These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud. If you are writing a software tool and you want to prioritize speed over simplicity, then it won't be as simple as if you'd prioritized simplicity over speed.

There are two main signs that you've succeeded at your goals. The first, and more pleasant, is that you get compliments about how your thing is like you wanted it to be. "I love that song, it's so quiet!" "Your tool is so fast!" Why thank you, that's exactly what I was going for.

The second sign, though, is that you will get complaints. Specifically, people will complain that your thing does not achieve the things you didn't set out to achieve. "I wish this song was louder", "this tool is so hard to use". That you are receiving complaints at all means that people are aware of your creation; that they are complaining about what you specifically set out to make a non-goal is a side-effect of the fact that you made that trade-off.

This forum is Mycomarkup-enabled now!

Converts a PNG to 2- or 4-colour uxntal data literals.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields.

Yet another technical wiki with good content. Sadly, it's running Gitit, thus being very poor to navigate.

Apertium is a rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

gwit is a minimalist system for a Web of replicated, host-neutral, lightweight sites backed by Git.

so i've been playing j2me games for 20 years I've regarded “phone games” as absolute dog shit, unworthy of even a second glance. i have recently discovered that this only applies to smartphone games - despite “resident evil for flip phones” being a

Detailed (?) look at how existing ActivityPub implementations work.

an extremely based frontend manual from the GOV.UK

Fork of vpub, the forum software. Contribute to hugmouse/vpub-plus development by creating an account on GitHub.

A story of a Julius who lacks knowledge but has good charisma. There's a lot to learn from such Julii.

Когда я работал в Совкомбанке, пришлось чуток поработать с аналитиком Э. Он мне сразу не понравился. Потом он ушёл, раньше меня. Статья помогла понять, что с ним было не так. Наверное он был таким Юлием.

Но очень может быть, что я неправ, и у меня просто не было возможности увидеть хард скиллы этого аналитика. В конце концов, мы пересеклись только на одном низкоприоритетном проекте.

Instead of:
yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html
… consider just:
yoursite.com/short

Introduced by Artyom.

I visit Derek Sivers' website from time to time. Every time I do, I discover he had

• written some half a hundred new blog posts,

• moved to another place,

• and started a new diet/philosophy/routine/book.

He's too productive for a human, but that's a topic for a different time.

Artyom makes a good point that plaintext is a lie. Of course it is! Nothing worse than being presented with a .txt file. Screw that! Folks, user proper text formats.

This is a personal story I hope will give web designers and user interface experts some food for thought: my experience with reading digital screens with eyesight degraded by cataract. There may be more users with suboptimal vision than usually thought.

I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.

Typical speedups over vanilla Python are on the order of 10-100x or more, on a single thread. Codon's performance is typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of C/C++. Unlike Python, Codon supports native multithreading, which can lead to speedups many times higher still.

Codon is not a drop-in replacement for CPython. There are some aspects of Python that are not suitable for static compilation — we don't support these in Codon.

Immerse yourself in the legendary world of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 online, right in your browser! This iconic turn-based strategy series, beloved by millions since 1999, is now available without installation. Explore vast worlds, develop towns, battle for resources, and build armies just like in the good old days. Enjoy classic gameplay with modern convenience—play anytime and share the nostalgia with friends!

Static keyboard layouts are boring and predictable. Let's spice up the whole idea of keyboard layouts by having the layout CHANGE WHILE YOU ARE TYPING!

DevCrowd вместе с Авито провели исследование рынка Go-разработчиков, 2024

Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them? What big choice would nudge a hundred others that way?

Recently, I went on a week-long vacation to Japan. Besides being a ton of fun, something that stood out was how long the trip felt. One week in Japan felt like three weeks of my regular life. I've thought about why this is and found that the amount of time felt is greatly related to the number of memories created.

A few basic rules for buying and using computers can save anyone significant amounts of money and produce the confidence required to try new things with computers.

Happy Birthday!

A self-hostable personal cloud inspired by serverless platforms and cgi-bin.

This is a translation of the article I originally wrote in Russian a year ago.
Lately, after Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have started looking for its alternatives – and many found one in Mastodon.
Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform that works on the federation model, like email. The federation protocol is called ActivityPub and is a W3C standard, and Mastodon is far from being its only implementation, albeit it is the most popular one.

a tool to let your readers dive into details

An open standard for data-driven blocks

A way to be on the web!

Новости о важных событиях для работников ИТ индустрии

Сравнение трудового законодательства в России и Сербии

1. Use as few tags as possible.

2. Limit yourself to a self-defined set of tags.

3. Tags within your set must not overlap.

4. By convention, tags are in plural.

5. Tags are lower-case.

6. Tags are single words.

7. Keep tags on a general level.

8. Omit tags that are obvious.

9. Use one tag language.

10. Explain your tags.

Rewrite Git history with a single drag-and-drop.
Undo anything with ⌘Z. All speed, no bumps.

The rate at which a bird needs to flap its wings to stay aloft is a surprisingly complicated question due to the complex dynamics.

Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.

What did I do on February 14th 2007? Visualize your (digital) life in Org-mode - novoid/Memacs

So true

With our extremely linear history, the first commit in a repo hash a hash that starts with 0000000, the second commit is 0000001, the third is 0000002, and so on!

IP packets can be spoofed, sometimes.

Using this retro-looking tutorial on Vigenènere cipher for my infosec homework.

Made by a Professor from the Department of Computer Science in Michigan Technological University. I doubt they expected their website would help an underslept student from the Department of System Analysis in Kazan Volga Region Federal University.

Welcome to Appropedia, the sustainability wiki! We help build rich and sustainable lives by sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and more.

Nice dashboard hm.

Server racks as home furniture.

Spend time on things that are enjoyable or important, ideally both