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Software development updates and stories of interest to techies.
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MacOS: Mail from 1993 >> Tue 25 June 2024 >> retrocomputing, computing, macintosh, discoveries, apple, command-line,
Apple's MacOS presents itself as a slick and modern operating system. Yet under the modern garb the ancient roots run deep.
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Rescamming: The story of haha.pl >> Sat 02 March 2024 >> programming, perl, internet culture, trololo, computing, fun, hackery, for-great-justice,
A naughty script delivers payback to some Facebook scammers. A story featuring Perl, great justice and many copypastas.
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Announcing No-WEI! >> Thu 17 August 2023 >> release, javascript, thransoft, no-wei, google, chrome, modern-woes,
The Web Environment Integrity proposal from Google is a serious threat to user choice and privacy on the Web; it must be stopped. Add this banner to your website that informs Google chrome users of the dangers and urges them to switch to a browser that better respects the open web.
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A replacement for the metasyntactic variables (foo, bar, baz) inspired by 90s sitcom Father Ted. To persuade you to adopt them they are then demonstrated in Perl.
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Everyone's favourite Perl static website builder marks its third release. Many thrilling new features await.
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How is my desktop? November 2021.
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RSRU.pl has reached its second release.
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Bitter Coin >> Sun 17 October 2021 >> bitcoin, cryptocurrency, economics, netlore, mishaps, told-from-the-past,
The woes of near-misses, as told by the blockchain.
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There is now a new section of the site: WMW, or Well Made Web. See it at wmw.thran.uk!
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Assorted screenshots of Linux desktops from August 2021.
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The RSRU.pl software catalogue generator is complete enough for a release.
