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Personally, I've cracked very few programming books and I've been building websites since ~2004 back when magazines and books were the best sources for information. Some people lea…

I've always been told by my parents that people can still hear and understand even if they appear unconscious or non-responsive, and so I have a personal policy of speaking respect…

Seen everything on Youtube, I've ditched Youtube for Spotify/listening to music now (and I don't use AI for much besides food recipe questions)

The moment the amount of savings surpassed the annual salary of a good programmer you know you made the wrong investment.

They'll shout this message right until the day they change course. Then who will hold them to account?

When it says "arrays, which may be thought of as functions whose domains are isomorphic to contiguous subsets of the integers", is it saying that this: const list = ['a', 'b', 'c']…

Goodbye to our thought-provoking jester. There will never be another quite like him.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all from Toronto!

I copy/pasted it into my editor to see it larger. I still used my brain. This 'test' is not a true test but a trick, and the trick doesn't have to do with programming ability.

So cool! Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of one of those very old cameras with the bellows or accordion. I wish I could look through it myself to see what you see with it!

This leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I see that the man was Israeli in the original story and I don't want to presume a religious perspective, but I can share some thoughts from my…

Back about 20 years ago there was a lightweight Gecko-based web browser called 'Camino' that was a delight compared to Firefox or other 'full' browsers. It was fast, simplified, an…

The PATH network is great, especially in Toronto's freezing cold and windy winters! The beautiful 'underpass' pictured in this article, with the white marble, is on my commute to w…

“A webpage that counts down to a movie release.” Not an app. Not a startup. Just a janky react/tailwind page. Maybe part of the problem is trying to bite off more than you can chew…

I think the key is that dotfiles are a different genre of (code) writing than production code, with different investment, different motivations, different pain points and histories…

Counterpoint: External CSS stylesheets can be cached, saving future requests, but inlined CSS must be re-downloaded each time and you lose all the benefit of caching the styles ind…

Anybody remember Microsoft's Tay AI from 9 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) If history repeats itself, maybe with software we can automate that whole process……

How does it know the difference?

Thanks for sharing, I'll try some of these out!

You can find their criteria for what they mean by ban on the FAQ page: https://pen.org/book-bans-frequently-asked-questions/ It's probably too long to quote here, but it's a very u…

Instead of asking me, a senior developer, how to solve a problem so I could quickly and easily explain the best approach, instead they go to ChatGPT, ask it, and then come to me to…

A few years ago I ran through all the realistic emergency scenarios I could think of, living in a large city and driving in a car, and except for "being attacked with a gun" the em…

Does he still have a plan "to provide high-speed internet to 15,000 homes and businesses in rural, remote, northern communities by June 2025" or did that get sacrificed for the pri…

Personally I don't think it's about the money, I think it's about what they actually want to do. I think they like their plan and are happy with it.

The point of Chrome-only CSS (vendor-prefixed features) would be to allow Chrome or any other vendor to expose styling functionality to CSS authors in valid CSS syntax in ways that…