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Missing You Recap: People Are Unreliable
Vulture,
Can Kat trust her family or friends ever again, or is she destined to become one of Manchester PD’s most vengeful loners?
Feds Say the Technology They Use to Control the Weather Doesn’t Work
Gizmodo,
America spends millions on cloud seeding every year, with mixed results.
Missing You Recap: It’s Bigger Than Just the Dogs
Maybe there’s a little more to Missing You than meets the eye after all.
How Online Were You This Holiday?
December’s memes, wrapped.
op run
mjtsai,
Mattt Thompson (tweet): This core insight — that configuration should be separate from code — led to the widespread adoption of .env files.[…]You add this file to .gitignore to keep it out of version control, and load these variables into your environment at runtime with a tool or library.[…]op lets you manage 1Password from the […]
The HFS Pixel
Encyclopedia Macintosh (p. 65, via Alex Rosenberg, rezmason): HFS and MFS disks can be distinguished by the presence or absence of the HFS pixel. You can tell if a drive or disk is formatted as HFS or MFS by looking for the “HFS pixel” in the upper-left corner of any window from the drive or […]
Two Foreground Windows
Pierre Igot: 1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the foreground.Result: TWO FOREGROUND WINDOWS! This is a really old […]
Bench Shut Down, Then Acquired
Charles Rollet (Hacker News): Bench, a Canada-based accounting startup that offered software-as-a-service for small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a notice posted on its website.[…]The company’s entire website is currently offline except for the notice, leaving thousands of businesses in the lurch. Bench touted having more than 35,000 U.S. customers just […]