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When an API in the world's largest, most successful platform is not that great, it means people don't use it. To use e.g. Honeycomb's front-end observability is 1MB uncompressed JS.Meanwhile,...

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Meanwhile meanwhile, syncing browser and server timestamps to create a unified timeline is pretty difficult. And then, even if you can get all this info, and say your largest contenful paint is bad -...

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One downside of Ruby's ability to make configuration easy in the base case is that you end up having configuration spread all over the place: initializers, env vars, command line flags, yaml files,...

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Brought to you by the confluence of puma's DSL configuration and OpenTelemetry's automagic configuration:Brought to you by https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby/pull/472/files

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A great example of “Docker appears to provide repeatable builds but absolutely does not”.I've been bitten by this before. It's incredibly frustrating and it's a hard problem to solve when you want...

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Anyone know how to initiate drag and drop on Mobile Safari? It is documented to work, and I have implemented it such that it works in a desktop browser, but I cannot get it to work on mobile safari....

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by "doesn't work", I mean that when I tap and drag inside a draggable="true", the page just scrolls. If I tap and hold,then drag, it starts selecting text. I just seems to completely ignore what I have...

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The two things I like about this gem (that I created some or most of a long time ago :) that Data does not have are:• If a field ends in a “?”, e.g. :new?, then it will be coerced into a boolean, e.g....

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Good time to update my browser list:• Spies on You• Spies on You CoPilot PC 365• Ugly and Run By Morons• Doesn't Work• The One You Are Forced to Use on Good Phones

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To be fair, at least we have a list of them! I remember when the list was "The One Installed on Everyone's Computer End of List"I honestly like Firefox/Ugly and Run By Morons, but it's continued...

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I was fine using Safari/Doesn't Work but the 1Password extension and the way to set up Kagi just SUCKS hard. I'm sure a lot of that is on Apple. Why can't I set any search engine I want? Why can't I...

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The situation is somewhat less dire on iPhone and yet totally grim. Mobile Safari works a lot better than desktop Safari, and the OS integrations mean that stuff like 1password actually works. Kagi is...

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Achievement unlocked! I got Plex to properly recognize the episodes in season 1 of Star Trek TNG! 🖖It took like a half hour. If only there was a naming convention they followed (oh wait…)

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I always love spotting a sea cucumber on a dive. Never seen this type (way too deep) and I cannot imagine seeing them moving at all much less swimming. This is just...

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Trackpad/mousing is a complete nightmare. I don't know what macOS does for this but Linux is using the Windows version which is awful. _I_ am doing this partly to work on https://devbox.computer...

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Since Thunderbolt display works, I am going to try using this in earnest and not peace out right now. But so far, it's still pretty rough.

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I do not know how anyone can use Linux with the copy and paste situation in such disrepair. Firefox requires ctrl-c/v it seems. Other apps can be customized on a per-app basis. No GUI to control...

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And to make this even worse, the trackpad is absolute garbage. It has "kinetic scrolling" which I guess cannot be turned off easily. Basically if I touch the trackpad, it just scrolls randomly. My...

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As much as Apple is not great at application software, their sw/hw integration is very impressive. I never knew how good I had it. I think part of this is the integration - Linux, like windows, has to...

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Cool, Chrome can't access my keyboard to do remappings. Something about USB permissions. I gave them. I did not work. I feel like customizing my keyboard's firmware would go a long way here.

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