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I had some fun adding WordArt support to Slack's Word document renderer.

Turns out that WordArt is still feasible in modern-day Word, but it's really fiddly.

Everything you watch, documentary and narrative alike, attempts to shape your understanding of events through the director's lens.

It was an account with a few thousand followers. Nobody I know (in Brooklyn) follows the account.

I've seen more coverage of a brief 90-minute ban than I have of the protests themselves.

Trump and the Republicans are as unpopular as ever, but I don't think the No Kings protests are moving the needle right now.

That’s not the same vehicle that did the tricks — the “Rocket” version has many downward-facing vents, and presumably a larger tank for pressurised gas and a much smaller battery capable of sustaining the suction but not much more.

And I think Not Invented Here has turned into Not Invented By Our Agents at many places.

Also wake me up when there’s a cloud version that works in an even vaguely similar way.

The Office advantage is a suite of apps and integrations with their cloud offerings. That’s their big moat against vibe-coded apps, because few vibe-coders want to maintain a SaaS service for Office files and even fewer CIOs want to commit their company to use that service when Microsoft exists and is proven to work.

Can these tools withstand Microsoft’s lawyers?

As I understand it, bug bounty awards are a rough proxy for "would nation-state actors be able to exploit this for operational purposes without getting caught".

Zero-click iPhone exploits that affect the current OS and also previous ones are worth hundreds of thousands.

You’re conflating private helicopter rides (which are annoying and frequent) with police ones, which are generally pretty necessary. I’ve only seen them out in my neighborhood after serious crimes where a suspect hasn’t been caught.

Very biased, but at Cambridge we were taught (by Maurice Wilkes among others) that the EDSAC was the first “useful” computer.