It's good to see websites acknowledging the grim irony that you need cookies to remember users' cookie preference.
I'm surprised that there isn't a microformat specification for this yet. If one browser enabled users to blanket hide all of these I think others would follow.
A security bug in sudo:
https://sensorstechforum.com/cve-2019-14287-sudo-bug/
It requires a pretty liberal sudoers file, but it's remarkable that old tools still have security issues!
Reflections on ten years of Erlang, teaching novel ideas to newcomers, and whether 'killer apps' get more contributors or just more users:
https://ferd.ca/ten-years-of-erlang.html
34 environments, 24 compilers and 9 interpreters: the story of Eve, how it grew from Light Table, how they researched, built prototypes, and pitched the reinvention of programming to investors.
Part 1:
https://youtu.be/WT2CMS0MxJ0
Part 2:
https://youtu.be/ThjFFDwOXok
I'm taking an amateur radio exam today and reviewing mock papers.
I'm struck that they explicitly teach people to ignore trolling! This is the first time I've heard official advice on dealing with troll behaviour. (The expected answer is D in both cases here.)
Amusingly, parts of atom-beautify use Emacs to format code!
https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/search?q=emacs&unscoped_q=emacs
Presumably there aren't many options for formatting of Verilog, VHDL or Fortran.
Pharo's git integration (using Iceberg) is shockingly good.
All your commits are well-structured changes, so you can toggle at class/method granularity what you want to commit. Thanks to Iceberg, these classes in your *live* image serialise to text files!
I try to name my git remotes as 'github' where applicable. It really helps readability of commands.
This is so common that I wish I could make this default (apparently the default remote name 'origin' isn't configurable in git).
I don't preserve browser tabs between sessions. It's a surprisingly helpful way of staying on whatever side project you planned to play with.
A really nifty Emacs project: a gnus backend for reading HN!
https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews
Tech in 2011 and today doesn't look like a bubble, and startups failing are less likely to affect retail investors:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/whatever-happened-tech-bubble/594856/
GNU Guix bootstraps itself using a mutual self-hosting scheme interpreter and C compiler!
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/
Remarkable research exploring the design of a distributed VPN using zero knowledge proofs to allow nodes to choose permitted traffic whilst preserving privacy:
https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/
Businesses are increasingly choosing individual apps rather than buying entire suites from the same vendor:
https://capiche.com/p/enterprise-software-is-dead
(I'm not convinced it's that easy to switch though: established tools tend to have lots of integrations set up.)
Steampunk as a reaction to black box consumer electronics with no user serviceable parts:
https://modus.medium.com/what-ever-happened-to-steampunk-4ac936905165
