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I'm sure it is a learning exercise in OS development to some extent, just a lightweight exercise compared to doing it 'properly'. FWIW I don't upvote submissions like this though, …

I badgered my parents into getting 64k ISDN installed at home in ~2000. Whatever the pitch was, IIRC my true motivation was to get double-digit ping times for Quake etc. Playing fr…

I noticed someone has already adapted libghostty for Swift/SwiftUI: https://github.com/Lakr233/libghostty-spm EDIT: Apparently an official version is actually coming soon: https://…

That's neat that she designed their house. When I've seen photos of Wolfram in his house I've always thought it looked an awesome high-class place.

We get it, you're really proud that you choose to disable JavaScript, and need to let everyone know about it

I've always found it weird when a form admonishes you for writing spaces or dashes in e.g. a phone number or credit card number. Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them …

Great point. It is simply lame impatient clout-chasing when someone goes out and promotes their project that is approximately as new to them as it is to the people they're promotin…

Talking of heavy-handed confirmation dialogs, there's a good example of this in Apple's Preview.app (PDF viewer). They made an unconfigurable change a few years ago, such that ever…

IMHO the persistence of Model M (now Unicomp) worship is a meme. Yes a chunky Buckling Spring mechanism is a very unique and "fun" feel, but that doesn't mean it's actually good to…

Grasping at straws, it's kinda convenient that ( and ) match literally if the text being searched is Elisp code!

I remember these guys from the glory days of the CrankyGeeks video podcast. John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley had a great double-act hosting that show.

Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing: - https://swiftpackageregistry.com - https://swi…

Even the later JavaFX was a tasteless exercise. I opened some apps and you could tell within 1 second that something was wrong because all the text was using fugly non-platform-nat…

> Any body who saw a Perl programmer do over a weekend, what they would take a year to do in their language(especially Java and Python)- had a deep rooted seething envy at Perl and…

The tapestry of share buttons were certainly novel and interesting like 20 years ago. They may be lame and 99+% ignored now but it's been a slide to this state of affairs.

Real text lovers have an appreciation of typography and don't ignore the whole field and stay in the dirt with crude "monospace everything" approach.

IIRC it seemed like that pilot was having some kind of nervous breakdown because he surreptitiously held back on the stick all the way from 38,000ft until the crash.

There's something disgusting about the use of characters for graphs/charts on a bitmapped monitor. Trust nerds to find a way to make stuff ugly!

He's so charming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-ZmuJixIg

AFAIK that setting is opt-in, at least in Bash.