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Further essay on this topic: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/thoughts_and_observations...

https://www.existenz.ch

I still think ICQ was the greatest application name ever.

> A feature known as the Download Monitor plug-in created a webpage with the clear URL which provided a link to the live version, which bypassed the need for authentication. This r…

It feels like we're actually living in the Universal Paperclips universe.

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

If you want more than samples, he's compiled a lot of 1-2 hour genre specific mixes here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Ishkur/ Plus the one 15 hour mix across genres: https://www.mixcl…

Yes, the previous company I worked at redirected the Oracle download pages to a custom page explaining the problem and offering alternatives. That was nice.

The german C64 magazine "64er" had an application which allowed "easy" entry of assembly applications by means of a hex encoding and used a checksum on each line to prevent bugs fr…

Private Slack, WhatsApp and Signal groups are the most valuable to me.

I'm still running a self-hosted Fever instance, it still didn't break down with newer PHP versions. Using Reeder Classic as an RSS client. Also something threatened by unwanted upd…

My best Mullholland Drive experience: A couple of years ago a local arthouse cinema showed the movie again. It was brilliant, just like I remembered it. After the showing, the proj…

For non-americans: Apparently this corresponds to 13-14 years old.

I came from Instapaper after their price hike to Omnivore and went back to Instapaper. I felt that Omnivore was over-complicated with their "every folder is a filter" structure. In…

If you're looking for cheap online storage for your backups know this: A Microsoft 365 Single subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive space (Family subscriptions with 1 TB per per…

The desktop version of Balsamiq with a one-time-payment is still available, but you have to hunt for it a little.

Thanks for the hint, a usage based model looks way more attractive to me right now.

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only…

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mou…

I've recently acquired a 3D printer and have been teaching myself 3D modeling with a CAD tool. It made me appreciate that every. single. line. on man made objects was a conscious d…

The Digital Antiquarian has written a long article on the game and links to the C64 version if you want to play it for yourself: https://www.filfre.net/2014/11/portal/

But don't forget that you'll have to add the ` ` tag in _every single cell_.

Question: What’s the motivation to put coordinates in one’s own WHOIS record? (geoloc/geofeed)

Getting another turn? Two blue mana sounds about fair. Back in my day: https://web.archive.org/web/20220529033205/https://magic.wiz...