mericson

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   by mericson 1y ago

   Years ago, I used to use a program called FolderShare, which was later purchased by Microsoft and renamed umpteen times to match the branding strategy of the moment. I’ve always been amused by how the Wikipedia article starts off: “Windows
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   by mericson 2y ago

   John helped get me and my college roommate started with Linux system administration and web development three decades ago. We both grew up in in the town in Iowa where John lived, and my roommate had met him around the time we went to colle
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   by mericson 6y ago

   In addition to using Google Docs for articles that don’t fit nicely in the CMS, we also have our internal newsroom wiki powered by Google Docs, too. We’ve open sourced the code for that here: https://github.com/nytimes/
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   by mericson 12y ago

   "You're not trying to make a .INI file a little friendlier for a human programmer -- you're trying to make a collaborative Google doc a little friendlier for a parser." That's exactly what we were aiming for. TOML,
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   by mericson 14y ago

   When the bubbles were done as SVG elements, the animation in Firefox became _painfully_ slow. Felt like just a couple frames per second, maybe. (In contrast, the animation was fine in WebKit-based browsers).