Many, many years ago Google Search conquered — there’s no other word for it — the Internet. None could stand before it, not Yahoo!, not AltaVista, Not Ask Jeeves. It was brilliant: a single text box, in which one could type anything, hit Return and get excellent-quality results. It even grew smart enough to know individual users.
No more. Today, I had a problem with sp-kill-hybrid-sexp (a Emacs command in teh smartparens package to delete the remainder of a line, respecting S-expression delimiters) hanging in SLY, so I searched for sp-kill-hybrid-sexp sly slow.
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Peter Bright makes a cogent argument that the Web now belongs to Google — and that should worry us all. I strongly encourage my friends & readers to install Firefox on their computers and their phones (and to use Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a reskinned Safari, due to Apple’s draconian platform policies).
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Eric Law has an interesting piece on HTTPS. Short version: it’s not a panacæa.
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Eric Law has an interesting piece on HTTPS. Short version: it’s not a panacæa.
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A few days ago I was driving along when a great song from my college years came on the radio (One Headlight by the Wallflowers). It occurred to me that it’d be really great to know the next time they’re in town. But then I realised that there’s no way for me to be alerted of the fact.
Sure, I could sign up for their mailing list. But then I’d get announcements of records, of shows in other cities and states, perhaps the lead singer’s thoughts on politics or art or some other subject.
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A few days ago I was driving along when a great song from my college years came on the radio (One Headlight by the Wallflowers). It occurred to me that it’d be really great to know the next time they’re in town. But then I realised that there’s no way for me to be alerted of the fact.
Sure, I could sign up for their mailing list. But then I’d get announcements of records, of shows in other cities and states, perhaps the lead singer’s thoughts on politics or art or some other subject.
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I’ve been rewriting the website for the Metropolis of Denver (warning: the current site is bad) and having an interesting time of it. I just spent an hour or so converting the M$-HTML front page into real, standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Not only does it look better and load faster, as well as play well with others, it is also ¾ the size of the old page.
I don’t know why more folks don’t write valid web pages.
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I’ve been rewriting the website for the Metropolis of Denver (warning: the current site is bad) and having an interesting time of it. I just spent an hour or so converting the M$-HTML front page into real, standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Not only does it look better and load faster, as well as play well with others, it is also ¾ the size of the old page.
I don’t know why more folks don’t write valid web pages.
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