johannes @johannes@tech.lgbt

"C++" being a post increment, you just get "C".

I'll take clunky and modular over sleek and thin any day of the week.

So using native fonts over custom Web fonts is a good thing, but is there some kind of resource on font orderings that work on most platforms and look kind of similar?
Not just sans-serif either, but serif and monospace too.

Top-level domain for men

https://icannwiki.org/.men

Just ask yourself the question, how many language package managers rely on Github in one form or another?

This should be a teachable moment to everyone in software dev as well: imagine it wasn't Facebook, but Microsoft (including Github) instead where everything goes down?

Whenever I see people setting up XMPP servers, I never hear them mention ejabberd. I remember running it a few years back and while it has a big config file that might look scary, it's all properly documented. The only thing that I struggled with for a bit was getting it to work with my Let's Encrypt certs. Would recommend.

cryptocurrencies may be societally useless and environmentally damaging, but they also gave some cryptologists paid jobs, so it's impossible to say if they're bad or not

Blog post for additional context: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/09/an-update-on-memory-safety-in-chrome.html

"We attempted to represent ownership and borrowing through the C++ type system, however the language does not lend itself to this. Thus memory safety in C++ would need to be achieved through runtime checks."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSt2VB1zQAJ6JDMaIA9PlmEgBxz2K5Tx6w2JqJNeYCy0gU4aoubdTxlENSKNSrQ2TXqPWcuwtXe6PlO/pub

If Google can't introduce ownership semantics to C++, that pretty much means no one can, except maybe the C++ Standards Committee (doubt it though). So that's it pretty definitively: if you need performance and security, don't use C++.

Imagine if people had this attitude towards programmers refactoring code!
It is very easy to explain the utility of that, even if by touching the code we run the risk of breaking things. But seemingly some programmers think their craft is so completely divorced from the realities of others, that they can't even imagine that there might be a reason to do similar things elsewhere.

"It frustrates me endlessly that some UX designers will change things just to make themselves seem useful."

This attitude needs to die.

Since we now have some good minimal crypto tools like Age and Signify, I wonder if building some GUI tools on top of them would be useful to some people.