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thewebcount
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Many web pages have loading progress bars. They're usually only 1-2 pixels thick and take up the entire top 1-2 rows of pixels on the page. Some stuff loads asynchronously, so it can be easy to miss them, but I see them all the time. Just today, I was using Jenkins and it does that!
thewebcount
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
> how do you sync passwords across my 3 laptops and 3 phones without a SaaS offering?

With 1Password 7 I did this with their built-in local syncing feature. I don’t want my passwords in the cloud. I’m happy to manually sync them once a month (or probably less these days). But they removed it in version 8 and forced users into a subscription so I’m not upgrading. Eventually I’ll move to something else, but it’s still working for now.
thewebcount
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
I’m thankful for the privilege of living in the current time and being free and able to (hopefully) make it a better place. I’m thankful to live in a place where I can just be how I am without having to worry that it will get me killed, or even hassled.
thewebcount
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
Yes, exactly! I remember it being something junky that people added to their site because they were desperate for traffic. I don’t recall ever seeing a web ring with anything interesting or useful in it beyond the page I started on because I knew that site had something I’d like on it before opening my browser.
thewebcount
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
I’m really surprised by the love of web rings shown here. Even in the late 90s they felt cheesy, and by the early 2000s seemed like most of them were prey to scams. There must have been some sort of typo-squatting thing going on because I recall clicking some web ring links and then suddenly you’d get to a site that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. In fact, the way I remember it, usually after 1 to 2 links in the ring, you were off in left field at something completely unrelated. Maybe I was just unlucky? I do remember getting spammed with requests to add my site to many web rings, all of which seemed very poorly run. Maybe it had something to do with the particular topics I had on my site? I don’t really know.
thewebcount
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It certainly makes me wonder about the rest of the article. I did a quick search to see if there was any Jim Morrison-related news from 2018, but other than some other people with the same name dying, there wasn’t anything. Even that movie with Val Kilmer was like 20-30 years ago. Very bizarre.
thewebcount
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Yeah, not only that. I went to a state school and we had access to a lot of computing resources I likely wouldn't have had otherwise. I attended in the 90s and unless you already had a job in the industry, you were unlikely to find a network with hundreds or thousands of computers with different OSes on them. I not only got to use macOS and Windows, but VAX, and just about every flavor of Unix at the time (AIX, HPUX, Apollo, Solaris, A/UX, etc.), and even got time on an IBM mainframe to see what that was like.

I remember, during my senior year, interviewing with a well-known company that had a grand idea for putting together a new documentation system that would allow cross-linking of documents so you could just click on a word and it would take you the definition of that word or the manual page for it. I asked, "Oh, like HTML?" to which they responded, "What's HTML?" This was around 1992-93-ish. Needless to say, I had a leg up on those already in the industry thanks to having had access to those resources at school.

It also has a lot of job opportunities. I got to be a Unix sys admin on the school network which both helped pay my expenses and gave me real-world experience. It wasn't glamorous, but it looked better on a resume than having worked flipping burgers.
thewebcount
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
What's even more depressing to me is that this is the experience that most students get when they first learn debugging. It's no wonder that so many professional developers don't bother using the debugger when they've had such an awful experience using it.