Thursday, 16. October 12025
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I ♥ localızatıon!

The Country ¹ That Broke Kotlin.

  • If your computer is configured in English, "INFO".toLowerCase() is "info", just like we wanted.
  • But if your computer is configured in Turkish, "INFO".toLowerCase() turns out to be "ınfo".

Notice the difference? In the Turkish version, the lower case letter ‘ı’ has no dot above it.

¹ Rather: the language. Or rather: falsehoods programmers believe about localization.

OK, Stavros, I will give it another try.

Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial.

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice – How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice. (Via reddit.com, newyorker.com.)

There was no such thing as capitalism without slavery: the history of Manchester never happened without the history of Mississippi.

You have found strudel, a new live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser!

It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike.

JSON Web Tokens (JWT) debugger.

Find where a specific object was allocated in JavaScript with DevTools.

Here's a trick to reveal a debugger value in the memory profiler.

Glucose Goddess! 😻

Why Glucose Matters Even Without Diabetes. (Thanks, H.!)

Night trains from Vienna.

If DHH walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

The DHH Problem.

Play The Great Giana Sisters online! 🕹

A Commodore 64 classic from 1987 by Rainbow Arts.

A later version is available at archive.org.

Relevant: Wikipedia has a great background story.