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I like to use scrollbars.

The Chesterton’s fence analogy says that you need to be careful to change things if you don’t understand why things are the way they are, because there may be good reasons you haven’t considered yet.

I’ve been writing Ruby at my new $dayjob in the last month.

I’d like to know what the “best” compression tool is for storing archives (backups, data files).

I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good.

The Go compiler skips files ending with _test.go during normal compilation.

A long time ago when the Unix greybeards were slightly less grey beards everyone was using hardware terminals to talk to some mainframe.

You would expect this to work, no?

This describes how to create RimWorld mods on Linux; this is an introduction to both RimWorld modding and developing C♯ with Mono; it’s essentially the steps I followed to get started.

So Richard Stallman is back at the FSF, on the board of directors this time rather than as President.