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Requesting for the linked page I get a message telling this resource is restricted by Russian Government because it "contains information restricted for propagation in Russian Federation". That's Rostelecom ISP. I could get the page using another ISP and don't see any "restricted information". Hm.

Git? tig 13 years ago

Also is there any support mailing list or forum instead of mailing directly Jonas?

Git? tig 13 years ago

How to make tig absolutely monochrome? Didn't find an option, is the only way to set EVERY area like `color area white black`?

It's just burning my eyes with blue and magenta colors :)

All this doesn't matter to me while I cannot increase font size by zooming in the page. Why does it happen to more and more web sites? I zoom in because font is too small for me, but font size doesn't increase, only paragraph width increases!

When me and a friend of mine were experimenting in creating a web chat we realized that inserting new messages into the beginning of page (or div) is much better for both users and developers. No bothering with autoscrolling. No user distraction of autoscrolling when he reads previous messages. It was really a good decision.

Anyway IRC is much better. I don't want to live my life in a multitabbed web browser window.

Thanks to this guide now I have Plan9 Acme like scrollbar in Google Chrome and Chromium and it's easy to see where you are even in the end of hard day:

    ::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece{
    	background-color:#99994c;
    	-webkit-border-radius:0;
    }
    ::-webkit-scrollbar{
    	width:12px;
    	height:8px;
    }
    ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb{
    	height:50px;
    	background-color:#ffffea;
    	-webkit-border-radius:0;
    	outline:1px solid #99994c;
    	outline-offset:-1px;
    	border: 1px solid #99994c;
    }
Why Use Make 13 years ago

I think shell script can work as well as makefile in most cases. The pro of shell script is not having one more tool for running your commands. You have a shell, why do you need make for describing build steps?

For the moment I see a makefile as a shell script that fails when a command fails. But you can use `-e` option with sh, bash, rc shells and expect the same behaviour.

The only thing shell misses (comparing to makefile) is dependencies check, you have to write dependencies mechanism yourself if you need it.

Also I don't like the .PHONY stuff, I just can't get it, it feels alien.

Am I missing anything obvious?

forgot to mention some useful psql options for comfortable work within Acme: `win psql -xn -vPROMPT2=`

setting PROMPT2 to null string gifts you with ability to easily copy-paste SQL expressions

`-n` disables readline lib because we don't need it in Acme

Oh what a surprise! It looks like just a backward time travel to the world where we used mail client applications with POP3 mail servers. You have time to read emails, you open your mail client, push "Get new messages" and voila! you read your mail!

Actually it's often when you find that old good simple approaches are just more comfortable for many people than the new shiny technologies that disturb/annoy you all the time.

Though this is 'old news' I was surprised by knowing who stands behind web.py.

Several years ago I was doing a little cozy web questionary tool and after trying Django, PHP, Perl, etc I've come to web.py framework. It was pleasure to work with databases, web templates, etc in web.py environment. I really enjoyed making the tool and the result code was tiny, clean and easy for understanding. Though it was a tiny tool I was very proud and next time I used web.py for a bigger project (proprietary for internal use only) and it was pleasure again.

Recently I've read three parts of "raw nerve" articles and found them interesting. But I didn't even pay attention on author's name. Now reading "Rewriting Reddit" all the pieces has been bringed together and I'm thankful to Aaron for his web.py and "raw nerve" articles.

Feature request: ability to vote up

Views counter is not very useful really: sketches from top are getting more views, random view is adding chaos. Voting up would be very good tool to identify interesting programs.