscation and time wasting; at worst we’re allowing a lack of clear thinking to be covered up. Most people don't think very clearly. That's w…

> No, you shall not do a User.where directly, you have to do a > UsersRepository.find_all_with_email(...). Even that seems weird to me. If want to load objects, I want to load them…

I don't have a one-page overview of Pony, but I did listen to https://corecursive.com/055-unproven-with-sean-allen/ in the car a couple of times and that made me want to try it.

When I have a thought about how some piece of code could/should be improved, but it's not urgent, instead of // TODO: Refactor this by doing X, Y, Z I'll say // Hmm: This seems bri…