chuckellania

Chuckellania for November 3rd, 2021

unicode is complicated because languages are complicated because people are complicated

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Chuckellania for November 2nd, 2021

IHateRegex has another regular expressions playground. I was more familiar with RegExr and regex101, and, back in the day when Silverlight still ran on macOS, I enjoyed running Regex Hero's online tester. Because it was written in Silverlight, it matched .NET's regex engine precisely, because, well, that's what it was running on.

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Chuckellania for November 1st, 2021

One healthy way to make a team more productive is when its members feel safe.

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Chuckellania for October 31st, 2021

On the first day of COP26 (the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference), the United Nations Development Programme releases a rather punchy ad.

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Chuckellania for October 30th, 2021

If you're really into the outdoor laptop lifestyle, the 2021 MacBook Pros' display may not quite be bright enough, but an e-ink display could be.

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Chuckellania for October 29th, 2021

A thread on how 1990s' transphobic humor in shows such as Ace Ventura and South Park has caused harm to that generation, and how we're risking repeating that mistake today.

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Chuckellania for October 28th, 2021

The world's first mass-market use of the RISC-V architecture might be Google's Titan M2, a security chip in the Pixel 6 phones.

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Chuckellania for October 27th, 2021

Quinn Nelson made two little videos (1, 2) that, frankly, I find sensationalist.1

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Chuckellania for October 26th, 2021

Another exploration of the usability of files and folders:

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Chuckellania for October 25th, 2021

What even is a software bug, in the mind of people who've never done development themselves? A glitch? An error? Unexpected behavior?

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