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A fun overview of basic operating system development:

Syntax highlighting of diffs feels like an under-researched field. Doing a good job on incomplete snippets is a hard problem.

'YouTube Voice' (the speech style used by many youtubers) is often more enunciated: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-linguistics-of-youtube-voice/418962/ I think the internet has done something similar to writing styles too. I certainly use more exclamation marks!

Inline links are much more convenient than footnotes. However, they're more distracting. Unless I'm completely new to a topic ("for an overview of the field see [3]") it's better to read the whole article first. Are there better UIs? Hide the links at first?

@bugaevc@mastodon.technology Idle thought: why not make the command grey, leaving white for output? The user knows what they've typed, but doesn't know what the output will be.

@bugaevc@mastodon.technology Beautiful! I've wanted a card based terminal for a long time: it feels like a great design for commands that sometimes write a ton of output.

@kensanata@octodon.social A great point, but many smartphone apps would work fine as websites.

I really like Stylus, the Firefox plugin for writing custom CSS for websites. My rules aren't clever though. The vast majority are just adding display: none; for distracting UI elements. The remainder are for excessively responsive sites that become unreadable on wide monitors.

HTTP/3, and how it tackles the limitations of today's TCP:

I'm beginning to wonder whether computer form factors are a product of the environment. Suppose I went back in time 20 or 30 years, and told manufacturers that powerful handheld devices with touchscreens would be popular. Would they be able to do anything with that information?

Moving Android towards unpatched, mainline Linux kernels:

Shower thought: plurals are basically Hungarian notation, but with a suffix rather than a prefix.

My email load is sufficiently low that I'm willing to budget one response per person to emails from strangers. I don't understand how people with high profiles (e.g. running major OSS projects) manage.

On representing game worlds in Rust using Entity-Component-System, modelling state, and avoiding self-borrowing:

Bill Gates likes the Silicon Valley show, and finds it an often accurate caricature!