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In Soviet Minecraft, server op you

2014196 points63 comments Games & Graphics details

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I closed a lot of browser tabs

2021156 points255 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

I am widely admired at work for my ability to have many, many browser tabs open. (That, at least, is what I take from the frequent shouts of “holy cow, man, look at your browser!”) Nonetheless, I have long thought that it would be worth getting my total tab count down. I have tabs open for a bunch of reasons.

Of abusive behavior in programming communities

2012156 points73 comments Software Engineering details

It is traditional for each release of perl to be announced with a form letter beginning with a quote, or epigraph, chosen by the release engineer. For Perl 5.16.0, I chose the penultimate stanza from W.H. Auden’s September 1, 1939.