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Are you thinking of "The Codeless Code" poem about this? https://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234

I read it as a to-do or calendar event: at such-and-such time, we will put the icing on some cookies.

I have a kitchen slide rule that I use to scale recipes and do simple conversions. I used it last week when inflating a ball that had a target diameter in centimeters, but measurin…

We don't even need the term "identity theft". We already have a perfectly good word for than: "fraud".

From the article... Passkeys: - are generated securely and so can’t be guessed - can’t be phished - are unique for each website you use, so if one website is compromised it doesn’t…

Watch out for Occam's Hacksaw: Any complex problem can be made to look simple by hacking away enough parts of it as "not essential", saying you'll handle them in version two.

Many filing cabinets in the US are also sized so you can put letter sized folders in one way, or rotate the folders 90 degrees and legal sized folders will fit correctly.

You might want to add the --http0.9 flag to curl, to tell it that getting a response of just "ok" (HTTP 0.9 style, body only without headers) isn't an error.

Grep is from an ed editor command: global (g) to apply a command to all lines that match a regular expression, a regex surrounded by slashes (/), and print (p) to display those lin…

The minor difference is that :q! quits without saving but returns zero as the exit code, but :cq quits with a nonzero exit code. Git interprets the nonzero exit code as "editing fa…

That was how I learned to tense my ear muscles -- because I could see they made my glasses shift on my face.

I have a kitchen slide that I use for ratios in recipes. It's an old plastic one from Think Geek. For example, I usually put 15 grams of coffee with 8 oz of water (please excuse th…

Shellac isn't made of bugs - it's made by bugs. Specifically, it's the resin secreted by a female lac beetle onto the branch of the trees that they live and feed on.

Some of the letter shapes look like Latin/Roman cursive, but even then I'm not sure I recognize any words either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive

It's most likely legacy from pre-computer unit record equipment. These machines could only handle numbers and printed zeros without a slash because there was nothing to confuse the…

I saw one city park where they took this one step farther. They had a small wooden structure (I think the cover to a water valve, from years ago when they used to set up an ice ska…

To your original question, yes. The phrase "formerly known as" comes before the old name.

BBS, Gopher, Usenet, and friends are all still there - no need to invent a new protocol.

A push notification is generally what creates the "you have a new message on " red bubble.

It's not real - but imagine if it were!

LLMs generate content that's statistically plausible, not factually accurate. We don't need more content about USB that might be mostly right.

Yes, you're looking for US patent 4,549,302: > Thus, even if the file being transmitted [...] includes occurrences of the escape command string of bits, it is extremely unlikely th…

I've heard that the "do you not have" phrasing was used in polite Soviet-era Russian, leading to a joke about a customer who walks into a shop and sees all the shelves are empty: -…

It's a poorly worded message, but the idea is that you press F1 after plugging in (or otherwise fixing) the keyboard.

In the Apple documentation for MVC, "controller" refers to a class that sits between the model and view. When data changes in the model, it updates the view; and when the user inte…