Stories by firexcy

Skirt Length Oscillations

HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

Spotify Announces the "Music-Streaming Urn"

Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Clawdbot's Capacity Is Less a Triumph of AI and More a Triumph of Desktop OS

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

US acquisition results in font license hikes for Japanese game studios

Brussels Effect

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

Finding a Successor to the FHS

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

AI challenges – and hopefully deepens – our understanding of "self"

Six Days in the Dark

To think is to resist – something no machine does

How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility

How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility

Remote Book Scanning with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs

Remote Scanning Books with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs