mindplunge

The fontTools section is the part I keep thinking about. Replacing the em dash glyph by compositing two hyphens via GlyphComponent is not something you reach for unless you really know your way around type rendering. Most frontend devs would have just swapped the character in the source, which doesn't survive the markdown processor. Doing it at the font level is the correct solution and it's a much harder problem than it looks.

The text-transform trick is more accessible but the same logic applies, the CSS has to protect code blocks from the lowercasing, which is a real edge case. It's a genuinely well-crafted technical solution underneath the poem.

Frontend work with large component libraries. When I'm refactoring shared design system components, things like a token system that touches 80+ files, compaction tends to lose the thread on which downstream components have already been updated vs which still need changes. It ends up re-doing work or missing things silently.

The model holds "what has been updated" well at the start of a session. After compaction, it reconstructs from summaries, and that reconstruction is lossy exactly where precision matters most: tracking partially-complete cross-file operations.

1M context isn't about reading more, it's about not forgetting what you already did halfway through.

So the Flash-based cookie is basically spyware or am I wrong?

30 years to change the logo but only 5 years to stop playing music...

Best read of 2009!

Update:

Google said on Friday that an error caused the search engine to remove The Pirate Bay from its search pages.

"Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google search index," Google said in a statement. "We are now correcting the removal, and you can expect to see Thepiratebay.org back in Google search results this afternoon."

Later, Google updated it's statement: "The removal appears to be an internal error and not part of a DMCA request."

Separately, The Pirate Bay's site appeared down Friday afternoon at 1:15 p.m. PT, at least in many U.S. areas.

Had a little smile on my face reading this line: "If you already know his name, chances are you've been doing something illegal."

Screenshot here: http://richardlemon.com/2009/01/macrumorslivecom-hacked-duri...

Please accept my toad as he ate my resume while performing some voodoo. Cutting his belly should reveal my crappy resume...

This is been going on for a while:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/minty-fresh-indexing/

what's a 'book'?

I still use forums a lot especially for subject related issues. It's a total different medium then a social network so I don't think it's fair to compare. I still think that forums are a huge part of the internet.

Yep, I invoke rule '420' when stuck at an airport

I get in early.

See this link: 10 Simple Steps To Social Media Success In 2008

http://searchengineland.com/080108-134105.php