Thursday, 16. October 12025
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Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers.

A quiz a day keeps the ignorance at bay.

Chartle.

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart.

Relevant: DataGuessr.

History of the GEM Desktop Environment.

How a gem was cut and then lost.

Source: substackcdn.com

From the “Alle gegen alle” dept.

Apocalypse now? Why tech billionaires are suddenly hoarding doomsday mega-bunkers.

What people who build mega-bunkers never understand (…) is that “successful prepping is a team sport. In order to survive, your neighbors have to survive. Either that, or they will be banging on the door of your bunker, pulling you out, and killing you anyway.”

Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus.

Der rechte Anhang hat das Gefühl, „ausgenutzt und zum Außenseiter gemacht zu werden, obwohl man sich zu den Etablierten zählt“ und „nicht gesehen zu werden, obwohl man sich in der Mehrheit wähnt“.

Enjoy the World Wide Web.

Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet regardless of where they're hosted.

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.

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