Tricks to use OS X 10.9 Mavericks in modern day. Does that qualify as retrocomputing already?

On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.

Everything you've always wanted to know about a random restaurant in Boston

I should go there

Kazan, Ufa, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg will be like Russian south in 60 years. Which is not that bad, actually. But some parts of the world will be heated so much, that there's nowhere that can be compared to it.

Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress.

I think sound is a dramatically underutilized way to communicate with the user in modern software tools. Using sound for a notification is just annoying, but using other properties (pitch, timbre, length, etc) or producing varying drone sounds across time presents new ways to passively inform users of things. A classic example of this is fan sounds alerting users that their computer is under heavy load, and perhaps something is going wrong. As modern fans get quieter, computer programs should offer similar interfaces to provide all kinds of information.

how user agents became a lying mess

Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991.*

vintage!

A good naming scheme is scalable, unique, and easy to remember. The purpose of these naming schemes is to name networked servers, wireless access points or client computers, but it can also be used to name projects, products, variables, streets, pets, kids, or any other project where unique names and rememberable names are required.

Eyeroll is a WebExtension for Firefox that let's you scroll webpages by blinking your eyes. Close your right eye to scroll down, and your left eye to scroll up. It's great for scrolling chords without leaving your instrument, or reading the news while you're brushing your teeth! Eyeroll works 100% on your device and works on Firefox for Android too.

Also, a cute book is out!

A stack-based array programming language

A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

TL;DR: Alpine is boring, this is good.

Recently I've had an issue with Alpine, which I had to resolve with some workaround from GitHub issues. But otherwise it's boring yeah. Cool. One day I'll use it on all of my servers! For now, I only use it on CI.

Почему на них так тесно и красно.

The person who led the development of Rust the programming language points out some differences in his vision of Rust and the one we ended up with. If they were to stay, Rust would have been a boring language! It is good for a language to be boring, actually.

I want matching pantry containers, even though I shouldn't.

The idea has been floating in the Noösphere for a while now.