George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. Market for lemons and whatnot.

A maintained rolling release DOS distribution with a package manager. What an incredible technology

У автора умер сайт на Нотионе, и он сделал вот эту прекрасную вещь.

Исключения для бедных

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

Дико интересно. Пожилой человек, который всю жизнь пользовался Виндоусом, пытается освоить Виндоус-8

A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen.

Alex tells us that, for him, baking and cooking are easier than programming and soldering, because the errors there average out. As for me, this is completely inverse.

In programming, an error never fixes itself. You can observe it and fix it, you can write tests. You can run the program multiple times. It's you who fixes it, and you can understand how it's done. It's measurable!

Meanwhile, cooking is a nightmare. Burning something is routine for me. Is that too much or too little oil? For how long do I fry? What do I do with these spices? Do they really affect the taste? And to observe something, I can't rely on symbolic things like text. No, I have to look (is this color good? No idea!), smell (as if I know the difference) and taste (nothing more inaccurate).

I'm happy when something can be cooked with a timer. 15 min for buckwheat? I'm in. I'm more happy when the time is short. 4 min for this thin kind of spaghetti? Already boiling water!

I mean, even boiling water is not simple. My parents told me to wait until the correct bubbles appear. I'm waiting for the scary ones. Also, salt is supposed to make it boil faster. How much salt do I add?

And I didn't even talk about plants, which Alex also considers easy. They're not 😭

An ActivityPub debugging instance? Gotta take a look, probably.

All these retrogrades usually forget about Unicode updates! If your finished software does not support the newest writing system, then something is wrong. Well, I'm just saying. Actually, I like finished software! One day, I'll write one.

Цвета из нашей палитры везде будут отображаться правильным образом и без искажений. Любой из 216 цветов «безопасной» палитры может быть использован для графики, текста и фонов.

Ограниченный список цветов. Поможет, когда важна совместимость с плохими экранами. Почти всегда, то есть.

An archiving HTTP proxy and on-disk archival format for websites.

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything

A good overview of Solresol.

This may seem a strange heading for someone whose career is in computers, yet I feel that this article has been a lifetime in the making. It is the product of intuitive observations and things that have stood out to me, even as a child, who even then could sense the sinister side of the most banal of technologies.

scim is a bash script to simplify scanning from the command line.