Last year I got into using Letterboxd, to complement my goal of watching more (good) movies. It’s got a really clean interface, the social features are useful but unobtrusive, and it makes remembering what I’ve watched and when I watched … Read more
Listen–1.0x+ 0:0012:36 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, … Read more
In the Overview of cross-architecture portability problems, I have dedicated a section to the problems resulting from use of 32-bit time_t type. This design decision, still affecting Gentoo systems using glibc, means that 32-bit applications will suddenly start failing in … Read more
In the case of pause(2), we can use sigsuspend(2), or a few other similar functions. If we need the signal handler, our code might look like this: if (sigaction(sig, &(struct sigaction){.sa_handler=h}, NULL)) abort(); sigset_t set, prev; sigemptyset(&set); sigaddset(&set, sig); sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, … Read more
A cosy sight: the entrance to the geodesic dome where the Club 90 South bar was originally located. NOAA/ CC BY 2.0 When Philip Broughton boarded a flight to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2002, he didn’t intend to … Read more
I have been working with the SLATEC library. Following the closure of Absoft and Lahey during the last few months, I felt that I needed to preserve their versions of the library, which they included as free add-ons that their … Read more
## Summary This post ended up being incredibly long comprehensive. I’m afraid that many people won’t read enough to get everything that’s important, so here are the key points: When deriving the “real client IP address” from the X-Forwarded-For header, … Read more
What if I told you there was a way to instantly increase your email deliverability, website accessibility, the number of social media posts, and the customer perception of your brand? We just did exactly that by switching our primary domain … Read more
In the next few days those using M1 Macs will be updating to Big Sur 11.5, blissfully ignorant of how, as an admin user, their Mac could refuse to update. Because now, in addition to regular users, admin users and … Read more
Jul 3rd 2021 SOME DECADES ago Bartleby was covering the results of a company that was then in the FTSE 100 index. He was ushered into the offices of the firm’s public-relations outfit, whereupon the smooth-talking PR man (still a … Read more