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Laundry Files Series by Charles Stross Written by a ex-programmer, features a world where magic is a branch of mathematics, so you can for example write an app to summon demons, or…

The problem is that whatever system we come up with in theory, will have to be built in practice out of people, and there is never any shortage of people who will happily abuse the…

I stopped using bookmarks when I discovered "Tabs Outliner" extension for Chrome, and now I can't imagine using any browser that doesn't work like that. It automatically saves your…

That's why I love Hacker News. I've never heard of PaperWM before, and now I'm a convert. I'm sorry I can't help you with your question, but your question certainly helped me. Than…

Years ago youtube offered a choice between their recomendations and your subscriptions as a homepage. Then they removed the choice and forced their recommendations on everyone. So …

My own version of that goes like this: the difference between being able to code and being a programmer is like the difference between being able to write and being a writer. One i…

A few months before corona came, my employer started giving every team a monthly budget to spend on technical books, which were then avaliable to everyone in the office. Then we mo…

Software getting confused by mismatched locale and language settings. I'm so used to interacting with computers in English that I find translations to my native language more distr…