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Someone should send this doc to papajohns.com, which has overcomplicated their website to the point it doesn't even work in Firefox anymore.

Almost impossible, it depends on how fast they're being generated and the precision of the timestamp. The real problem is two years later when someone finds and removes that usleep…

I keep telling the dev teams I'm on that with enough data points, all those random numbers will (probably) eventually collide, and *then* we'll see how robust their software really…

I really hate it when the recommended install method is curl-ing some script directly into a shell, often as root. Especially since it's pretty well known that the remote end can t…

GoDaddy proved themselves corrupt forever ago, grabbing domains their customers didn't pay for in time and then auctioning them back to those customers for massive markups. There's…

This is happening in Colorado too, meaning it could be part of a national push: Colorado Senate Bill "26-051" The actual bill and links to its two sponsors Matt Ball and Amy Pascha…

While XML was imperfect from overcomplication, JSON is imperfect by falling short of even basic database use, and somehow despite its alleged simplicity it manages to be unstandard…

XDG doesn't handle complex environments, especially not heterogeneous computing environments. Something long the core strength of Unix is acknowledged by XDG and then left utterly …

A while ago, I just wrote a filter to be able to paste markdown into a .smd file, and an Apache filter to autoprocess them much like any other filter (and a .smd.meta for title inf…

I just hate that (1) you can't nest anything into a table (2) it's different everywhere. Restructured Text is much more capable, and yet here we are, still using Markdown. My markd…

Fine advice overall. Except: Don't put suffixes on command names. Don't. It's a DOS thing that has no meaning in Unix. It confuses users. It breaks hiding implementation details. I…

The general movement of UI paradigm has been from one tech to the next with a focus on backwards compat. Almost amusingly so at times, but this is how all the earlier users and use…

I can't really enjoy an article on CSS where the third thing he does is to override the USER'S PREFERRED FONT SIZE. Arrogant. But not as bad as those jerks that use smaller and sma…

F*k systemd, and systemd-homed along with it. Their docs don't even mention homes mounted over NFS, or LDAP managed users. This is the same sort of pathetically marginal garbage th…

This whole issue just seems so pathetic. PostScript and DPS, notably NeWS, have device-independent scaling from the outset - you can completely omit even mentioning pixels, even th…

Using abort() every time malloc and kin fail isn't really satisfying anything except the idea that the program should crash before showing incorrect results. While the document its…

Most of both this article and the discussion is covering the simple case of home on a local hard drive, rather than the more interesting real-world situations with network-mounted …

Putting any personally important email account in the hands of some huge corporate provider is pretty much always a recipe for eventual problems. Although big companies also have s…

However, that Apache situation, multithreading *like* things together (request handling), is a more reasonable act than say, turning all of PostgreSQL into a monolithic process. Po…

You can usually find developers interested in any fashionable approach to a problem. Change is fine. What improvement, specifically, though? Adding multithreading is not a function…

[I wrote this mostly imagining the idea was about converting the entire Postgresql service to a single monolithic process. I'm not a fan so far. If is actually around coalescing li…

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Each of your 3 foundational knowledge points will never be used by certain branches of computing. There are scenarios where none of them will be used, so it's hard to truly call th…

The big clue here, is that if we allow generated content to be copyrighted, then some asshat company will just generate All The Things (within, say, a given space) and copyright th…

Gitlab has been cursed by a marketing team that seemingly just can't imagine having mixed licensing levels. At a side effect, organizations that would adopt them at the low (free) …