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Go with S-corp.

Exactly! For a web dev in 2025 to still not know security best practices that have been around for 20+ years is a failure on the part of the dev.

Github discovered the same thing a long long time ago which is why you now have the github.io domain.

I did a talk on Cognitive Biases in performance measurement and included Anscombe's Quartet (among other things) in the section on developer bias: https://speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon…

yeah, that's about the time I quit couchsurfing and limited my interactions to community meets. Then it pretty much died out. I couldn't tell if this is the same folks trying to do…

Wait, is this a rebrand of couchsurfing.org?

Thanks for the feedback. It's more correct to say that traffic drops off for 3-4 hours rather than everyone goes offline for 3-4 hours. It's likely to be staggered based on the slo…

That's a fair criticism. The data suggests that there are different breaks spread out over that 3-4 hour period, not one break of 3-4 hours. I've reworded it accordingly.

Thank you for your personal story about this. It helps to put things in perspective.

I have it on my TODO list to look a little more into that. It caught me by surprise when I pulled up the data for Germany.

It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. FWIW, I taught my kid to ride when he was 3 by putting him at the t…

Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a who…

I came here thinking there was a new recommendation for making toast, or at least a recommended type of bread to use, but I found nothing edible.

Nice. Reminds me of the PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia from back in the 90s/early 2000s: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/index.php

Julia supports Complex numbers as a built-in type.

Reminds me of the time back in 2010 when a piece of CSS on the Yahoo Search page would cause a complete desktop crash on Red Hat Linux: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/04/can-webs…

Reminds me of the 500 mile email (2002): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

I can't say that I specifically learnt COBOL for fun because I did it in 1997 or so in India when the entire Indian IT industry was bidding on a host Y2K migration projects. I only…

Hangul is phonetic, but doesn't have the capability to represent all phonetic sounds of a language. For example, Hindi has 4 distinct letters and consequently sounds for the each o…

Perl counts from 1900, so the year 2000 was actually stored as 100. You'd get 2 digit years in the 1990s and suddenly 3 digit years after 2000. The solution was to arithmetically a…

COBOL programs will be fine. They use 4 characters just for the year since it's stored as the decimal characters. I was trained in COBOL in the late 90s to work on Y2K migrations. …

Already happening. Client Hints are the way forward.

Nope, this is already happened in Chrome. Client Hints are the way forward.

In 1999, I was an intern at a company in India. We wanted to put a machine in a datacenter, and the datacenter admin asked us to set the Administrator password to "password". Turns…

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this. It's an informational blog post about what's happening and what's changing. User Agent strings aren…