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Circa 2006, I was in college, and I got hired to write a webapp for a college department. I didn't know JavaScript could have classes and capture variables, so I made the app with entirely global variables and plain functions combined with `eval`. It's over 2000 lines, and nobody after me could understand it.

I develop experimental software where backwards compatibility is the least of my concerns. To avoid the SemVer nonsense imposed by Go and NPM, I simply name every version to be 0.0.yyyymmdd derived from commit date. If Ubuntu and DPDK can name their versions by date, why can't I?

In case the second sudo wants to ask for password but there's no disk space for logging, it's safer to:

sudo bash -c 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/zeros; rm -f /zeros'

I run a small apt repository without signing, delivered over HTTPS only. Then I tell users to put `trusted=yes` in the source line. There's no APT signing key, no risk of compromise, and no need to backup.

iOS Safari is crashing, 30 seconds after opening the article, every time.

My software has only Makefile, but it works on both Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. The Makefile calls meson & ninja & npm.

I tell macOS users to install VirtualBox and then build my software inside.

IFRAMEs still require a top-level page and their positions still need CSS.

I usually use FRAMESET and FRAMEs: they are positioned perfectly in a grid, with no need for CSS or TABLE. There's no postMessage API: you can write <A target=other-frame-name> to navigate to a page in another FRAME.

HTML5 doesn't have FRAMESET, but all the browsers still support HTML4 perfectly.

NDN can work as a replacement for IP too, running directly over Ethernet or other link layer technology.

> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user.

These users need to retake the computer literate 101 class.

When I'm in elementary school, we learned how to multi-select in the tutorial system that comes with Windows 3.1.

I don't know why Windows XP deleted these very important tutorials and replaced them with a webpage.

Does the one billionth rickroll recipient receive an award of sorts, like an MP3 player that plays Never Gonna Give You Up on repeat?

Freenom free domains only grant you usage rights. The registrant listed in WHOIS is still their company. You don't own the domain.

I have a few Freenom domains, but they are only for short-term use (e.g. try out a new ACME client). Nobody should use a Freenom domain on a serious website.

I downloaded OpenStreetMap data from OpenAndroMaps, and was viewing it in c:geo geocaching app. I figured out the difference between contour lines and trails, the second time around.

I wish OSM can show the trails instead of a green blob in some of our state parks. Maryland USA.