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As someone who relies on their iPhone for a lot these days, I find this a bit ridiculous. However, as someone who grew up with a Commodore 64 and learned how to code on it at age 6…

There was a KRAS conference a couple of weeks ago, and as I understand it that's exactly what happened. It is such a game changer that they could not contain their excitement. For …

I was fortunate to participate in the trial for this drug for over a year. It is nothing short of a miracle drug (although there is still more that can be done). I was forced to wi…

The Johns Hopkins Children's' Center is looking at trialing it for rhabdomyosarcoma, a particularly deadly form of cancer that primary targets children. If successful, this would r…

As I understand it, though, it's really not well suited to server-side Swift development. Doesn't leverage SPM, requires Xcode, etc. I'd LOVE a revival of AppCode (or Swift support…

It doesn't feel like it if you're living in MOST places. I bought my first house 6 months after graduating from college (2000). It cost me roughly 3x my salary at the time. I know …

Started using Solaris 7 in college when Sun made it available for free. All you had to do was fill out a web form! I absolutely loved it. To this day it remains my favorite OS to u…

Thankfully, you can disable that feature

I do miss JetBrains' AppCode and their support for Swift in CLion. I wish they would open-source those plugins so that they can continue to be used in modern versions of CLion.

I absolutely love Swift. I find it to be such an elegant language. I've done a few macOS/iOS apps with it over the years, but have really come to love it on the server. There are a…

I began using Solaris in college when Sun made Solaris 7 free for anyone who wanted it. I still remember getting the huge package of CDs in the mail and installing them on my Penti…

I love macOS, but definitely do miss the days of a more utilitarian look. The old Unix GUIs like CDE hold a special place in my heart.

As part of my post-cancer screening, I have received a full-body MRI every year since 2017. In 2024, it discovered pancreatic cancer. Grateful for those years where it found nothin…

I remember the first time I found this list and playing around with it using Microsoft QuickBASIC. I couldn't believe how much more functionality it opened up to me. Mouse support.…

App code was a really great IDE, Especially if you were developing server-side Swift. I wish JetBrains would've open sourced the plugins so it could carry on

ElasticSearch and OpenSearch are certainly egregiously guilty of this. Their API is an absolute nightmare to work with if you don't have a supported native client. Why such a popul…

I'm using it on my most recent projects and have had a great experience. It doesn't have the ecosystem of a language like Java, which can be frustrating, but it certainly handles 9…

Sadly, Jetbrains no longer sells AppCode or supports their Swift plugins for CLion. I WISH they would open source the plugins, as CLion is far superior to Xcode. For now, though, w…

Unfortunately, even that isn't supported any longer. I do a lot of server-side Swift development and would LOVE to be able to ditch Xcode for CLion and the Swift plugin.

Aspiring pancreatic cancer survivor here. This is excellent news. Part of the reason this is such a deadly form of cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it's far too lat…

I've often said I would LOVE a modernized version of CDE. Smooth out some of the edges, GREATLY improve the font rendering, etc. but keep the feel that this is a system designed fo…

I have PiHole running on a Raspberry Pi 4, along with a couple of home automation services. PiHole acts as my DNS and DHCP servers, and works GREAT! Plus, I'm able to manually bloc…

8 years cancer free and counting. Here's the truth of it: It's going to SUCK. There's no sugar-coating it. There's no way around it. You're getting poison injected into you and hop…

What ever happened to the X.Desktop GUI mentioned in the article? I'd never heard of it before, and the Wikipedia article on it never mentions what happened to it.

No, my cancer was a sarcoma in my left shoulder.