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My take has nothing to do with charity to Cloudflare, but to the author. I can't help remembering that quote from the 50's where an IBM exec said they weren't going to fire an empl…

My charitable read on this is that an individual vibe-coded both the post and repository and was able to publish to the Cloudflare blog without it actually being reviewed or vetted…

Have any examples in mind of the “really good tracks?”

It looks like they've copied the template/page from a previous diagram file and forgot to remove one of the lines, probably just an accident.

Because users do not know that there's some hypothetical "better" experience they could have had and do not care, unless your service/tool/whatever is not functioning correctly. Pr…

The implied disagreement for why neovim exists to provide functionality that wouldn’t have been merged into vim.

There’s a difference between “I don’t want any photos of my kids in a server anywhere” and “please don’t share pictures of my kids to other people unless we do it privately”, which…

It’s not prioritization if it doesn’t hurt.

I don't really buy the two main criticisms around code review. They're stated as intractable downsides but are really just cultural issues around how you perform code reviews. If y…

What about staying inside with cool/dry air causes these infections? Genuinely curious.

> it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved. The warrant was approved, but the issue at hand is that these safety deposit boxes were raided when "the warrant autho…

I love learning more about the ampersand, for obvious reasons. I've used this unixname for a long time and it's always immensely satisfying when people realize it's just my real na…

I would have used it! :)

I really dislike this meme of pointing out that Google has deprecated a lot of projects. Do people actually expect Google to staff people & resources running every project they've …

You can totally implement A/B tests on top of a feature-flag framework. Your “pass” function should be hashed on the User ID/Cookie/whatever and then you can distribute users into …

Er, I don't really think dine-and-dashing is quite the same as being treated to your meal because you are on a date.

Do you have any resources on how you learned to create such loaders? I hacked together a custom loading animation for some tools I've built just using images & css transforms, but …

You may like Tomorrow, which has several sub-themes and is available for dozens of apps. I use Tomorrow Night Bright for everything. https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme

Requiring users to know what sites they want in advance somewhat defeats the purpose of a search engine, no?

https://hhvm.com/

> I'm not entirely sure why buzz around "developer learns basic knowledge" has this on the front page. Because it's a well written, humble account of learning from a mistake then u…