AnotherHowie

@haha_girrrl Use client certificates and get rid of the password too.

Hot take: The username field is pointless. Change my mind.

@adahstwt I stopped buying macbooks when they started making terrible keyboards. This can't help!

do keyboard covers actually protect your laptop…or just ruin the typing experience? What’s your take?

@MbarkCherguia "How can I best LEAVE the company?" ftfy

You walk into your break room at work and see this on the fridge, what's your first thought?

@exQUIZitely Animated GIFs weren't yet a thing. Nor was colour.

I dabbled a bit with homepages in the 90s. Not on a professional level or for commercial projects, but mainly for setting up a Dungeons & Dragons page for our group and later a private homepage. It was certainly a Wild West vibe back then, with some of the most cringeworthy websites - including mine, I’m sure. Typical elements of any amateur site included: 1) The counter (“You are visitor number…”) 2) The “under construction” GIF 3) The email GIF 4) Link4Link exchange banners Some counters incremented +1 on every page reload, so you could easily inflate your numbers. Others were a bit more advanced and only counted real visits. Some had the most "oh God, my eyes!" layouts and worst color choices, such as red font on blue backgrounds, the eternal sin. As cringe as they look from today’s perspective, I’d love to have kept mine, just for shits and giggles. Did you have your own site? If so, what was it for?

@exQUIZitely Settle a fact? Am I supposed to change history depending on this vote?

Let’s settle this once and for all. Your trusted utility tool in the 80s and 90s was…

@Jagger4Keith @MbarkCherguia Ginnel is what comes to mind for me (I think from Corrie, though)

@MbarkCherguia Ginnel (Northern expression)?

Settle a debate. What do you call this?

@missforehead By owl, obviously.

wait so how do non americans get their mail??

@P4b57_0B4N @exQUIZitely But you did still have that weird thing where music and sound effects (samples) didn't always come from the same device. That's what made the later Soundblasters so interesting - Adlib music AND samples!

Sound was a big deal in the 80s... you had bloops and bleeps out of the box, then you had what the Roland MT-32 could produce. There was a BIG difference in those two things. Like listening to a $5000 Arcade machine in your living room vs a Commodor64. When it comes to PC's today, I think a bigger investment of sound goes into speakers or high end headphones.

I'm so out of touch, I don't even know if PC gamers these days still bother with sound cards... is that still a thing? What I do remember, though, is that the Roland MT-32 was the most unachievable piece of hardware ever back in the day, at least for me.

@exQUIZitely Nowadays you can make a Raspberry Pi pretend to be an MT-32 😀

@vibeonX69 Back to FreeBSD.

If Linux disappears tomorrow, what will you do? -Switch to Mac -Back to Windows -Build my own OS

@oelma__ Never mind that, what about that physical power switch and case lock?

But are you floppy disk old..

@Samaytwt The OG "Hello, world" from the K&R C book.

in which language you wrote your first "hello world"?

@TheNewRedneck @kmcnam1 USB after version 2 is generally a complete mess, but with a nice connector (although again, as one of the options for USB 3 connectors).

@AnotherHowie @kmcnam1 To me, that’s the biggest failure of USB-C, allowing for this to happen.

@RokoMijic @rshinra No, it isn't. Why would you only consider new built property?

@AnotherHowie @rshinra It's multistorey housing

What Brett isn't telling you is that the power from the solar panel must be used instantly. If you want just 10 days of storage for a 400W solar panel you have to pay about $10,000 for batteries. The barrel of oil is its own battery. And if you have to put that panel in Southern England on land that would otherwise have been used for housing, you are going to pay $12,000 for the land. So: - Panel ($92) - Batteries ($10,000) - Land ($12,000) You can see why oil is still competitive.

@RokoMijic @rshinra Pretty sure no-one is able to build a house on my roof.

@rshinra You can but you could instead but another house there (multistorey)

@RokoMijic And all you have to do is pop down to the barrel of oil shop.

@ritu_twts At least two of these are about a year old...

as a dev, what was your first code editor?

@FreyaHolmer How would layers implode, or does it just get harder? (or a goal size for the dotted line)

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

@evgenyeyt @nalinrajput23 I stopped using macs in 2015 and it has not affected my work.

@nalinrajput23 you can stop using your Mac that’s one thing I found that helps, but unfortunately for me that’s not possible as we vibing the next $100m apps

How can I stop my MacBook keyboard from ending up like this?