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PUT is idempotent, PATCH is not always. The semantics of a PATCH payload are up to the server and standards like JSON Patch (RFC 6902, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902…

Satisfied former Oban user here. Oban is engineered. Your use-case may be petty, though, like your comment.

https://archive.is/1CsCQ

> finally get some sanity back in webdev Like nested s and 1x1 transparent spacer GIFs?

https://archive.is/9vylt

Pour one out, RIP to a real one. In the early 00's, I used the CDs for free internet access on vacation. There was a local dialup number ~wherever you were and it was plenty fine f…

Sounds a lot like GreenArray GA144 ( https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/GA144.ht... )! Sadly, without a bizarre and proprietary FORTH dialect to call its own, I fe…

Best of luck on your journey! I made the transition from Friendster to MySpace when a bunch of my top 10 Friendster friends were dead. Anyhoo, this will be a tough climb for you. E…

Cool project! But one nitpick. K&R C has no concept of THEN. That's a peculiarity of the ZIP source code, defined as a pure no-op: #define THEN https://github.com/ChristopherDrum/p…

Zildjian cymbals are not any more prone to breaking than other manufacturers'. Whether they sound good to you is another story. :) It's hard to make that judgment about a product l…

Tuilet: a TUI for Toilet, the premier ANSI text generator, written in Rust. https://github.com/gamache/tuilet Are you an IRC shitposter? Isn't it hard to experiment with Toilet/Fig…

Nothing, really. It's food-grade plastic and it will come out the other end. Now, what happens if you seal high-pressure hydraulic oil systems with it? Let's find out! https://www.…

Oh yeah, FWIW a "built-in" function or macro just means it's a part of the Kernel module, which is automatically required+imported in Elixir modules. So it's not orphaned, it's jus…

> Turns out sometimes you gotta use these "orphan" functions even though they logically belong to a certain type (in this case, why isn't tuple_size called like Tuple.size or somet…

Love seeing Vint Cerf reduced to a “Google executive”

> ...listing any given prefix is essentially constant time: I can take any given string, in a bucket with 100 billion objects, and say “give me the next 1000 keys alphabetically th…

If you use computers, Curl is awesome. https://curl.se/

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> Live Demos > Don’t do it. Really, don’t do it. Anyone that has been giving tech talks for a while now knows not to do it. Don’t do it. A few years ago, I found myself in San Fran…

I argue that having a BSD license (in Darwin), BSD heritage (NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, briefly NetBSD), and a mostly BSD userland 20+ years into the project makes this OS a BSD.

macOS and iOS are BSDs. Pretty good niche!

Don’t forget its two friends — the long-handled Torx and the screwdriver with the 10M resistor and the alligator clip, to bleed the charge out of the CRT. Fun machines. I still hav…

> At release Netscape Navigator 1.0 competed against NCSA Mosaic. Over Mosaic, Netscape offered the ability to see documents and images as they load, loading both images and text a…

Sounds similar to computed GO TO, as in: GO TO (LABEL1, LABEL2, LABEL3, LABEL4) I https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/805-4939/6j4m0vn9l/inde...