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Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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Just noticed that Mastodon prefixes a user’s homepage route with the @at symbol. Pragmatic and clever name spacing? Tempting. Though I’d still prefer a URL of the form:

text
https://example.com/user

Instead of:

text
https://example.com/@user

Yeah… superficial, but it looks cleaner.

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Bing Images

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (© Tony Barber/Getty Images)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (© Tony Barber/Getty Images)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (© Tony Barber/Getty Images)
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Recent RFCs

Recent RFCs

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

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Mozilla Hacks

Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

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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 …

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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In my country, political 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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (© Susanne Pommer/Shutterstock)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (© Susanne Pommer/Shutterstock)
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Grumpy Website

Grumpy Website

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nikitonsky: Before using our alarm clock, let it go to the internet, accept User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Alarm clock!

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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Claws Mail is a great 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.

Claws Mail Main Window
Claws Mail Main Window
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Bing's Homepage Images Archive

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Elephant walking in the Okavango River, Botswana (© Markus Pavlowsky/Getty Images)

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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In freelancing your job is not to be a hero, but to attract blame and lose arguments swiftly and strategically.

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.

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