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It's a reference to Greek mythology, which predates Ayn Rand by several thousand years.

I know nothing about climbing. beyond the straight flex of "I could die if I make a mistake", is there a point to doing this without safety equipment?

yep, i use fastmail with a custom domain. i have a catch all email set up, so i just register any account on sitename.com as "sitename@mydomain" and it all gets sorted into a catch…

ripgrep is an amazing tool, thank you for your hard work!

I've been writing a ton of ts/js at work, so using htmx for a quick weekend project was a nice change of pace. I really appreciated the library of examples; they cover a lot of com…

Take a look at their description of how SQLite is tested: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html I think a lot of projects that claim to have 100% coverage are overselling their testi…

I don't daily drive KDE, but when I set up our home media PC in the living room over the weekend, KDE was a no-brainier to pick for the DE. Everything immediately just worked, it's…

Once, after we had an application go live, we started getting reports after a few hours that new users were unable to log in. It turns out, somewhere in the auth path, a dev had us…

I used to feel the same way, but I found that I like the animations in Niri. It helps me to keep a mental model of where everything is located in the infinite strip. I did change t…

I switched from i3 to Niri a couple weeks ago, and I've been super happy with it. Niri feels like it lines up more naturally with the way I tend to use windows and workspaces. I'm …

I didn't even know they were using delivery drones yet. Why did they both crash, were they working in tandem carrying one payload or something?

After using gmail for around a decade, I switched to fastmail a few months ago and have been extremely happy with the change. I still have a lot of accounts associated to my gmail …

This sort of thing is why looking at generated SQL while developing instead of just trusting the ORM to write good queries is so important. I find query planning (and databases in …

What would be a better alternative than LaTex for the alt text? I can't think of a solution that makes more sense, it provides an unambiguous representation of what's depicted. I w…

I’ve been using Firefox for nearly 20 years. Lately I’ve noticed more and more websites that don’t work with it. Usually I can just ignore the bugs or avoid the site, but sometimes…

Interesting idea, but I would worry that developers wouldn’t catch things like slow queries or other performance issues that crop up when using an actual database.