this css proves me human
Capitalization is the first wound. It hurts less than I thought it would. The words spill out capitalized, so I must find another way. cat post.md | tr A-Z a-z | sponge post.md is too crude a tool, and my blocks of code must remain inviolate. Careful targeting of text-transform: lowercase is enough. Em dashes. […]
Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds
2 i. Exec. Order No. 14193 — Imposing Duties to Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. 9113 (Feb. 1, 2025) (the “Canada Tariff EO”); ii. Exec. Order No. 14194 — Imposing Duties to Address the Situation at Our Southern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. […]
The Shady World of IP Leasing
2026-03-03 The IPv4 ”exhaustion” is not real. The addresses got hoarded and the market devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where anyone can choose where their IPs appear from, who owns them on paper, and scrub them clean of any history. IPv4 ”Exhaustion” is a Myth You’ve heard it a thousand times: we’ve run out […]
The worst acquisition in history, again
After six months and eight failed bids, the Ellisons made the Warner Bros. Discovery board an offer they couldn’t refuse. The potential Netflix acquisition would’ve been akin to fusing LVMH and Walmart — HBO’s prestige TV and Warner’s iconic IP, plus Netflix’s scale. Paramount Skydance buying WBD is the fusion of a dog and a […]
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
The results: The team found traces of wild grasses and legumes, fruits or berries, green vegetables, and roots and tubers native to the broader region. Shards recovered from sites in the Don River basin showed these people used the seeds of wild legumes (possibly clover) and grasses, as well as showing some evidence of bran […]
Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)
The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of health based on the shape, size and texture of feces. So did the Egyptians, the Greeks and nearly every ancient culture. Even today, your doctor may ask when you last had a bowel movement and to describe it in exquisite detail. Sure, it’s uncomfortable to talk about. […]
Ada 2022
Ada Standards Ada 2022 Documents The documents on this page describe the 2022 revision to the Ada Standard, usually known as Ada 2022. The revisions were produced by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG), and have been published as the International Standard ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E). The document used as the source material […]
Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data. For companies like Fivetran that are heavy users of Slack, it replaces email and even conversation as the primary place and mode of collaboration. Questions are asked and answered, arguments are had, decisions are made, all in Slack. Our Slack message history represents nothing less than the […]
macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses Previous: The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard revisited Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) March 4 2026 I’m sometimes late to notice new and terrible things about macOS 26 Tahoe, because I use it only for testing, on a secondary Mac. My […]
Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS
What would a piece of software have to do today to make you cheer and applaud upon seeing a demo? I don’t mean the ”I’m attending a keynote and this is expected, please don’t glower at me Mr. Pichai,” polite-company type of applause. I mean the ”Everything’s different now.” kind. For that, the bar is […]