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Applications often use HTTP as a substrate to create HTTP-based APIs. This document specifies best practices for writing specifications

For the last year, we’ve been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are, and how we made rust-minidump. The …

In my country, political PR has at least three classes/levels. These are: spin doctor, spin master, and spin grand–master. Most citizens are easily spooked, so it’s easy pickings for politicians/journalists/pundits — the usual. Best to ignore news/politics. Tracking outrage is a fundamental futility, unless it’s your job. ;-)

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Claws Mail is a great GUI mail client. It interoperates nicely with any text editor and has a flat file design structure (many use case possibilities). The negatives are that the interface is a bit dated and runs on a single thread.

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Customer service, you know?

People problems > technical problems. This is an axiom. Your tools don’t resolve people problems, only technical problems.

Everything’s dandy when accolades go up and around. Compliments directed only at you? Bad news.

Style beats substance.
Attitude beats competence.
Foreign beats local credibility.

Scapegoats (blame deflection) and messengers/prophets (indirection) are the norm. Navigating this is a dark art, and yes, the human mind is magical and highly superstitious.

Lake Mohave water levels, using an Internet data source.