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Google Reader's maintenance/downtime page was a Clerihew (preserved at readerisdead.com) Google Reader's built with electrons and leptons, meters and liters. We're off dealing with…

This misfeature can show up in surprising places. Any use of assembly (`.s`) files in a Go program will by default add the executable-stack flag, as we discovered in CockroachDB: h…

I also like this larger hexagonal one: https://rampion.github.io/RegHex/

It's mainly for fun, but to find cases where it might be useful, think about symlinks into this filesystem. `ln -s /bashfs/somescript.sh /etc/hosts` and then your hosts file can be…

Don't destroy it, embrace it. AMP is the low-javascript web many of us pine for. If browsers implemented AMP natively (and it were properly standardized), it would be great, and it…

> if I'm using CockroachDB and don't want to manage it myself, my only option is Cockroach Labs. Cockroach Labs is not your only option; you can also use other providers that have …

I'd like to thank our friends at TimescaleDB for the idea to use schema control as the dividing line (they're doing the same thing in their license)

(Cockroach Labs founder) The details are in the "additional usage grant" clause: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/8acfe8ffd0028c... We decided to draw the line at whet…

I think this is an argument for not giving root/superuser all possible permissions by default. It's OK that granting the `pg_execute_server_program` permission gives access to this…

Here's the NEWS file for the curious: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=e...

> Note, I don't believe it's necessary for _all_ transactions to be strictly serializable, but I would make the argument that all read-write transactions should be in order to prev…

T.V. Raman (author of Emacspeak) has said that "S-Expressions are a major win" for visually-impaired users because they give you a good way to navigate the code structurally ("go t…

This is significant for programs written in Go, which tends to make system calls directly instead of using the libc wrapper functions. LD_PRELOAD trickery often doesn't work with G…

In theory `information_schema` is supposed to be universal, so you could do `select table_name from information_schema.tables`. However, getting useful information out of `informat…

Performance isn't the only thing to consider. For example, tcmalloc and jemalloc both have good profiling/debugging tools, and these are the biggest reasons why I choose one of the…

I learned Python 1.4 on DOS (with DJGPP). I think there were binary releases, but you couldn't use them if you needed any third-party C modules. There was no dynamic linking on DOS…

I'm also a fan of emacs shell and tramp, and use functions like this to start shells on remote boxes without the extra dired/whatever step: (defun shell-foo() (interactive) (let ((…

> When would you need to revoke an individual cert and why wouldn't that be better handled by just shutting down the VM or container instead? You revoke a cert when it's somehow be…

What "standard auth options" do you have in mind for node-to-node auth? The ones that come to my mind are even more of a pain to set up than TLS certs. It's true that setting up a …