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I almost got tricked into trying to figure out what was Easter eggy about August 9 2015 :-) There's a clarifying tooltip on the link, but it is mostly obscured by the image's "Arch…

I was kind of expecting to hear Toto in the background. https://maxsiedentopf.com/toto-forever/

When I asked GPT-4.1 to show some references to confirm an answer was as widely accepted as it claimed, it replied with a bunch of unrelated GitHub issues with fake descriptions, a…

With these declarations your fragment is valid in both JavaScript and TypeScript: class b {} class c {} const d = JSON.parse const a = Promise.prototype.then.bind(Promise.resolve(1…

The package allows you to trace hook events for a component by importing hooks from 'react-hook-tracer' instead of 'react', and adding a `useTracer` call to the component. Traced e…

It removes the shadow around the window.

Just noticed that with this method, the backspace joins the two lines, whereas in the original it reveals the markup, but the newline between the lines remains.

Just to clarify, this is not how I created the original document in 2004 :-) There were certainly no paragraph styles involved, and the edit actions had to include an undo, or it w…

Cool! This was pre-XML Word, and since introducing it became impossible at some point, I always just figured it had been a bug. Probably the bug was only in the creation, as I do r…

Unfortunately, I lost the recipe (18 years is a long time), but I vaguely recall that the first line had markup that got canceled out, and that trying to delete the newline somehow…

I ran into it while editing an interview text that had colors for people's names. It was surprisingly easy to reproduce, but creating the buggy documents got fixed at some point. T…

Here's a bug I discovered in MS Word in 2004, which has survived the past 18 years of updates and is even present in the web version: https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgYiBqBjIZZpfkcvO9jnOel9T2…

Hmm, this could actually be useful: [][(![]+[])[+[]]+(![]+[])[!+[]+!+[]]+(![]+[])[+!+[]]+(!![]+[])[+[]]][([][(![]+[])[+[]]+(![]+[])[!+[]+!+[]]+(![]+[])[+!+[]]+(!![]+[])[+[]]]+[])[!…

For a do-it-yourself version of chapter 1 (about building complex circuits using only nands), I can recommend http://nandgame.com/

The monolith/microservices discussion always reminds me of this 'Sandboxing Cycle' xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2044/

For me that didn't work. The red badge on System Preferences disappeared, but it came back the next day. Doing a `defaults delete com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate LatestMajorOS…

Youtube video showing some of the persistent life forms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE46jKYcI4Y

Looks like this is the location on Google Maps: https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.6885648,-6.4832216,763m/data=...

Inspired by StackOverflow questions on React's new lifecycle methods, I created a light-weight package that visualizes which lifecycle methods are called and in what order. It can …

Before switching to React, I learned a lot about Angular from https://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular/