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List 5 famous goblins with proper names, for each provide a quote either from them or about them. Half the time they say Jareth from Labyrinth, The Great Goblin from The Hobbit, or…

Recently I had an experience where the chatbot gave completely wrong subway instructions over and over again. It confidently told me that it was accurate and it was my "trusty comp…

Text of the tweet > We're hiring @ChromiumDev! The Chrome Extensions Developer Relations Engineer will work directly with developers, helping them adopt Manifest V3 and build exten…

It looks like having an MIT license gives you a score of 70. It seems wrong that the most commonly used license on the platform is poor and it makes it hard to trust your scoring o…

This used to be true, but in 2008 direct flights between China & Taiwan were established and today it's easy to holiday in Taiwan from China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Li…

@dang can you fix the typo in the title? Assymetric => Asymmetric

create-react-app made their own security problems by bringing in the entire world, npm audit just makes that clear. npm itself having vulnerabilities is a more serious problem and …

My assumption is legibility, should be a nice cost savings when you don't have to read handwriting.

I was going to comment about this as well. We've been unable to ship packages from Japan to the US for the past 20 months. I heard that as of yesterday we are now able to ship agai…

There's already the Redirect AMP to HTML extension, I use it for both Firefox & Chrome - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/ - https://chrome.google.com/websto…

While it doesn't modify the behavior of any sites, Intercept Redirect automatically skips most redirect services. It's a dead simple implementation that attempts to require the bar…

From the MIT license: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." It clearly requires attributi…

I've already switched to Firefox on Android and expect to stop using Chrome the moment they stop accepting updates to manifest v2 extensions.

It's like claiming that the weeds are not dangerous in your garden not that the guidebook got them wrong.

It's really disappointing to hear an important member of the javascript community not maintaining their library and then blaming npm when people rightfully complain about it. This …

It was added to the standard library: padStart

He just posted another demo where you kick your feet to accelerate a la The Flintstones -- https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140136648492059033... Pretty fun to watch!

There's a nice demo of using handsfree.js to drive a car in a racing game -- https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140032233301379891...

Thanks for trying it out and leaving a review. It's available for most browsers at https://intercept-redirect.bjornstar.com

I wrote Intercept Redirect to skip these redirect services. It doesn't change the URLs that appear on sites but intercepts the requests and instantly redirects them to the intended…

As counter anecdata, I've reported a concrete coatings company claiming to be inside of a post office. I've reported it several times over the course of several months and nothing …