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“Better” is entirely subjective, complexity can provide improved power for advanced users but make it more difficult for new / average users by compartmenting the “happy path” regu…

I’ve thought about doing this, what kind of device do you use for input? I have a Logitech K400 Plus portable keyboard and it works great for general use, but I end up using my App…

It’s unfortunate the HDMI forum is dragging their feet on this, but it’s kind of the nature of their business model so I’m not holding my breath waiting for things to resolve. To u…

I can’t wait for QUERY to become an official RFC. It's felt quite awkward to tiptoe around the existing spec when building features that retrieve data; we've had to either use POST…

Or if on the iOS side of the fence, I’ve found the Octal app is fantastic

This is a very confusing move if true, for a few reasons: - A folded iPad wouldn’t necessarily be easily pocket-able for most people. - I regularly see iPads being used for gaming …

Obligatory link to https://killedbygoogle.com/

I switched to Linux around the time the TPM stuff started since my hardware was “no longer supported” on Windows 11, and honestly more people should try Linux. I feel like aside fr…

This looks awesome, can’t wait for it to include speaker notes and/or videos so it’s easier to use for self-study!

Maybe 5-10 years ago, but today’s Linux desktop has evolved to be much more user friendly and stable. Applications have a standard containerized format (Flatpak), the most popular …

That’s one reason why I love the devlog videos from Randy. Not only does he not hide it when things get hard, he truly takes you on the journey to see his most painful-est of momen…

I’m pretty optimistic about V, it so far has great language ergonomics, solid performance, and memory safety through its “autofree” memory feature flag. https://vlang.io/

Those restrictions seem intended to prevent people from creating a bunch of bot accounts that exploit the free tier. (Which is a common problem among free tiers for CI services and…

C# with ASP.NET Core has been pretty great in my experience; it has both reasonable language syntax without that many footguns and reliable performance

Why doesn’t Twitter require and enforce that display names of Twitter Blue users unique? In the event a legitimate party is name-jacked, they could just triage those incidents like…

TLDR: Brave asked USPS to send out a mass physical mail ad to folks in a specific set of US zip codes. The “New User” message is a mishap from the marketing team; Brave themselves …

I actually was a victim of this recently, and ended up unintentionally signing up for their $25/month subscription while attempting to create an account to freeze my credit with th…