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Do you also have something like in your element? Things like this let me just throw homepages (or blog pages) at feed readers and they can discover all the different feeds availabl…

To be fair, there’s a programming language out there already with a cuddly-lobster mascot. A decidedly un-cuddly lobster just maximizes product differentiation.

To be fair to GvR, autoformatters weren’t commonplace in the late 80s and early 90s. Were there even any? Ever since Go got big, though, everyone else is discovering how fantastica…

> What happened to actually educating users instead? I’m against passkeys for all the usual reasons, but people have been trying to educate end users for decades now. The lessons d…

I have one-click login with 2FA codes stored in 1Password. And 1Password will still let me export my crazy-long password and TOTP code to a plain text file if I want to switch to a…

> Is killing off password theft worth the tradeoff of restricting the legitimate user’s rights, or is this a step too far towards authoritarian overreach, no matter how significant…

I’ve helped friends with their writing. If _I_ got this bit of feedback I wouldn’t know what to make of it.

Gray backgrounds used to be the default.

Because it’s kind of hard to find the URL with the Google thing out there: https://geminiprotocol.net

According to the linked article on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214230 >, they’ve already been involved: > The response to the protests drew a conflict between ICE and th…

I was under the impression that the National Guard could only be deployed like this if a local politician asked for it. Nobody asked for it for the protests in 2020, so none got de…

I use Obsidian as a distant secondary notetaking app. I use one vault per video game. I don’t need to clutter up a vault just so I can link from a page on Art combos in Xenoblade g…

> do you really want to put out a post that you yourself might find useful, but might be considered shallow, low effort, repetitive, non unique by your readers, and a waste of thei…

The other option is people who never got into LaTeX get into Typst (usually by being too young to have gotten into LaTeX in college), and Typst takes over slowly that way.

I remember having to wait in a queue to download maps and mods and whatnot for Quake and similar games in the late 90s.

I use Alfred and I used to use Quicksilver. Probably not.

If you’d rather not buy another gizmo for a function your phone has likely gobbled up already… iOS, iPadOS, and macOS have a pretty great built-in background-noise generator these …

I think tracking vibe shifts is interesting and noteworthy.

One thing that I’ve noticed: On UNIX, expanding globs (*.txt) is the shell’s job. On Windows, expanding globs is the program’s job. I used to have a bunch of four-line Python progr…

> Gwern's probably not a "wordcel" either, he can program, right? I've never seen any of his publications though. He does Haskell stuff (he mentions it on his website), but he’s ev…

bat is great. I end up doing curl … | prettier --parser html | bat to get not-ugly HTML output from curl.

I use both.

This phrase only made sense when it was explained to me that it’d be better phrased as “the exception that proves the existence of the rule”. (if there were no rule, there wouldn’t…