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If you work for a company that has cybersecurity insurance, they ask, point-blank, if all employee desktops have antivirus before they quote your premium. You just have to use it. …

This looks interesting. Is it MacOS only? And how does it behave with tools like tmux or ssh?

In the US the America On-Line (AOL) internet service provider mass mailed 3.5 floppy disks to households. This was a boon for all my classmates when I attended a vocational school …

Making some assumptions about what you mean by "business logic application backend." Taking it to mean the business logic layer in an application stack that sits between the presen…

GNU Debugger allows for prefixing some commands with `r` to run in reverse mode. Examples are [c]ontinue => [rc] and [s]tep => [rs].

I’m not happy that this change has happened; however, since learning about how the BOOTSEL mode works under the hood I’ve been expecting news like this from one of the big two OS v…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Nice effort on an interesting topic. However, the book could use a better technical review. For example the first recipe will not work as expected with out a multi-column unique in…

Memory lane. As a web dev from when this was the fad, many of these buttons are very recognizable

Can you provide a link to the source, please?

An enjoyable waste of 45 minutes. A+

I took the meaning as: Array processing can cause hidden bugs (like GOTO). The bugs are usually introduced when the size of the array changes while processing. Also ‘find’ing and ‘…

Thanks for sharing. Date math is my kryptonite.

This sounds so much more difficult and costly than have qualified managers.

I’ve been reading Dave Farley’s new book, “Modern Software Engineering” He has a few rants related to GitFlow vs Trunk development. Many of his points agree with OP in that merging…

Kitchenaid direct-drive stand mixer. I have one from the 1950s that has been used multiple times a week since it was bought new by my grandmother. The dough hook, whisk, and other …

Agree. The device is made of long lasting parts. Easy to repair if needed and parts for even the oldest models are still available.

The real WTF: restructured text.

Conspicuous consumption.

This is any over generalization based on you personal experiences/beliefs. There are many Americans in the Appalachian area of the United States that care more about where their po…

I don’t think that a magazine has the power to ban or set global policy on anything. They do have the ability (or perhaps the responsibility, as a free press) to to research, descr…

I generally like the economist but this article is poor. The topic of deforestation is only whispered in at the end, almost a footnote. However, burning the Amazon for farmland to …

OBS is great software that needs more recognition as a powerful open source alternative. My user story is: I’m a hobbyist user that likes to record game matches for personal review…

Memories. Thanks for the post.

This is great. Borland Object Pascal was the second language I learned in school (after Quick Basic). Along with my classmates I cobbled together a poor clone of a Might and Magic …