Jul 11, 2021If you’re using a third-party mouse on macOS, you must have noticed that the scrolling experience is… janky? Nope, you’re not looking at a video running at 10 FPS. This is how scrolling using a third-party mouse looks on macOS. For reference, here’s how scrolling with the same mouse looks on Windows 10:…
Version 9.1 of the GNU coreutils package has been released with lots of small tweaks and improvements. “ls no longer colors files with capabilities by default, as file-based capabilities are very rarely used, and lookup increases processing per file by about 30%. It’s best to use getcap [-r] to identify files with capabilities.” From: Pádraig…
Notable items missing from English Wikipedia Want to write a new Wikipedia article but can’t think of a subject not already covered? Here are some items that are notable and should be easy to source: Richard Dattner, U.S. proponent of the “Adventure Playground” movement and designer of playgrounds, including the famous one in New York’s…
The LAMY Safari is a minimalist favorite in the world of writing instruments. Since its launch in the eighties, the LAMY Safari has expanded from fountain pens to include other writing instruments, like rollerballs, ballpoints, and mechanical pencils. LAMY didn’t stop there: a pen made of aluminum known as the AL-Star soon joined the family,…
As of today (April 15), the world’s third largest shipping line, will no longer accept deliveries of scrap plastic on any of its ships. CMA CGM’s ban is a milestone in a global backlash against wealthy nations—especially the US—dumping plastic waste in China and Southeast Asia.China used to be the biggest destination for scrap plastic;…
EngineeringColin SidotiReact Components are the future of APIs – but how can developer tools companies enable robust customization? We explore two strategies.Clerk’s React library exports , , and components. They come styled and fully-featured so developers can focus on building their application:Unsurprisingly, this leads to the question: How can I customize the components to match…
Cars are getting smarter. While you can’t buy a true self-driving car at a dealership, the vehicles that are available are still crammed full of the newest tech—even if some features are gimmicky. There’s just one problem: hardly anybody is actually using it. Many seasoned drivers remember their first car with cruise control, or air…
The pg_ivm module provides Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) feature for PostgreSQL. The extension is compatible with PostgreSQL 14. Description Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) is a way to make materialized views Up-to-date in which only incremental changes are computed and applied on views rather than recomputing the contents from scratch as REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW does. IVM…
an elderly gentlemanThe mystery of why humans die at around 80, while other mammals live far shorter or longer lives, may finally have been solved by scientists.Humans and animals die after amassing a similar number of genetic mutations, researchers have found, suggesting the speed of DNA errors is critical in determining the lifespan of a…
In the classic 2006 blog post The Vietnam of Computer Science, Ted Newell likens the use of object-relational mapping tools to America’s involvement in Vietnam. In the case of Vietnam, the United States political and military apparatus was faced with a deadly form of the Law of Diminishing Returns. In the case of automated Object/Relational…
26 Jun 2015, by Artur Malabarba. When this blog was conceived, I decided that I wanted it to be entirely contained in a single org file, and that this would also be my Emacs init file. On the blog’s very first post I explained how to implement the latter, an init file that also serves…
A quick start guide to Sauron — a framework for designing and writing front and back-end web applications.Sauron is a versatile framework for designing and writing front and back-end web applications. Sauron uses the rust programming language—it’s an ecosystem where rust code can run natively in the back-end and the browser via web assembly.In a…
Wednesday April 13, 2022 5:03 am PDT by Sami FathiMeta, better known as Facebook, plans to take a nearly 50% commission on digital asset purchases made inside the “metaverse,” the company has revealed, months after it had complained about the maximum 30% cut that Apple takes for purchases through the App Store. This week, Meta…
Dependency management is a core feature of NuGet. Managing dependencies for a single project can be easy. Managing dependencies for multi-project solutions can prove to be difficult as they start to scale in size and complexity. In situations where you manage common dependencies for many different projects, you can leverage NuGet’s central package management features…
Google’s new model of the Pixel A-series budget phones is likely to be released in May, according to FCC listings first spotted by . The documents described features we’ll likely see in future Pixel phones, including the Pixel 6a, the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro. At least one of the 6a models will…
The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in film and video production from still imagery. The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns. This technique had also been used to produce animatics, simple animated mockups used to previsualize motion pictures, but Burns’s name…
This undated photo provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in April 2022 shows the facility’s Collider Detector outside Batavia, Ill. In results released on Thursday, April 7, 2022, scientists at the lab calculated that the W boson, a fundamental particle of physics, weighs a bit more than their theoretical rulebook for the universe tells…
South Korea’s president-elect intends to do away with their nationwide “Korean age” system. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team announced its push to scrap the system on Monday. According to the system, a South Korean person is aged one on the day of their birth. Loading Something is loading. South Korea’s population may become a year…
Our key mission at Geyser is to empower Bitcoin creators and creatives to turn their ideas into reality.We have a new set of features that can get us closer to achieving this mission.1. Fund campaigns and receive rewards from creatorsEnabling communities to donate towards creator’s ideas can go a long way. But what if the…
Releases WebStorm 2022.1, the first major update of the year, is now available. It features improved support for Next.js, full integration with Volta, the ability to run commands from Markdown files, updates for Docker, and much more. DOWNLOAD WEBSTORM 2022.1 If you only have a few minutes to explore what’s new in WebStorm 2022.1, watch…
