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In other words, a boil-the-ocean scheme. Solutions that require a great many humans to change an ingrained behavior are usually non-starters.

> When Jeff Dean goes on vacation, production services across Google mysteriously stop working within a few days. This is actually true. (TRUE) Uh oh...

The post author mentions in the comments he doesn't like the politics of the Mullvad and Brave creators. Brave creator Brendan Eich is also the creator of JavaScript, which powers …

This was really encouraging to read. Appreciate the honesty and vulnerability. Keeo going, keep sober, and I hope your future stays bright.

Same. I've been running a personal blog for over 20 years. Last year, I couldn't find any links to my blog on Google. Went to Google Search Console to find all my links are "Crawle…

The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides once said, "You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes." This runs counter to today's tribalism which says we must reject truth…

Your post is touching on a key question: why write a Windows-specific app? I'm a developer who has built and published several apps. I want the biggest possible audience for those …

FYI, Microsoft Store doesn't need an account. You can install apps without being signed in to the Store. Source: I work on the Microsoft Store.

Everyone thinks they're the good guys, even the bad guys.

Increasingly, there just aren't enough incentives to write native apps. This isn't a criticism of the article, but rather a tangential observation about why so many people turn to …

More than a small kerfuffle. A supply chain attack by a state actor, believed to be China, resulted in undetected malicious code executions from June 2025 to December 2025.

I upvoted it after reading it. I thought there were a number of amusing, counter-intuitive studies in the post. Worth the read.

Yes, I concede the US is partly responsible for Iran's economic collapse. What a wonderful outcome should it result in the Ayatollahs losing their grip on power.

> "Random, anonymous sources" Time Magazine is reporting[0] that local Iranian health officials have given that number. [0]: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran…

Iran's government is an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship. It has imprisoned and killed protestors[0], it hung over 700 political dissidents last year[1], it has imprisoned and e…

Jake Archibald has an excellent post about progressive image rendering, including some metrics on JPEG XL compared to AVIF[0]. > "I was also surprised to see that, in Safari, JPEG …

Nifty, but I see they don't support Facebook or X? That's a showstopper for a lot of people, including me.

What a remarkably misleading copypasta you have there. Rav Kook was not Israel's first rabbi. He died in 1935 - a full 18 years before Israel's rebirth. Nor was Kook the founder of…

> "Has PWA become popular on unencumbered platforms like Android or Windows? No." Yes, PWAs have become popular on these platforms. I work for Microsoft on the Microsoft Store (app…

Gaza (Hamas), the West Bank (Fatah), and Lebanon (Hezbollah) are the reason this technology is needed in the first place: violent religious fundamentalists firing cheap rockets at …

Israel saw over 16,000 rocket attacks last year from fundamentalist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Yemen. The Iron Dome intercepted ~90% of them, resulting in thousands of…

Merry Christmas! "An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I brin…

Not exactly. Here's the quote[0]: > "He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It f…