

The latest new word I’ve learned is this one, which I learned earlier today, Höseler:


The latest new word I’ve learned is this one, which I learned earlier today, Höseler:


Such a child is called sladdbarn in Swedish.


Are you certain that the real contest here is about the spaghetti?


I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.
And remember, it’s spelled Netscape, but it’s pronounced Mozilla.
Run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.
I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of “oh, I’d really like to have this at home too” there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven’t seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
It was cancer. Just because the cancer got you down to your goal weight, it doesn’t mean you should lament the success of your chemotherapy.
This is the best explanation of Flash I’ve ever read!


It’s quite common for people to feel hurt when they feel ignored.


Thanks! 😁


And I still have no idea why Micay has started lumping iodé in with them, because I have been following that project closely for many years and no one there gives a shit about GrapheneOS.
I don’t know, but it seems to me that you might have a rather good guess as to why right there.


I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.
The fun fact part is, this is could actually be pretty damn efficient if done well.
This is essentially how diesel–electric locomotives work (since almost a hundred years now).


The minimum legal age for drinking beer or wine at a pub or restaurant is 16 years in Germany and many of its neighbouring countries so, yes, it’s not at all unusual around here to drink before turning 18.


“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.”


Simon Tatham wrote this several decades ago, but I still think it’s all excellent advice:


Even if you’re not technical, it should be possible for you to learn how to write a good bug report if you’re interested and as a longtime developer I can tell you from experience that a really good bug report is a real delight to receive.


Documentation is always needed. If you have any aptitude at all for explaining things to people, it’s almost certain that you’d be able to help there.
If you don’t know where to start, I can recommend starting with making a tutorial for doing whatever it was that you yourself last found difficult to learn how to do.
No, you can’t, I quite enjoy having some measure of anonymity here.