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SQLite has a conceptually similar contribution process: > the project does not accept patches from random people on the internet https://sqlite.org/copyright.html In their case, it…

> Additionally, some repos can be configured to automatically merge PRs when all requirements are met, one of which might be your approval. If anyone at GitHub is reading this, I’d…

I want the same mode, but on iOS! Imagine carrying nothing but the phone in your pocket, sitting down at your desk, plugging your phone into the monitor, which has your keyboard an…

Even in Vim, the editing experience falls over when making markdown tables that have non-trivial content in their cells (multiple paragraphs, a code block, etc.). I recently learne…

What is your Linux photo editing software of choice?

Still the only thing I miss about the Firefox right-click context menu coming from Chrome is that Firefox doesn't have a "Look up ' '" in the menu on macOS, to look up in the macOS…

A more complicated version of this problem exists in TypeScript and Ruby, where there are only arrays. Python’s case is considerably simpler by also having tuples, whose length is …

I have used this in the past when building shell scripts and Makefiles to orchestrate an existing build system: https://github.com/jez/symbol/blob/master/scaffold/symbol#L1... The …

Another fun consequence of this is that you can initialize otherwise-unset file descriptors this way: $ cat foo.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash >&1 echo "will print on stdout" >&2 echo "wil…

For comparison, Visa's stated FY 2025 (ended Sep 30, 2025) payments volume was $14.2T. rough math, but: $14.2T / $1.9T * 1.6% = 12% global GDP

Paypal TPV YoY growth for 2025 was 7%[1]. Stripe cites 34% growth for the same period and metric. [1]: https://s205.q4cdn.com/875401827/files/doc_financials/2025/q...

The tender offer announced in the article is open to former employees as well, so they personally profit regardless of Stripe being public (unless the claim is that by being public…

As others have mentioned, it comes down to the threat model, but sometimes the threat model itself is uncomfortable to talk about. It’s sad to think about, but in my recollection a…

I have a command called `ascii-4col.txt` in my personal `bin/` folder that prints this out: https://github.com/jez/bin/blob/master/ascii-4col.txt It's neat because it's the only co…

On a US keyboard layout this is the same number of keys because { and } are Shift+[ and Shift+]

Something I never understood about this: is the pipe necessary, or just to have another symbol contributing to the mayhem? :(){:&;:};: This is the same number of characters but doe…

Far be it from me to get in the way of someone protesting megabank centralization, but... I have to imagine that this bank relationship will be different from those previous acquis…