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I was taught table layout in school and had to relearn everything. First place I'd start today is http://diveintohtml5.info/ . After that look into CSS3, http://myth.io helps you m…

I'm working on a related project that uses hyperorthogonal data structures to create better bookmarks: https://github.com/ixtechnology/z-mark

One Erlang project that is rather friendly up-front is the Zotonic[1] web framework. As someone new to Erlang, it's great to be able to get off the ground running with such useful …

Developers of open source software may be compensated by employment, contract, donations, sponsorship, and even social standing. Moreover, they benefit from having free access to t…

The purpose of documentation is to describe the software. It's not machismo, it's the complexity inherent in the system. The man page for tar isn't poorly written, tar has just acc…

This is yet another reason why firms ought never hold encryption keys for customers in the first place. Tarsnap would seem unaffected by this law, for example. Of course, there's a…

This is quite the handy resource! Great idea and well done. OpenBSD is really quite friendly, just need to be comfortable with reading man pages and Unix basics. A tip for first-ti…

While I too would love to see continued development of Persona and Thunderbird by Mozilla, it's important to remember that as open-source projects they're still freely available. I…

OpenBSD is likewise developed by a small number of users. A Linux distribution is arguably easier to maintain for a smaller group because the core components are developed upstream…

Seems to work well on local servers at least.

That's essentially it. GitHub has won its role as the (meta)repository of public record. I suspect many stick with it over its competitors for this very reason.

GitLab has a fine interface and offers free private repositories. If it weren't for GitHub's network effect advantage, I'd use it for all my git projects.