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May 10, 2019 at 17:53
AV1 files are roughly 1/30th of the size of equivalent GIFs! https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/

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Jan 22, 2026 at 20:11
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The vast majority of libraries have a single maintainer. Even if you weight by downloads, roughly half of downloaded libraries have a single maintainer too.
Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the software running THE WHOLE F*CKING PLANET is written by one person. In a country. But we have no idea which country. It’s not the same person mind you, but it’s one person.
Nov 14, 2025 at 22:29
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A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time!
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Jul 21, 2022 at 02:21
I've started using Logseq for note taking: it's roughly in the same space as Roam/Obsidian but OSS and using markdown on your local disk. So far it works really well. I like using [[Link]] syntax for cross-referencing themes that I mention in several places.