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It’s a hot one this summer, and I’ve got some even hotter updates for you as we make our way into August! My newsletters are always free and here’s where you can follow ’em: RSS | Mailing List | Patreon Want to see archived newsletters?...
I just opened youtube to waste a few minutes, as one does when their coding agents are hard at work, and a video caught my eye: "Buenos Aires accent in the 1990's". I don't speak Spanish, but I do speak Portuguese and I know that the...
Julia Evans talks about her learnings from using SQLite in production.
Nowadays, at least online, across the internet, and pretty much any social platform you can fathom, bullying is a virtue. It’s funny when someone does something that isn’t socially acceptable, or morally impure, because it gives you a...
The Guardian: “A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online.” Not…...
The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says that: ‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy...
Ron Charles tells us that British singer and songwriter Dua Lipa has created a collection of banned books — called The Manifesto Library. It’s in Portugal. The new library is housed in the basement of Livraria Lello, in Porto. In a...
I’m not subscribed to The Atlantic, so I can only refer to this article by Damon Beres — The New iPhone Underclass — Apple’s rental program is a trap — via the parts that John Gruber quoted for his commentary. In his criticism, Beres...
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found...
Jeffrey N. Gordon Supreme Court decisions of the recent term threaten to undermine the regulatory system that has supported US economic growth and prosperity for nearly 100 years. Many have objected to the Court’s failure to give weight...
A few days ago, I started reviewing a rather simple pull request from one of my team members. I added a few comments here and there, but there was one thing that triggered me: an explicit generic type annotation was now needed in a place...
The summer of Noël Coward* continues. We started with Blithe Spirit at Theatre in the Round in June, continued with the regional premiere of the new play The Cottage written in the Noël Coward-esque style but with a more modern and...
I’ve used the Vim text editor for over twenty years. When I was a system administrator managing Linux servers it was the tool available to me for editing files on them. For a long time I didn’t really understand how to use it properly, I...
TL;DR: Orbit runs each of your Google accounts in its own isolated WebKit session inside one native Mac window, for $89 one time instead of the $50 to $200 a year the alternatives want. It exists because you can de-Google yourself but...
TL;DR: Orbit runs each of your Google accounts in its own isolated WebKit session inside one native Mac window, for $89 one time instead of the $50 to $200 a year the alternatives want. It exists because you can de-Google yourself but...