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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:34PM (#22940064)
remember Opera and Seamonkey (and Lotus Notes) back when the all-in-one email/browser/cal/notes application concept was still kicking
Re:Blot – a blogging platform with no interface on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:14PM (#17315429)
Super reasonable cost, looks easier than dealing with my own Jekyll or something similar. Plan on giving this a spin!
Re:How Much Is a Word Worth? on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:36PM (#16879321)
TIL Medium has a premium version for $5/mo
Re:Show HN: Check whether an email address exists on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:32PM (#16802668)
Am using namecheap's email service for my personal email and domain, this says it is an invalid email address
Mozilla recently released containerized tabs[0], I imagine the next logic step is building containerized Private Browsing Mode

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:50PM (#16701247)
Great looking font, I think my scroll wheel might be exhausted from that webpage though.
Re:Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:43AM (#16601395)
Here is a link to the github repo with the images and codebase: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
They consider the low level information about how their GPU works a trade secret. Source code won't be as helpful as documentation, but it's more work than reverse engineering the driver binaries.
Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:14AM (#14645545)
If anything I feel as if there might be some general warning placed in the front of a store in order to comply with the need to inform shoppers