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IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they’re probably trying to wipe out the memory of the origina…
Storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and NVMe drives are reaching increasingly ridiculous prices an...
Falling out of love with warp Back when I wrote this codebase, warp was the best / only alternative for something relatively high-level on top of hyper. I was never super fond of warp’s model — it’...
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Software engineer and writer exploring web development, productivity systems, AI, and creative projects. Sharing insights on building better tools and…
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
MediaPlus is a browser extension that gives users more control over media elements like video, images, games, flash, etc by allowing them t...
Dmitry Kudryavtsev is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and a tech entrepreneur creating sustainable online business.
The year of 2015 has been a pretty crazy ride for Vue.js. The project has grown way beyond my expectations, so I’d like to take a look back and put things in perspective. StatsGeneral NPM downloads:
If the text is neatly neatly isolated inside an HTML element, it’s easy; this will do:
Take a moment to go back in time with me, back to when life was simpler and the biggest threat to humanity was Y2k…
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is a book with examples of JavaScript design patterns and how to apply them to your code.
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If you've used CSS, you know what a class name is. They're a very poor proxy for the web today. Let's stop using them.
Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today.
Google purchased Picasa, a super efficient photo editor that offered seamless integration with online publishing (e.g., you add a photo to an album on your desktop computer and […]
Yeah you read that right. I just received an interesting email from Brightcove (the video delivery guys) about issues with their Flash based solution and Windows 8 running the new Internet Explorer 10. To quote:
