Thursday, 16. October 12025
p3k dots

Austria proudly celebrating LGBTQI+ people since (at least) 1966.

Erik Schinegger.

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS.

Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad.

Source: img.exotext.com

Jef Raskin

Raskin’s humane ideals live on in obvious ways, to the benefit of anyone using a graphical computer today—undo everywhere, discoverability, and consistent commands and shortcuts are now interface common sense. But the deeper thread, the ethos that inspired him and others in the tradition of computers as tools for thought, survived mostly outside the mainstream. It persists in systems that never had to sell millions of units or satisfy quarterly targets, that never had to justify their existence to the mass of people using PCs—tools that could afford to remain strange, open, and humane on their own terms. Emacs, Oberon, and Smalltalk belong here, but so do newer experiments like Uxn and 9front.

The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review.

A key part of having a reviewable PR is writing commits that tell a story. Present your changes incrementally and logically so reviewers can follow your thought process. Generic commit messages such as "add dependency," "implement file upload feature," and "address PR feedback" don’t tell much of a story and leave reviewers guessing. Why was the dependency added? What were the specific steps in creating the file uploader feature? What feedback is being addressed?

Posts from the catsareliquid
community on Reddit

Der schöne Film.

Ich hab »Der schöne Tag« von Thomas Arslan im Filmmuseum Wien gesehen und wollte, konnte aber nicht, möchte jedenfalls noch mehr Filme von ihm sehen.

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.”