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If you consider this article lengthy you should read a few books to recalibrate your attention span.

FYI this site isn't paywalled, it just has an obnoxious popup.

I wouldn't call it over-engineered, but it certainly is an operational disaster. It's slow, memory hungry, and full of catastrophic bugs. We are currently replacing it with Postgre…

> There's no reason you couldn't represent RFC5322 data with RDF as JSONLD. There's now a way to do streaming JSON-LD. Is there a reason you'd want to? I clicked all your links but…

I've endured Datomic for 4 years and I really wonder what the folks who enjoy it are doing, because for me it us utter misery. - It's miserably slow (if you wish to contradict this…

I've heard that this is also why American baguettes are so brutally hard (even when fresh). They're supposed to be closer to crispy, not a dental hazard.

Ah, I see what you meant. Thanks for clarifying!

I think most of your advice is solid, but I take issue with one point: > - If your font colour is more thant #333 on white, you're being cruel, especially to those who suffer astig…

You may appreciate https://github.com/Andy753421/mkinit though it is written in mk (from Plan 9) rather than Make.

I guess I have no plans to buy another Nvidia card, then. Their current X11 drivers tear like crazy, and I have hope that Wayland will fix that.

This, a thousand times this. Failing that, though, at least change the default rsyslog configuration such that: * Timestamps are not ambiguous (the default includes no timezone off…

Scylla's blog has some excellent technical content, though it's intermixed with lots release announcements. http://www.scylladb.com/2017/01/02/top-5-blog-posts-of-2016/ has some of…

The biggest gotcha is that namedtuples compare exactly like regular tuples. Thus, two namedtuple types with identical elements will compare equal even if the type and field names d…

I have a Z5 Compact as well. Nice little phone, and quite fast. However, I don't think that many developers test their apps on a sub-5" screen, because I've encountered issues with…

Another Rust terminal emulator project, notty[1], aims to do this. Downthread the author mentions that the projects are looking at collaborating. [1]: https://github.com/withoutboa…

It seems worth noting that as web browsers have removed the ability to disable JavaScript they have added options to disable web fonts. I flipped this switch in Firefox for Android…

Anyone in particular, or anything open source? I could use this for a work project, but the closest I've been able to find is an old project which backed JGit to Cassandra and the …

What are the products better than Fitbit's which the article alludes to? I've generally been impressed with their products, and my experience with a competitor (Virgin Pulse) was t…

Firefox on Android has a switch for this. Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Show web fonts. The mobile web is remarkably faster to load with it off, even on wifi.

The SIL Open Font License restricts subsetting, so you do need to be careful when doing this (the license requires that you change the font name if you reduce the font's display qu…

CSS unicode-range has that covered: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/... Pretty good browser support, too.

What tools do you use to profile a Scala + Akka service? IME they are quite opaque to traditional Java tools like VisualVM. What am I missing?

We ship a microservices-based product on-premises. You can do it, but it's a heck of a lot of work. Plus you don't get any of the benefits microservices might bring in a CD scenari…

It is frustrating that Firefox makes it so easy to delete recent history, but difficult to remove old stuff. I really only want the last month or so; why do I have to clear it manu…