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Agreed, Wordpress has come a long way,along with PHP for that matter. Both deserve a little more praise and less criticism for the warts of bygone days.

There's a typo in the title. PoweToys --> PowerToys

Exploiting loopholes reduces the quality of the game and it's just not as fun to watch. The idea that this is a calculated, team effort is annoying. Too bad there isn't a way to give a whole team a technical foul.

Thanks for pointing that out, fixed.

Skipping breakfast is my doctor-approved way of keeping my weight in check. I found myself eating a few hours after dinner, so I still have three meals a day, just not at the traditional times. And like others have said here, hunger is almost never a problem. And drinking water is a great way to satisfy the occasional hunger.

Kyle's free and open source You Don't Know series https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS are amazing resources for Javascript developers.

I agree, but read that at least one of the users had 2FA enabled and still lost their repos. They said they received no notification emails either.

I don't. I found anti-virus software slows machines down (especially live scanning) and causes some of the very same problems as malware.

I've found myself doing the same thing. But you can work next to someone in a cubicle for years and know less about them than you would from subscribing to someone's blog (assuming it's honest). I value in-person interaction, but I've also gotten to feel like I know people with whom I've only interacted with online, via email and MUDing back in the day.

How well you really know someone is hard to quantify.

How does that work for free email newsletters? They're typically already paying an email service provider. Having to pay even more could be onerous for large, double opt-in lists, even though they're not spamming.

I'm a fan of anything that helps open source, but in my experience it's more effective if the employee is able to work on open source projects as part of their job. Then again, maybe that's just my current evening burnout talking.

After even a slight slowdown, I was unable to ever restore the vehicles to steady traffic again. Adding lanes, quick stop lights to ease the flow. It was maddening (like real traffic I guess...)

This. Making a chatbot isn't difficult. Making a competent one that users can comfortably interact with is extremely difficult.

At least for the Madrid metro, they have what I consider to be one of the most accessible and convenient public transportation systems I've used. And compared to Indianapolis, where I currently live, Madrid's public transport makes what we have here an embarrassment.

And it's especially scary knowing that memories can be suggested to people, to the point that they genuinely believe they experienced the false memories.

From Merriam-Webster:

ensure - to make sure, certain, or safe

insure - to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions

Several years ago I built https://shortmarks.com as a way to use search shortcuts from any browser. The code isn't pretty and I haven't updated it in eons, but it works well enough.

https://secure.expirify.com is a free option that works well. I believe I discovered it on HN.

Private Bin (encrypted sharing of data) - https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin

KeeWeb (for accessing KeePass database) - https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb

Thanks for sharing that link. Here's a bookmarklet (as opposed to the Chrome extension) to launch this on whatever site you're on:

   javascript:void(window.open('https://www.whatruns.com/website/'+window.location.hostname));

https://shortmarks.com - Keyword bookmarks across browsers (I started using them in Firefox, and it was a pain to keep them in sync). It has about 1,400 users, much fewer active. I keep thinking I should rebuild it and figure out a way to make money from it.

The site got hit by one of Google's black box algorithm adjustments. I spoke with folks on the Adsense team and followed their advice but it's never rebounded. It was mostly organic traffic, which means it depends on the whims of search engines. (It's not a reassuring position to be in).

One of my sites (https://riddlesbrainteasers.com) has been a wild ride, reaching a peak of $18k/month and down to an average of around $500/month now. Monthly traffic is generally around 300k unique visitors.

Another site (http://coincollector.org) was making $300/month as long as I kept posting but after several years I grew tired and now it earns next to nothing.

Pinterest.

I like it. The controls remind me of my X-Pilot days in college. Good times.

Works great in Chrome 9.0.570.1 dev

Is this a new fad? Xmarks and now Bloglines say they're shutting down, then get bought out after the outcry. The downside is people bail on the announcement and see no reason to return.

Here's hoping they have big balls.

From what I've heard (my site isn't technical so I can't say definitively) technical sites have low click through rates because many developers use adblockers and may not be as attracted to advertising. But it's hard to estimate because it can vary wildly depending on how many folks are advertising in your space. Run a month trial and see how it does.