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This was not the URL of this page in 1998.

Do we care that the bug here was a horizontal scrollbar showing and the fix after all this insane tool writing was to add a very obvious overflow-x: hidden to the element? We dont …

Edit: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/insights/leveraging-gmail-... Shows you how to use googles thing if you are a sender to know if @gmail folks are reporting you. It doesnt ad…

I did some tiny digging because I remembered that there is a way to report individual messages in a structured machine readable way to abuse@ for these things --- i suspect that th…

PostgresSQL "crosstab ( source_sql text, category_sql text ) → setof record" https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html VIA https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/how-to-p…

If this code is real and complete then there are no callers of those methods other than a logger line

Good memories of the open source world. I couldn't find my commits in either repo and i'm afraid i might have been shy to upstream them and just did them in a fork. it was tiny, Th…

I wonder, can we not turn all threads into a "when will AI do this creative thing better than humans". Humans need basic income (or at least resources) and to have culturally valua…

I would love to see alternatives of educational code that implements these things in a "compliant" way. Security does not come from Compliance (sometimes they are at odds) but as s…

Marginally better for sure but in this case the path would also have been "leaked" to the sentry instance owned by developers of the the NAS device phoning home. This can happen in…

Yeah, as a salty greybeard i tried to tell our FE tech-lead to just render the proper HTTP Cache-Control headers in the Next.js site we recently built. He tried and then linked me …

this too...

I feel the same, 72 million monthly page views is about 8 pages per second even if in a single timezone (72e6 / 8h * 30d * 3600h/s) - even with today's heavy weight pages we are ta…

Does it? I watched this video and the explanation of how they (mostly Bill in Vermont) did it had barely enough room for the song data. I think the line graphics might have been so…

One of my first legit independent contractor jobs was a background job for coldfusion-based website that needed to get partners to update their data periodically. The business had …

Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are: https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both: "You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownersh…

Yeah, not a candidate for the list. I thought it wasn't because the list was about > 2 different spellings that sound "identical" but mean different things. I agree with you and wh…

"database" in legal/business speak (AFAIK) is the more general "organized collection of data" - not the more software engineer focused relational/object/graph- implementations of s…

This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... Edit: It's not on the list because its using multiple meanings of the same spelling...

Wasn't fintech but was fin something. Several weeks into trying to port a Excel workbook with a zillion tabs, some VBscript from stackoverflow and other nastiness and being unable …

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927 "Microsoft Windows 98 (and later) and Mac OS 8.5 (and later) already support this capability." And https://www.techrepublic.com/forums…

I expected the layout, head size, expression etc rules to be more or less standard across countries. More than a decade a go our dual citizen baby got both passports at once and I …

And an IDE would also fail to find references for most of the cases described in the article: name composition/manipulation, naming consistency across language barriers, and flat n…

Nope but "handle confusion" safety perhpas?

It wasn't the only language browsers (vbscript was allowed client side in early ie) supported and also isn't anymore with wasm