nikitonsky: Menu on hover: bad idea. User should have a freedom of moving their mouse without fear of triggering anything. It’s a basic human right.

A quick wrapper script for normalized git commit dates. Commit dates and timezones are normalized or truncated to the day. This is useful for avoiding rebasing and/or not having to think about system or git date/time settings when on another device or in another timezone. If precise timestamps matter, then it is easily disabled.

#!/bin/sh -eu

GIT=$(which git --all | grep --invert-match "local/bin" | head --lines 1)
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date --utc --date '0' '+%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %z')"

export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE

[ "${1:-}" = "commit" ] && export DATE=1 && $GIT "$@" --date="$GIT_COMMITTER_DATE"

[ "${DATE:-}" = 1 ] && exit

$GIT "$@"

Tracking git metadata never crossed my mind (git privacy). My understanding was that metadata can’t be sole ground truths anyway. Known real–world contributors increase trust/triangulation.

Reality is not always in sync with metadata, for example; rebasing repositories as 1 commit, using different names/emails, travelling (without updating tz) or working inside time drifted virtual machines.

I’d imagine that simpler anonymization involves anonymous contributors sharing the same metadata. In short, the deniable we are one, we are many, we are legion cloak.

Beech trees and wild anemones, Jutland, Denmark (© Nick Brundle Photography/Getty Images)

The Domain Name System (DNS) is defined in literally dozens of different RFCs. The terminology used by implementers and developers

‘Vanishing Point’ by French street artist JR on the facade of Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy (© Fabrizio Troiani/Alamy)

nikitonsky: I don’t know about you, but for me it feels weird putting so much information inside a button. I don’t want to click information! I also want to see pause button instead of waveform for pause.

Easter eggs painted by Tünde Csuhaj, Szekszárd, Hungary (© ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

Fake news is like an endless simulation of the boy who cried wolf. That fable (boys and wolves) is kind of crafty too. You can’t depend on the boy to always be wrong. Why?

Because, if he rings the false alarm bell long enough, then no one will be prepared for when the big bad wolf actually appears.

nikitonsky: Jeez Google, just use page title as everybody else does. It’s right there to be shown in search results