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For those 1.7 of you who may have need of a JavaScript or JSON minifier which (A) is not based on node.js and (B) is not "poisoned" by the "do no evil" license attached to Douglas …

My past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser. Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has gi…

"Pedestrian" generally implies some random person out walking around, but: > "Late last night, a trespasser breached airport security at Denver Int’l Airport, deliberately scaled a…

> How does it affect your mental health? That it should in some way affect my mental health has never once occurred to me. If anything, i assume that living on one's body's own nat…

> Surely you can infer when you work and sleep from your experience living your life as you. Not everybody has a schedule. Mine is essentially "eat when hungry, sleep when tired", …

Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024401 >

The Fossil SCM ( https://fossil-scm.org >) meets most of your requirements, noting that: - "mobile app" means "its web interface" - "backed up" means to wherever you upload/sync yo…

> Compare that to SQLite's 1.2mb of wasm and glue code The current trunk is actually 1.7mb in its canonical unminified form (which includes very nearly as much docs as JS code), sp…

FWIW, i'll disagree. i was a _huge_ PHP fan from around 1999 until 2010, but two things finally killed it for me: 1) It's apparently impossible to cleanly structure large projects …

> Nothing told me why I was changing it That arguably belongs in the commit messages or, in some cases, in code comments. > or what I was planning next. That arguably belongs in ./…

> Might be a good addition for https://superuser.com/questions/1937372/ Done! Edit: nevermind - i've deleted it. The community guidelines request/require that responses actually at…

The following seems to keep Chrome from re-downloading this beast: # From one's $HOME dir: rm -fr ./.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel mkdir -p ./.config/google-chrome/Opt…

> will result in the police kicking in your door the next morning But not before 8am.

> You only download it when some JS requests it for the first time, most people will never have it. i certainly never activated it willfully. i use Chrome only as a fallback testin…

> ... there's a clear prompt in the bottom right corner. Indeed, it does. > (Didn't try mobile.) And my eyes didn't make it that far down the screen. If i can't read the first para…

Web design tip: don't have animations within a short distance of text, as human eyes evolved to follow the flashiest/fastest-moving thing around, which makes such text literally il…

> iText — commercial with aggressive licensing It seems somewhat ironic to call that out as a negative when your own tool is both commercial and (insofar as i can tell) closed sour…

> I have no idea why this idea is around, To the best of my fallible knowledge, the notion was first popularized via http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 >.

> I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used. The supported platforms only list Linux and Mac. Notably missing from that list is any of the BSDs (not counting what may…

> When people talk about minimal Linux, they often think of the old days when systems used only 300 MB of RAM. Wait, what??? No - we think of systems with 4-8MB of RAM and hard dri…