404 pages are an underappreciated opportunity to serve users. If I visit a /foo-bar-baz URL that doesn't exist, ideally the site would search for content matching foo, bar or baz rather than just displaying 'sorry' or a pun.
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Twitter users are younger, more left-leaning, and more educated, than the US median: https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/
Interesting to see that despite its size, the userbase isn't entirely representative in some areas (although the article mentions it's pretty similar in others).
On the three distinct problems that inheritance can solve, depending on your programming language:
Design weaknesses in WebAssembly: mutable locals require liveness analysis: https://troubles.md/posts/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/
An elegant example of the Pharo philosophy: extending the UI/debug tools to give custom visualisations of objects within your project:
Some fun early discussions on what hyperlinks should look like, even including a proposal for typed links!
Arbitrage in cryptocurrency trading due to typos!
Excellent deep dive on parsing, executing and optimising in an interpreter written in Rust:
Today I learnt that password databases can have pepper, in addition to salt!
Design principles for autocomplete: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2019_03_19_rules_for_autocomplete.html
(I've read persuasive defences of sorting autocomplete more intelligently than alphabetically. Nonetheless, the articles lists a ton of great heuristics.)
Considering quality, not quantity, when dealing with kids' screen time, and being connected to children's digital lives:
Fixing issues once and for all in Emacs or Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19410356
Great introduction to neural nets, comparing them to analogue computers:
Nifty demonstration of live coding a grammar with Pharo, and exploring the different possible parse trees for an inputs (e.g. if you change associativity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFifte3YFUo
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