Halt and catch fire

Thank you! That was really interesting and well written.

Downvoting for the clickbait headline. The device in question is an inerter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter_(mechanical_networks)

TL;DR - Single page HTML apps

What a missed opportunity. The author could have talked about broader design trends like skeumorphism, linked Apple’s design language to what peers were doing at the time, and have delved into design detours and dead ends such as Apple Copland, which influenced subsequent generations of icon design.

The vibrant custom icon culture of the 1990s and early 2000s is also not discussed.

Instead, we are given a context-free post comprised of pretty but disjointed visuals.

Rather than complaining on the internet to an RSS report bot, I will write the post as it should have been written (I have an enormous library of classic icons from the pre-Mac OS X period).

Ugh, no name security site, paywalled article. Here are the details from Notepad++'s maintainer (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-9vx8-v79m-6m24 ) and the CVE : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49144

Seconded! I have several Brother MFCs. Rock solid, great Linux support, rarely change the toner.

That was fascinating. Ditto the link in the post to the article on names, which they cited as inspiration for writing it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=flightaware.engineering

I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater

LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)

I’ve been using Linux since the days of Slackware on floppies, and I still like Mint. It seems to just work – I’m not at all averse to “more hardcore” distributions, but would rather get on with my work. That being said, the Surface kernel is a nice piece of software and worth considering for an optimal experience on Surface.

With this one weird trick!

Definitely doable! I’ve run several Linux distributions on Surface devices. I had good experiences out of the box with Ubuntu and Mint, and not-great experiences with Debian Bookworm (even with the Nvidia driver, it could never seem to work out that the external monitor on my machine was a primary. I did not try the Surface-specific kernel, however. Good luck!

Heh, no, Silicon Valley. Rather surprisingly, internet service was awful here for many years.

In other words, offering tiers of service which are symmetric or close the gap? For what it’s worth, I seem to be a poor technologist, since 5 gigabits/sec is vastly more than I need, but my ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7 gigabits. It’s nice to know that I could run a skyscraper or a medium sized subdivision if I wanted to, however!

The lack of down/up symmetry (at at 10:1 ratio, no less) is rather gobsmacking in 2025. Even here in SV, where internet service has historically lagged behind the rest of the world, I now have 5 gigabits of symmetric fiber service for a reasonable price.

Even The Atlantic is stooping to clickbait headlines these days. An unfortunate look for a publication with otherwise excellent journalism.

Oh, lovely. I had no idea this existed, but I’ll try it out. Many thanks!

I am so tired of infantilizing headlines and the proverbial “YouTube thumbnail face”.

I had one! Took it apart and couldn’t put it back together. It was great fun whilst it lasted. I might still have the pieces somewhere.