There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire (RSS reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?

It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the programming language % numbers on GitHub? Do they waste time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.

Regional Park of Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli, Italy (© Stefano Valeri/Alamy)

nikitonsky: There’re no technical reasons for limitations like these to exist. Next time you catch yourself thinking about allowing or not allowing certain symbols somewhere: just don’t. Allow everything. Users will thank you for that.

How do you merge two Git repositories without losing history? This post will take you through the step-by-step process. The post Merging two GitHub repositories without losing commit history appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

Baltic Sea in Estonia (© fotoman-kharkov/Getty Images)

Bearded reedlings at a wetland in Flevoland, Netherlands (© Gert-Jan IJzerman/Minden Pictures)

Boundary Trail in Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington (© Don Geyer/Alamy)

No more need for npm in my personal stack! The native browser’s path comes from which.

import puppeteer from "https://deno.land/x/puppeteer@16.2.0/mod.ts";

const chrome = "chromium";  // Browser Chrome: "firefox" | "chromium" | "google-chrome" | ...
const product = "chrome";   // Product Base:   "firefox" | "chrome"

const command = new Deno.Command("which", { args: [chrome] });
const { status, stdout, stderr } = command.outputSync();
const executablePath = new TextDecoder().decode(stdout).trim();

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  headless: false,
  executablePath: executablePath,
  product: product,
});

const site = "example.com";
const page = await browser.newPage();

await page.setViewport({ width: 1024, height: 768 });
await page.goto("https://" + site);
await page.screenshot({ path: site + ".png" });

await page.waitForSelector('a');

const url = await page.evaluate(() => {
  return document.querySelector('a').href;
});

console.log(url);

await browser.close();

deno run --allow-all main.ts

nikitonsky: Don’t use different font size for no reason

Kiteboarders and windsurfers off the Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia (© helivideo/Getty Images)