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This is the fifth client I work with this week who’s auto-replied to an email I sent with this:

I am currently on leave returning on the 17th of August.

I don’t think I’ve ever had two clients from disparate companies share leave, at least outside popular holidays like Lunar New Year or Xmas. And now five people have? ...


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I was talking with Clara about the new Anthony Bourdain movie coming out, and it…

Wait, hold on a moment, Vim is telling me I misspelled the word “movie”. Really? Yeah, look at that, “movie” has a red box around it. Huh. Who’d have thunk it? Wait, Vim has “thunk” but not “movie”? Anyway, I digress.

I was talking with Clara about the new Anthony Bourdain movie co...


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Donezo.

uBlock Origin also reported blocking 311 requests, which I found rather amusing. Perhaps the Australian Bureau of Statistics were attempting to perform a census of my browser as well.

By


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I read another post recently that took it as given that the BSD operating systems were corporate friendly, with the implication that this was bad. They claimed that companies can lift code and lock it away in their proprietary software.

That’s true, they can. From a permissive perspective though, the GPL does the same thing. Importing permissive code into a GP...


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On Monday I wrote about why I preferred light modes over dark ones. Light modes are bright, cheerful, and easy to read for me, whereas most dark modes dilate my pupils and “burn” text into my eyes that persist even after I turn away. Not fun!

But that leads to two q...


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