bluesmoon

Go with S-corp.

Exactly! For a web dev in 2025 to still not know security best practices that have been around for 20+ years is a failure on the part of the dev.

Github discovered the same thing a long long time ago which is why you now have the github.io domain.

I did a talk on Cognitive Biases in performance measurement and included Anscombe's Quartet (among other things) in the section on developer bias: https://speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon/we-love-speed-understandin...

yeah, that's about the time I quit couchsurfing and limited my interactions to community meets. Then it pretty much died out. I couldn't tell if this is the same folks trying to do it right or different folks who believed in the original mission of CouchSurfing.

Wait, is this a rebrand of couchsurfing.org?

Thanks for the feedback. It's more correct to say that traffic drops off for 3-4 hours rather than everyone goes offline for 3-4 hours. It's likely to be staggered based on the slope of the curve at that point.

That's a fair criticism. The data suggests that there are different breaks spread out over that 3-4 hour period, not one break of 3-4 hours. I've reworded it accordingly.

Thank you for your personal story about this. It helps to put things in perspective.

I have it on my TODO list to look a little more into that. It caught me by surprise when I pulled up the data for Germany.

It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. FWIW, I taught my kid to ride when he was 3 by putting him at the top of a wheelchair ramp and letting him go. Took him 5 seconds, and he was riding around the park by himself by the second attempt. He'd never been on a bike before.

Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a whole bunch of programming concepts as a side-effect.

I came here thinking there was a new recommendation for making toast, or at least a recommended type of bread to use, but I found nothing edible.

Nice. Reminds me of the PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia from back in the 90s/early 2000s: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/index.php

Julia supports Complex numbers as a built-in type.

Reminds me of the time back in 2010 when a piece of CSS on the Yahoo Search page would cause a complete desktop crash on Red Hat Linux: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/04/can-website-crash-your-r...

To the author, did you ever consider contacting the Chrome dev team about this? They're pretty responsive to bug reports.

Reminds me of the 500 mile email (2002): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

I can't say that I specifically learnt COBOL for fun because I did it in 1997 or so in India when the entire Indian IT industry was bidding on a host Y2K migration projects. I only graduated college in May 2000, so I never actually used COBOL to solve any Y2K problems, however, I did figure out that you could use a large number of paragraphs in the SCREEN SECTION to build animation frames and use that to build fun animations. It was tedious though, so I wrote a C++ program to generate the SCREENs for the COBOL program.

Hangul is phonetic, but doesn't have the capability to represent all phonetic sounds of a language. For example, Hindi has 4 distinct letters and consequently sounds for the each of D and T (D: ड ढ द ध, T: ट ठ त थ), which all correspond to the single Hangul letter diot (ㄷ). I have Korean friends who write their names in the Chinese script because they don't have the necessary letters to represent the sounds.

Perl counts from 1900, so the year 2000 was actually stored as 100. You'd get 2 digit years in the 1990s and suddenly 3 digit years after 2000. The solution was to arithmetically add 1900 to the year before rendering. Newer perl functions would handle that internally.

COBOL programs will be fine. They use 4 characters just for the year since it's stored as the decimal characters. I was trained in COBOL in the late 90s to work on Y2K migrations. It's done this way so that COBOL programs stored on punched cards are readable (also why COBOL has its line-length limitations).

Already happening. Client Hints are the way forward.

Nope, this is already happened in Chrome. Client Hints are the way forward.

In 1999, I was an intern at a company in India. We wanted to put a machine in a datacenter, and the datacenter admin asked us to set the Administrator password to "password". Turns out that all the other companies that put their boxes in that datacenter did the same. Infosys was one of those companies.

I wrote more about it here: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2017/04/a-tale-of-datacenter-sec...

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this. It's an informational blog post about what's happening and what's changing.

User Agent strings aren't used for feature detection, they're used for classification. As a developer, when you're trying to fix a bug reported by a customer, it helps to know exactly which browser right down to the patch version that bug shows up in so that you can try and reproduce the bug in the same environment.

I don't know whether this is a trend

I posted this 11 years ago: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2011/01/device-width-and-how-not...

It's not a trend, it's been around as long as it's been possible. Site owners dislike letting their users have control.

As Jacques Pepin once said... your recipe is just a guideline because you have to adapt it to the ambient humidity when and where you cook.

Back in the 90s the Microsoft version was "Embrace and Extend" which really meant, adopt a standard and then change it so that the original implementation no longer works.

Fun times. I remember back in the year 2000, during the dot com craze, there was a company in India that built a clone of "Who wants to be a millionaire". It was in beta and there was no real cash or prize involved.

They had all the answers stored in the source code. I wrote up a quick perl script to play the game and unfortunately left it running overnight, and in the morning there were complaints from other players asking how I'd reached the top rank so quickly.

+1 for using chthonic in a coherent sentence.