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It's firewire all over again. They'll never learn.

This is why I'm hyped about the fedi. This is what it'll finally take to break our dependence on a centralized web. Essentially, the email model. I wish we followed this model earl…

All these decentralized alternatives don't have iPhone apps. It's app store policy that is blocking devs, ain't it?

Here's the history of CSS layouts as told by a CSSWG spec writer: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2012/css-layout-evolut...

https://xkcd.com/1782/

I know right? Sites like these used to be linked so often. Now that this is no longer the case, I've easily forgotten about these old sites.

Now I'm wishing GitUp had this selection tool. Sadly you can only do operations one commit/branch at a time.

Don't expect him to protect net neutrality just because he is an exec from Silicon Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_te...

Since the 90s, I've viewed Apple as the computer company that was breaking down the boundaries between humans and computers with capable technology. From the GUI to a Unix OS to th…

Articles like these remind me that Lisp uses the perfect number of tokens.

Signal Processing was that subject I found difficult and I found no reason to be interested in audio filtering, so I didn't find an incentive to work through that difficulty. Then …

If that first feature is true, it will bring me back to TypeScript. Honestly, my major deterrence of TypeScript was managing both 3rd party libraries and typing files.

I too was thinking of this article as well. A team might not always know what the boundaries of their data & code classification will be ahead of time.

Since we are on the topic of effectively distributing JS code to clients...why is there no push for delta updates on the web? There was a proposal for delta caching back in 2002: h…

GNU vocaloids?

Which hasn't caught up to new Facebook features and hasn't updated since March. Makes me wonder if Facebook has killed it.

To a lot of you arguing that Progressive Enhancement doesn't apply to "web apps," as Jake Archibald argues[1], that really isn't an excuse if you can't distinguish it from what you…

My series of responses within the span of 30 minutes: * "It looks like fridge magnets for kids! I don't like it; the iconic lower case g is gone cause of designers obsession of san…

The article lead me to this comment by Rob Eisenberg who is skeptical about Web Components being ready. He states that currently, Web Components are not robust for more complicated…

You're correct, getting paid for posts is a strong incentive. In the end, we won't know unless we try. Personally, when I think of a decentralized reddit, there's nothing monetary …

As I commented on the article, I think this whole monetary system might deter adoption of the application. Either way, check out Freenet if you want to see prior art in creating a …

Yeah, but that popularity gave us the president and celebrities. Even better, I've seen more instances where someone would post a missing person or object or ask what a mysterious …

I always feel strange being nostalgic about a website. Like I don't feel weird being nostalgic about a classic episode of The Simpsons or a rock concert, but for YouTube or Newgrou…

Cultured Code's date picker for Things has been my favorite: http://culturedcode.cachefly.net/things/videos/things-iphone...

A testament to how the early days of Apple was more playful like Google's current culture.