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Misc

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Posts
107 from 10 Oct 2015 to 1 Jul 2026
Posting
now and then (5 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 5

  1. AsyncTask’s ThreadPoolExecutor in different versions of Android
  2. Selected examples of things that Slack thinks Slack is
  3. How to sign in to Slack with a QR code
  4. How far down you can go with nested subscript elements on GitHub
  5. How Codex aligns SVG text on GitHub

2025 6

  1. Visual Studio Code extension name requirements
  2. Why Firefox named that file 3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite
  3. Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy
  4. Readme banner sizing
  5. One student’s search history that the world downloaded 1,122,083 times last week
  6. Not having to see Ghostscript’s fonts

2024 13

  1. Emoji metrics
  2. 14 complaints about 11 implementations of netcat
  3. macOS user IDs
  4. Android itself surviving Android 15 edge-to-edge enforcement (for View dinosaurs)
  5. Backing up your Firefox Nightly profile on Android
  6. Resources in Diablo 4, a 40-hour impression
  7. Animals rampaging in town, unusually large ones (please help)
  8. Google product icons converted from polar coordinates
  9. A playable game ad
  10. The “incorrect hash in some cases” fixed in js-sha512 v0.9.0
  11. Having Someone in your Replit editor
  12. Values that you can call JSON
  13. Receiving a truncated HTTP response in Node.js

2023 5

  1. Replacing WeTTY on Glitch
  2. Emoji suggestions
  3. Names for require(‘child_process’)
  4. AsyncGeneratorFunction objects in JavaScript
  5. Those double colon thingies in GitHub Actions

2022 12

  1. Firefox network monitor columns
  2. The uncoolness of CacheStorage
  3. Ubuntu flavors installer sizes
  4. Progress towards changing your desktop wallpaper without installing a karaoke captioning library
  5. One time when it really was a Docker command quoting issue
  6. Compressing floats
  7. Resources in Diablo Immortal
  8. A dream I had (2013)
  9. Little stories for every function key
  10. What “[S]” means in sbt’s dependencyTree output
  11. A kitchen without “finally” blocks
  12. Hydra (Diablo 3 Season 25), simplified

2021 12

  1. What it was like to play Ragnarok Online as a computer scientist
  2. Set item drops in Division 2, Tom Clancy’s The
  3. The privileged daemon that used shell-quote
  4. Firefox Multi-Account Containers now needing permission to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”
  5. Exploiting CVE-2021-42740
  6. Command injection through shell-quote
  7. The elevated daemon that imported Git projects for you and how it went wrong
  8. User identity leak on Glitch
  9. Google Meet buttons
  10. Glitter text
  11. Default branches at work
  12. Cloud services, winter 2021

2020 12

  1. U.S.-Distribution-of-Wealth Stuf Oreos
  2. “A resource failed to call close.”
  3. Root access on Glitch
  4. Firebase Messaging open source license
  5. Auto-indenting code blocks in GitHub comments
  6. Resources in Diablo 3
  7. The reason you need to install a karaoke captioning library if you want to change your desktop wallpaper
  8. vmstat(8) swap unit
  9. Brands in the bathroom
  10. Pandora’s track title display
  11. How Jekyll checks if a link is valid
  12. Which emoji scissors close

2019 6

  1. Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection
  2. Rasterization of coincident edges
  3. The essence of anticipation (2016)
  4. How IntelliJ determines if it can create a desktop entry
  5. How IntelliJ IDEA installs shellcheck
  6. Highlight All in Firefox 65

2018 6

  1. Writing a ProxyCommand for SSH
  2. Windows disk space requirements
  3. The SSH protocol
  4. Firebase Messaging license
  5. build_file_checksums.ser
  6. Google AMP from the other side

2017 14

  1. Uninstalling extraneous language optional features on Windows 10
  2. Subduing Windows machinations with Resource Monitor
  3. Those pound sign thingies in Rust
  4. Working with TensorFlow checkpoints
  5. How to get SLF4J to just work
  6. Transparency effects in Windows
  7. NullPointerException in getNavigationBarView
  8. Time zones in Jekyll on Ruby 2.4
  9. History navigation in Safari
  10. How to complete a filename in Bash
  11. Highlight All in Firefox
  12. Why my monitor went black
  13. Lift to check phone
  14. Cloud services, winter 2017

2016 7

  1. Ambient display
  2. That thing you saw when you upgraded apt and SHA1 hashes stopped working
  3. Potluck
  4. Hunk editing in git checkout –patch
  5. Cloud services, summer 2016
  6. Android Doze inconveniences
  7. Disposal

2015 9

  1. The awkward browsing game
  2. Transferring your Firefox profile
  3. Relinquishing control with suborigins
  4. A new feature for this site
  5. Extension signing requirements for Firefox
  6. GitHub’s online editing tools
  7. Windows+D
  8. Meteor stuff
  9. Modifying other people’s Ruby gems