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Suggestion: social card thingy so when it is linked to in Discord, X, etc, there will be a better looking link.

eh, you're cool, don't worry about the naysayers While yea it is nice to directly deliver to HTML (I've done it many times), reality is most UI is in other framework languages. Plu…

While I like solar & wind, when oil is drilled, natural gas is often burned off at the drill site. So if it is going to be burned, might as well make electrify from it. "World Bank…

They didn't have to ask for special new breaks; the breaks were already passed: https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/meta-selects-north...

I would guess the 20 year 'tax break' (AKA the other taxpayers are footing the bill) is the real reason for the building. shell game Meta built a data center in North Kansas City. …

Oh, there are lots of things you can do 'on edge' that can be easier/faster: + A/B testing + cookie warnings just for EU but not everyone else + proxy; helpful if you want to hide …

Cloudflare had only 100 PoPs just a few years ago. Bunny has been around 10 years, but didn't get the cash injection from Google like Cloudflare did. If you read the article, Bunny…

I think you can also screenshot full length in Chrome-based browsers; do both desktop & mobile widths. It would be a good backup for the backup, & you designer will thank you.

Thanks for helping to highlight how hard it is to track cloned/fake images. BTW I guess 'watermarks' can be easily scrambled; add noise, filters, &/or recompress into another image…

I'm grateful that both x86 & ARM CPUs are perf-tested.

With web or other searching, every 'platform has a large audience'. One of the worst censor/suppressor of free speech is also the largest web search.

"Non profit" in USA are still very much profit-driven; only stipulations are: + must have a board + give away 30%+ of earnings (easily done by attaching a value to the OSS free ins…

> you can then make it right and maybe even fast IF there is budget for that very often. Otherwise they'll expect you to move on.

From the creator of SolidJS (heavily inspired by Knockout.js by his own confession) & worked on eBay's Marko framework: https://dev.to/ryansolid/maybe-web-components-are-not-the-fu…

Unfortunately folks don't want wind farms disturbing their views, like the current US Global Warming Czar: https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/04/03/massachuse...

Browsers have all the APIs you need to 'replace Flash' now, just needs the ecosystem IMHO.

Or actual photos of Clinton at a certain island that are real but called deep fakes? I thought of a Scifi series years ago where puppeteers could force politicians say anything the…

Alt reason why "Apple continues to support old hardware": If some people found out that they NEED to get a new phone every 2 years that costs $1,000, then they might look to anothe…

But like Windows having IE/Edge installed by default (& being sued for it), Google Play is the default store for Android, & 95% of public doesn't know otherwise.

Some don't realize the fix is often worse than the problem.

I live in Midwest now (KS). Yea, that was true 10 years ago, but even 4G is decent in rural areas now. & there are 2-3 dish providers in some areas. + my point is, most population …

One of the easiest research papers I did in uni was for my Psychology 101 about using St Johns Wort for depression. It was describable in Germany ATT with decent success rate for m…

> The owner of an IP address is responsible for the content delivered from that IP address Nope, you are totally wrong; they are immune by US law. AFAIK, CloudFlare removed only a …

Do any search for any US political content on Google. I (in Kansas City) get almost all Left-leaning to hard Left news sites as the first 10 results, while pre-Trump results I'd al…

Yes, SEO advise for the past 7+ years is that 'Google likes those who are experts, so you have to have long essays to look like an expert & have longer time-on-page.'.