Today’s Planet Money Indicator is right up Brianna Wu’s campaign’s alley: www.npr.org/sections/…
Trying to manipulate an SQLite database from inside a VirtualBox VM and the host O/S, even sequentially, is not working very well. Have to write stuff to have the host poke operations through into the guest O/S.
Easily nerd-snipe Elliot: say the word “codepoint” within earshot.
*sigh* Sad, but probably true. twitter.com/stroughto…
Brilliant spoof or exemplar of the thing it is trying to criticise? 🎵 70’s Rock Must Die 🎵
egrep(1) is “non-standard” and deprecated??? github.com/koalaman/…
I find Bandcamp’s social features to be annoying and needless public display of private information. I want it to just be a store.
Google Chrome v63:
LC_ALL=en_GB➡︎navigator.language = 'en-GB'👍LC_ALL=en_CA➡︎navigator.language = 'en-GB'🤷♂️LC_ALL=en_SG➡︎navigator.language = 'en-US'😞
I find it hard to believe how primitive date/time parsing in browsers is in 2018.
LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 google-chrome ⇨ navigator.language: “en-GB”. 🤷♂️
Had to Wikipedia “autogyro” just now. Wowzers.
This review is great: www.npr.org/sections/…
I ❤️ the Firefox JSON renderer.
Where did all the emissions violating Volkswagen cars go? Here: dailyoverview.tumblr.com/post/1721…
I’m going to cry so hard: www.youtube.com/watch
This week’s Exponent is going to be entertaining: medium.com/@jamesall…
The proposal for adding the copyleft symbol to Unicode is awesome. Lots of examples of existing usage of the symbol.
If you live in Chicago and have not voted early, be ready for Tuesday’s election.
Never thought there would be a good explanation of why tariffs are bad that involved a sink clogged with lasagna.