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This isn’t your main point, but FWIW, there is a draft in the IETF for JMAP over websockets. It was approaching trivial to implement; I think our (Fastmail’s) main Cyrus developer …

(I also work at Fastmail, on the server side.) It does describe APIs in general, and that is one of the reasons I like it so much. All of our internal APIs are JMAP: when you need …

It’s less the risk of them getting stuck together than it is the fact that they sound better if you don’t create that partial vacuum.

Yep; this was in Pennsylvania, which is apparently one of the more onerous states. The stated purpose is so that you can't change your name in order to (for example) escape debt. S…

Depending on where you live, changing your name can be much more of a hassle than this. My wife did it recently, and the whole process took several months and cost nearly $1000 all…

Hey, thanks! We've updated that to link to both the relevant blog posts.

We (FastMail) use it in production, and all backend development is in Perl for all the products. Booking.com, cPanel, Craigslist, and ZipRecruiter all have sizable Perl codebases, …

Perl has logical xor, which is occasionally useful. I usually reach for it when argument checking, where it makes sense to have either this param or that but not both.

All of FastMail is in Perl5 (minus the Cyrus parts, which are in C).

But this doesn't really need to be responsibly disclosed: it's not something someone can use to get into your machine, but rather a way you could accidentally broadcast your creden…

AucTeX in Emacs can do this, and it’s really nice.

They also removed your username/display name from your default highlight strings. We often just use names with no @, and this week we noticed that other people were no longer getti…

You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button , and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary Dash button.

I've recently started watching woodworking videos on YouTube. I read somewhere that Matthias was one of the early employees of RIM (Blackberry) and as it turns out, he has a bunch …

My local taxes (county) do this. Whenever you pay property (house, car) taxes, it tells you $x goes to the county schools, $y to roads, and so on. (Usually including something like…

I have a very uncommon name (3 of us in the country, as far as I can tell), and this happened to me for the first time this weekend. Someone bought a stereo at Best Buy 500 miles f…

I was being a bit hyperbolic; certainly it's not impossible to look at, and I quite like a lot of it. My experiences showing it to students is that people often find it foreboding …

Fair enough. It's still pretty common...it's hard to pin down any numbers exactly, but I'd guess it's probably half and half for solfege vs. other systems. We teach solfege at my s…

> Why does notation allow for seven pitches, not 12? Because music is at most built out of 7-note scales, not 12. This answer is good, but I wanted to pick one tiny nit, which is t…

This is (sometimes) a legitimate gripe about the standard notation system, which is that it's optimized for music in a key. Sometimes there is a difference between E-F and C-C#. In…

Nearly all aural skills classes (learning to hear/sing music) for music majors use solfege or something like it. Some people use scale degree numbers instead (so a IV chord in a ma…

I have a desktop and a laptop that I use regularly, plus a work laptop. And I teach in a classroom that has a PC in it, so I regularly access Dropbox from 4 separate machines, not …

If you're actually marking up text, JSON doesn't really work. XML works alright for its intended use as a language. (That doesn't mean I hate it any less.)

And Ilnur Zakarin (also from today's stage) showing how others aren't as good! Starting at about 2:00 in: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4l18sa_flamme-rouge-etape-...

Ditto...this (along with the fact that the width of tabs expands to fill the entire bar) is one of the main reasons I stopped using Safari and went back to Firefox.