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devbat8712··on A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi
You absolutely do not say you-ber in english
devbat8712··on Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (2018)
I've found appimages to be a bit of a pain in the past because they're portable, so you need to have a place to put them
devbat8712··on Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes
Hating a group of people is not innocuous.
devbat8712··on Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
...how exactly does your system background colour include personal information?
devbat8712··on First stable release of Ubuntu Unity 20.04
You absolutely can get it by installing the package!

https://itsfoss.com/use-unity-ubuntu-17-10/

That's the beauty of desktop Linux Imo. If you change your mind, you can just change whatever you want on the fly

devbat8712··on My blog is now generated by Google Docs
Tilt your phone.
devbat8712··on Custom Game Engines: A Small Study
Slight correction: Minecraft used lwjgl 2 as an OpenGL binding. It never used libgdx.
devbat8712··on Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler
May I ask why
devbat8712··on Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution
Officially it's macOS now.
devbat8712··on Should you self-host Google Fonts?
Dyslexics
devbat8712··on 7nm AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU with 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Core Intel Xeon: $25K-50K)
I used to have an amd hackintosh with an a10, and I used premiere pro and Photoshop all the time with no issues.
devbat8712··on Sam and Max Hit the Road
Keep an eye out on gog.com, there's some cool point and click stuff on there. Teenagent isn't bad, and I think it's free on gog
devbat8712··on GNU APL 1.8
The creator of APL was actually originally from my town. Unfortunately that's the only interesting thing about my town.

Cool language though, the use of symbols as keywords is... Interesting, but a neat idea

devbat8712··on Show HN: GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site
I agree that it's probably safe, but SVG can contain script tags.
devbat8712··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Toast is the official ux name for a popup notification.
devbat8712··on Why do Python lists let you and= a tuple, when you can't and a tuple?
Just a heads up, HN butchered the title
devbat8712··on Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
I'd use ELinks or Links2 over Links, AFAIK the originall Links is no longer maintained. There's also partial JS support in ELinks which fixes some sites that require it.
devbat8712··on Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
oh, duh.
devbat8712··on Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
clojure is lisp on the jvm. not sure about elm.
devbat8712··on Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python
Oh my god, I've been looking for something like this for like a full year. This is awesome.
devbat8712··on Ask HN: As a software developer, why do you think blogging is necessary?
Because it's fun, mostly.

Also I have a lot of trouble actually remembering things and keeping my projects straight. By writing blog posts, even if I don't publish them, I can keep things straight.

I also needed to use picsofbread.com for something.

devbat8712··on Revisting the gui.cs framework
Gtk# is... OK. I've used it a little bit and for the most part it implements everything the C/C++ version does.
devbat8712··on MongoDB to acquire open-source mobile database Realm for $39M
True. Or it gets rolled into mongodb as a sort of .net version
devbat8712··on Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Not saying setting itself as the default browser is a good thing or anything, but Firefox also pins to taskbar automatically. Chrome does too IIRC.
devbat8712··on Visual Studio 2019 Released
Unfortunately, C with MSVC is dead. Personally nowadays I prefer to use cygwin and vs code, it's a good pair for pure c development when I need it. No real ides for pure c though...
devbat8712··on How to Design for the Modern Web (Satire)
I immediately got a giant prompt to sign into medium that greyed out the page and showed up offscreen...
devbat8712··on Back to PC after 14 years on a MacBook
Also can't go wrong with the various BSD variants
devbat8712··on Mui – user interface made of wood
Yeah, unfortunately. Awesome but impractical.
devbat8712··on A journey from Python to Go
I've been a python programmer for years, toyed with go a bit. My next project might use it, beautiful language. What c++ should have been