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Paul Lukas, founder of Uni Watch: Due to a perfect storm of negative developments, I have reluctantly come to the unfortunate conclusion that continuing to publish Uni Watch is no longer viable. This will be the site’s final post. Yes, I’m serious. And no, this isn’t a ...

The president of the United States, on his blog: Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to “perform” live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years...

My thanks to Jaho Coffee Roaster for sponsoring this week at DF. Jaho has been family-owned since 2005, and they’re guided by their slogan: “Live Slow”. Jaho knows that great coffee takes care. From sourcing small-lot single origins to blending coffees for balance, they smal...

Out of curiosity, are you using or have you used Mastodon's Signal sticker pack?

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114749156199964168

I feel like this may have flown under the radar 😅

For this blog, I mean. Which used to have a little search window in the corner of the banner just above that looked up blog fragments using Google. No longer; I wired in Pagefind; click on the magnifying glass up there on the right to try it out. Go ahead, do it now, I’ll wait before getting into the details

Linux has been slowly gaining popularity over the past few years for both end users and developers. There are many

The post Best Linux Distros for Development appeared first on The New Stack.

On this weekend’s edition of The Optimist, reporter and self-proclaimed cynic Kyle Melnick goes on a journey with a dog. We’ll talk about what he learns, and the science of how dogs make us calmer, happier – and maybe even more trusting.

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Beautiful and silly creature.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

I wrote a bit about Philippe Kahn the other day, and just remembered -- I forgot to write about Turbo Pascal. I had been using program compilers for C and Pascal for almost a decade when it came out, and it was shockingly different in a good way. Somehow it could compile a wh...

October blog posts in OPML. BTW, well-kept secret, I have a Node app that takes one of these outlines and publishes it to the web, in the format you see on Scripting News. If you can get your text to flow through OPML this way, you can have a replica of this site, with most ...

The unique thing about neighbors is you can try to divorce them, but no matter what you do they will still be neighbors. There are few relationships as permanent as neighbor. They don't have to listen to you. But you should listen anyway, and try to figure out how they look at the neighborhood. Probably very differently from the way you view it.

Wonder if you noticed that the main difference between social media and chat is which way the new messages flow and where the tiny little text box is, at the top or the bottom.

Things are changing over at Lodash and the project is starting a new chapter, according to Ulises Gascón, who is

The post JavaScript Utility Library Lodash Changing Governance Model appeared first on The New Stack.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

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When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.

The mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs exposing skin, spikes, flesh, the first reptilian hooves ever discovered.

This thoroughly excellent World Series will go seven games because it needs to go seven games. Not "needs to" in the wishful sense employed by my colleague Ray Ratto, the inveterate maximum-sports-wanter—who, by the grace of the blog gods will be in this chair to write the g...

“The ChatGPT app ecosystem is built on trust,” OpenAI’s guidelines for app developers proclaim. As the AI ecosystem expands, OpenAI’s

The post OpenAI’s Apps SDK: A Developer’s Guide to Getting Started appeared first on The New Stack.

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.