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When doing image editing and text copy editing, I find it very handy to have mouse thumb buttons mapped to copy / paste / cut / undo / redo / delete / shift / ctrl. Allows me to do…

We use SQLite IMMEDIATE transactions, which lock files for writes for a few milliseconds while commiting data to the file. This is not a problem in practice until you reach more th…

SQLite is insanely robust. I have developed websites serving hundreds of thousands of daily users where the storage layer is entirely handle by SQLite, via an abstraction layer I b…

I'm not the first to point this out but the website in question, which is mostly static, could easily be hosted on a VPS for at most a couple hundred dollars a month.

I used this to implement , the opposite of , to be able to designate sections of a page to be hidden if JS was disabled. You can of course do the same thing with classes, but custo…

Anyone have knowledge on how accessible SVGs are for folks who use assistive technologies?

Countless lives over the next decades are going to be lost due to decisions being made by this administration. Deaths and illnesses that otherwise would have prevented using existi…

The money doesn't go to the researchers.

think / think hard / think harder / ultrathink These are all valid claude commands/tokens to enhance its "thinking" abilities.

How do you go about finding a recruiter? (for technical roles like system engineers)

The lack of awareness is that the vast majority of users are not aware of and don't use scoop (or probably any package manager) on Windows, especially to install GUI apps, and that…

It significantly increases the attack surfaces of bugs that do exist in the parser if the same implementation is used everywhere.

A good point! Conformance tests seem like a great idea to me to go along with specs.

An argument for a better defined file format specification perhaps, but I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for everyone to use or have to use the same implementation.

I thought apple didn't allow this? Edit: apparently "hybrid apps" using webviews are allowed as long as they're not "thin wrappers" for websites and provide meaningful functionalit…

With a Linux distro on it?

I think iframes are pretty darn handy and it's really not that hard to leverage their strengths in a secure manner.

We're very close to the point where no one is going to be able to make out what is an AI image and what is not and it's already fucking up a lot of stuff and it's going to get much…

I really miss the time before generative images and video were a thing. We opened such a can of worms. Really seems like a "the scientists were so occupied with if they could they …

Those who find this interesting may find my tool helpful, a color picker that only has named HTML colors: https://aavi.xyz/proj/colors

The medium article is also 404