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This is a great question! I tend to find my debugging practice differs depending on the language I’m using and the array of problems, but the recurring common denominator is printf…

96 HTTP requests, totaling 5406.72 KB, in 12.87 seconds. Maybe good design for print, but certainly not for web.

I wrote a little bit about this two years ago: https://sny.no/2014/04/dbts There’s not necessarily an antagonism between distributed and centralised in this case. You can still hav…

Isn’t it a little bit strange that the paper itself is writing about this, and presenting it as if it was a serious news story instead of a shameless plug for itself? I can accept …

And Twitter: https://twitter.com/htmlstandard

This is wonderful, not only because I can see my house on the screenshots, but because I’ve wondered about the exact same thing. However, it turns out that my house is on the fake,…

If a user has a sub-par experience browsing a website in one browser, she will switch to another and the loss is on the browser vendor’s behalf and not the website’s. The vendor ha…

By far my favourite is alias sl ls https://github.com/andreastt/dotfiles/blob/master/login#L44

The problem with this question is that there are so many _different ways_ to use Mercurial. hg's core is fairly minimal and everyone I know who uses it rely heavily on core- and th…

It seems more similar in nature to Opera Turbo, which does a subset of the things described here.

Of course I'm being sarcastic. It's just very shoddy craftsmanship to launch a website for Chrome-only and leave it like that for several months.

For reference, this is being tracked by Mozilla's webcompat group in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131601 .

I'm constantly bewildered by this notion that writing by hand is slow and thus bad, and that typing is fast and consequently good. In my daily routine work as a programmer I find m…

Oh, my mistake entirely.

The correct link is https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an... . Seems the link was changed.

This is great, but every time I read CSP as Communicating Sequential Processes. Funny thing about cultural contexts.

This is a problem in Chrome only. It renders fine in Firefox and Safari.

I'm quite surprised Hello World in C# could ever sound so lovely.