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RattlesnakeJake··on Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker's Dracula
Might be the manuscript he’s using. There seems to have been a trend during that era to crop out names, dates, & locations in books. I’ve spotted it in at least “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” and “Les Miserables,” off the top of my head. Here’s some speculation as to the reason:

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/9518

RattlesnakeJake··on AppleCensorship
LOL, that’s great. I just did the same.
RattlesnakeJake··on A Taxonomy of Bugs
LOL, my current favorite is the one where our site session dies once the Dev Tools are opened in IE11 (but only on Windows 10). It makes debugging a serious pain.

(Yes, we’re still supporting it for some reason)

RattlesnakeJake··on Goodbye Apple, Hello Purism
Is it referring to that “people feel like an outcast because they show up as green on their friend’s iMessage screens” nonsense?
RattlesnakeJake··on Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)
If anyone with a Palm device wants to take a trip to the past, a lot of the Palm software has been archived at PalmDB:

https://palmdb.net/

I loaded up a bunch of games on my CLIÉ NX70v. Warning: The nostalgia hits hard.

RattlesnakeJake··on Ask HN: Building a Desktop App in 2022
I don't know the root cause, but in my experience, they're fine until literally anything starts taxing my disk usage. Once that happens (usually thanks to a scan from overly-aggressive corporate antivirus), all of the Electron apps lock up together.
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