Still slightly amazing that browsers don't render markdown natively.

Oi! Glasgow's lovely! Well, some bits are...

I've said it before, and I'll never stop saying it.

Zones were awful.

Solaris had all of these great ideas, but the OS was an absolute pain in the ass to admin. And I say that from both sides of the SWAN firewall.

My only Solaris experience is using SmartOS. I find Zones there to be fairly easy to deal with. Is this just because SmartOS is papering-over the awfulness?

All I want (for christmas) is an 'Always on top' opton for windows on macos.

I'd pay real actual money, as I suspect would many others.

Piqued my interest so I just went looking, this relatively recent reddit thread lists a few relevant options: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/q1pgos/keep_a_window_o...

I hope one works out!

BetterTouchTool works, but it's not pretty - rounded corners end up with blue backgrounds and windows shrink slightly when defocussed.

No joy with the rest.

There's a blast from the past. Dan's Data was excellent - wish he was still blogging.

From the Golden Age of the Web!

Yes.

Thanks.

These...

https://reflectivesupplies.co.uk/products/salzmann-3m-scotch...

are better than plastic plate reflectors in every way.

Somewhere I picked up the idea to place reflective tape on the inside of the rim between the spoke holes. Not really for side visibility, but for front/rear off-angle visibility I like it. You can alternate (say every 3) to produce a flashier pattern when you're moving.

You'd think so, but failing disks in raidz arrays can cause extreme performance problems, and failing disk electronics can cause lockups on SAS/SATA controllers.

Old disks are always risky. Avoid.

2. Why should bash be in /usr/bin? Mine's in /usr/local/bin and I've seen vendored bash binaries in very weird places. Respect the user's PATH.

8. '[' and '[[' are both bash builtins.

9/15. If you're using shellcheck, you'll need to quote (almost) all vars anyway.

> 2. Why should bash be in /usr/bin? Mine's in /usr/local/bin and I've seen vendored bash binaries in very weird places. Respect the user's PATH.

Yup, nix and guix consistently put their binaries in "very weird places" - unless you want to make users of those tools unhappy (among others!) please use env. The user knows where their shell is more than you do.

> 8. '[' and '[[' are both bash builtins.

'[' is a builtin, '[[' is a keyword. Can use bash's builtin 'type' to check.