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Today I noticed the new Reddit design on my phone with obvious glitches and undesirable behavior. Worst of all, “Request Desktop Site” no longer does anything. (The dense layout and easy scroll/pinch-zoom are preferable…

...for our iOS and Mac devices shall finally stop dumping gigabytes of “Month 13 is out of bounds” messages to the system log.

A real opportunity for startups is to produce services that save us all from gratuitous branding that pollutes every part of the user experience, directly hindering usability. I would pay extra for services that can be…

Ever seen "thePlague of_mixed namingstyles WhereNoOne Seems_To_Agree on-what-to-use orWorse-they_start_mixingstyles"? Package repositories, command names, function names...it’s everywhere. It’s hard to remember both the…

I recently added text like this to my web site: "Note: This site does not have ads. If you are seeing ads, a 3rd party has put them there. For help, please see this WikiMedia article.", where I link to a good blog…

Just figured I'd share implementations of "setenv" and "unsetenv" that I made for Bourne-compatible shells. Unfortunately at work I'm doomed to use "tcsh" for various reasons (like established infrastructure) and it's…

Web sites are adopting two patterns that are starting to ruin the iPad for me (a device which otherwise provides an amazing browsing experience)... One is the tendency to auto-convert themselves into app-like…

Before you post, check the "new" page first. It takes just seconds to notice that a headline has been (over)posted 10 times already, and it should be obvious that we don't need to see it yet again. The repetition only…

In an Objective-C "@interface" the names for parameter variables don't really matter. In fact, they can all be exactly the same name, and different from the "@implementation", which is useful in header files. Method…

Here's a quick script I wrote to add a bit of styling to 'svn diff' output so that it's easier to see where the changes are. Of course the basic code can be tweaked to match output from other programs that you care…

Aside from "obvious" things like speed, accuracy, etc. what kinds of features do you really want in a terminal emulator (especially if you don't know of any terminals that do what you want)? What are a few really…

On Mac OS X Lion, not only can you resize from any edge (finally), but if you hold down the Option key the window remains centered and the size changes are split between opposite edges of the window. I discovered this…