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I was amazed that the site still runs, apparently still using the same engine. But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with…

Starting a comment with «yawn» immediately shows dismissal of and disrespect for the person you're replying to. You might want to refresh your memory of HN's guidelines. Link at th…

TIL. https://plugins.jenkins.io/blueocean/ Blue Ocean status Blue Ocean will not receive further functionality updates. Blue Ocean will continue to provide easy-to-use Pipeline vis…

> Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license. Our company was targeted by Oracle Sales because they detected mere _downloads_ from ou…

This works great for password resets. It does not work if you actually want to send emails, for instance notifications.

Instinctively applying Pascal case, maybe?

Plainly Difficult has a nice video about this accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0xQzPSy8

I did, too :) For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net

That's a really nifty visualisation of the 140 named web colors.

I did not and can't downvote, no I have no stake in this. That said, in my opinion people working in such a workplace reading a post "Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022"…

Two days ago, I've tried to create an account tied only to an email. During account creation, the wizard suddenly inserted an additional step and required my to enter a phone numbe…

We use Quill, too, we only need rudimentary features, though. Its maintenance status is... questionable, although my information is out of date (see last paragraph). * Github: http…

Please provide some context, instead of just dumping an URL.

My guess is that the graphical designers are to blame for this – and of course whatever PM signed off on that.

> kids in first year of school should know how to draw flag from memory Roman Mars taught me that – well Ted Kaye, but Roman taught me in his seminal TED talk [1]. [1] https://www.…

While I can understand their reasons for shutting Upsource down, I think the very same reason will prevent users from migrating to their preferred tool-suite ("Space" [1]): users o…

This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.

Let me assure you that not all European developers have such generous conditions.

On this topic I suggest viewing CPG Grey's video "Hexagons are the Bestagons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY

> and are financially secure. This is the key point. I can imagine being a farmer is a lot more nerve wracking if e.g. bad whether destroys your year's harvest – for the third time…

The Windows 95 ".chm" help pages [1] were basically HTML pages, displayed in an application embedding Internet Explorer. IIRC this lead to login exploits (since the login screen wa…

I had to look this up to check if it was sarcasm or not. Apparently it's not, and `_optout` for Windows is real. FML. Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1005235/wi-fi-opt-out-…

I guess (and I have no way to verify this, it's really just a guess) that the number of developers that worked on the Windows code base in its 35 year history is in the same order,…

There's https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ , a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks…

Stuff like this is the reason why I, as a non-american software engineer, use `US_en` layouts on all my machines.