Halt and catch fire

Epic craftsmanship. Brings to mind the “wrong cup” in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

Thank you! That was really interesting and well written.

Downvoting for the clickbait headline. The device in question is an inerter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter_(mechanical_networks)

TL;DR - Single page HTML apps

What a missed opportunity. The author could have talked about broader design trends like skeumorphism, linked Apple’s design language to what peers were doing at the time, and have delved into design detours and dead ends such as Apple Copland, which influenced subsequent generations of icon design.

The vibrant custom icon culture of the 1990s and early 2000s is also not discussed.

Instead, we are given a context-free post comprised of pretty but disjointed visuals.

Rather than complaining on the internet to an RSS report bot, I will write the post as it should have been written (I have an enormous library of classic icons from the pre-Mac OS X period).

Ugh, no name security site, paywalled article. Here are the details from Notepad++'s maintainer (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-9vx8-v79m-6m24 ) and the CVE : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49144

Seconded! I have several Brother MFCs. Rock solid, great Linux support, rarely change the toner.

That was fascinating. Ditto the link in the post to the article on names, which they cited as inspiration for writing it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=flightaware.engineering

I’m unfamiliar with the slang term you used, but I’ll simply say that there is a well-established genre of humorous and perhaps wishful examination of old photographs with the intention of identifying possible time travelers, for example: https://www.pocket-lint.com/photographic-proof-of-time-traveller/ . I don’t endorse this theory, but it was a visual trope that inspired my comment.

I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater

LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)

That is a stunning photo. I adore the optical illusion, in which the cove appears to be above the level of the ocean. I’d love to see this view first-hand. Bravo!

Early makers! I confess that the 21st century has reprogrammed me, so my initial impression was that the chap in the back was checking his phone. Strange to think that this was taken over a century ago.

And a cookie banner which features this text, along with a slew of abusive dark patterns for maximizing data gathering and compromising user privacy:

"We and our up to 179 partners use cookies and tracking technologies. Some cookies and data processing are technically necessary, others help us to improve our offer and operate it economically.

The processing purposes are storing or accessing information on an end device personalised advertising and content, measuring advertising performance and the performance of content, target group research and developing and improving offers; displaying external content (e.g. YouTube videos, podcasts, Twitter, quizzes), recommendations of own products and content, A/B testing, push notifications/communication, technically necessary cookies (security, login, forum)."

Edit: nuked the links, since they also seem to contain per user/session metadata!

I’ve been using Linux since the days of Slackware on floppies, and I still like Mint. It seems to just work – I’m not at all averse to “more hardcore” distributions, but would rather get on with my work. That being said, the Surface kernel is a nice piece of software and worth considering for an optimal experience on Surface.

With this one weird trick!

Definitely doable! I’ve run several Linux distributions on Surface devices. I had good experiences out of the box with Ubuntu and Mint, and not-great experiences with Debian Bookworm (even with the Nvidia driver, it could never seem to work out that the external monitor on my machine was a primary. I did not try the Surface-specific kernel, however. Good luck!

Heh, no, Silicon Valley. Rather surprisingly, internet service was awful here for many years.

In other words, offering tiers of service which are symmetric or close the gap? For what it’s worth, I seem to be a poor technologist, since 5 gigabits/sec is vastly more than I need, but my ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7 gigabits. It’s nice to know that I could run a skyscraper or a medium sized subdivision if I wanted to, however!