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Travel videos, for one. I've had to wade through a bunch of "Top 10 must-see places in $CITY" that are obviously thrown together listicles, narrated by an AI voice, with no value w…

I use this extension for Stylus on Firefox: https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray

pyenv can compile Python versions that might not be available with "apt install" yet. And you can have multiple minor versions available (3.7.8 and 3.7.9, for instance), if you eve…

We have a product that depends on data received from external web services. We often want to test certain conditions in the data (specific results, error scenarios, etc), and it's …

I used FoxPro 2.6 back in the day. We used to ship machines to our clients, preloaded with our FoxPro application. As computers got faster, passing the 300MHz mark, our application…

Another style I enjoy is Byzantine chant, though I only recently realized it has its own notation: https://cappellaromana.org/divine-liturgy-music/

The title of the article is "Samsung responds to reviewer complaints about its Galaxy Fold phone". The phrase "user error" appears nowhere in the article. They do mention that some…

How about username/password fields that actually look like data entry fields? In the Delta example, the "fields" are indicated by a faint grey underline with placeholder prompts ne…

Not pictured but also terrible: Enter your phone number in these three separate fields. We may or may not automatically take you to the next field when you've entered enough digits…

I've used this for quick-and-dirty ASCII diagrams. They might need a bit of touching up to be usable with Spongedown. http://asciiflow.com/

Status bar abuse. Back when web browsers (and most other applications) had a status bar across the bottom of the window, there was a JavaScript API that could manipulate the text d…

Many schools have separate software engineering majors/disciplines. When doing my MS in CompSci, there was only one required class on software engineering. I can imagine that other…

There's also a trend of making the article name combative. "The Things You Don't Know About X Could Fill a Book," "You Aren't Using Y Right and Probably Never Will," "The 13 Parts …

Or something between the two. I find Ars claim "The single reference to IMAX in the story..." a little disingenuous; the title of the article and even the URL slug includes the ref…

I use "cheat" to help with less-used options for *NIX commands, probably similar to what you're doing. You create a separate "cheat sheet" for each command (7z, ant, etc.) and then…