Bugs Apple won't fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

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

Write it. Show it. Rock it. A fresh, fast and fun way to create and hold presentations.

IP packets can be spoofed, sometimes.

how user agents became a lying mess

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}

In Paradise, you are but a force acting upon places, objects, words — vessels. Paradise is a kind experimental file-system and operating system.

С ума сойти.

Matthew comments on an article that profanity is to be avoided. He thinks that it's not up to the article author to decide and that he will swear as before. I'll continue this thread and reply here.

I don't swear in Russian, like, at all. People usually don't notice this, but when they do, they are so surprised. Swearing is a norm with Russian youth, and I don't accept that. The only problem with not swearing is the discomfort when I want to quote somebody who said something I wouldn't say; I haven't found a solution yet. Some people find joy in trying to persuade me to say something “bad”.

I'm more tolerant in that regard in English, though. Perhaps it's because it's not my native language. I don't swear much though. You'd have to invest a lot of time to find an English text of mine where I said something profane. I myself wouldn't even bother.

P. S. Definitions of “profanity” vary. I have my own.

A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS

Lessons learned from making apps that play nice with the fediverse.

Иной айтишник нет-нет да пожалуется на разбиение строк по 80 символов. Считаю нужным прояснить ситуацию.

Гришаев говорит глупости, чтобы оправдать ограничение длины строк. Справедливости ради, он не цепляется именно за 80, но идеи дурные, конечно.

Lichen is the simplest possible CMS for the web that is friendly enough for non-technical users. It is extremely lightweight.

It uses gemtext, a good choice.

I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.

10 things to do to improve your team and make yourself replaceable. The author claims that being replaceable makes it easier for you to grow professionally.

TL;DR* It feels boring, it feels old, and as a consequence overly laborious. As a general purpose language, I feel D does the job a lot better.

A description of a fantasy device.

The rock phone accepts various types of input: speech, morse code tap/hold, written characters, bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headsets. The rock phone produces various types of output: speech, morse code beeps, bluetooth serial console, console avilable by wifi, remote screen available via wifi. The rock phone has a bone conduction speaker inside so you can place the rock phone on your temple or behind your ear to privately hear rock phone speech output/sounds, phone calls, music, or any other sound the rock phone might make.